Doctors: The Biography of Medicine
Sherwin B. Nuland

Medicine's great men were neither all perfect nor all men. This "warts and all" account of medicine's pioneers demonstrates their insights and leadership, as well as their fears and failings. Who belonged to the Hippocratic school of medicine? Why did Galen flee when his skills were most needed? How did ParČ help take medicine from the realm of barbers to that of physicians? Was Semmelweis a genius or an egomaniac? And how did Taussig beat down resistance to her findings? This books rubs the patina off the schoolbook histories, demonstrating that it was real people who made medicine's most important advances.

Softcover, 519 pp.
# 00297A $16.00