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Contributions to medical and biological research (Volume II)

Contributions to medical and biological research (Volume II)

William Osler

Paperback

Medical ReferenceSports GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9389265592
ISBN13: 9789389265590
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 29 2019
Pages: 676
Weight: 2.15
Height: 1.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Medicine learned to think aloud. In Contributions to medical and biological research (Volume II), Sir William Osler brings together a rich medical essays collection from the height of modern medicine's first great leap, when the laboratory met the bedside and new standards of evidence began to take hold. Here are the tools, not the myths, of progress itself. Drawn from collected medical lectures and papers, these historical medical writings show Osler as clinician, teacher, and interpreter of discovery: how questions are framed, how observations are weighed, how results change practice. Read as medical science essays, the volume ranges across the history of medical research as it was being made, capturing biological research contributions alongside the daily realities of diagnosis, pathology, and therapeutics. The voice is clear and humane, with a craftsman's attention to language and an insistence on disciplined curiosity - a rewarding medical history reference for physicians and medical students, yet approachable for any reader fascinated by the making of knowledge. Part of the William Osler collected works, this second volume is a classic history of medicine in action, anchored in late 19th century medicine and reaching into early 20th century research. It belongs on the shelf of the serious historian, the working doctor who values perspective, and the collector who prizes enduring intellectual artefacts. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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