Podolsky, Scott H. (Author)
It has been fascinating to read this collection of articles on the history of healthcare practitioners’ emotions, and to reflect on my own career as both a primary care physician and medical historian, and on caregiving and medical history more generally. Beginning medical school in 1993, I absorbed from the hidden curriculum William Osler’s ethos of “Aequanimitas” and imperturbability – “coolness and presence of mind under all circumstances, calmness amid storm, clearness of judgment in moments of grave peril, immobility, impassiveness” – well before I read his iconic essay.1 Indeed, many members of my generation (myself included) were more likely to first encounter the transmogrification of Osler’s ethos into the House of God’s (itself ably dissected in this volume) third “law”: “At a cardiac arrest the first procedure is to take your own pulse.”2 Emotions were to be modulated and tempered in the service of the patient.
...MoreArticle Jacob D Moses; Agnes Arnold-Forster; Samuel V Schotland (2023) Introduction: Healthcare Practitioners’ Emotions and the Politics of Well-Being in Twentieth Century Anglo-America. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (pp. 341-351).
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Sherry Turkle;
(2021)
The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir
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Megann Licskai;
(2023)
Wounded Healers: Abortion and the Affective Practices of Pro-Life Health Care
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David A. Steinberg;
(2021)
George Kenneth York III
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Stephen J. Dick;
(2022)
Reminiscences of an eclectic historian–astronomer
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Pieter C. Van Der Kruit;
(2023)
Excited states and spontaneous transitions: Astronomer, lecturer, administrator, biographer
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Phil Gold;
(2023)
Gold’s Rounds: Medicine, McGill, and Growing Up Jewish in Montreal
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Barron H. Lerner;
(2018)
The Fielding H. Garrison Lecture: Great Doctor History
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Elisabetta Basso Lorini;
(2017)
The erudite humility of the historian: the ‘critical epistemology’ of Georges Lantéri-Laura
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Douglas J. Lanska;
(2021)
In memoriam: Henry Szczȩsny Schutta, MD (1928–2020)
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Jayant V. Narlikar;
(2018)
The evolution of modern cosmology as seen through a personal walk across six decades
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Paul-Henri Rebut;
(2018)
The Joint European Torus (JET)
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Ronald Breslow;
(2015)
A Life in Physical Organic Chemistry
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Jeanne Simons;
Sabine Oishi;
(2021)
Behind the Mirror: The Story of a Pioneer in Autism Treatment and Her Work with Children on the Spectrum
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Paul Merchant;
(2019)
What Oral Historians and Historians of Science Can Learn from Each Other
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Paul von Rague Schleyer;
Andrew Streitwieser;
(2015)
From the Ivy League to the Honey Pot
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Weisse, Allen B.;
(2010)
Notes of a Medical Maverick
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A. Nishida;
(2019)
Plasmapause, Convection, and Reconnection
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Horacio Capel;
(2019)
Azares y decisiones: Recuerdos personales
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Andrew F. Nagy;
(2019)
A Career in Thin Air
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Suzanne Simard;
(2021)
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
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