The Life and Work of Isidore Snapper (1889-1973)

The Champion of Bedside Medicine

Arie Berghout (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

353 Seiten

2022 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-7845-6 (ISBN)

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The life of Isidore Snapper (1889-1973), the son of a diamond worker, was defined by ambition, cosmopolitanism, conflict, and antisemitism. As a Professor of Medicine in Amsterdam, Beijing and New York, he played a major role in important developments in medicine during the first half of the last century. He was a medical celebrity who combined supreme bedside skills and diagnostic acumen, masterly integrated with basic science at a time when big egos were still tolerated and accommodated. Never living a boring moment, Snapper acted as a football referee and sport scientist at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928, was a POW of the Japanese and a consultant to the US War Department, and finally fell in love with a CIA agent. His Bedside Medicine became a bestseller. This book presents the story of one of the last great generalists, a race of physicians that is now extinct, and a great champion of the holistic approach to patients. His legacy is still refreshing, topical and challenging for anyone with an interest in all matters of health.

Dr Arie Berghout, MD, FRCP, was Consultant Physician and Director of Teaching and Medical Education at Maasstad Hospital, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, until his retirement in 2012. He trained in endocrinology, diabetes and vascular medicine at the Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, and at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He has published numerous papers on goitre, thyroid eye disease, hypothyroidism, and thyroid and pregnancy. He also served as Program Director of the Annual Meeting of the Dutch Society of Medicine and as Senior Expert Health Care for the Dutch Organization for International Development and Cooperation. He is currently Conservator at the National Library and Centre for the study of the History of Medicine, the Netherlands. In 2017, he published Heer en Meester aan het Ziekbed, a biography of Isidore Snapper (1889-1973), which was nominated for the Boerhaave Biography Award, and received four-star reviews in a number of major Dutch newspapers.

Erscheinungsdatum	17.03.2022
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-5275-7845-3 / 1527578453
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-7845-6 / 9781527578456
Zustand	Neuware