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.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 610/.9
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781442673014 0802038549
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- R133
- LCCN Item number
- C56 2005eb
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- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xxii, 334 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00600413 (OCoLC)431554172 (CaOOCEL)418664
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Illustrations 12
- Acknowledgments 14
- Contributors 16
- Clio in the Clinic: An Introduction 26
- Consulting the Past 40
- The Night I Fell in Love with Clio 42
- Speculum medicinae: Reflections of a Medievalist-Clinician 50
- Facing Epidemics 70
- A Wartime 'Plague' in Crotone 72
- Plagues and Patients 79
- Coping with the HIV/AIDS Epidemic 96
- Reviving Defunct Diseases 110
- 'La crise' 112
- Floating Kidneys 115
- Historical Adventures in the Newborn Nursery: Forgotten Stories and Syndromes 128
- Susan and the Simmonds-Sheehan Syndrome: Medicine, History, and Literatures 139
- Recognizing New Diseases 152
- The Histories of a History: The Boy, the Baron, and the Syndromes 154
- Who Says You Have to Crawl before You Walk? Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Crawling, and Medical History 169
- Making a Diagnosis 182
- An 'Appallingly Sudden Death' Explained Seventy-Six Years Later 184
- One Blue Nun 193
- Prescribing the 'Right' Treatment 210
- William Withering's Wonderful Weed 212
- Dr Heisenberg, Are You Certain about the Diagnosis? 224
- Explaining Differences 234
- Trust and the Tuskegee Experiments 236
- Beware the Poor Historian 249
- We Are All Historians: Thoughts about Doing Psychiatry 259
- Confronting Futility 272
- Timeless Desperation and Timely Measures 274
- A Brief History of Timelessness in Medicine 292
- How Medical History Helped Me (Almost) Love a V.A. Hospital 306
- When Clio Falters 320
- What Do You Know? Cancer, History, and Medical Practice 322
- Seeing through Medical History 331
- Index 342
- A 342
- B 343
- C 344
- D 345
- E 346
- F 346
- G 347
- H 347
- I 349
- J 349
- K 349
- L 349
- M 350
- N 351
- O 352
- P 352
- Q 354
- R 354
- S 354
- T 356
- U 356
- V 357
- W 357
- X 357
- Y 357
