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1 online resource |
| Summary |
This history of medicine collection presents the biographies of five pioneering anesthetists through the lens of leadership. Starting with William Morton who discovered ether anesthesia in 1846, the book continues with an account of John Snow, who studied both chloroform and cholera, and became the world's first epidemiologist. Three previously untold complete biographies follow to illustrate the transformation of the crude practice of Anesthesia to the sophisticated medical specialty of Anesthesiology of today. Based on original archival research, the life stories of Arthur Guedel (famous for. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Anesthesia -- Biography.
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Anesthesia -- History.
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Physicians.
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physicians. |
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Biography: science, technology & medicine. |
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Biography: general. |
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History of medicine. |
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Physicians |
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Anesthesia |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Print version: 1527555968 9781527555969 (OCoLC)1173994272 |
| ISBN |
9781527558335 (electronic bk.) |
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1527558339 (electronic bk.) |
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1527555968 |
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9781527555969 |
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