More Meanderings in Medical History
Title | More Meanderings in Medical History PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Nevins |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2012-05-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781475927993 |
These 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 which at the time seemed relevant to my professional or personal life. The emphasis is on narrative history, stories of physicians at different times and places, for as my famous namesake Professor Allan Nevins once wrote, history should be enjoyed, not endured.
Still More Meanderings in Medical History
Title | Still More Meanderings in Medical History PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Nevins |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2013-11-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1491712945 |
As 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.
STILL MORE Meanderings in Medical History
Title | STILL MORE Meanderings in Medical History PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Nevins |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 195 |
Release | 2013-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1491712937 |
As 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.
Meanderings in Medical History Book Four
Title | Meanderings in Medical History Book Four PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Nevins |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2016-12-12 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1532012616 |
Book 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 different times and places. As historian Allan Nevins (no relation) once wrote, History should be enjoyed, not endured.
Covid Ramblings
Title | Covid Ramblings PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Nevins |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 82 |
Release | 2020-08-11 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 1663205787 |
Each chapter in this brief compendium was prompted by something related to the COVID-19 pandemic which, in turn, led me to recall a subject often far removed from where I began. While digressing, I rejuvenated several oldies from my previous twelve books about medical history and added a few newbies. The titles of the last four of my books all included the word meanderings, but this time I’ve chosen to describe these essays as ramblings. I really don’t know why the change. Perhaps COVID effects the brain. In fact, I’m sure it does and this rather disjointed collection is the evidence.
Meandering in Medical Physics
Title | Meandering in Medical Physics PDF eBook |
Author | J.E Roberts |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1999-04-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780750304948 |
When Professor J.E. Roberts was first employed at the then Cancer Hospital (Free) in 1932, the words medical and physics were rarely joined together. Meandering in Medical Physics presents an account of Professor Roberts's experiences in professional life, both in the United Kingdom and overseas. It documents the early history of medical physics and provides insight into the very basic equipment and working conditions well known to hospital physicists not long ago. Enhanced by archived photographs from the British Institute of Radiology, the book will entertain, enlighten, and educate.
Elderhood
Title | Elderhood PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Aronson |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 467 |
Release | 2019-06-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1620405482 |
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction A New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Winner of the WSU AOS Bonner Book Award Winner of the 2022 At Home With Growing Older Impact Award As revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, denigrated, neglected, and denied. Reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, noted Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients, and draws from history, science, literature, popular culture, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that's neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy--a vision full of joy, wonder, frustration, outrage, and hope about aging, medicine, and humanity itself. Elderhood is for anyone who is, in the author's own words, "an aging, i.e., still-breathing human being."