The hospital in contemporary life - Faxon, Nathaniel Wales 1880- ed.; Lowell Institute lectures, 1948. (Cambridge Harvard Univ. Press, 1949)
The development of the hospital, by E. D. Churchill.-The relief of suffering, by H. K. Beecher.-Human nature and the understanding of disease, by Stanley Cobb.-The care of the patient, by L.S. McKittrick.-The education of the doctor, by Oliver Cope.-How medicine grows and its relation to science, by E. M. Landis.-Unsolved problems, by J. C. Aub.-The place of the hospital in the social order, by N. W. Faxon
"Revised from a series of lectures delivered in January 1948 under the sponsorship of the Lowell Institute in Boston."
Keywords: Hospitals; Medicine -- Hist