Post Mortem: Solving History's Great Medical Mysteries [Kindle Edition]
Author: Philip A. Mackowiak | Language: English | ISBN: B003ES5RQW | Format: PDF, EPUB
Post Mortem: Solving History's Great Medical Mysteries
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This book combines mystery stories with popular history and medical case studies to offer professional and non-professional readers a fascinating and entertaining experience!
Postmortem examines the controversial lives and deaths of 12 famous men and women, including Alexander the Great, King Herod, Joan of Arc, Mozart, Beethoven, and Edgar Allan Poe.
It also investigates the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten; the Greek statesman and general Pericles; the Roman Emperor Claudius; Christopher Columbus; Florence Nightingale; and Booker T. Washington.
This book traces 3,500 years of the medical history from the perspective of what contemporary physicians thought about the diseases of their renowned patients and how they might have treated them. It describes the characteristics of the illnesses in question, and brings to life the medical history, social history, family history, and physical examination of their famous victims.
Then Postmortem sifts through the medical evidence, testing a wide range of diagnostic theories against the known facts and today’s best scientific research, to arrive at the diagnosis most consistent with the illness described in the historic record.
Books with free ebook downloads available Post Mortem: Solving History's Great Medical Mysteries
Free download Post Mortem: Solving History's Great Medical Mysteries [Kindle Edition] for everyone book with Mediafire Link Download Link “Fascinating ... An enjoyable read.”—New England Journal of Medicine
This book combines mystery stories with popular history and medical case studies to offer professional and non-professional readers a fascinating and entertaining experience!
Postmortem examines the controversial lives and deaths of 12 famous men and women, including Alexander the Great, King Herod, Joan of Arc, Mozart, Beethoven, and Edgar Allan Poe.
It also investigates the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten; the Greek statesman and general Pericles; the Roman Emperor Claudius; Christopher Columbus; Florence Nightingale; and Booker T. Washington.
This book traces 3,500 years of the medical history from the perspective of what contemporary physicians thought about the diseases of their renowned patients and how they might have treated them. It describes the characteristics of the illnesses in question, and brings to life the medical history, social history, family history, and physical examination of their famous victims.
Then Postmortem sifts through the medical evidence, testing a wide range of diagnostic theories against the known facts and today’s best scientific research, to arrive at the diagnosis most consistent with the illness described in the historic record.
Books with free ebook downloads available Post Mortem: Solving History's Great Medical Mysteries
- File Size: 2705 KB
- Print Length: 350 pages
- Publisher: American College of Phyisicians (April 2, 2007)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B003ES5RQW
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #100,654 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #25 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Professional & Technical > Medical eBooks > Special Topics > History
I ordered this book hoping for the kind of in-depth medical research and analysis that I enjoy reading. I was not disappointed. Each chapter is very thorough and detailed in its description and analysis of the "patient" and their condition. I can't state that the author has solved all these mysteries, but that's not what made this book enjoyable. It was the quality of medical information and the very scientific look at the lives of these historical figures. The details of their illnesses bring them to light as human beings rather than just figures of history.By Rebecca D. Gold
...I enjoyed this book immensely. The author is a fabulous story teller, and makes his cases convincingly. This book is for anyone who likes history and CSIBy A. Teal
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