{"product_id":"william-osler-a-life-in-medicine","title":"William Osler: A Life in Medicine","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Osler was born in a parsonage in backwoods Canada on July 12  1849. In a life lasting seventy years  he practiced  taught  and wrote about medicine at Canadas McGill University  Americas Johns Hopkins University  and finally as Regius Professor at Oxford. At the time of his death in England in 1919  many considered him to be the greatest doctor in the world. Osler  who was a brilliant  innovative teacher and a scholar of the natural history of disease  revolutionized the art of practicing medicine at the bedside of his patients. He was idolized by two generations of medical students and practitioners for whom he came to personify the ideal doctor. But much more than a physician  Osler was a supremely intelligent humanist. In both his writings and his personal life  and through the prism of the tragedy of the Great War  he embodied the art of living. It was perhaps his legendary compassion that elevated his healing talents to an art form and attracted to his private practice students  colleagues  poets (Walt Whitman for example) politicians  royalty  and nameless ordinary people with extraordinary conditions. William Oslers life lucidly illuminates the times in which he lived. Indeed  this is a book not only about the evolution of modern medicine  the training of doctors  holism in medical thought  and the doctor-patient relationship  but also about humanism  Victorianism  the Great War  and much else. Meticulously researched  drawing on many new sources and offering new interpretations  William Osler: A Life in Medicine brings to life both a fascinating man and the formative age of twentieth-century medicine. It is a classic biography of a classic life  both authoritative and highly readable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946842583093,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195123468","price":36.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195123463.jpg?v=1769968751","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/william-osler-a-life-in-medicine","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}