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Healer's Tale: Transforming Medicine and Culture (Life Course Studies)

by Sharon R Kaufman

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ISBN13: 9780299135508
ISBN10: 0299135500
Condition: Standard
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Medical anthropologist Kaufman (U. of Calif., San Francisco) interviewed seven doctors, eminent in their fields, and trained during the 1920s and 1930s. She interviewed them between 1987 and 1989 (they were all between the 80-83 years old), seeking their life stories and their feelings and thinking about the shape of American medical education and care today.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-345) and index.

J. Dunbar Shields — Saul Jarcho — Paul Bruce Beeson — Mary B. Olney — Jonathan Evans Rhoads — C. Paul Hodgkinson — John Romano.

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ISBN:: 9780299135508
Subtitle:: Transforming Medicine and Culture
Author:: Kaufman, Sharon R.
Author:: Kaufman, Sharon R.
Publisher:: University of Wisconsin Press
Location:: Madison, Wis. :
Subject:: General
Subject:: Biography
Subject:: Health Care Delivery
Subject:: History
Subject:: Medical
Subject:: Physicians
Subject:: Physicians -- United States -- Biography.
Series:: Life Course Studies
Series Volume:: 25
Publication Date:: January 1993
Binding:: Hardcover
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Yes
Pages:: 354
Dimensions:: 9.31x6.34x1.01 in. 1.52 lbs.

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