White Coat Tales Medicine's Heroes, Heritage, and Misadventures /

• Main Author: Taylor, Robert B. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; General practice (Medicine).; Health promotion.; Medicine > History.; Medicine & Public Health.; History of Medicine.; General Practice / Family Medicine.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

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...