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Doctors of Another Calling : Physicians Who Are Known Best in Fields Other than Medicine.

This book provides wide ranging and comprehensive biographical sketches of forty-two doctors who are best known to the public for their contributions to fields outside of medicine. Largely written by members of the medical profession, the selection of doctors discussed here are those who are, or wer...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cooper, David K. C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Delaware, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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520 |a This book provides wide ranging and comprehensive biographical sketches of forty-two doctors who are best known to the public for their contributions to fields outside of medicine. Largely written by members of the medical profession, the selection of doctors discussed here are those who are, or were, well-known to the public for their contributions to their non-medical fields of choice. In many cases, the readers may have been unaware that well known professionals in fields such as literature, exploration, business, sports, and entertainment was medically qualified. 
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505 0 |a List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 St. Luke (First Century AD) -- 2 Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) -- 3 Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) -- 4 John Locke (1632-1704) -- 5 Hans Sloane (1660-1753) -- 6 Thomas Dover (1660-1742) -- 7 Physician Patriots -- 8 Mungo Park (1771-1806) -- 9 Thomas Young (1773-1829) -- 10 Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869) -- 11 John Keats (1795-1821) -- 12 Abraham Gesner (1797-1864) -- 13 Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- 14 David Livingstone (1813-1873) -- 15 Alexander Borodin (1834-1887) -- 16 William Chester Minor (1834-1920) -- 17 John Henry "Doc" Holliday (1851-1887) -- 18 John Harvey Kellogg (1852-1943) -- 19 Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) -- 20 Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) -- 21 Leonard Wood (1860-1927) -- 22 Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925) -- 23 Edward Wilson (1872-1912) -- 24 W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) -- 25 Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) -- 26 Archibald Joseph (A.J.) Cronin (1896-1981) -- 27 Jules Stein (1896-1981) -- 28 Armand Hammer (1898-1990) -- 29 Henry Stallard (1901-1973) -- 30 Boyd Neel (1905-1981) -- 31 Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928-1967) -- 32 Roger Bannister (1929- ) -- 33 Graham Chapman (1941-1989) -- 34 Abraham Verghese (1955- ) -- 35 Khaled Hosseini (1965- ) -- Medical Students Who Did Not Complete Their Studies -- 36 Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) -- 37 Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler (1875-1962) -- 38 Lu Xun (1881-1936) -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Index -- About the Contributors. 
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