Doctors: The Illustrated History of Medical Pioneers

By Sherwin B. Nuland

Subjects: Physicians, Biography, Medicine, history, Physicians, biography, History, Medicine

Description: The best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning How We Die chronicles the history of medicine through profiles of important physicians and research scientists and reviews key medical theories and pioneering advances, with portraits of Galen, Andreas Vesalius, William Harvey, Joseph Lister, and other medical pioneers.