Doctors and Discoveries
Lives That Created Today's Medicine (review)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15024574 |
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| Authors | Sherwin B Nuland (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 724-726 |
| Publication date | 2003-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the history of medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-5140 • E-ISSN: 1086-3176 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bhm.2003.0130 |
| OpenAlex | W1998527750 |
| Language | EN |
In the postface to his 1931 classic, The Great Doctors, Henry Sigerist said of the ongoing march of medical progress that "[t]he tempo of evolution has slackened a little as compared with that of a few decades back."1 Within some fifteen years, penicillin was ready for widespread clinical use, and the "tempo of evolution" had once more picked up. The real accelerando began in the years soon after Sigerist's death in 1957, and seems not yet to have reached its peak. As a result, numerous names have been added to the catalog of greatness. It is time to catch up, which was very likely foremost in the mind of John Galbraith Simmons when he conceived of his eminently useful Doctors and Discoveries
Art · Greatness · Literature · Classics · Empathy and Medical Education · Health and Medical Research Impacts · History · Medical History and Innovations · Medicine · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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