White Coat Tales Medicine's Heroes, Heritage, and Misadventures /
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...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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| Έκδοση: | 2nd ed. 2016. |
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Part One: Heroes, Diseases and Remedies
- Heroes in Medical History
- Diseases that Shaped History
- Drugs and Other Remedies
- Part Two: The Heritage and Culture of Medicine
- Medical Words and Phrases
- Whose Syndrome? Stories of Medical Eponyms
- Medical Abbreviations, Acronyms, Euphemisms, Jargon and Slang
- Medical Aphorisms
- Memorable Medical Quotations
- Part Three: Clinical Notes and Medical Misadventures
- Famous Persons as Patients
- Short Tales of Serendipity, Curiosities, Medical Trivia, Authorship and Speculation
- Medical Myths, Misinformation, Blunders and Wrongdoing
- Now and Future Practice.
