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Wisconsin Bookwatch, August, 2004
Medical Firsts
Robert E. Adler
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
111 River St., Hoboken, NJ 07030-5773
0471401757 $24.95 1-800-225-5945
Medical Firsts: From Hippocrates To The Human Genome by psychologist and science journalist Robert E. Adler is the amazing story of the evolution of Western medicine as achieved through the lives and work of more than thirty of its greatest practitioners. Woven in storytelling prose for a grand reader's tour through history, Medical Firsts covers from how the Greek physician Hippocrates grounded the foundation of medicine in science and observation to the breakthrough advances and discoveries of modern medical technology. A superbly fantastic journey through knowledge and history alike.
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