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  • Troubled and Troubling
    Michael Nevins
    This collection of essays is based on the author’s experiences during a half century of medical practice as well as insights derived from his extensive studies in history. The central theme is that despite remarkable scientific advances, erosion of the intimate doctor-patient relationship often suggests a large orchestra that lacks a conductor. ...
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    15,36 €

  • Covid Ramblings
    Michael Nevins
    Each chapter in this brief compendium was prompted by something related to the COVID-19 pandemic which, in turn, led me to recall a subject often far removed from where I began. While digressing, I rejuvenated several oldies from my previous twelve books about medical history and added a few newbies. The titles of the last four of my books all included the word meanderings, but...
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    8,46 €

  • Voices from the Bialystok Ghetto
    Michael Nevins
    For more than 70 years a diary that was written in Bialystok during World War II was virtually unnoticed and about to be discarded with trash when someone looked inside and discerned its historic value. It was written between 1939 and 1943 by young David Spiro (in Polish Dawid Szpiro) who probably died during his city’s ghetto uprising against the Nazis. The diary described lif...
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    8,72 €

  • Meanderings in Medical History Book Four
    Michael Nevins
    Book Four in the series Meanderings in Medical History contains seventeen essays about various subjects pertaining to medical history. Each vignette was prompted by something that was relevant to my professional or personal experience. The emphasis is on narrative history, stories of physicians at different times and places. As historian Allan Nevins (no relation) once wrote, “...
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    11,13 €

  • Still More Meanderings in Medical History
    Michael Nevins
    As with the previous two books in this trilogy of 'meanderings', the current collection contains essays about medical practice and the lives of various physicians at different times and places. ...
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    13,58 €

  • More Meanderings in Medical History
    Michael Nevins
    These essays about various unrelated medical history subjects were composed over some three decades; some written recently, others published in my previous books. The title word 'meandering' suggests randomness, but should not be mistaken for pointlessness for each vignette was prompted by something which at the time seemed relevant to my professional or personal life. The emph...
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    15,15 €

  • Meanderings in New Jersey’s Medical History
    Michael Nevins
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    12,86 €

  • Abraham Flexner
    Michael Nevins
    When Abraham Flexner died in 1959 at age 92, a New York Times obituary declared, 'no other American of his time contributed more to the welfare of his country and of humanity in general.' Flexner’s famous Report in 1910 and his subsequent work at the Rockefeller Foundation helped transform American medical education from crude to world leader. Later, as founding director of the...
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    10,50 €

  • A TALE OF TWO 'VILLAGES'
    Michael Nevins
    Early in the 20th century New Jersey was one of the first states to segregate mentally ill patients in state-run institutions. Administrators and scientists at the Vineland Training School and Skillman Village for Epileptics did research which validated the theory that 'feeblemindedness' was inherited, untreatable and associated with anti-social behavior. A statute passed in 19...
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    10,52 €

  • Jewish Medicine
    Michael Nevins
    Although conventional wisdom holds that there’s no such thing as 'Jewish Medicine,' Dr. Nevins disagrees, suggesting it’s not so much what Jewish doctors have done as why. For example, in premodern times Jewish doctors viewed their work as a sacred calling in collaboration with God. Later, there often was a perception that Jewish doctors practiced differently because they were ...
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    11,29 €