The hospital in contemporary life.
Publisher: Harvard Univ. Press
Published: 1949
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Hospitals; Medicine -- History
Other titles: Lowell Institute lectures, 1948.
Notes: Includes "Notes and references."
"Revised from a series of lectures delivered in January 1948 under the sponsorship of the Lowell Institute in Boston."
Table of contents: title: The development of the hospital, by E.D. Churchill.; title: The relief of suffering, by H.K. Beecher.; title: Human nature and the understanding of disease, by Stanley Cobb.; title: The care of the patient, by L.S. McKittrick.; title: The education of the doctor, by Oliver Cope.; title: How medicine grows and its relation to science, by E.M. Landis.; title: Unsolved problems, by J.C. Aub.; title: The place of the hospital in the social order, by N.W. Faxon.