Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and AnnotationsSir William Osler (1849-1919) had a long and distinguished career as a physician and professor at McGill University, the University of Pennsylvania, the Johns Hopkins University, and finally, as the Regius Chair in Medicine at Oxford University. Over the course of his professional life, Osler gave many addresses--mostly to medical students--on medical ethics, medicine and the humanities, the relationship between the medical practitioner and the patient, and, as the titular essay makes clear, on the "way of life" he advocated for the ethical physician. He remains an inspiration to many contemporary medical practitioners; there are active Osler Societies throughout the world. While Osler's talks were frequently published during his lifetime and they have been published individually and in different compilations since his death, none contain the over 1500 annotations that appear here, notes that serve to explain the many philosophical, biblical, historical, and literary allusions contained in Osler's writings. This thoroughly explicated selection of Sir William Osler's writings will be cherished by physicians, medical students, nurses, philosophers, theologians, and ethicists in this--and future--generations. |
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Contents
Foreword | |
Preface XV | |
To the Reader xix | |
Chronology of Sir William Oslers Life xxi | |
A Way of Life 1 | |
Sir Thomas Browne | |
The Old Humanities and the New Science 63 | |
Teacher and Student 107 | |
Books and Men 217 | |
Chauvinism in Medicine 227 | |
The MasterWord in Medicine 251 | |
The Hospital as a College 275 | |
The Fixed Period 287 | |
The Student Life 305 | |
Unity Peace and Concord 331 | |
Lenvoi 349 | |
Physic and Physicians as Depicted in Plato 125 | |
The Leaven of Science 151 | |
Teaching and Thinking 173 | |
Nurse and Patient 187 | 121 |
After TwentyFive Years | 217 |
Mans Redemption of Man 355 | |
BedSide Library for Medical Students 371 | |
Abbreviations 373 | |
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