Norman, OK
8 entries published in this place. (Norman, US)
1957
#8586
Johannes Brahms and Theodor Billroth: Letters from a musical friendship, edited by Georg Fischer. Translated and edited by Hans Barkan.
Billroth was a talented pianist and violinist who seriously considered becoming a professional musician before he became a surgeon. "In 1865 he [Billroth] met Brahms for the first time when the rising composer and pia…
1970
#6467.1
American Indian medicine.
Volume 95 of The Civililization of the American Indian Series.
1987
#5813.15
A century of black surgeons. The U.S.A. experience. 2 vols.,
1988
#11835
Doctors and diseases in the Roman Empire.
1992
#13297
Miners and medicine: West Virginia memories.
"The coal-company doctors of Appalachia fought the health hazards of the coal fields, arguably the most dangerous and diseased working environment of the modern world. Often the doctors were held accountable for evils…
2000
#9322
Biodiversity and native America. Edited by Paul E. Minnis and Wayne J. Elisens.
2015
#7504
Cherokee medicine, colonial germs: An indigenous nation’s fight against smallpox, 1518–1824.
2019
#12094
Fighting invisible enemies: Health and medical transitions among Southern California Indians.
"Native Americans long resisted Western medicine--but had less power to resist the threat posed by Western diseases. And so, as the Office of Indian Affairs reluctantly entered the business of health and medicine, Nat…