1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462794903321

Autore

Bank Arthur

Titolo

Searching for the best medicine [[electronic resource] ] : the life and times of a doctor and patient / / Arthur Bank

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore, : World Scientific, 2013

ISBN

981-4425-51-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

610.92

Soggetti

Medicine - Study and teaching

Patients - Care

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Prologue; Part One The Doctor As Patient; Chapter One The Big C; Discovery; Surgery and recovery; The real world of medicine; Visitors and privacy; Dr. Edgar Leifer; Chapter Two Getting Better; Recovery; Learning the truth; Hoping for the best and 5-FU; Dr. Peter Wiernik; Attitudes; Drugs and the future; Discovering God or something like it; Death; Reality; The sabbatical in Paris; Sally; Part Two Growing Up; Chapter Three In The Beginning; The pretzel bakery; Going to school; Friends; Hebrew School; Bronx Science; Social life; Chapter Four College Days; The academic milieu

SportsA social life; Chapter Five Decisions, Decisions; Harvard Med; Medicine; Better medicine; New friends; Summers and money; Love and marriage; Chapter Six Basic Training; Emergencies; Patients, patience; The staff; Part Three Doing Medicine; Chapter Seven A Special Calling; The Ideal Physician; The Drill: Taking the history; The physical examination: a lost art; The laboratory and x-rays: great advances; The science of medicine; Chapter Eight Making Diagnoses; The Difficult Cases; Chapter Nine Columbia-Presbyterian Medicine; Ward Rounds; General Medical Clinic

Chapter Ten Becoming a HematologistMy subspecialty; A new life; Making another decision; Life at the NIH; Returning to Columbia; Chapter Eleven Hematology and Oncology; Divisions; Chapter Twelve Doing Hematology; Coagulation; Anemia: the hematologist's forte;



Mysteries; Hematology conferences; Caring for in-patients; Chapter Thirteen Sickle Cell Disease; Caring; A complex disease; Chapter Fourteen Special People; Gladys; Vinnie; Part Four Medicine Today; Chapter Fifteen The Practice of Medicine; The real world for doctors; Really good doctors; Dubious activities; Younger doctors; Bad doctors

Best adviceChapter Sixteen The Business of Medicine; My medical insurance; The big picture; Chapter Seventeen Solutions; The Affordable Care Act; Chapter Eighteen Changing Times; America Divided; Chapter Nineteen The Last Chapter; About the Author; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book describes the life and times of a physician-scientist over the last half-century. Part One is about the author's struggle with colon cancer and the lessons he learnt from the experience; Part Two is about his life growing up, the pretzel bakery, his family, being educated at Bronx Science, Columbia College, Harvard Medical School, and his medical training at the Boston City Hospital and the NIH. Part Three, the major portion of the book, describes the author's experiences as a practicing physician and hematologist at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center over 40 years. It also present

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458836303321

Titolo

Friendship & politics [[electronic resource] ] : essays in political thought / / edited by John von Heyking and Richard Avramenko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2008

ISBN

0-268-09550-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HeykingJohn von

AvramenkoRichard

Disciplina

320.01

Soggetti

Political science - Philosophy

Friendship - Political aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Platonic philia and political order / James M. Rhodes -- Taking friendship seriously : Aristotle on the place(s) of philia in human life / Stephen Salkever -- Cicero's distinctive voice on friendship : De amicitia and De re publica / Walter Nicgorski -- The luminous path of friendship : Augustine's account of friendship and political order / John von Heyking -- A companionship of caritas : friendship in St. Thomas Aquinas / Jeanne Heffernan Schindler -- Friendship in the civic order : a reformation absence / Thomas Heilke -- Plato and Montaigne : ancient and modern ideas of friendship / Timothy Fuller -- Hobbes on getting by with little help from friends / Travis D. Smith -- Social friendship in the founding era / George Carey -- It is not good for man to be alone : Tocqueville on friendship / Joshua Mitchell -- Zarathustra and his asinine friends : Nietzsche and taste as the groundless ground of friendship / Richard Avramenko -- Friendship, trust, and political order : a critical overview / Jürgen Gebhardt.

3.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991002393469707536

Autore

Guido : da Pisa

Titolo

Expositiones et glose. Declaratio super "Comediam" Dantis / Guido da Pisa ; a cura di Michele Rinaldi ; appendice a cura di Paola Locatin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : Salerno, 2013

ISBN

9788884027771

Descrizione fisica

2 v. (1348 p. compless.), 4 p. di ta: ill. ; 25 cm

Collana

Edizione nazionale dei commenti danteschi ; 5

Altri autori (Persone)

Rinaldi, Michele

Locatin, Paola

Disciplina

851

878

Soggetti

Alighieri, Dante. Divina Commedia Commenti Sec. 14.

Alighieri, Dante. Divina Commedia Commenti Sec. 14.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

In custodia

Nota di bibliografia

Testo latino