Phenomenologizing McDowell
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Fletcher H. McDowell 1923-2017.
Fletcher H. McDowell, MD, died at his home in New York City on April 23, 2017. He was 93 years old. Fletcher graduated from Dartmouth College and then from Cornell Medical School in 1947. He continued training in medicine there and at Stanford, returning to neurology residency with Harold Wolff at Cornell. He then joined the Army Medical Corps and was chief of neurology at army hospitals in Bad...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2281-9177
DOI: 10.19079/metodo.2.1.271