Arrowsmith Sparknotes

Having a career in science and medicine was a big deal during this time. Dr. Jekyll is an educated, wealthy, and well-respected man. Through the eyes of the public, he is seen as a perfect, ideal Victorian man. He is a “large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a slyish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness” (31). Because of his status in society, Dr. Jekyll is obligated to hide his pleasures and show the society his caring, affectionate, and loyal virtues.

Sampson, George, and Rameck were three kids from the ghetto of Newark, New Jersey. They came from low-income families, and grew up without father figures. All three of them always did well in school, but others around them made a lot of bad choices. This caused many events that them caused them to go to jail. When they met each other in University High School, the three doctors decided to promise to each other that they would all go to college and become doctors. After they made the pact, there were a few problems, but these incidents never stopped them from pursuing their dream of becoming doctors. Today, Dr. Hunt is a Board certified internist at University Medical Center at Princeton

Doctors can be portrayed as agents of capitalism. It can be seen that they tend to hide the real causes of illness (poverty and class inequality) and portray illness through the patient’s physical symptoms rather than their economic status. For example, doctors can prescribe their patient with medication (which they may need to be pay for) that isn't effective making them have to buy more.

On the other hand the book talks more about the science aspect of medicine.It talks about the revolution modern science and especially medical science. However it doesn’t talk about the great influenza yet. but then you get to meet Thomas Kuhn. He has a well-known theory of how science advances and he gave the word paradigm “ wide usage by arguing that any given point in time, the particular paradigm, a kind of perceived truth, dummies are thinking in any signs.” The book then goes more into detail about Kuhn’s paradigm, “the prevailing paradigm tends to freeze progress…. but the process-and profess-...” John Barry then starts to talk about the scientific method and then briefly after that it talks about Hippocrates is who was born around 460 B.C.Which the Book then talks about One of his texts called on the sacred disease which talks about “even marked theories that attributed epilepsy to the intervention of Gods.” The book then talks more about Hippocrates and his doings with medicine and his findings such as “four kinds of bodily fluids… blood, phlegm, bile, and black bile.” The book that talks about other

The bank crash of 1930 wiped out a young man's entire savings, destroying his dream of going to medical school. However, this didn't stop him from going on to revolutionize the medical profession.

The aristocratic Medical Careers, taught by Mr. Crosby, is a class full of students aspiring to be in the medical field. Plato defines aristocracy as “the government of the best,” where the “several classes [of people] will receive the proportion of happiness which nature assigns to them.” In an aristocracy, the different social classes are proficient in their own special art, and continually strive to better their art. Just as each social class receives this “proportion

Although Edinburgh became one of the prestigious medical schools in Europe, it was not without its downfalls. George Logan’s letter presents the issues that were occurring at the school. In his letter, Logan wrote about Dr. Black. He credits Dr. Black for being one of the greatest chemists in Europe. He wrote that Black had made some of the best discoveries in the field of chemistry. Although he was one of the best in his field, Logan questioned his teaching style. He wrote that his lectures set the physician as a philosopher rather than a practitioner. He wrote he did not perform demonstrations of medical practice but rather talked about the philosophy behind medicine. Logan then wrote that from these lectures, students did not gain the

In eighth grade, my father handed me a book that would change the way I thought about science and medicine forever. “The Emperor of All Maladies” by Siddhartha Mukherjee was not just a book about cancer; it was a story about how one disease was able to change the course of all of humanity. After years of watching my dad’s daily routine as a physician and taking every opportunity to ask him questions, along with reading about scientific discoveries from a holistic, historical perspective, I came to realize the remarkable role science has had in pushing the progression of the human race. I was mesmerized by the way that doctors and scientists were able to directly impact others and study the world at its most fundamental level. I fell in love

Book Summary The story begins with a young woman leaping out of a carriage, and being attacked by two men. Dodger who is a tosher emerged from a London sewer drain and helped the girl by chasing away the men. Dodger and the young woman named Simplicity are helped by Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew, who witnessed the attack. Beaten and bruised, Simplicity is taken to the Mayhew house where she is treated by a doctor.

The comments on my MWP 1 revealed that I need to work on the summary part. I had made a broad statement, and I was not specific to the author contents which made the summary vague for the readers. Also, I had not written an example which shows clear understanding about my views. I studied carefully and improved my writing skills by understanding the content thoroughly. I have read the author’s article multiple times until I absorbed his content completely. Finally, I have written the paper carefully and also tried to keep the contents concise and understandable to the readers. In addition, I wrote the example which is very specific to the authors content and

Dr. William Cullen was one of the most important professors at Edinburg Medical School. He was a physician, chemist and agriculturist that was a central figure in the Scottish enlightenment. His journey began when he apprenticed for Mr. John Paisley at the faculty of physicians and surgeons at Glasgow and only years after his apprenticeship ended he began to teach at the University of Glasgow himself 1. He was a man who valued education and later on distinction, for his superiority in his field, going so far as to recede from conversation that shifted from what he knew best. Cullen believed one should only speak about topics that one was intimately familiar with. Taking this mindset he never failed to study the subject that he was unfamiliar with in order to contribute to conversation when a topic of similar direction was broached. His determination to be the best eventually led him to being the first physician to the King of Scotland 2. His largest contribution is his Synopsis Nosologiae Methodicae (1769), Cullen's very influential

The first issue that is found in the book is the old-fashioned way of doctors. A doctor named Mr. Butterworth is one of those antiquated doctors that make you feel senseless for not knowing what they are speaking about. He is from an era where doctors say “big” medical words, and the patients just nod their head and eat the medicine their given. He comes from a paternalistic and pompous tradition where doctors know best, and patients are just tools for them to make money. Mr. Butterworth never

For example, doctors know a lot of information about medications and poisons and body parts. When this book was written it was possible to use certain chemicals to hurt people that only a doctor had access to. And at that time, the police or detectives would not have been able to trace them because the technology that is available today was not available then. Another example is that if a doctor wanted to kills someone with a knife, they would know exactly where to aim it to deliver a deadly blow where the average person would probably not know that. This level of knowledge and skill would help make a doctor a successful criminal with a good chance of getting away with

Alexander Fleming was born on August 6, 1881 to Hugh Fleming and Grace Morton. His parents shared the same occupation as farmers. He was born on a rural farm in Lochfield in East Ayrshire Scotland. Alexander or Alec as his family called him had three siblings Grace, John and Robert. He also had four half siblings Jane, Hugh, Thomas, and Mary who were from his father’s previous marriage. Alexander’s education began at Loudoun Moor School, then he moved to a larger school called Darvel School. He also moved to Kilmarnock Academy. After this he relocated to London where he attended Regent Street Polytechnic. Before starting his medical studies he worked at a shipping office. Alexander began his medical studies in 1901 at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School at the University of London. In 1908 he was acknowledged with the gold medal as the top medical student. After graduating his dream job was to become a surgeon but, a short term opportunity in the laboratories of the research department at St. Mary’s Hospital. A bacteriologist and immunologist named Sir Almroth Edward Wright influenced Alexander. Sir Wright had amazing ideas of vaccine therapy that would create an extraordinary change in the field of medical treatment. After this he decided to open his own private practice as a venereologist, this was between 1909 and 1914. As a venereologist he became one of the first doctors to use arsphenamie (Salvarsan) which was given to treat syphilis. The drug was discovered by German