Doctors, Nurses, and Medical Practitioners: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook

by Lois N. Magner

Biographical essays on 56 remarkable individuals in the medical field are included in this book. Many of these figures are not well known outside of their own country, calling, or specialized field; some are famous, some infamous, but most were dedicated to a more egalitarian system of health care delivery. They are significant because of their ideas, diagnostic or therapeutic methods, writings, the institutions that they founded, and the impetus...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313294526
• ISBN13: 9780313294525
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"