Reviews for Champion Charlie: The Authorised Biography of Charlie Swan (Mainstream Sport)

The average rating for Champion Charlie: The Authorised Biography of Charlie Swan (Mainstream Sport) based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-04-11 00:00:00 Bary Massey This was one of the best Great Courses lectures ever in my experience, and I even wasn't especially interested in the subject when I picked up this course -- I just wanted a short (6 hours) and relatively easy listen, but I've got so much more. Professor Nuland is an outstanding lecturer -- in his delivery the history of scientific medicine becomes a fascinating topic. One could write 12 breathtaking historical novels based on each of the 12 lectures in this course (the dramatic battle for the credit of inventing the anesthesia especially cries for a bestseller or a blockbuster). Also, the lectures left me with a renewed appreciation of modern medicine (it's worth remembering that just 150-170 years ago medicine wasn't far removed from butchery and sorcery, and it would have stayed the same without rigorous development and application of science). I will be sure to read other books by Sherwin B. Nuland now.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-12-13 00:00:00 Michael Zirpoli This was an engaging listen. Twelve lectures about twelve doctors who changed history: Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius, Harvey, Morgagni, Hunter, Laennec, Morton, Virchow, Lister, Halsted, and Taussig. Dr. Nuland, an able guide, is a surgeon and a medical historian. He includes the background and personality of the doctor, the conflicts in their lives, and how their discoveries and developments make a different today.