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Edition: 1
Release: 2003-05-01
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 019513544X
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Cholera, Chloroform and the Science of Medicine pdf
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The product of six years of collaborative research, this fine biography offers new interpretations of a pioneering figure in anesthesiology, epidemiology, medical cartography, and public health. It modifies the conventional rags to riches portrait of John Snow by synthesizing fresh information about his early life from archival research and recent studies. It explores the intellectual roots of his commitments to vegetarianism, temperance, and pure drinking water, first developed when he was a medical apprentice and assistant in the north of England. The authors argue that all of Snow's later contributions are traceable to the medical paradigm he imbibed as a medical student in London and put into practice early in his career as a clinician: that medicine as a science required the incorporation of recent developments in its collateral sciences--chiefly anatomy, chemistry, and physiology--in order to understand the causes of disease. Snow's theoretical breakthroughs in anesthesia wer Download Cholera, Chloroform and the Science of Medicine for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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