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Doctors east, doctors west; an American physician's life in China, by Edward H. Hume ...
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks R154.H796 A3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hume, Edward H. (Edward Hicks), 1876-1957.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hume, Edward H. (Edward Hicks), 1876-1957.
- Hume, Edward H.
- Guo li Xiang Ya yi xue yuan.
- Medicine--China.
- Medicine.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 278 pages illustrations, portraits, plates
- Place of Publication:
- New York, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. [1946]
- Summary:
- "To have lived in China at a time when Westerners were beginning to try to understand Chinese medical thought, and when China was beginning to recognize the need of the Western approach to scientific medicine, has been a unique experience. This book is the personal record of how one American doctor discovered that medicine was a builder of bridges between nations and cultures."--Prologue.
- Contents:
- What journeyings!
- The blocked archway
- The city of the long sands
- West Archway Street
- "Fifty cash! No less!"
- "He knows no medicine!"
- The first inpatients
- Medical rivals
- Advertising pays
- "I have come to thank you, sir!"
- The hollow needle medicine
- Our hospital neighbors
- Ambulances of a dozen sorts
- "A piece of jade"
- "Even though he is a foreigner"
- The great peace door
- "The time is not yet ripe"
- Cultural traditions
- "He kept plague away"
- "Scholars to watch and guard"
- The street of the grass tide
- The family controls the treatment
- Dr. Welch lays the cornerstone
- Outside the city wall
- The world of spirits
- Good companions
- Restless decade
- Crusading for health
- Saviors of the city
- "Yes, but ..."
- "You are to be shot at dawn!"
- "If you plant for a hundred years"
- The way is one, the winds blow together.
- Notes:
- "First edition."
- Local Notes:
- Balch Ethnic Studies Collection
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hume, Edward H. (Edward Hicks), 1876-1957. Doctors east, doctors west.
- OCLC:
- 229999
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