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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     More Content       More by this author     Bliss, Michael, 1941-     Subjects     Medicine -- History -- 19th century.     Medicine -- History -- 20th century     Medicine -- Research -- History.     Medical innovations -- History -- 19th century.     Medical innovations -- History -- 20th century     Smallpox vaccine -- History.     Insulin -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bliss, Michael, 1941-       by title:      The making of modern...       by call number:      610.9 B649m     Search the Web     Bliss, Michael, 1941-     Medicine -- History -- 19th century.     Medicine -- History -- 20th century     Medicine -- Research -- History.     Medical innovations -- History -- 19th century.     Medical innovations -- History -- 20th century     Smallpox vaccine -- History.     Insulin -- History.       MARC Display

The making of modern medicine : turning points in the treatment of disease / Michael Bliss. by Bliss, Michael, 1941- University of Toronto Press, 2011. Call #: 610.9 B649m Subjects Medicine -- History -- 19th century.   Medicine -- History -- 20th century   Medicine -- Research -- History.   Medical innovations -- History -- 19th century.   Medical innovations -- History -- 20th century   Smallpox vaccine -- History.   Insulin -- History. ISBN:  9781442641754 1442641754 Description:  104 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. Notes:  Co-published by: University of Chicago Press. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-100) and index. Summary:  "Originating in the prestigious Joanne Goodman Lecture Series, and drawing on the author's series of award-winning books, The Making of Modern Medicine explores the foundations of medicine through three case studies that elucidate turning points in the evolution of health care. Michael Bliss first sketches the religiously-based attitudes of fatalism that enveloped the Montreal of 1885 during the last great epidemic of smallpox in the Western world. He then traces the scientific, research-based approach to disease of the Canadian-born doctor William Osler, practicing at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. The final study reveals how the values that Osler espoused helped to inspire those who discovered insulin at the University of Toronto. In a provocative epilogue, Bliss reflects on how these events have contributed to our current anxieties about and attitudes towards health care. A tour de force, The Making of Modern Medicine is an essential summation of the work of Canada's leading historian of medicine."--From publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 610.9 B649m Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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