"DOCTORS. World history of medicine in faces" book in leather

"DOCTORS. World history of medicine in faces"  Gift book in handmade leather binding. Author Sherwin Nuland.please call on WHATSAPP.How is medical science developing? Popular historians would like; so that we believe; that several heroic individuals; possessing superhuman talents; conduct a selfless search for the sake of a better human condition. But; as noted Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin Nuland shows in this brilliant collection of connected life portraits; The theory bears little resemblance to the truth. For centuries, men and women; who shaped the world of medicine; were not only ordinary people; but also in many ways - products of their time and place. Presenting compelling research from great medical innovators and pioneers; book “Doctors. Biography of Medicine" tells us the fascinating history of modern medicine. Starting from the legendary father of medicine, Hippocrates; Andreas Vesalius; whose Renaissance work on anatomy offered invaluable new understanding of the human body; to Helen Taussig; founder of pediatric cardiology.