Suffering in the Land of Sunshine : A Los Angeles Illness Narrative /

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The history of medicine is much more than the story of doctors, nurses, and hospitals. Seeking to understand the patient's perspective, historians scour the archives, searching for rare personal accounts. Bringing together a trove of more than 400 family letters by Charles Dwight Willard, Suffe...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Abel, Emily K. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2006]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Willard, Charles Dwight, > 1866-1914.
Tuberculosis > Patients.
Medecine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Tuberculose.
Tuberculeux > Californie > Los Angeles > Biographies.
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary > history
Tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis > Patients > California > Los Angeles > Biography.
California > Los Angeles.
Los Angeles
Recits personnels.
Personal narratives.
Biographies.
Personal Narrative
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Encountering Illness
  • Chapter 2. "A Real Man Again"
  • Chapter 3. Boosting Los Angeles
  • Chapter 4. Reforming Los Angeles
  • Chapter 5. "The Old Trouble"
  • Chapter 6. The "Gash" in "Our Happiness"
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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