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Index
Cover
About the Author
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Totem of Medicine: Hippocrates
2. The Paradox of Pergamon: Galen
3. The Reawakening: Andreas Vesalius and the Renaissance of Medicine
4. The Gentle Surgeon: Ambroise Paré
5. “Nature Herself Must Be Our Advisor”: William Harvey’s Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood
6. The New Medicine: The Anatomical Concept of Giovanni Morgagni
7. “Why The Leaves Changed Color in the Autumn”: Surgery, Science, and John Hunter
8. “Without Diagnosis, There is No Rational Treatment” René Laennec, Inventor of the Stethoscope
9. The Germ Theory Before Germs: The Enigma of Ignac Semmelweis
10. Surgery Without Pain: The Origins of General Anesthesia
11. The Fundamental Unit of Life: Sick Cells, Microscopes, and Rudolf Virchow
12. “To Tend the Fleshly Tabernacle of the Immortal Spirit”: Joseph Lister’s Antiseptic Surgery
13. Medical Science Comes to America: William Stewart Halsted of Johns Hopkins
14. A Triumph of Twentieth-Century Medicine: Helen Taussig and the Blue-Baby Operation
15. New Hearts for Old: The Story of Transplantation
Bibliography
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