Author: P. J. G. CabanisPublisher:
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Languages : en
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An Essay on the Certainty of Medicine
Author: Pierre Jean Georges CabanisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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An Essay on the Certainty of Medicine
Author: P. J. G. CabanisAn Essay on the Certainty of Medicine, Tr. from the French
Author: Pierre Jean Georges CabanisPublisher:
ISBN: 9780598665034
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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An Inquiry Into the Degree of Certainty in Medicine
Author: Elisha BartlettPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781396389337
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Degree of Certainty in Medicine: And Into the Nature and Extent of Its Power Over Disease The main title of my inquiry is the same as that of the very elegant and classical essay of Cabanis, published half a century ago. I adopt it for the simple reason that there is no other at all appro priate. Since writing my own essay I have read, for the first time for nearly twenty years, the work of Cabanis. Besides the differences that must almost unavoidably exist, in the conception and treatment of a complex and difficult question by different minds, I may be permitted to say, that the leading and principal design and purpose of the two works are not exactly identical. The essay of Cabanis is more elementary than my Inquiry is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Medical America in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Gert H. BriegerPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801895219
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Students of the history of medicine and of American history in general will welcome this collection of thirty papers originally published in nineteenth-century medical journals and lay publications. Each highlights a specific problem or medical attitude of the period, and together they present an illuminating panorama of the medical profession and of public health in nineteenth-century America. Many of the problems faced by students, practitioners, and patients of the last century are surprisingly similar to those still being encountered today. Dr. Brieger has selected papers that illustrate the issues and developments in medical education, medical practice, surgery, hospitals, hygiene, and psychiatry. They range from Benjamin Rush's "On the Cause of Death in Diseases That Are Not Incurable," to a paper by Robert F. Weir "On the Antiseptic Treatment of Wounds, and Its Results" and an article by Stephen Smith, "New York the Unclean." The final selection, the Announcement of The Johns Hopkins Medical School, stands as a landmark that foretells the beginning of a new era.
Singular Intimacies
Author: Danielle Ofri, MDPublisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807072516
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A “finely gifted writer” shares “fifteen brilliantly written episodes covering the years from studenthood to the end of medical residency” (Oliver Sacks, MD, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat) Singular Intimacies is the story of becoming a doctor by immersion at Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country—and perhaps the most legendary. It is both the classic inner-city hospital and a unique amalgam of history, insanity, beauty, and intellect. When Danielle Ofri enters these 250-year-old doors as a tentative medical student, she is immediately plunged into the teeming world of urban medicine: mysterious illnesses, life-and-death decisions, patients speaking any one of a dozen languages, and overworked interns devising creative strategies to cope with the feverish intensity of a big-city hospital. Yet the emphasis of Singular Intimacies is not so much on the arduous hours in medical training (which certainly exist here), but on the evolution of an instinct for healing. In a hospital without the luxury of private physicians, where patients lack resources both financial and societal, where poverty and social strife are as much a part of the pathology as any microbe, it is the medical students and interns who are thrust into the searing intimacy that is the doctor-patient relationship. In each memorable chapter, Ofri’s progress toward becoming an experienced healer introduces not just a patient in medical crisis, but a human being with an intricate and compelling history. Ofri learns to navigate the tangled vulnerabilities of doctor and patient—not to simply battle the disease.
Elisha Bartlett's Philosophy of Medicine
Author: William StempseyPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781402030413
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The idea of preparing a new critical edition of Elisha Bartlett’s Essay on the Philosophy of Medical Science was suggested to me several years ago by Dr. H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. Since that time it has been a pleasure to get to know the life and work of Elisha Bartlett. I am pleased to be completing this book in the bicentennial year of Bartlett’s birth. Bartlett was born in 1804 in Smithfield, Rhode Island, less than twenty-five miles from Worcester, Massachusetts, my present home—a short journey even in Bartlett’s day. I have been able to walk at some of the sites to which Bartlett continually returned during his life. Visiting Bartlett’s grave in the Slatersville cemetery has been an inspiration for the preparation of this book. Proximity to several institutions with rich holdings in Bartlett’s works and in nineteenth-century American history of medicine greatly facilitated my research. First, though, I want to acknowledge the College of the Holy Cross for supporting my sabbatical leave for the academic year 2003-2004. The American Antiquarian Society, in Worcester, Massachusetts, was generous in giving me access to its remarkable resources. I was able to find many of Bartlett’s published works and other nineteenth-century medical literature there, and the entire library staff provided quick and able research assistance.
The Therapeutic Perspective
Author: John Harley WarnerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400864631
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This new paperback edition makes available John Harley Warner's highly influential, revisionary history of nineteenth-century American medicine. Deftly integrating social and intellectual perspectives, Warner explores a crucial shift in medical history, when physicians no longer took for granted such established therapies as bloodletting, alcohol, and opium and began to question the sources and character of their therapeutic knowledge. He examines what this transformation meant in terms of patient care and assesses the impact of clinical research, educational reform, unorthodox medical movements, newly imported European method, and the products of laboratory science on medical ideology and action. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
An Oration on Certainty in Medicine
Author: Benjamin H. CoatesPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331065176
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Excerpt from An Oration on Certainty in Medicine: Delivered Before the Philadelphia Medical Society, February 10, 1830 Allow me to grace the following paper by prefixing to it the name of one, honoured by my country as her first and favourite surgeon, who was my father's friend, and I feel authorized to add, my own. In the chec quered course of a professional life, there is no better or more honourable gratification than the approbation of those who have risen to high eminence by the means, acknowledged by every one, of scientific merit and sterling integrity. That Dr physick may long con tinne to enjoy the honours and repose of age, earned before the time, unassailed by envy or reproach, is the earnest wish of thousands of his fellow citizens, and of none more so than of the author of these sheets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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