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Oliver Wendell Holmes 1
The life of Oliver Wendell Holmes was selected as the subject for a lecture in the 1974 History of Medicine series at Yale University School of Medicine because, as the Latin subtitle of the essay suggests, he represents a fortunate and uncommon, but by no means unique, synthesis of the practical and aesthetic, of science and the humanities. An attempt has been made by the lecturer, employing f...
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Sir William Osler said that Oliver Wendell Holmes "was the most successful combination which the world has ever seen of the physician and man of letters," and so much has been written about Doctor Holmes it may seem futile to try to add anything, but, as Holmes himself wrote about Carlyle, "He remains not the less one of the really interesting men of his generation, a man about whom we really w...
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mental biology textbook, but rather it is a story of how meanings and causes have been imprinted on embryos by various cultures and groups over time. Morgan’s own interest in embryos appears to stem in part from coming of age during the Roe vs. Wade decision and from provocative discussions she had with subjects in Ecuador while doing field research. In Ecuador, she found that while women had v...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, the physician, poet and novelist, was a frequent and at times outspoken commentator on the practice of medicine. His speeches and writings reveal Holmes's remarkable wit and facility in addressing such topics as medical education, drug prescription and medicine in society. Although delivered in the previous century his comments often seem to retain remarkable relevance in...
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In 1843, physician Oliver Wendell Holmes [2] wrote and published "The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever," an essay about puerperal fever, a disease that occurs mainly as a result of bacterial infection in the uterine tract of women after giving birth or undergoing an abortion [3]. In the essay, Holmes argues that puerperal fever is spread through birth attendants like physicians and midwives wh...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science
سال: 1957
ISSN: 0022-0205
DOI: 10.2307/1140225