White coat tales : medicine's heroes, heritage and misadventures /: medicine's heroes, heritage and misadventures. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robert B. Taylor.
• Authors: Taylor, Robert B
• Contents: Part One: Heroes, Diseases and Remedies -- Heroes in Medical History -- Diseases that Shaped History -- Drugs and Other Remedies -- Part Two: The Heritage and Culture of Medicine -- Medical Words and Phrases -- Whose Syndrome? Stories of Medical Eponyms -- Medical Abbreviations, Acronyms, Euphemisms, Jargon and Slang -- Medical Aphorisms -- Memorable Medical Quotations -- Part Three: Clinical Notes and Medical Misadventures -- Famous Persons as Patients -- Short Tales of Serendipity, Curiosities, Medical Trivia, Authorship and Speculation -- Medical Myths, Misinformation, Blunders and Wrongdoing -- Now and Future Practice.
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: New York : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 271 pages)
• Subjects: 610.9; Medicine; Medicine -- History; Medicine -- Biography; MEDICAL; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical; MEDICAL -- Essays; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference; MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine; MEDICAL -- Atlases; MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice; MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine; MEDICAL -- Osteopathy; Medicine; History of Medicine; Medical -- Preventive Medicine; General practice; Public health & preventive medicine; Family medicine; Medical -- History; History of medicine; Electronic books; Biography; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319290553; 3319290533; 9783319290539
• Related ISBNs: 331929055X; 9783319290539
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ScienceDirect, viewed April 25, 2016).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.