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Clio in the clinic : history in medical practice /

Clio in the Clinic shows how knowledge of history can shape a physician's view of the profession and how it can be a surprising asset at the bedside for diagnosis and treatment.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Duffin, Jacalyn (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Clio in the Clinic: An Introduction
  • Consulting the Past
  • The Night I Fell in Love with Clio
  • Speculum medicinae: Reflections of a Medievalist-Clinician
  • Facing Epidemics
  • A Wartime 'Plague' in Crotone
  • Plagues and Patients
  • Coping with the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
  • Reviving Defunct Diseases
  • 'La crise'
  • Floating Kidneys
  • Historical Adventures in the Newborn Nursery: Forgotten Stories and Syndromes
  • Susan and the Simmonds-Sheehan Syndrome: Medicine, History, and Literatures
  • Recognizing New DiseasesThe Histories of a History: The Boy, the Baron, and the Syndromes
  • Who Says You Have to Crawl before You Walk? Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Crawling, and Medical History
  • Making a Diagnosis
  • An 'Appallingly Sudden Death' Explained Seventy-Six Years Later
  • One Blue Nun
  • Prescribing the 'Right' Treatment
  • William Withering's Wonderful Weed
  • Dr Heisenberg, Are You Certain about the Diagnosis?
  • Explaining Differences
  • Trust and the Tuskegee Experiments
  • Beware the Poor Historian
  • We Are All Historians: Thoughts about Doing PsychiatryConfronting Futility
  • Timeless Desperation and Timely Measures
  • A Brief History of Timelessness in Medicine
  • How Medical History Helped Me (Almost) Love a V.A. Hospital
  • When Clio Falters
  • What Do You Know? Cancer, History, and Medical Practice
  • Seeing through Medical History
  • Index
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