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The Doctor’s Dilemma: Preface on Doctors

by Bernard Shaw

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  1. 1Contents
  2. 2Doubtful Character Borne by the Medical Profession
  3. 3Doctor’s Consciences
  4. 4The Peculiar People
  5. 5Recoil of the Dogma of Medical Infallibility on the Doctor
  6. 6Why Doctors Do Not Differ
  7. 7The Craze for Operations
  8. 8Credulity and Chloroform
  9. 9Medical Poverty
  10. 10The Successful Doctor
  11. 11The Psychology of Self-Respect in Surgeons
  12. 12Are Doctors Men of Science?
  13. 13Bacteriology as a Superstition
  14. 14Economic Difficulties of Immunization
  15. 15The Perils of Inoculation
  16. 16Doctors and Vivisection
  17. 17The Primitive Savage Motive
  18. 18The Higher Motive. The Tree of Knowledge
  19. 19The Flaw in the Argument
  20. 20Limitations of the Right to Knowledge
  21. 21A False Alternative
  22. 22Our Own Cruelties
  23. 23The Scientific Investigation of Cruelty
  24. 24Routine
  25. 25The Old Line Between Man and Beast
  26. 26Vivisecting the Human Subject
  27. 27“The Lie Is a European Power”
  28. 28An Argument Which Would Defend Any Crime
  29. 29Thou Art the Man
  30. 30What the Public Wants and Will Not Get
  31. 31The Vaccination Craze
  32. 32Statistical Illusions
  33. 33The Surprises of Attention and Neglect
  34. 34Stealing Credit From Civilization
  35. 35Biometrika
  36. 36Patient-Made Therapeutics
  37. 37The Reforms Also Come From the Laity
  38. 38Fashions and Epidemics
  39. 39The Doctor’s Virtues
  40. 40The Doctor’s Hardships
  41. 41The Public Doctor
  42. 42Medical Organization
  43. 43The Social Solution of the Medical Problem
  44. 44The Future of Private Practice
  45. 45The Technical Problem
  46. 46The Latest Theories

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