1. The Way We Are. Birth and Childhood. Love and Marriage. Maturity and Age -- 2. Disease and Mental Illness. Disease, Disability, and Plague. The Plague of 1665. A Case Study: Beethoven. The Sick Mind -- 3. Doctors and Psychiatrists. Some Ideals. Less Than Ideal. Showmen and Quacks. A Woman in Medicine. A Critic. Somnambulism, Vampirism, and Suicide: The Life of Dr John Polidori -- 4. Nurses and Patients. Nurses. Ambulances and Hospitals. Patients, Visitors, and Chaplains. Management -- 5. Healing. Operations. Cures. Spells, Hope, and Mothers. Music and Art as Therapy. Healing the Spirit -- 6. Last Things. Attitudes to Death. Suffering and Dying. Mourning and Funerals -- 7. Research. Uncertainty. The Pursuit of Knowledge. Writing Up -- 8. Ethics and Purpose. Ethical Argument. Paying Attention. Compassion and Duty. Utility. Purpose and Meaning.
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