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ISBN10: 0394551303, ISBN13: 9780394551302, [publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York] Hardcover 8vo, 519 pp.
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New York: Vintage Books, Date: 1988. Softcover. Near Fine. Second Vintage Books edition. Printed wrappers. Slightly rubbed and very near fine. Inscribed by Nuland to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco: "For Nicholas Delbanco, with thanks for providing me with exactly what I need. Sherwin Nuland." Very scarce signed. 1988. Vintage Books ISBN 0394551303 US

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Knopf 1988 Hardcover Very Good in Good dust jacket 0394551303. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-TEXT BLOCK PRISTINE-519 pages; first edition so stated. Book Description: How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant collection of linked life portraits, the theory bears little resemblance to the truth. Through the centuries, the men and women Who have shaped the world of medicine have been not only very human people but also very much the products of their own times and places. Presenting compelling studies of great medical innovators and pioneers, Doctors gives us the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine--told through the lives of the physician-scientists whose deeds and determination paved the way. Ranging from the legendary Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, to Andreas Vesalius, whose Renaissance masterwork on anatomy offered invaluable new insight into the human body, to Helen Taussig, founder of pediatric cardiology and co-inventor of the original "blue baby" operation, here is a volume filled with the spirit of ideas and the thrill of discovery. Says The New York Times, "Doctors can be warmly recommended. Dr. Nuland succeeds in ...

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New York, NY Alfred A. Knopf 1989 Book Club Edition. Book of the Month Club edition Hardcover Very good in very good jacket Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xxi, [1], 519, [1] p. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. From Wikipedia: "Sherwin Bernard Nuland[1] (born Shepsel Ber Nudelman; December 8, 1930 March 3, 2014) was an American surgeon and writer who taught bioethics, history of medicine, and medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine, and occasionally bioethics and history of medicine at Yale College. His 1994 book How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter was a New York Times Best Seller and won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, as well as being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2011 Nuland was awarded the Jonathan Rhoads Gold Medal of the American Philosophical Society, for Distinguished Service to Medicine. Nuland was a graduate of The Bronx High School of Science, New York University and Yale School of Medicine, where he obtained his M.D. degree and also completed a residency in surgery. In 2005, Nuland produced a series of lectures titled Doctors: The History of Scientific Medicine Revealed Through Biography."

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Date: 1989. Book Club Edition. Book of the Month Club edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xxi, [1], 519, [1] p. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. From Wikipedia: "Sherwin Bernard Nuland[1] (born Shepsel Ber Nudelman; December 8, 1930 March 3, 2014) was an American surgeon and writer who taught bioethics, history of medicine, and medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine, and occasionally bioethics and history of medicine at Yale College. His 1994 book How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter was a New York Times Best Seller and won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, as well as being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2011 Nuland was awarded the Jonathan Rhoads Gold Medal of the American Philosophical Society, for Distinguished Service to Medicine. Nuland was a graduate of The Bronx High School of Science, New York University and Yale School of Medicine, where he obtained his M.D. degree and also completed a residency in surgery. In 2005, Nuland produced a series of lectures titled Doctors: The History of Scientific Medicine Revealed Through Biography." 1989. Alfred A. Knopf ISBN 0394551303 9780394551302 [US]

ISBN10: 0394551303, ISBN13: 9780394551302, [publisher: Alfred A. Knopf May 1988] Hardcover The fascinating history of the development of modern medicine is told througha series of 15 lively biographical essays on the scientists whose discoveriesstand as milestones along the way. 24 halftones. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks. Wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector.
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