...Samuel Clyde McCulloch Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 JOHN DEE: ELIZABETHAN DOCTOR OF SCIENCE AND MAGIC SAMUEL CLYDE McCULLOCH JOHN DEE, now the most respected of Elizabethan scientists, was denounced for more than three hundred years after his death as a quack because he had...

...William Dosite Postell Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 THE DOCTOR IN THE OLD SOUTH William Dosite Postell THE DOCTOR of the Old South was an interesting figure. As he made his rounds and prescribed for his patients his scientific attainments were limited, but there was no limit...

...Philippe Roussin; Alice Kaplan Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Philippe Roussin Getting Back from the Other World: From Doctor to Author Things developed in such a way that the life of a doctor, of a humble doctor . . . has become im­ possible and has complicated my life more...

...Elbert Vaughan Wills Copyright © 1919 by Duke University Press 1919 The Case of Doctor Cooper Elbert Vaughan Wills Recent legislation designed to restrain unguarded or wil­ fully seditious utterances or publications, with a view par­ ticularly to preventing the spread of enemy propaganda...

...Robert C. Whitford Copyright © 1920 by Duke University Press 1920 Lexiphanes: Satire s View of Doctor Johnson Robert C. Whitford Knox College. Samuel Johnson bulks large among the dim and ghostly heroes of literay history. In pleasant despite of time and place I range him alongside Homer...

...Joseph M. Beatty, Jr. Copyright © 1922 by Duke University Press 1922 Doctor Johnson and the Occult Joseph M. Beatty, Jr. Goucher College. Doctor Johnson characterized his century as this age of inquiry and knowledge, when superstition is driven away, and omens and prodigies have lost...

...Joel Nugent Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 Joel Nugent Call me Doctor I teach in what might be called a medical school; we doctor each other in the halls. Good morning, Doctor Barnes. How are you, Doctor Wells? Lovely morning, Doctor Proctor. Same to you, Doctor Pardo...

...Nan Cole African Encounter: A Doctor in Nigeria . By Collis Robert . New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1961 . Pp. 211 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 268 The South Atlantic Quarterly been made here, and, given the fact that other such essays on con­...

...Frank E. Smith Louisiana Swamp Doctor: The Life and Writings of Henry Clay Lewis . By Anderson John Q. . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1962 . Pp. viii , 296 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 Book Reviews 553 position...

...Roland M. Frye Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 MARLOWE S DOCTOR FAUSTUS: THE REPUDIATION OF HUMANITY Roland. M. Frye ON MANY counts Marlowe s Doctor Faustus may stand as a prime example in Elizabethan drama of what Sir Philip Sidney applauded as that feigning notable images...

...Albert Parry Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 AMERICAN DOCTORS IN THE CRIMEAN WAR Albert Parry A CENTURY AGO three hundred Kentucky riflemen volun­ teered to fight in the Crimean War on the Russian side, but they never sailed. There is a legend, never proved, that a Du Pont...

...Kathleen C. Berkeley A Woman Doctor’s Civil War: Esther Hill Hawks’ Diary . Edited with a foreword and afterword by Schwartz Gerald . Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 1984 . Pp. ix , 301 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 317 tory...

...) legislation in thirty‐four states criminalizing trans people (with an emphasis on trans healthcare and bathroom use) and the parents, doctors, and teachers who have sought to serve as trans allies. How is this wave of fascist panic and propaganda linked to broader histories of racial and gendered...

... according to the cities in which she has lived, with each place having its own advantages and drawbacks. While each environment in which one must tediously wait—an immigration office, the health insurance office, the doctor’s office, the bank, an art supplies shop, and the grocery store—is familiar...

... their names, the abbreviation of the degree, and if it is an honorary doctorate, the title doctor may be used. In actual practice, only clergy and academic people use the title. It is never used by the re­ cipient in business or social correspondence. We must turn back to the English universities...

... of their in-coming pastor. This charge was destined to be the scene of his labors for many years to come and in fact proved to be his last pastorate. But Doctor Hale did not confine his activities to the boundaries of his own parish. He had a much broader conception of his mission as a minister and he communicated...

... of American criminal law there is a clear prohibition of killing. This general principle embraces also the relationship of doctors with their patients: under traditional law physicians are prohibited from direct kill­ ing, and are also prohibited from assisting their patients toward death. This prohibition...

..., the early draft, by enabling us to see a sensitive human being caught in the toils of cir­ cumstance, changes everything. DUKE UNIVERSITY HAROLD T. PARKER Louisiana Swamp Doctor: The Life and Writings of Henry Clay Lewis. By John Q. Anderson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Uni­ versity Press, 1962. Pp. viii...

.... It is to say, however, that doctors are very inconsistent. Practically all of them are prod­ ucts of public education at least through the high school; many of them are graduates of state-owned or state-aided medical colleges; and a sizable number of the younger ones got their entire medical training at public...

... a golden age before the day of the germ theory of disease. Man knew little more about what caused disease than did the ancient Greeks. Medical ethics rested on un­ certain foundations. The oath of Hippocrates was often honored in the breach. The line between regular and irregular doctors was thinly drawn...