Doctors. World history of medicine in personalities: from Galen to our days
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How is medical science developing? Popular historians would like us to believe that several heroic personalities with superhuman talents conduct a disinterested search in the name of the best human state. But, as the famous Yale surgeon and medicine historian Shervin Nuland shows in this brilliant collection of related life portraits, the theory is not very similar to the truth. For centuries, men and women who formed the world of medicine were not only ordinary people, but in many ways - the products of their time and place. Presenting convincing studies of great medical innovators and pioneers, the book “Doctors. Biography of medicine ”tells us an exciting history of modern medicine. Starting from the legendary father of the medicine of Hippocrates, Andreas Vezalia, whose work in the style of the Renaissance on anatomy proposed an invaluable new understanding of the human body, to Helen Taussig, the founder of children"s cardiology and the co -author of the original operation “Blue Child”
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Author:Шервин Нуланд
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Cover:Hard
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- Category:Medical Books
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Publication Language:Russian
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Paper:Offset
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