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Title: The Alarming History of Medicine : Amusing Anecdotes from Hippocrates to Heart Transplants by Richard Gordon ISBN: 0-312-16763-6 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: WANDERING AND HARD TO FOLLOW
Comment: Mr. Gordon wanders all around topics that would be interesting if the reader were able to follow his path. He makes frequent abbreviated references to topics that are difficult to follow.
This is a hard-to-read book.
Rating: 5
Summary: colouring in of medical history
Comment: I am fascinated by this subject, hence the reason for my reading this book, and I happen to be British, hence my appreciation of Richard Gordon's humour. After having read numerous histories of medicine and surgery for both my professional and personal interests, I can honestly say that I was finally able to see many of the famous names as people. I loved the parts about the condom laundry and the fact that we humans, along with cows, are physically responsible for the hole in the ozone layer. Just two examples that spring to mind from this mine of humorously viewed information. Informative and a damn good laugh.
Rating: 5
Summary: Highly entertaining and interesting.
Comment: If you enjoy Jeeves-type British humor and obscure non-fiction (as I do), this book will provide you with many delights. I can see how the "Briticisms" could annoy (I happen to enjoy this stuff), but overall Gordon is a very skillful comic writer, able to highlight the silliness in an anecdote without hitting you over the head with it, and at the same time offering a glimpse of his obviously vast knowledge of medical history.
Regarding content, suffice it to say that Gordon's book stands as further proof that fact is far stranger, more intriguing, and alarming than fiction could ever hope to be.
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Title: The Timetables of Medicine : An Illustrated Chronology of the History of Medicine from Prehistory to Present Times by Gill Davies, John Cule, Roy Porter ISBN: 157912156X Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub Pub. Date: 04 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Medicine's 10 Greatest Discoveries by Meyer, M.D. Friedman, Gerald W., MD Friedland ISBN: 0300082789 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Great Feuds in Medicine by Hal Hellman, Harold Hellman ISBN: 0471347574 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 02 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Doctors and Discoveries: Lives That Created Today's Medicine by John Galbraith Simmons ISBN: 0618152768 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 10 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine by Roy Porter ISBN: 0521002524 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 30 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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