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Sir William Osler (1849-1919) had a long and distinguished career as a physician and professor at McGill University, the University of Pennsylvania, the Johns Hopkins University, and finally, as the Regius Chair in Medicine at Oxford University. Over the course of his professional life, Osler gave many addresses-mostly to medical students-on medical ethics, medicine and the humanities, the relationship between the medical practitioner and the patient, and, as the titular essay makes clear, on the "way of life" he advocated for the ethical physician. He remains an inspiration to many contemporary medical practitioners; there are active Osler Societies throughout the world. While Osler's talks were frequently published during his lifetime and they have been published individually and in different compilations since his death, none contain the over 1500 annotations that appear here, notes that serve to explain the many philosophical, biblical, historical, and literary allusions contained in Osler's writings. This thoroughly explicated selection of Sir William Osler's writings will be cherished by physicians, medical students, nurses, philosophers, theologians, and ethicists in this-and future-generations.
Contents
Foreword / John P. McGovern, M.D. Preface To the Reader Chronological Table of Sir William Osler's Life 1. A Way of Life 2. Aequanimitas3. Sir Thomas Browne4. The Old Humanities and the New Science5. Doctor and Nurse 6. Teacher and Student7. Physic and Physicians as Depicted in Plato8. The Leaven of Science9. Teaching and Thinking 10. Nurse and Patient 11. After Twenty-Five Years12. Books and Men13. Chauvinism in Medicine14. The Master-Word in Medicine15. The Hospital as a College 16. The Fixed Period17. The Student Life18. Unity, Peace, and Concord19. L'envoi20. Man's Redemption of Man Bed-Side Library for Medical StudentsAbbreviationsReference Sources
