Locating Medical History
Subtitle: The Stories and Their Meanings
Contributors: Frank Huisman (Editor); John Harley Warner (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: September 18, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780801885488
Subjects: History of Medicine; United States - General; Medical; Medical / Nursing; History; History / United States / General; History : United States - General; Medical / History; Science : History; Historiography; Medicine
First sentence: Historians of medicine tend to be very ready to assert that the past gives important perspective on the present-that understanding the experience and management of illness in the past can aid patients, clinicians, policy makers, public health officials, ethicists, and voting citizens as they make difficult choices.