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Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | William Osler, Sir; William Osler, Sir; William Osler, Sir |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael Bliss |
ISBN: | 0195123468 0802043496 9780802043498 9780195123463 0802085415 9780802085412 |
OCLC Number: | 854497613 |
Awards: | Commended for BMA Medical Book Competition: Basis of Medicine Category 2000 Winner of Jason A Hannah Medal, Royal Society of Canada 2001 (Canada) |
Description: | xiv, 581 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Responsibility: | Michael Bliss. |
Abstract:
This is a biography of one of the greatest physicians in the history of medicine, William Osler (1849-1919), who was the high priest of the coming of modern medicine in the English-speaking world. This title brings to life not only a man but the formative age of the 20th century medicine.
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" ... a brilliant and ... balanced account of Osler's extraordinary life ... It will be an undoubted classic for many years to come." The Royal Society Notes and Records
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