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ERIC Number: EJ602503
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Publication Date: 1999
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"Did They Actually Really Believe This?" Authentic Medical Documents as a Window on the Past.
Riley, Julie
Social Studies and the Young Learner, v11 n3 pm2-5 Jan-Feb 1999
Presents an assignment in which students choose a historical medical document, focusing on bloodletting techniques, tendon repair in the calf, or phrenology, and then convince the doctor or specialist who wrote the document that he was incorrect or did not use the best medical treatment. Provides historical background on phrenology. (CMK)
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Language: English
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