Clio in the Clinic : History in Medical Practice / Jacalyn Duffin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duffin, Jacalyn, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--History.

Medicine.

Medical historians.

Medicine--Practice.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Clio in the Clinic shows how knowledge of history can shape a physician's view of the profession and how it can be a surprising asset at the bedside for diagnosis and treatment.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""Clio in the Clinic: An Introduction""; ""Consulting the Past""; ""The Night I Fell in Love with Clio""; ""Speculum medicinae: Reflections of a Medievalist-Clinician""; ""Facing Epidemics""; ""A Wartime 'Plague' in Crotone""; ""Plagues and Patients""; ""Coping with the HIV/AIDS Epidemic""; ""Reviving Defunct Diseases""; ""'La crise'""; ""Floating Kidneys""; ""Historical Adventures in the Newborn Nursery: Forgotten Stories and Syndromes""; ""Susan and the Simmonds-Sheehan Syndrome: Medicine, History, and Literatures""

""Recognizing New Diseases""""The Histories of a History: The Boy, the Baron, and the Syndromes""; ""Who Says You Have to Crawl before You Walk? Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Crawling, and Medical History""; ""Making a Diagnosis""; ""An 'Appallingly Sudden Death' Explained Seventy-Six Years Later""; ""One Blue Nun""; ""Prescribing the 'Right' Treatment""; ""William Withering's Wonderful Weed""; ""Dr Heisenberg, Are You Certain about the Diagnosis?""; ""Explaining Differences""; ""Trust and the Tuskegee Experiments""; ""Beware the Poor Historian""

""We Are All Historians: Thoughts about Doing Psychiatry""""Confronting Futility""; ""Timeless Desperation and Timely Measures""; ""A Brief History of Timelessness in Medicine""; ""How Medical History Helped Me (Almost) Love a V.A. Hospital""; ""When Clio Falters""; ""What Do You Know? Cancer, History, and Medical Practice""; ""Seeing through Medical History""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

0-8020-3798-4

1-4426-7301-X

OCLC:

923069157