Frontier Doctor

Frontier doctor: William Beaumont, America's first great medical scientist

that Gadamer associates with "health". Gaiger and Walker have translated Gadamer's critique of modem medicine in elegant and eminendly quotable language. Anyone interested in Gadamer, and anyone seeking quotable quotes from a famous and influential philosopher who is sceptical of the claims of modernism in medicine, would do well to peruse this book. Anyone interested in important new ideas abo...

As Long as Life, Mary Canaga Rowland, M.D., 1873-1966: The Memoirs of a Frontier Country Doctor

These accounts culminate in chapter eight, which describes in detail how women across the globe mobilize and empower themselves to combat these health-threatening situations. It explains their growing effort to assert some autonomy over their well-being by organizing self-supporting groups (such as self-help networks, lobbyist groups and campaign committees) to address such issues as spouse abu...

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Frontier Sores

(1) An acute phagedenic ulcer, circular in outline with sharp punched out edges usually commencing on the site of some trivial abrasion not necessarily of recent origin. The rapid increase in area and depth of the ulcer was appalling. Within 24 or 48 hours a trivial abrasion might become an ulcer as big as a rupee and with deep fascia exposed in its base. Considerable swelling of surrounding ti...

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