On the Shoulders of Medicine's Giants: What Today's Clinicians Can Learn from Yesterday's Wisdom

by Robert B. Taylor

Book Overview

Medical history offers us many wise thoughts, a few misguided notions, and a host of intriguing back-stories. On the Shoulders of Medicine's Giants presents a selection of these, and tells how the words of medicine's "giants"--such as Hippocrates, Sir William Osler, Francis Weld Peabody, and Elizabeth K?bler-Ross--are relevant to medical science and practice in the 21st century.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493913344
• ISBN13: 9781493913343
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"