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Simon Baruch : rebel in the ranks of medicine, 1840-1921 /
This biography recounts the remarkable life of a Prussian/Polish Jew who immigrated to the United States as a teenager in the 1850s and became one of the nation's best-known physicians by the turn of the century. Ward reconstructs the life of a medical student in the South at the opening of the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©1994.
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| Colección: | History of American science and technology series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This biography recounts the remarkable life of a Prussian/Polish Jew who immigrated to the United States as a teenager in the 1850s and became one of the nation's best-known physicians by the turn of the century. Ward reconstructs the life of a medical student in the South at the opening of the Civil War, the adventures of a Confederate surgeon, and the difficulties of a practitioner in Reconstruction South Carolina. Simon Baruch's physician's registers and his correspondence with colleagues afford the reader an immediate sense of the therapeutic dilemmas facing physicians and patients of his. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 399 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-379) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585164711 9780585164717 |