The Evolution of Modern Medicine; a Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913

by William Osler

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Genres: Medicine, History, Science, Nonfiction

268 pages, Hardcover

Published August 22, 2015

About the author

Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet, was a Canadian physician and one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Reviews

[Biggus Dickkus · Rating 4 out of 5]

မနုဿဗေဒ ဆိုင်ရာ လေ့လာမှုမှာ ကိုးကွယ်ယုံကြည်မှုနဲ့ ဆေးပညာ နှစ်ခုရဲ့ ဆက်နွယ်မှုကို သမိုင်းတင်ခေတ်အစောပိုင်းလူ့အဖွဲ့အစည်းတွေမှာ တွေ့ရမယ်။ လူ့အဖွဲ့အစည်းဟာ မျဉ်းဖြောင့်အတိုင်း ဖြစ်ပေါ်တိုးတက်နေတာမဟုတ် တစ်ခေတ်နဲ့ တစ်ခေတ်ကြားမှာ အဆက်အစပ် ပြတ်တောက်မှုတွေရှိတယ်။ သောမတ်စ် ခွန်းစကားအရ ဆိုရင်တော့ paradigm shift ဖူကိုးအရ ဆိုရင်တော့ epistemic shift (epistemic shift အယူအဆက paradigm shift ထက် ပိုပြီးကျယ်ပြန့်တယ်လို့ ဆိုကြတယ် ဒါကကြုံလို့ပြောတာ) brain surgery လိုမျိုးကို ကျောက်ခေတ်လူသားတွေရဲ့ ‌ရုပ်ကြွင်းတွေမှာ သဲလွန်စအနေနဲ့ တွေ့နိုင်ပေမယ့် . Modern brain surgery နဲ့ အယူအဆပိုင်းအရကော procedure မှာကော အလွန့်အလွန်ကွာခြားသွားပြီဖြစ်သလို malariaအပေါ် ကိုရိုမန်တွေရှုမြင်ပုံနဲ့ ခေတ်သစ်ဆေးပညာရဲ့ ငှက်ဖျားရောဂါအပေါ်ကိုင်တွယ်ဖြေရှင်းပုံက လားလားမျှကွာခြားသွားပြီဖြစ်တယ်။ မြန်မာစာပေမှာဆိုရင် သိန်းဖေမြင့်ရဲ့ တက်ခေတ်နတ်ဆိုးက နှစ်ဆယ့်သစ်ရာစု စာဖတ်သူတွေအတွက် သိပ်ပြီး relevant မဖြစ်တော့သလိုပါဘဲ။ သို့ပေသိ Osler ရဲ့ လက်ချာတွေကတော့ အချိန်ရဲ့ တိုက်စားမှုမှာ မျှောပါမသွားဘဲ ခေတ်မှီနေဆဲ ပါဘဲ။

[John Yelverton · Rating 1 out of 5]

There were certain sections which were obviously and demonstrably false which the author purported to be fact. It therefore made it impossible for me to feel educated on sections of which I had no knowledge, since I could no longer trust the author's veracity by his previous false statements on subjects upon which I did have knowledge. The author is also extremely anti-religious to the point of belligerent fanaticism, and so I would just encourage you to seek this knowledge elsewhere and from a less biased source.

[Katharine Harding · Rating 3 out of 5]

I can absolutely imagine that these would have been brilliant when heard in person at the lecture.

[Nandu · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book "The evolution of Modern medicine" drives back to 10th century around how the medicine started getting evolved in the world and how each thesis added up to the current modern medicine. When we say medicine it doesn't mean the theories that are in scientific means. It means also how it evolved from astronomy, astrology and black magic. It gives good idea on people who are still the foundation for the modern medicine built such as galen, hippocrates, vaselius, fabricius and all. Had great insight on the advent and spread of medicine culture. Altogether Great read.

[Adhoc · Rating 4 out of 5]

A surprisingly interesting read, the type of read that sends you in every direction following up on ideas and historical persons mentioned by Osler.