Medicine in Quotations: Views of Health and Disease Through the Ages [Hardcover]

Edward J. Huth (Author), Murray T. Jock (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0943126835 | ISBN-13: 978-0943126838 | Publication Date: March 15, 2000 | Edition: 1st

...the first major compilation of medical quotes in over 30 years, with indexes of both subjects & authors, and complete bibliographic listings for each of the over 3,000 quotes from the ancient world to the present day.

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This is not the type of quotation collection from which one could choose glib after-dinner remarks about medical care for a lay audience. Huth (editor emeritus, Annals of Internal Medicine) and Murray (medical humanities and medicine, Dalhousie Univ.) assembled this book from contributions by Annals readers who submitted quotations from historical medical sources. The 3000-plus entries range from the obscure (two quotations about abetalipoproteinemia, an 1802 quotation about globus hystericus) to the expected (ten quotations about women in medicine, 72 about medical education, with sources ranging from Hippocrates to Sherwin Nuland) to the unexpected (a quotation about toxins from Croatian Medical Quotations, one from Don DeLillo about patient information). In contrast with the more general-interest Medical Quotes: A Thematic Dictionary (Facts on File, 1989), edited by John Daintith and Amanda Isaacs, Medicine in Quotations offers an extremely detailed and comprehensive author-citation index, in itself a useful reference tool, as well as a subject index. The book is suitable for medical, academic, and history of medicine collections as well as large public libraries that lack similar works. Given its price and specialized audience, it is an optional purchase for other libraries.DMartha E. Stone, Massachusetts General Hosp. Lib., Boston
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 524 pages
• Publisher: American College of Physicians; 1st edition (March 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0943126835
• ISBN-13: 978-0943126838
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New, comprehensive, educational, August 7, 2000

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Robert Kall "Rob Kall of Opednews.com" (Newtown, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Medicine in Quotations: Views of Health and Disease Through the Ages (Hardcover)

With over 400 books in my collection of quotation books,some dating back 400+ years, I feel confident in saying that this book is a welcome addition in a field where so many are just spun off small presses without adding anything to the field.

A good quotation book is, by my mind, subject categorized (as opposed to alphabetically categorized by author,) with solid info on the quotation sources, providing a mix of most familiar quottes with some solid new nuggets of wisdom.

This book meets these criteria, taking the idea of a medical quotation book a step further than the previous "classic standard" of medical quotations, Familiar Medical Quotations, edited by Maurice Strauss, which is now 30 years old (though some of my favorites are much older than that, including Harbottle and Dalbiac, Hoyt, Allibone, Tryon Edwards, and Stephenson.)

Another indication of a great quotation book is the attention the editors or collectors pay to the subject headings. This book is a treasure trove of subject headings which have never appeared in a quotation book before, such as: mitral stenosis, molecular biology, rheumatoid spondylitis, specialization, concussion and constipation to aging, with classic quotables, like Aristotle, Petrarch and Duc de La Rochefoucauld, to more modern scientists and physicians, like Ignatz Semmelweis, William Mayo, Rene Dubos and Hans Selye.

The best quotation books help you discover new writers you want to delve into more deeply, by giving you enough information and inspiring or stimulating thoughts so you seek out the full text source. This book does this too. It's a great read, full of illuminating ideas.

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