Tabiyat
Medicine and Healing in India and Other Essays
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ISBN:
9780199480159
Publication date:
18/02/2018
Hardback
222 pages
Price: 795.00
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ISBN:
9780199480159
Publication date:
18/02/2018
Hardback
222 pages
Farokh Erach Udwadia
This book, aptly titled ‘Tabiyat’ which translates to ‘health’, ‘nature’, ‘temperament’ or ‘disposition’, is a collection of nine masterly and thought-provoking essays which explore some important discoveries, dwelling on their relevance in our daily lives.
Including essays on War and Medicine, Medical Ethics, Music and Medicine, Nursing and Death, the book encompasses various fields of human endeavour and aspects of life and living which influence and impact medicine.
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Farokh Erach Udwadia
Description
This book, aptly titled ‘Tabiyat’ which translates to ‘health’, ‘nature’, ‘temperament’ or ‘disposition’, is a collection of nine masterly and thought-provoking essays which explore some important discoveries, dwelling on their relevance in our daily lives.
Including essays on War and Medicine, Medical Ethics, Music and Medicine, Nursing and Death, the book encompasses various fields of human endeavour and aspects of life and living which influence and impact medicine.
About the Author
Dr Farokh Erach Udwadia is Consultant and Director in Charge of the Intensive Care Unit at Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai, India. In 1987, he received the Padma Bhushan for his contribution to medicine, and was the youngest Indian to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1969, at the age of 38.
Farokh Erach Udwadia
Table of contents
Preface
1. A Knowledge of the Humanities and History Makes a Better Physician
2. The Fight against Infection: The Microbe Hunters
3. Medical Ethics
4. War and Medicine
5. Tabiyat: Medicine and Healing in India
6. The Lady with the Lamp
7. Music, the Mind and Medicine
8. Medicine in the Renaissance Era
9. Death
About the Author
Farokh Erach Udwadia
Description
This book, aptly titled ‘Tabiyat’ which translates to ‘health’, ‘nature’, ‘temperament’ or ‘disposition’, is a collection of nine masterly and thought-provoking essays which explore some important discoveries, dwelling on their relevance in our daily lives.
Including essays on War and Medicine, Medical Ethics, Music and Medicine, Nursing and Death, the book encompasses various fields of human endeavour and aspects of life and living which influence and impact medicine.
About the Author
Dr Farokh Erach Udwadia is Consultant and Director in Charge of the Intensive Care Unit at Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai, India. In 1987, he received the Padma Bhushan for his contribution to medicine, and was the youngest Indian to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1969, at the age of 38.
Table of contents
Preface
1. A Knowledge of the Humanities and History Makes a Better Physician
2. The Fight against Infection: The Microbe Hunters
3. Medical Ethics
4. War and Medicine
5. Tabiyat: Medicine and Healing in India
6. The Lady with the Lamp
7. Music, the Mind and Medicine
8. Medicine in the Renaissance Era
9. Death
About the Author
