Book Description
The development of the Cambridge medical school, set in the context of the history of medicine, science, and education.
Author : Mark Weatherall
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 37,16 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780851156811
The development of the Cambridge medical school, set in the context of the history of medicine, science, and education.
Author : David A. Schwartz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 31,77 MB
Release : 2010-10-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9048195381
Physician-scientists are unusual creatures. While we are drawn to the clinical challenges of our patients, we are also drawn to the opportunities that our patients’ medical problems bring to science. This book contains the unique experiences and encounters that drew 20 accomplished physician-scientists to this profession. These personal stories are those of people and circumstances that have had profound effects on our career decisions, our creative opportunities, and our lives. These stories also serve to highlight the lessons learned along the way and the distinct attributes of these women and men of medicine and science. Our combined hope is that our collective biographies will enhance the public understanding of our profession, will move people from medicine to science and from science to medicine, and will inspire those who are contemplating this extraordinary profession. “It is a rare gift to benefit from the collective wisdom of so many individuals at the same time. These physician scientists have provided readers with helpful advice and thoughtful encouragement. The interesting and thought provoking essays in Medicine Science and Dreams can be read and digested one at a time or all at once in sequence. They provide lessons to be learned by any physician-scientist, whether just starting out or in the middle of a research career. Schwartz has done readers a great service and has added to the legacy of these prominent and successful physician-scientists.” Book review in JAMA, September 7, 2011—Vol 306, No. 9 by Derek S. Wheeler, MD
Author : Norman George Wymer
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,79 MB
Release : 1958
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Author : Norman George WYMER
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 1958
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Author : James McKeen Cattell
Publisher :
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 11,4 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Scientists
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Author : Howard Wilcox Haggard
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,57 MB
Release : 2022-10-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781015537835
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Tom Shachtman
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1137474602
Science and experimentation were at the heart of the Founding Fathers' philosophies and actions. The Founders relentlessly tinkered, invented, farmed by means of scientific principles, star-gazed, were fascinated by math, used scientific analogies and scientific thinking in their political writing, and fell in love with technologies. They conceived of the United States of America as a grand "experiment" in the scientific meaning of the word. George Washington's embrace of an experimental vaccination for smallpox saved the American army in 1777. He was also considered the most scientific farmer in the country. John Adams founded a scientific society and wrote public support of science into the Massachusetts constitution. The president of another scientific society, Thomas Jefferson, convinced its leading lights to train Meriwether Lewis for the Lewis and Clark expedition; his Declaration of Independence was so suffused with scientific thinking that it was called Newtonian. Benjamin Franklin's fame as an "electrician" gave him the status to persuade France to help America win the Revolutionary War. Thomas Paine invented smokeless candles, underwater bombs, and the first-ever iron span bridge. In Gentlemen Scientists and Revolutionaries, Tom Shachtman provides the full story of how the intellectual excitement of scientific discoveries had a powerful influence on America's Founding Fathers.
Author : Daniel Webster Cathell
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,66 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781016247931
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher :
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 15,63 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Biography
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Author : Arnoud Vrolijk
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 24,1 MB
Release : 2007-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9047422058
O ye Gentlemen explores two vital strands in Arabic culture: the Greek tradition in science and philosophy and the literary tradition. They are permanent and, though drawing on Islam as a dominant religion, they are by no means dependent on it. That the strands freely interweave within the broader scope of Schrifttum is shown by more than thirty essays on subjects as varied as the social organisation of bees, spontaneous generation in the Shiʿite tradition, astronomy in the Arabian nights, the benefits of sex, precious stones in a literary text, the virtue of women in Judaeo-Arabic stories, animals in Middle Eastern music and the transmission of Arabic science and philosophy to the medieval West.