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Doctors on Horseback
James Thomas Flexner
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Description for Doctors on Horseback
Paperback. Biographies featuring the pioneers of American medicine. The author combines curious medical lore with little-known facts of early American history. Among those included are Morgan, founder of the first medical school in America, and McDowell who prepared the way for abdominal surgery. Num Pages: 370 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; VFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 513.
The man in the street would not, perhaps, recognize all the names of the brilliant scientists whose careers and personalities animate this book, but doctors know them. Morgan, who founded the first medical school in American and, fighting beside Washington, was ruined b the petty politics of the Revolution; McDowell, who, although on the fringe of the wilderness, dared the operation that prepared the way for all abdominal surgery; Rush, the equivocal personality who, for better or worse, dominated American medicine for more than fifty years; Beaumont, who, saving a life, won a living laboratory; Drake, who brought modern medicine ... Read more
The man in the street would not, perhaps, recognize all the names of the brilliant scientists whose careers and personalities animate this book, but doctors know them. Morgan, who founded the first medical school in American and, fighting beside Washington, was ruined b the petty politics of the Revolution; McDowell, who, although on the fringe of the wilderness, dared the operation that prepared the way for all abdominal surgery; Rush, the equivocal personality who, for better or worse, dominated American medicine for more than fifty years; Beaumont, who, saving a life, won a living laboratory; Drake, who brought modern medicine ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
370
Condition
New
Number of Pages
370
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823213795
SKU
V9780823213795
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Ref
99-1
About James Thomas Flexner
James Thomas Flexner is a National Book Award Laureate; recipient of a special Pulitzer Prize Citation; winner of the Society of American Historians' Parkman Prize, the gold medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for "Eminence in Biography." James Thomas Flexner has won a Special Pulitzer Prize Citation, a National Book Award, and a Christopher's Award ... Read more
Reviews for Doctors on Horseback
“A soundly and eloquently written story of the rambunctious early men who gave medicine in this country its first stature before the world.”
—The New York Times
—The New York Times