Suffering in the Land of Sunshine : : A Los Angeles Illness Narrative / / Emily K. Abel.
The history of medicine is much more than the story of doctors, nurses, and hospitals. Seeking to understand the patient's perspective, historians scour the archives, searching for rare personal accounts. Bringing together a trove of more than 400 family letters by Charles Dwight Willard, Suffe...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2006] ©2006 |
Year of Publication: | 2006 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 12 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Encountering Illness
- Chapter 2. "A Real Man Again"
- Chapter 3. Boosting Los Angeles
- Chapter 4. Reforming Los Angeles
- Chapter 5. "The Old Trouble"
- Chapter 6. The "Gash" in "Our Happiness"
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author