Simon Baruch :: rebel in the ranks of medicine, 1840-1921 /

This biography recounts the remarkable life of a Prussian/Polish Jew who immigrated to the United States as a teenager in the 1850s and became one of the nation's best-known physicians by the turn of the century. Ward reconstructs the life of a medical student in the South at the opening of the...

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1. Verfasser: Ward, Patricia Spain
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1994.
Schriftenreihe:History of American science and technology series.
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Zusammenfassung:This biography recounts the remarkable life of a Prussian/Polish Jew who immigrated to the United States as a teenager in the 1850s and became one of the nation's best-known physicians by the turn of the century. Ward reconstructs the life of a medical student in the South at the opening of the Civil War, the adventures of a Confederate surgeon, and the difficulties of a practitioner in Reconstruction South Carolina. Simon Baruch's physician's registers and his correspondence with colleagues afford the reader an immediate sense of the therapeutic dilemmas facing physicians and patients of his.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 399 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-379) and index.
ISBN:0585164711
9780585164717