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Author Nuland, Sherwin B.

Title Doctors : the history of scientific medicine revealed through biography / Sherwin B. Nuland.

Imprint Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., ©2005.

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 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Department  GREAT COURSES 610.92 NULAND DISC 1-6    Check Shelf
Description 6 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (22 cm).
Series The great courses
Great courses (Compact disc)
Performer Presented by Sherwin B. Nuland.
Note Compact disc.
Contents lecture 1. Hippocrates and the origins of Western medicine -- lecture 2. The paradox of Galen -- lecture 3. Vesalius and the Renaissance of medicine -- lecture 4. Harvey, discoverer of the circulation -- lecture 5. Morgagni and the anatomy of disease -- lecture 6. Hunter, the surgeon as scientist -- lecture 7. Laennec and the invention of the stethoscope -- lecture 8. Morton and the origins of anesthesia -- lecture 9. Virchow and the cellular origins of disease -- lecture 10. Lister and the germ theory -- lecture 11. Halsted and the American medical education -- lecture 12. Taussig and the development of cardiac surgery.
Summary Presents lectures delivered by Sherman B. Nuland, concerning the history of the development of Western scientific medicine, set against character studies of twelve of the greatest physicians since classical times.
Subject Medicine -- Biography.
Medicine -- History.
Medicine. (OCoLC)fst01014893
Genre/Form Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Audiobooks.
Added Author Teaching Company.
Added Title History of scientific medicine revealed through biography
ISBN 1598030299
9781598030297
Music No. 8128 Teaching Co.
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