Oliver Wendell Holmes : physician and man of letters / Scott H. Podolsky, Charles S. Bryan, editors.

Date:
[2009], ©2009
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Publication/Creation

Sagamore Beach, MA : Published for the Boston Medical Library by Science History Publications/USA, [2009], ©2009.

Physical description

274 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259) and index.

Contents

"The greatest Brahmin" : overview of a life / Charles S. Bryan -- Oliver Wendell Holmes's 1842 lectures on "Homoeopathy and its kindred delusions" : a retrospective look / John S. Haller Jr. -- A private pestilence : Holmes and puerperal fever / Amalie M. Kass -- Medical therapeutics and its kindred delusions : Oliver Wendell Holmes on drugs, disease, and rational care / Charles E. Rosenberg -- Doctor Holmes : the life in conversation / Peter Gibian -- Oliver Wendell Holmes's depth psychology : a reconstruction / Michael A. Weinstein -- Holmes the physician -- Holmes the man of letters -- "Introductory--Sept. 26th, 1879".

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    History of Medicine
    BZP (Holmes)
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ISBN

  • 9780881353792
  • 0881353795
  • 9780881353815
  • 0881353817