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Medical Wit and Wisdom : the best medical quotations from Hippocrates to Groucho Marx / compiled by Jess M. Brallier.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Quotations, maxims, etc.
- Medicine.
- Medicine--Humor.
- Medicine--Wit and humor.
- Medical Subjects:
- Medicine.
- Genre:
- humor.
- Sayings
- Humor
- Quotations
- Humor.
- Sayings.
- Penn Provenance:
- Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)
- Physical Description:
- 286, [2] pages ; 17 cm
- Other Title:
- Medical Wit & Wisdom
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Running Press, 1993.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The Experts. The Human Condition; Knowledge; Critics
- From Cradle to Grave. Sex and Reproduction; Nature; Health; Aging; Smoking and Other Vices; Exercise and Diet; Illness and Disease; Hypochondria; Death
- The Medical Provider. Physicians; Specialists; Psychiatry; Dentistry
- The Healing Arts. Ethics; Research; The Patient; Hospitals; Surgery; Treatment; Profit and Loss; Lawyers; The Practice of Medicine.
- Notes:
- "Edited by Steven Zorn. Cover design by Toby Schmidt. Interior design by Stephanie Longo. Cover illustration by Seth Jaben. Typography: Optima, with Bodega Sans, by Richard Conklin."--Title page verso.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Running Press Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.
- Running Press copy has dustjacket retained.
- Running Press copy is "1" printing.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Medical wit and wisdom.
- ISBN:
- 1561382892
- 9781561382897
- OCLC:
- 29401324
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