Medicine in Quotations: Views of Health and Disease Through the Ages - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0943126835 ISBN 13: 9780943126838

Publisher: Amer College of Physicians, 2000

Synopsis

Medicine in Quotations: Views of Health and Disease Through the Ages is much more than a random collection of famous sayings relating to sickness and health, disease and treatment. It is a portrait of medicine throughout recorded history. Readers will discover how medical concepts and practices have developed and shifted through the millennia and how many illnesses recognized today were first identified a thousand or more years ago.
Containing over 3000 entries, Medicine in Quotations is the most comprehensive collection of its type in over 30 years. Quotations are organized by topic, and each is fully referenced, allowing curious readers to return to the original source. Subject and author indices make it easy to find quotations of interest.
Medicine in Quotations is an invaluable resource for writers, speakers, and all those interested in the history of medicine.

About this title

From Library Journal:

This is not the type of quotation collection from which one could choose glib after-dinner remarks about medical care for a lay audience. Huth (editor emeritus, Annals of Internal Medicine) and Murray (medical humanities and medicine, Dalhousie Univ.) assembled this book from contributions by Annals readers who submitted quotations from historical medical sources. The 3000-plus entries range from the obscure (two quotations about abetalipoproteinemia, an 1802 quotation about globus hystericus) to the expected (ten quotations about women in medicine, 72 about medical education, with sources ranging from Hippocrates to Sherwin Nuland) to the unexpected (a quotation about toxins from Croatian Medical Quotations, one from Don DeLillo about patient information). In contrast with the more general-interest Medical Quotes: A Thematic Dictionary (Facts on File, 1989), edited by John Daintith and Amanda Isaacs, Medicine in Quotations offers an extremely detailed and comprehensive author-citation index, in itself a useful reference tool, as well as a subject index. The book is suitable for medical, academic, and history of medicine collections as well as large public libraries that lack similar works. Given its price and specialized audience, it is an optional purchase for other libraries.DMartha E. Stone, Massachusetts General Hosp. Lib., Boston
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About this edition

• Publisher: Amer College of Physicians
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0943126835
• ISBN 13: 9780943126838
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 524
• Editor: Huth Edward J., Murray T. J.