Overview
- Offers a collection of historical medical stories designed to educate and provide context for everyday practice
- Includes current medical trends and examples that link the historical accounts to contemporary practice
- Features historical illustrations depicting many of the people and events described in the book
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Heroes, Diseases, and Remedies
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The Heritage and Culture of Medicine
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Clinical Notes and Medical Misadventures
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About this book
This new edition of White Coat Tales presents intriguing stories that give historical context to what we do in medicine today—the body’s “holy bone” and how it got its name, a surprising reason why gout seemed to be so prevalent several centuries ago, and the therapeutic misadventure that shortened the life of Eleanor Roosevelt. In addition to many new tales, this revised edition contains 128 illustrations, such as images of Baron von Münchhausen aloft with cannonballs and Vincent van Gogh’s portrait of his doctor showing a clue to the painter’s health. Read about legendary medical innovators, diseases that changed history, illnesses of famous persons, and some epic blunders of physicians and scientists. The author is Robert B. Taylor, MD, Emeritus Professor, Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, and Professor, Eastern Virginia Medical School. Dr. Taylor is the author and editor of more than 33 medical books.
To see Dr. Taylor lecture on the history of medicine, go here: https://youtu.be/Zx4yaUyaPRA
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Robert B. Taylor, MD
Department of Family Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University
School of Medicine
Portland, OR
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: White Coat Tales
Book Subtitle: Medicine's Heroes, Heritage, and Misadventures
Authors: Robert B Taylor
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29055-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-29053-9Published: 26 April 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-29055-3Published: 18 April 2016
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXIX, 328
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations, 91 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Medicine, General Practice / Family Medicine, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention