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Touching on deaths : a medical history of early Auckland based on the first 384 inquests / Laurie Gluckman ; edited by Ann Gluckman and Mike Wagg.

Title
Touching on deaths : a medical history of early Auckland based on the first 384 inquests / Laurie Gluckman ; edited by Ann Gluckman and Mike Wagg.
Author
Gluckman, L. K.
Publication
Grafton, Auckland : Doppelganger, 2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Gluckman, Ann
  • Wagg, Mike
Description
358 p., [8] p. : ill., maps, facsims.; 23 cm.
Alternative Title
Medical history of early Auckland based on the first 384 inquests
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • Medical Records
  • Coroners and Medical Examiners
  • History, 19th Century
  • Medicine > New Zealand > Auckland > History
  • Cause of Death
  • New Zealand
  • Auckland (N.Z.)
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 354-358).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Historical background (General health issues for early Aucklanders (Influence of the Auckland climate ; Introduced diseases) ; Early Auckland (Landforms & their modifications ; Housing ; Alcohol in the city ; Water ; Population studies ; A later view on the climate of Auckland) ; Thomson's classification of diseases (The pensioners ; Travel ; Police ; The Office of Coroner ; Autopsies ; Maori post-motems ; Some ordinances & other matters relating to public health)) -- Medical scene in Auckland (Qualifications of medical practitioners (Army & Naval surgeons ; Pharmaceutical chemists ; Charlatanism) -- Medical organisations (The first hospitals in Auckland ; Military hospitals ; St Johns College Hospital ; Catholic hospitals ; The Colonial Hospital, later the Provinvial Hospital ; Lunatic asylums ; Obstetric care ; Homeopathic hospitals ; Medical libraries)
  • Background notes on medical personalities (Henry John Andrews ; Suzanne Aubert ; Francis Bayntun ; John Ballender ; John Bennett ; John Logan Campbell ; Robert Corbett ; William Davies ; John Hooper ; John Johnson ; Thomas Kenderdine ; Charles Knight ; Thomas McGauran ; Samuel Martin ; Philip Moore ; Thomas Philson ; Daniel Pollen ; Arthur Purchas ; Edward Shortland ; Samuel Stratford ; Henry Weekes) -- Classification of death & disease (Approach to material ; Farr's classification of disease as used in Auckland ; Specified causes of death) -- The inquests.
ISBN
095821042X
OCLC
  • 48131763
  • SCSB-12181987
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library