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Osler's bedside library : great writers who inspired a great physician / Michael A. LaCombe, David J. Elpern, editors ; co-editors and contributors, Charles M. Anderson ... [and others].
Holman Biotech Commons PN6071.M38 O75 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Literary collections.
- Medicine.
- Authors--Literary collections.
- Authors.
- Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919.
- Osler, William.
- Medical writing.
- Medicine in literature.
- Literature and morals.
- Medicine in Literature.
- Morals.
- Writing.
- Medical Subjects:
- Medicine in Literature.
- Morals.
- Writing.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 362 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : ACP Press, [2010]
- Summary:
- Regarded by many as the ideal medical practitioner, Sir William Osler advised physicians to "let no day pass without contact with the best literature of the world." "Before going to sleep," he counseled, "read for half an hour" from a "bedside library," beginning with "a list of ten books which you may make close friends."
- A companion and guide for contemporary readers, Osler's Bedside Library features excerpts from the literary masterpieces Osler himself recommended to his students and colleagues plus twenty other great works chosen by today's physicians. Each excerpt is accompanied by commentary from a leading scholar in medical humanities, who discusses why the work remains relevant to a physician's education and the practice of medicine.
- A unique volume, Osler's Bedside Library underscores that now, as in Osler's own time, selections from the humanities deserve a place on the physician's list of "required reading."
- Contents:
- Osler's Ten
- Plutarch's Lives / Louise Aronson 3
- Religio Medici / Jack Coulehan 11
- Shakespeare 27
- Othello / Arnold Weinstein 29
- A Midsummer Night's Dream / Pamela Brett-MacLean 35
- Hamlet / Lyuba Konopasek 41
- Sonnets / Maureen Rappaport 47
- Montaigne / Lynn C. Epstein 53
- Marcus Aurelius / Albert Howard Carter, III 63
- Epictetus / Marin Gillis 75
- Don Quixote / Ronald D. Stewart 85
- Emerson / Jerry, Seth Vannatta 97
- Oliver Wendell Holmes / Brian Hurwitz 109
- Old and New Testaments / Rita Charon 119
- Poets
- Robert Burns / Paul S. Mueller 137
- John Keats / David J. Elpern 145
- Masters of the Story
- George Eliot / Claire Hooker 153
- Charles Dickens / Audrey Shafer 169
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle / Thomas P. Duffy 179
- Sarah Orne Jewett / Liva H. Jacoby 195
- Robert Louis Stevenson / Martha Stoddard Holmes 203
- Boccaccio / Allan Peterkin 213
- Rabelais / Toby Gelfand 223
- Thinkers
- Robert Burton / T. Jock Murray 237
- Ben Franklin / Arthur L. Caplan 249
- Erasmus / Stephen S. Lefrak 257
- Maimonides / M. Sara Rosenthal 265
- Pascal / Jeremiah Conway 277
- Voltaire / Lawrence J. Schneiderman 287
- Dramatists
- Henrik Ibsen / Joel D. Howell 301
- Molière / Bernadette Höfer 313
- George Bernard Shaw / John K. Crellin 323
- An Unforgettable Journal
- Daniel Defoe / Charles M. Anderson 335
- The Shoulders upon Which We Stand
- Avicenna / Omid Zargari, Saba Hoda 345.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781934465479
- 193446547X
- 9781934465493
- 1934465496
- OCLC:
- 317454889
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