Men of Medicine
Shippen
1957
I plucked this gem from a small library’s youth collection. Aside from some yellowing, the physical condition was good and the content is okay, but I think we might want to include some folks from the last 50 years. Maybe even some WOMEN???? Send this one to the museum!
7 responses so far ↓
thorn // May 28, 2009 at 12:55 pm |
cover your nose and re-scrub! no patient with an open incision wants your cooties, dr. nostrils.
Anonymous Coward // May 28, 2009 at 2:36 pm |
From the original Kirkus review (April 1, 1957):
“From the days when all the ‘doctor …
…”‘ asked his patient was whether or not he had broken any taboos up to the modern miracles of the x-ray and the wonder drugs, this is an accomplished distillation of social trends and discoveries … more » which have made an increasingly healthier population. How the medicine man gradually became a physician; the early science in Persia, Egypt and Greece (there is a fascinating differentiation here between the schools of Aesklepios and Hippocrates); Galen, the Salerno school, Paracelsus, Vesalius, Harvey, Jenner, Pastour, Walter Reed and Alexander Fleming- all these and more come up for simplified discussion that should both interest and stimulate. Katherine Shippen’s other books, equally readable and competent, in the science field, have included Miracle in Motion and Men, Microscopes and Living Things.’
This book has been digitized by Google:
Men of Medicine
By Katherine B. Shippen
Published by Viking Press, 1957
Original from the University of California
Digitized Nov 6, 2008
WeedingGirl // May 28, 2009 at 3:25 pm |
Not to mention that the mask should also be covering his nose!
Laurie M. // May 31, 2009 at 2:37 pm |
True story. In 1978 I took my then 5 year-old daughter to a pre-op session for children so they could be prepared for what would happen in the hospital. The nurse in charge offered my daughter a “nurse kit” to have for her own. She looked over a the other kit available and said “I want to be the doctor”. The nurse told her girls couldn’t be doctors! Seriously! My daughter ended up getting the doctor kit after she told the nurse that “girls can be anything they want”. No, she hadn’t seen a woman doctor yet but she was sure it wasn’t because they couldn’t be one!
Becci // August 29, 2009 at 12:36 am |
What a story–I’m glad your daughter stood up for herself and got the doctor kit! Good grief.
will // June 4, 2009 at 8:36 am |
There aren’t any women in it, even though it appears that a woman wrote it.
Mary Sue // June 30, 2009 at 6:10 pm |
I’m enjoying your blog a lot, and I found this book really hysterical. See, I work for a big ol’ teaching hospital, and the press release of the day was about the new med student who has been elected to our Board of Directors. Turns out she has an aunt who graduated from our institution with an M.D. in nineteen twenty-six (1926, I typed it out so no one would think I made a numerical slip-up).