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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
- Description
- 358 p., [8] p. : ill., maps, facsims.; 23 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Medical history of early Auckland based on the first 384 inquests
- Subject
- 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