8 títulos para "Nevins Michael"
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Abraham Flexner
Nevins, Michael
978-1-4502-6086-2When Abraham Flexner died in 1959 at age 92, a New York Times obituary declared, "no other American of his time contributed more to the welfare of his country and of humanity in general." Flexner's famous Report in 1910 and his subsequent work at the Rockefeller Foundation helped transform American...
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Meanderings in Medical History Book Four
Nevins, Michael
978-1-5320-1260-0Book Four in the series Meanderings in Medical History contains seventeen essays about various subjects pertaining to medical history. Each vignette was prompted by something that was relevant to my professional or personal experience. The emphasis is on narrative history, stories of physicians at d...
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Jewish Medicine
Nevins, Michael
978-0-595-84607-8Although conventional wisdom holds that there's no such thing as "Jewish Medicine," Dr. Nevins disagrees, suggesting it's not so much what Jewish doctors have done as why. For example, in premodern times Jewish doctors viewed their work as a sacred calling in collaboration with God. Later, there oft...
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More Meanderings in Medical History
Nevins, Michael
978-1-4759-2798-6These essays about various unrelated medical history subjects were composed over some three decades; some written recently, others published in my previous books. The title word "meandering" suggests randomness, but should not be mistaken for pointlessness for each vignette was prompted by something...
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A TALE OF TWO "VILLAGES"
Nevins, Michael
978-1-4401-4261-1Early in the 20th century New Jersey was one of the first states to segregate mentally ill patients in state-run institutions. Administrators and scientists at the Vineland Training School and Skillman Village for Epileptics did research which validated the theory that "feeblemindedness" was inherit...
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Jewish Medicine
Nevins, Michael
978-0-595-40157-4Although conventional wisdom holds that there's no such thing as "Jewish Medicine," Dr. Nevins disagrees, suggesting it's not so much what Jewish doctors have done as why. For example, in premodern times Jewish doctors viewed their work as a sacred calling in collaboration with God. Later, there oft...
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Meanderings in New Jersey's Medical History
Nevins, Michael
978-1-4620-5467-118.75€ (18.03€ sin IVA) -
Still More Meanderings in Medical History
Nevins, Michael
978-1-4917-1293-1As with the previous two books in this trilogy of "meanderings", the current collection contains essays about medical practice and the lives of various physicians at different times and places.
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