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White Coat Tales: Medicine's Heroes, Heritage, and Misadventures
Robert B. Taylor
This new edition of White Coat Tales presents intriguing stories that give historical context to what we do in medicine today-the body's "holy bone" and how it got its name, a surprising reason why gout seemed to be so prevalent several centuries ago, and the therapeutic misadventure that shortened the life of Eleanor Roosevelt.
328 pages, 38 black & white illustrations, 91 colour illustrations, 3 black & white tables, 79 colou
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | April 26, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9783319290539 |
| Publishers | Springer International Publishing AG |
| Pages | 328 |
| Dimensions | 233 × 158 × 23 mm · 503 g |
| Language | German |
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