Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTRIBUTORS v
3. PREFACE vii
4. CONTENTS ix
5. 1 The Development of the Hospital 1
6. 2 The Relief of Suffering 70
7. 3 Human Nature and the Understanding of Disease 108
8. 4 The Care of the Patient 137
9. 5 The Education of the Doctor 158
10. 6 How Medicine Grows and its Relation to Science 187
11. 7 Unsolved Problems 219
12. 8 The Place of the Hospital in the Social Order 245
13. INDEX 279