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100 1 $aRosenberg, Charles E.
245 10 $aExplaining epidemics and other studies in the history of medicine /$cCharles E. Rosenberg.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$cc1992.
300 $ax, 357 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
500 $aConsists of Prof. Rosenberg's essays reprinted from various sources.
505 0 $aThe therapeutic revolution: medicine, meaning, and social change in nineteenth-century America -- Medical text and social context: explaining William Buchan's Domestic medicine -- John Gunn: everyman's physician -- Body and mind in nineteenth-century medicine: some clinical origins of the neurosis construct -- Florence Nightingale on contagion: the hospital as moral universe -- Cholera in nineteenth-century Europe: a tool for social and economic analysis -- The practice of medicine in New York a century ago -- Social class and medical care in nineteenth-century America: the rise and fall of the dispensary -- From almshouse to hospital: the shaping of Philadelphia General Hospital -- Making it in urban medicine: a career in the age of scientific medicine -- The crisis in psychiatric legitimacy: reflections on psychiatry, medicine, and public policy -- Disease and social order in America: perceptions and expectations.
505 0 $a(cont) What is an epidemic? AIDS in historical perspective -- Explaining epidemics -- Framing disease: illness, society, and history -- Looking backward, thinking forward: the roots of hospital crisis.
650 0 $aMedicine$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aEpidemiology$xHistory$y19th century.