What caused physicians in the USA to confront committees, forms, and active patients? Tracing the revolution that transformed the doctor-patient relationship, this book takes the reader into the laboratory and the examining room, tracing the development of new technologies and social attitudes.

David Rothman gives us a brilliant, finely etched study of medical practice today. Beginning in the mid-1960s, the practice of medicine in the United States underwent a most remarkable--and thoroughly controversial--transformation. The discretion that the profession once enjoyed has been increasingly circumscribed, and now an almost bewildering number of parties and procedures ...(展开全部)

What caused physicians in the USA to confront committees, forms, and active patients? Tracing the revolution that transformed the doctor-patient relationship, this book takes the reader into the laboratory and the examining room, tracing the development of new technologies and social attitudes.

David Rothman gives us a brilliant, finely etched study of medical practice today. Beginning in the mid-1960s, the practice of medicine in the United States underwent a most remarkable--and thoroughly controversial--transformation. The discretion that the profession once enjoyed has been increasingly circumscribed, and now an almost bewildering number of parties and procedures ...(展开全部)

Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. 'Libraries', he says, 'have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic'. In this personal, deliber...(展开全部)

巴巴克·塔夫雷什（Babak Tafreshi），夜空摄影大师，天文学家无国界组织(AWB)的董事会成员，2007年创立“夜空下的世界”(TWAN)项目，2009年获伦纳特·尼尔森奖，这是世界上最知名的科学摄影奖，以表彰他对全球夜空摄影的贡献。他的作品以夜空为背景，架起地球与天空、艺术与科学、文化与时间的桥梁。 译者简介： 译者 魏晓凡，男，1980年生人，博士研究生，中国传媒大学学术期刊责任编辑。出版著作《天文爱好者SkyMap手册》，译作《天文迷的夜空导游图》《宇宙之旅》《宇宙奇景1001图》《星河之外：宇宙真容探秘记》《洞察宇宙：摸得着的天文史》等。 校译 戴建峰，天文学家无国界组织与夜空下的世界的中国摄影师成员，国际暗夜协会北京分会成员，北京天文馆天文沙龙指导教师，美国Stocktrek和视觉中国签约摄影师。其作品融合艺术与科学、历史、文化、...(展开全部)

巴巴克·塔夫雷什（Babak Tafreshi），夜空摄影大师，天文学家无国界组织(AWB)的董事会成员，2007年创立“夜空下的世界”(TWAN)项目，2009年获伦纳特·尼尔森奖，这是世界上最知名的科学摄影奖，以表彰他对全球夜空摄影的贡献。他的作品以夜空为背景，架起地球与天空、艺术与科学、文化与时间的桥梁。 译者简介： 译者 魏晓凡，男，1980年生人，博士研究生，中国传媒大学学术期刊责任编辑。出版著作《天文爱好者SkyMap手册》，译作《天文迷的夜空导游图》《宇宙之旅》《宇宙奇景1001图》《星河之外：宇宙真容探秘记》《洞察宇宙：摸得着的天文史》等。 校译 戴建峰，天文学家无国界组织与夜空下的世界的中国摄影师成员，国际暗夜协会北京分会成员，北京天文馆天文沙龙指导教师，美国Stocktrek和视觉中国签约摄影师。其作品融合艺术与科学、历史、文化、...(展开全部)

A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future. In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Her husband died years ago, a...(展开全部)

Elderly widow Addie Moore pays a visit to her aging widower neighbor, Louis Waters. They were never close, just knew each other peripherally, which makes the reason for this social call all the more intriguing. Addie would like to know if Louis is interested in sleeping with her. Now, now, this scenario was conceived by the late, great Kent Haruf—Our Souls at Night is no 50 Sha...(展开全部)

Elderly widow Addie Moore pays a visit to her aging widower neighbor, Louis Waters. They were never close, just knew each other peripherally, which makes the reason for this social call all the more intriguing. Addie would like to know if Louis is interested in sleeping with her. Now, now, this scenario was conceived by the late, great Kent Haruf—Our Souls at Night is no 50 Sha...(展开全部)