Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative
Publisher: Rutgers University Press | ISBN: 0813539013 | edition 2006 | PDF | 176 pages | 1,08 mb
The history of medicine is much more than the story of doctors, nurses, and hospitals. Seeking to understand the patient's perspective, historians scour the archives, searching for rare personal accounts. Bringing together a trove of more than 400 family letters by Charles Dwight Willard, Suffering in the Land of Sunshine provides a unique window into the experience of sickness...