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Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Illustrated edition.
Physical Desc
480 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
The best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning How We Die chronicles the history of medicine through profiles of important physicians and research scientists and reviews key medical theories and pioneering advances, with portraits of Galen, Andreas Vesalius, William Harvey, Joseph Lister, and other medical pioneers.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
xx, 198 pages : 1 illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The author offers a compilation of personal anecdotes and reflections based on his forty-year career in medicine as he explores various aspects of his discipline, how it is practiced around the globe, the lives of patients, and how the body works.
3) Maimonides
Author
Series
Publisher
Nextbook
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 233 pages, 1 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the twelfth-century philosopher and physician's efforts to reconcile his rationationalist thinking and scientific knowledge with a faith in God, his remarkable influence as a Jew in a Muslim world, and the lasting legacy of his teachings.
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