The Persisting Osler IV
Selected Transactions of the American Osler Society, 2001—2010
edited by Jeremiah A. Barondess and Charles S. Bryan
From the review of earlier volumes—
"...All physicians owe gratitude to the editors and contributors of this series for their persistence in producing three volumes aimed at introducing Osler to the wider audience that he deserves and medicine sorely needs." Bull. Hist. Med., 2003, 77
Contents
Contributors
Preface
SECTION I: Johns Hopkins Personalia
Raising the Bar: Mary Elizabeth Garrett, M. Carey Thomas, and the Johns Hopkins Medical School
The Complex Bond between the University of Michigan and the Success of the New Johns Hopkins Medical School
John Jacob Abel: A Pioneer in the Heart of Medicine
William Sydney Thayer, the Bard of Johns Hopkins
The Whipple–Osler Connection
Joseph Hersey Pratt, M.D.: The Man Who Would Be Osler
Max Brödel: The Man Who Almost Got Away
H. L. Mencken and the Hopkins Quadrumvirate: Osler, Halsted, Welch, and Kelly
SECTION II: Clinical Matters
Osler and the Infected Letter: A History of Disinfecting Mail with Special Reference to Smallpox
The Environment of Osler’s Writings on Endocarditis
Osler’s Service: A View of the Charts
William Osler’s Study of the Act of Dying: An Analysis of the Original Data
Dropped Beat: Sir William Osler’s Tenuous Embrace of the Electrocardiogram
Aequanimitas Redux: William Osler on Detached Concern versus Humanistic Empathy
SECTION III: Osler qua Osler
Six Letters from the Oslers to an American Student at Oxford
The Last Latchkeyer: The Tragedy of John Fulton
The Reserves of Life: William Osler versus Almroth Wright
“Someday a Very Interesting Story to Tell”: William Osler and the Tomb of Avicenna
“Tell Brother Regius. . .” Clifford Allbutt’s Correspondence with Archibald Malloch during Osler’s Final Illness
Oslerized: A Musical Response to William Osler’s Valedictory Address “The Fixed Period”
Sir William Osler’s “Astral Self”: Origins of the Osler Niche in the Osler Library
The Osler Societies: A Qualitative and Quantitative Portrait
SECTION IV: Ethical Issues
Osler and Medical Ethics
William Beaumont, M.D. and the Ethics of Research
A Leg to Stand On: Sir William Osler and Wilder Penfield’s “Neuroethics”
The Sacred Cord, Antivivisectionism, and the Ethics of Human Subjects Research
Sins of our Fathers: Two of “The Four Doctors” and their Roles in the Development of Techniques to Permit Covert Autopsies
SECTION V: Miscellanea
Samuel Wilks: The “Grand Old Man” of British Medicine
Leonard Wood: Physician, Soldier, and Pioneer of American Imperialism
An Appreciation of Irony in the Medical Writings of William Osler
Osler and Doctor Thorne: The Other Trollope Novel
“Silent Workers of the Ranks”: Oslerian Medicine in Early Montana
Pellagra, Progress, and Public Polemics: Joseph Goldberger, E.J. Wood, and the Osler Connection
Directories
Index
November 2011, 368 pp., clothbound, illustrated, 978-0-88135-452-2, $60.00
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