| Title: |
Oliver Wendell Holmes : physician and man of letters / [edited by] Scott H. Podolsky, Charles S. Bryan. |
| Author(s)/Relationship(s): |
Podolsky, Scott H. |
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Bryan, Charles S. |
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894. |
| Publisher: |
Sagamore Beach : Published for the Boston Medical Library by Science History Publications/USA, 2009. |
| Related Names: |
Boston Medical Library. |
| Description: |
xiv, 274 p. : ports. |
| Content Type: |
text |
| Media Type: |
unmediated |
| Carrier Type: |
volume |
| Language: |
eng |
| ISBN: |
9780881353792 (hardcover) |
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0881353795 (hardcover) |
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9780881353815 (pbk.) |
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0881353817 (pbk.) |
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| MeSH Subjects: |
Medicine |
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Homeopathy |
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Psychology |
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United States |
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Biography |
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Essay |
| Other Subject(s): |
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894. |
| Notes: |
NLM copy has dust jacket. |
| Contents: |
"The greatest Brahmin" : overview of a life / Charles S. Bryan -- Oliver Wendell Holmes’s 1842 lectures on "Homoeopathy and its kindred delusions" : a retrospective look / John S. Haller Jr. -- A private pestilence : Holmes and puerperal fever / Amalie M. Kass -- Medical therapeutics and its kindred delusions : Oliver Wendell Holmes on drugs, disease, and rational care / Charles E. Rosenberg -- Doctor Holmes : the life in conversation / Peter Gibian -- Oliver Wendell Holmes’s depth psychology : a reconstruction / Michael A. Weinstein -- Medical quotes and poems -- Non-medical quotes and poems -- Introductory lecture to the first year class, Harvard Medical School. |
| NLM Unique ID: |
101512669 |
| Other ID Numbers: |
(OCoLC)430442961 |
