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Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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The Doctor
Author: The Doctor’s Dilemma
Author: George Bernard ShawPublisher: Standard Ebooks
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Sir Colenso Ridgeon is a respected medical man who has developed a new cure for tuberculosis. His limited resources mean he can cure only a few people at a time, leaving him to decide who lives and who dies. The dilemma he faces is whose life is worth saving: a talented but amoral young artist, or a goodhearted public servant? Ridgeon is helped in his decision by his friends, doctors all, who represent author George Bernard Shaw’s opinion of the medical men of his day: a surgeon who prescribes an operation for every ailment; a general practitioner who sells cheap patent medicines to London’s poor; a wealthy and successful doctor to the rich and famous devoid of any medical talent but with a charming bedside manner; and a cynical retired doctor with no tolerance for modern medical science. Shaw uses this backdrop to draw out the two social problems at the heart of the play. First, what makes one man more worthy of society’s resources: personal virtue, artistic talent, or money? Second, and more important, the play highlights the danger of a medical system where every doctor has an incentive to treat their patients, but not to cure them. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
The Doctor's Dilemma
Author: Bernard ShawThe Doctor's Dilemma; Preface on Doctors
Author: Bernard ShawPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368338269
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
The Medical Record
Author: George F. ShradyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368195263
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
The Liar
Author: Carlo GoldoniPublisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822206552
Category : Comedy
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
THE STORY: The liar of the title is one Lelio, a young Venetian of good family who returns home after a long absence and is immediately embroiled in a series of hilarious escapades. Lelio's problem is that he seems unable to speak the truth when a
Los Angeles Magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Los Angeles magazine is a regional magazine of national stature. Our combination of award-winning feature writing, investigative reporting, service journalism, and design covers the people, lifestyle, culture, entertainment, fashion, art and architecture, and news that define Southern California. Started in the spring of 1961, Los Angeles magazine has been addressing the needs and interests of our region for 48 years. The magazine continues to be the definitive resource for an affluent population that is intensely interested in a lifestyle that is uniquely Southern Californian.
The Maryland Medical Recorder
Author: London Labour and the London Poor
Author: Henry MayhewPublisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1605207373
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Assembled from a series of newspaper articles first published in the newspaper Morning Chronicle throughout the 1840s, this exhaustively researched, richly detailed survey of the teeming street denizens of London is a work both of groundbreaking sociology and salacious voyeurism. In an 1850 review of the survey, just prior to its initial book publication, William Makepeace Thackeray called it "tale of terror and wonder" offering "a picture of human life so wonderful, so awful, so piteous and pathetic, so exciting and terrible, that readers of romances own they never read anything like to it." Delving into the world of the London "street-folk"-the buyers and sellers of goods, performers, artisans, laborers and others-this extraordinary work inspired the socially conscious fiction of Charles Dickens in the 19th century as well as the urban fantasy of Neil Gaiman in the late 20th. Volume III explores the lives of: the "destroyers of vermin" street musicians "exhibitors of trained animals" dock laborers cab drivers steamboatmen vagrants and more. English journalist HENRY MAYHEW (1812-1887) was a founder and editor of the satirical magazine Punch.
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