Stories
- Article
Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
- Article
We who can’t believe
Unless she falls to the floor unconscious, Anne Boyer has always ignored signs of illness. Cancer, however, made her face her fallibility.
- In pictures
How an animation educated the army
In a 1940s cartoon intended to persuade US troops to take malaria medication, the makers pitted a clodhopping soldier against a wily mosquito. If only Private SNAFU had followed the government’s advice.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
Catalogue
- Books
Medical care of the veteran in the United States, 1870-1960 : a bibliography.
United States. Veterans Administration. Medical and General Reference Library.Date: 1963- Books
Organized "home care" programs in the United States : a survey / prepared by the Committee on Indigent Care.
American Medical Association. Committee on Indigent Care.Date: 1956- Books
Medical care of infants in the United States : a review of recent historical work / Gerald Oppenheimer.
Oppenheimer, Gerald M.Date: 1988- Books
- Online
Infant care.
Date: 1945- Books
Public medical services : a survey of tax-supported medical care in the United States / by Michael M. Davis.
Davis, Michael M. (Michael Marks), 1879-1971.Date: [1937]