Oliver Wendell Holmes
Subtitle: physician and man of letters
By: Scott H. Podolsky, Charles S. Bryan, editors.
Contributors: Podolsky, Scott H.; Bryan, Charles S.; Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.; Boston Medical Library.
Publisher: Published for the Boston Medical Library by Science History Publications/USA
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Sagamore Beach
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780881353792
Subjects: Holmes, Oliver Wendell, -- 1809-1894; Holmes, Oliver Wendell, -- 1809-1894 -- Correspondence; Holmes, Oliver Wendell, -- 1809-1894; Physicians -- United States -- Biography; Physicians -- United States -- Correspondence; Medicine -- United States -- Biography; Medicine -- United States -- Essays; Homeopathy -- United States -- Biography; Homeopathy -- United States -- Essays; Psychology -- United States -- Biography; Psychology -- United States -- Essays
Genres: Correspondence; Biography; Essays
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The greatest Brahmin" : overview of a life / Charles S. Bryan; title: Oliver Wendell Holmes's 1842 lectures on "Homoeopathy and its kindred delusions" : a retrospective look / John S. Haller Jr.; title: A private pestilence : Holmes and puerperal fever / Amalie M. Kass; title: Medical therapeutics and its kindred delusions : Oliver Wendell Holmes on drugs, disease, and rational care / Charles E. Rosenberg; title: Doctor Holmes : the life in conversation / Peter Gibian; title: Oliver Wendell Holmes's depth psychology : a reconstruction / Michael A. Weinstein; title: Medical quotes and poems; title: Non-medical quotes and poems; title: Introductory lecture to the first year class, Harvard Medical School.