Life in the balance : critical illness and British intensive care, 1948-1986
A series of life and death decisions, in a high-tech hospital unit, made by a multidisciplinary team of specialists and the patient's family - intensive care is the epitome of modern medicine. What better encapsulates the ambivalence of medicine in the twentieth century? From the beginnings of...
Main Author: | Nicholls, Alice |
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Other Authors: | Pickstone, John |
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University of Manchester
2011
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.606871 |
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