Locating Medical History
Subtitle: The Stories and Their Meanings
Contributors: Frank Huisman (Editor); John Harley Warner (Editor)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: April 21, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780801878619
Subjects: History of medicine; Medicine; Medical; Medical / Nursing; USA; United States - General; History; Medical History & Records; History / United States / General; Historiography
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.