Clio in the Clinic
History in medical practice
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 17 March 2005
- ISBN 9780195161274
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages356 pages
- Size 229x152x24 mm
- Weight 600 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 30 black & white illustrations 0
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Short description:
In this unique volume 23 physicians, all accomplished historians, write autobiographically about their use of history in medical practice. The medical uses of history vary from help in making a brilliant diagnosis or deciding on effective treatment to consolation and encouragement, not with tales of triumph but with reminders of the timelessness of medical uncertainty, weariness, and despair. History also prescribes a sobering antidote for the arrogance that tracks medical
existence like an occupational hazard, and it eases the journey across boundaries of time, culture, race, and experience.
Long description:
This set of essays on the benefits of history for medical practice is the first of its kind. 23 physicians, who are also accomplished historians, write autobiographically about how they use history in practicing medicine. Sometimes it suggests a brilliant diagnosis or effective treatment. At other times, it consoles and encourages, not with inspirational tales of discovery and triumph but with reminders of the timelessness of medical uncertainty, weariness, and despair. History
also prescribes a sobering antidote for the arrogance that tracks life in medicine like an occupational hazard. The authors are from five countries and diverse specialties. Acclaimed writer and surgeon, Sherwin Nuland, describes the sudden presence of history in the operating room. Martensen,
Bryan and Cule each discover a stalwart ally when they confront terrifying new plagues. Psychiatrists Belkin and Braslow rely on history to comprehend difficult patients (and themselves). To paediatricians, Markel, Baker, Schalick and Shein, and to the nephrologist Moss, it exposes the transience of diseases, both new and old. Internists Crenner, Humphreys and Moulin are guided by history through helplessness at the bedsides of the dying. Comfortable with crossing boundaries of time,
historical learning eases travel over other boundaries of culture, race and experience.
Table of Contents:
Clio in the clinic: an introduction
Consulting the past
The night I fell in love with Clio
Speculum medicinae: Reflections of a medievalist-clinician
Facing epidemics
A wartime "plague" in Crotone
Plagues and patients
Coping with the HIV/AIDS epidemic
Reviving defunct diseases
'La crise'
Floating kidneys
Historical adventures in the newborn nursery: forgotten stories and syndromes
Susan and the Simmonds-Sheehan syndrome: medicine, history and literature
Recognizing new diseases
The histories of a history: the boy, the baron, and the syndromes
Who says you have to crawl before you walk? Sudden infant death syndrome, crawling and medical history
Making a diagnosis
"An appalling sudden death" explained 75 years later
One blue nun
Prescribing the "right" treatment
William Withering's wonderful weed
Dr Heisenberg, are you certain about the diagnosis?
Explaining differences
Trust and the Tuskegee experiments
Beware the poor historian
We are all historians: thoughts about doing psychiatry
Confronting futility
Timeless desperation and timely measures
A brief history of timelessness in medicine
How medical history helped me (almost) love a V.A. hospital
When Clio falters
What do you know? Cancer, history and medical practice
Seeing through medical history
