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Jennifer Connor explores the worldview of leaders in American medicine with respect to medical literature, history, libraries, and librarianship. Tracing the first fifty years of the Medical Library Association (MLA) from its conception as a resource for libraries to its post-World War II role as a national, professional organization, this thorough study portrays the 'genesis' of the MLA through analysis of its origins, its dominant medical culture, and its intricate network of physician leaders.
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Explores the worldview of leaders in American medicine with respect to medical literature, history, libraries, and librarianship, portraying the genesis of the Medical Library Association (MLA) through analysis of its origins, its dominant medical culture, and its intricate network of physician leaders. Delves into the personalities that drove the MLA through its formative period, showing how their ideas fit into trends in the professionalization of medicine and the development of the history of medicine as a separate field of scholarship. Connor has been a research fellow in the history of medicine at McMaster University, Canada, and at the University of Toronto. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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