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In this book, 23 practising physicians share stories about their experiences with the
usefulness of historical knowledge in dealing with their patients. The oldest author …

Purpose: Usually, the history of medicine as a teaching discipline within medical education
is seen as a decorative rather than significant subject. This book, however, by providing …

Sometimes, history can solve a medical mystery; at other times, it can point to the right
treatment or console a despairing doctor by demonstrating a timeless connection to …

Book Reviews/Comptes rendus 203 to be tested in Canada in 1989 was problematic.
Strikingly, he does not turn to an elaboration of the most important strategic argument at his …

For physicians who seriously engage in researching and writing about the history of
medicine, how does their historical scholarship affect how they practice medicine? This …

Jacalyn Duffin is a distinguished medical historian. She is also medically qualified and
continues to be actively involved in clinical medicine. For the present volume, she has …

I am an unreconstructed, old-fashioned historian-manque, by which I mean that I see the
saga of medicine with the eyes of an autodidact amateur, a clinician whose heritage can be …

Soon after our meeting, a colleague who is both an expert clinician and researcher greeted
me one morning with a look of concerned amusement.'I had a dream last night. Someone …

On a day in May 1986, I was seated in a vast conference room of a Rochester, New York,
hotel, about to make my speaking debut as a historian at the annual meeting of the …