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History of medicine : a scandalously short introduction / Jacalyn Duffin.
LIBRA R131 .D783 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duffin, Jacalyn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--History.
- Medicine.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 495 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- Introduction : heroes and villains in the history of medicine
- The fabricated body : history of anatomy
- Interrogating life : history of physiology
- Science of suffering : history of pathology
- First do no harm : history of treatment, pharmacology and pharmaceuticals
- On becoming and being a doctor : education, licensing, payment and bioethics
- Plagues and peoples : epidemic diseases in history
- Why is blood special? Changing concepts of a vital humour
- Technology and disease : stethoscope, hospitals and other gadgets
- Work of the hand : history of surgery
- Women's medicine and medicine's women : history of obstetrics and gynecology and women
- Wrestling with demons : history of psychiatry
- No baby, no nation : history of pediatrics
- A many-faceted gem : the decline and rebirth of family medicine
- When the patient is plural : public and international health
- Sleuthing and science : how to research a question in medical history.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780802098252
- 0802098258
- 9780802095565
- 0802095569
- OCLC:
- 473375814
- Publisher Number:
- 99938677307
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