William Osler was born in a parsonage in backwoods Canada on July
12, 1849. In a life lasting seventy years, he practiced, taught,
and wrote about medicine at Canada's McGill University, America's
Johns Hopkins University, and finally as Regius Professor at
Oxford. At the time of his death in England in 1919, many
considered him to be the greatest doctor in the world. Osler, who
was a brilliant, innovative teacher and a scholar of the natural
history of disease, revolutionised the art of practicing medicine
at the bedside of his patients. He was idolised by two generations
of medical students and practitioners for whom he came to personify
the ideal doctor. But much more than a physician, Osler was a
supremely intelligent humanist. In both his writings and his
personal life, and through the prism of the tragedy of the Great
War, he embodied the art of living. It was perhaps his legendary
compassion that elevated his healing talents to an art form and
attracted to his private practice students, colleagues, poets (Walt
Whitman for example) politicians, royalty, and nameless ordinary
people with extraordinary conditions. William Osler's life lucidly
illuminates the times in which he lived. Indeed, this is a book not
only about the evolution of modern medicine, the training of
doctors, holism in medical thought, and the doctor-patient
relationship, but also about humanism, Victorianism, the Great War,
and much else. Meticulously researched, drawing on many new sources
and offering new interpretations, William Osler: A Life in Medicine
brings to life both a fascinating man and the formative age of
twentieth-century medicine. It is a classic biography of a classic
life, both authoritative and highly readable.
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