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The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors

The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors

by Bernard Shaw

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Author
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
Credits
Produced by Eve Sobol, and David Widger
Language
English
LoC Class
R: Medicine
Subject
Physicians
Category
Text
eBook-No.
5069
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5069
Release Date
February 1, 2004
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA: PREFACE ON DOCTORS
  2. 2.By Bernard Shaw — 1909
  3. 3.DOUBTFUL CHARACTER BORNE BY THE MEDICAL PROFESSION
  4. 4.DOCTOR'S CONSCIENCES
  5. 5.THE PECULIAR PEOPLE
  6. 6.RECOIL OF THE DOGMA OF MEDICAL INFALLIBILITY ON THE DOCTOR
  7. 7.WHY DOCTORS DO NOT DIFFER
  8. 8.THE CRAZE FOR OPERATIONS
  9. 9.CREDULITY AND CHLOROFORM
  10. 10.MEDICAL POVERTY
  11. 11.THE SUCCESSFUL DOCTOR
  12. 12.THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SELF-RESPECT IN SURGEONS
  13. 13.ARE DOCTORS MEN OF SCIENCE?
  14. 14.BACTERIOLOGY AS A SUPERSTITION
  15. 15.ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES OF IMMUNIZATION
  16. 16.THE PERILS OF INOCULATION
  17. 17.DOCTORS AND VIVISECTION
  18. 18.THE PRIMITIVE SAVAGE MOTIVE
  19. 19.THE HIGHER MOTIVE. THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE.
  20. 20.THE FLAW IN THE ARGUMENT
  21. 21.LIMITATIONS OF THE RIGHT TO KNOWLEDGE
  22. 22.A FALSE ALTERNATIVE
  23. 23.OUR OWN CRUELTIES
  24. 24.THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF CRUELTY
  25. 25.ROUTINE
  26. 26.THE OLD LINE BETWEEN MAN AND BEAST
  27. 27.VIVISECTING THE HUMAN SUBJECT
  28. 28."THE LIE IS A EUROPEAN POWER"
  29. 29.AN ARGUMENT WHICH WOULD DEFEND ANY CRIME
  30. 30.THOU ART THE MAN
  31. 31.WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTS AND WILL NOT GET
  32. 32.THE VACCINATION CRAZE
  33. 33.STATISTICAL ILLUSIONS
  34. 34.THE SURPRISES OF ATTENTION AND NEGLECT
  35. 35.STEALING CREDIT FROM CIVILIZATION
  36. 36.BIOMETRIKA
  37. 37.PATIENT-MADE THERAPEUTICS
  38. 38.THE REFORMS ALSO COME FROM THE LAITY
  39. 39.FASHIONS AND EPIDEMICS
  40. 40.THE DOCTOR'S VIRTUES
  41. 41.THE DOCTOR'S HARDSHIPS
  42. 42.THE PUBLIC DOCTOR — What then is to be done?
  43. 43.MEDICAL ORGANIZATION
  44. 44.THE SOCIAL SOLUTION OF THE MEDICAL PROBLEM
  45. 45.THE FUTURE OF PRIVATE PRACTICE
  46. 46.THE TECHNICAL PROBLEM
  47. 47.THE LATEST THEORIES

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