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Medical Best Sellers
John Pearn
Tenth International CongressOn
Medical LibrarianshipBrisbane 2009
BEST SELLERS
Sale of BooksEnduring Influence
MEDICAL TEXTBOOKS
. Galen – more than 20 books;Dominant for 1500 years
. Bibliography of his own booksin 2nd Century AD De Libris Propriis LiberFirst printed in 1525
. The primary medical reference text until 1521when Berengario da Carpi published Commentaria in Bologna
MEDICAL TEXT BOOKS
. Osler’s The Principals & Practice of Medicine
. Gray’s Anatomy
. Cunningham’s Textbook of AnatomyFrom 1819, 58 editions in English
. Cunningham’s Manual of Practical Anatomy1879-1989; 4 languages; 135 editions
BOOKS—Top Quality and Quantity
Sale of BooksEnduring InfluenceFastest selling books
HARRY POTTER SERIES
As of June 2008
. 400 million copies printed
. 67 languages
. Fastest-selling books in history
. Brand – 15,000,000,000 pounds
BEST SELLERS
Sale of BooksEnduring InfluenceFastest selling booksMost stolen books
MOST STOLEN BOOKS
United States
. The Bible
. The Guinness Book of World Records
. Police Entrance Examination Guide
GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS
.World’s most-sold copyrighted book
.In 2008, 2,244 new valid records
.Ethical removal of some records
Liquor-drinking records; eating trees and bicycles; fattest cats.
MOST STOLEN BOOKS
United Kingdom
. The Works of Beatrix Potter
. The Coins of England and the UK
. The Qur’an
BEST SELLERS
Sale of BooksEnduring InfluenceFastest selling booksMost stolen booksImpact Factors
BOOKS WRITTEN BY DOCTORS
. Hippocratic Corpus c. 380 B.C.
. Galen c. 200 A.D.
. Michael CrichtonJurassic Park: “E.R.” Television Series150 million books sold
The “TOP 10” Medical Best Sellers1 The Bible
2.5 – 6 billion copies2 Quotations from Chairman Mao – The Little Red Book
Printed 1966 to 1973800 million to 6.5 billion
3 The Qur’an 800 million
4 Scouting for Boys by Lieut-Gen Baden Powell, 190860-150 million
5 The St. John Ambulance First Aid BookEst. 50-100 million, from 1879
The “TOP 10” Medical Best Sellers
6 The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Careby Benjamin Spock, 1946
50 million7 You Can Health Your Life
by Louise Hay35 million
8 Alcoholics Anonymous Big Bookby Bill Wilson, 1939
9 South Beach Dietby Arthur Agatston, 2003
22 million10 La Peste [The Plague]
by Albert Camus, 194712 million
The Common Sense Book of Baby andChild Care
. Dr. Benjamin Spock , 1946
. 50 million copiesInfluenced 100 million
. Dignity of childhood
. A foil to rigid disciplinarianism
. Empowered parents in childrearing
BEST SELLERS
Sale of BooksEnduring InfluenceFastest selling booksMost stolen booksImpact Factors
BEST SELLING NOVELS
“The most widely published fictionIs publishers’ own sales figures”
Internet Public Library 2009
RANKED LIST OF THE WORLD’S BESTSELLERS
. Internet Public Library List
. Russell Ash’s The Top Ten of Everything
. The Guinness Book of World Records
. Wikipedia
TOP “5”
1 The Bible2 Quotations from Chairman Mao3 The American Spelling Book4 Guinness World Records5 The McGuffey Readers
Internet Public Library
TOP “5”
1 The Bible2 Quotations from Chairman Mao3 The Qur’an4 The Xinhua Dictionary5 Chairman Mao’s Poems
Wikiipedia 2009
“If God spare my life,Ere many years I will cause a Boy that driveth the plough [to]Know more of the Scripture . . .”
William Tyndale, c. 1536
The Bible
1 Most printed book in history
2 Written texts of Hebrew components 168 BC
3 Bishop Athanasius of Alexandria 367 AD
4 1526 the Tindale Bible in English
The Bible. Causation of disease
. Accounts of miraculous healing
. Health injunctions, forbidden foods
. References of diseasesWeakness, paralysis, plague, fever,atrophy, dysentery
Healthcare under Chairman Mao Zedong
. Access of healthcare for all
. Direct nexus between patient and doctor
. Abandonment of paternalistic-eliteststatus of the clinician
. Red Guard Doctors; Barefoot Doctors
Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong
. 5 – 6.5 billion copies printedfrom April 1964 to 1976
. 33 chapters, 427 quotations
. 1968 – Peking banned the publicationof medical journals
. 1968-1971 Healthcare remained totallyinternalized in China
The Little Red Book
. Aphoristic preventive medicine
. Promoted moderation in eating and drinking
. Political non-compliance regardedas a sickness
The Qur’an
. Flawless, immutable, literal and final Revelations of God
. Revealed to the Prophet Muhammad 610-632 CE
. Hand-written books circa 750 CE
. First printed from wooden blocks in 10th century CE
. First Qur’an printed in moveable type, Venice 1537 CE
. 800 million copies
The Qur’an – Medical Themes
. Moderation in diet and lifestyle
. Emphasis on hygiene
. Forbidden foods
. Dispensation for the ill and the disabled
. Causation of disease
. Compliance with medical care
Scouting for Boys
. Written in Northumberland and in LondonBy Lieut-General Robert Baden-Powell
. Published in 1908
. 80-150 million copies sold. Read by 350 million
. Moderation in diet and lifestyle
. Preventive medicine
Scouting for Boys
. Health-giving habits
. Military medicine to civilian practice
. Abstinence from smoking andModeration in Alcohol
. Dental Care
Life-saving and First Aid
Medical Best-Sellers – Common Themes
. Importance of personal health
. The altruistic, charitable and philanthropicduty of healthcare
. Emphasis on preventive medicine
. Specific rules and guidance on matter of diet,Hygiene and lifestyle
“Who is so persistent a preacher of abstinence, sobriety,Restraining anger, fleeing care, avoiding gluttony,Rejecting love, moderating sex, as the Doctor?”
Erasmus of Rotterdam (1469-1536)
Medical Best Sellers
John Pearn
Tenth International CongressOn
Medical LibrarianshipBrisbane 2009