San Antonio College Library

An important contribution to medical history and women-in-medicine collections, this volume presents nine physicians' stories arranged according to the era in which they received their training -- those that were heir to the 19th-century tradition of female physicians stories arranged according to the era in which they received as nurturers, well-suited for preventative medicine; those trained during the great social and technological changes of the...

"In this backwater in the war on terror, Dr. Collin Reeves has found a semicomfortable niche performing occasional chores for the CIA, acting as a go to doctor for the U.S. embassy when American tourists need medical attention, and pursuing his avocation of painting. When CIA veterans Alex Law and Butch Nickels get wind of a possible terrorist bombing plot, they use any means to extract information that might prevent it"--Provided by Publishers Weekly...

Medical practitioners are key actors in many well-known works of fiction and literature, presenting a vital insight into the social, medical, scientific and ethical concerns of their authors and readers. However, medical professionals are often left little time to explore such cultural perceptions of their profession, and by extension themselves, despite the extent to which the views of their patients and society have been - and still are - shaped...

Returning to his Hudson Valley home town as chief surgeon at the new hospital, a young doctor is soon involved with the town's arrogant, eccentric first family.

This book examines the influence that American missionary doctors had in the Chinese city of Canton and bringing about medical modernization throughout China.

A novel on medicine, drawing parallels between doctors seven centuries apart. One is a man in the 14th century who is fighting the bubonic plague, the other is a woman in the 21st, trying to conquer a new kind of disease. The link between them is a manuscript.

Singular Intimacies is the story of becoming a doctor by immersion at New York's Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country-and perhaps the most legendary. It is both the classic inner-city hospital and a unique amalgam of history, insanity, beauty, and intellect. When Danielle Ofri enters the doors of this 250-year-old institution as a tentative medical student, she is immediately plunged into the teeming world of urban medicine:...