An edition of Major problems in the history of American medicine and public health
(2000)
Major problems in the history of American medicine and public health
documents and essays
by John Harley Warner
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Major problems in the history of American medicine and public health: documents and essays
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Major Problems in the History of American Medicine and Public Health: Documents and Essays (Major Problems in American History Series)
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Table of Contents
Ch. 1. What is the history of medicine and public health?
ch. 2. Colonial beginnings: a new world of peoples, disease, and healing
ch. 3. The medical marketplace in the early republic, 1785-1825
ch. 4. Antebellum medical knowledge, practice, and patients, 1820-1860
ch. 5. The healer's identity in the mid-nineteenth century: character, care, and competition, 1830-1875
ch. 6. The Civil War, efficiency, and the sanitary impulse, 1845-1870
ch. 7. Reconfiguring "scientific medicine," 1865-1900
ch. 8. The gospel of germs: microbes, strangers, and habits of the home, 1880-1925
ch. 9. Strategies for improving medical care: institutions, science, and standardization, 1870-1940
ch. 10. Expert advice, social authority, and the medicalization of everyday life, 1890-1930
ch. 11. The technological imperative?: hospitals, professions, and patient expectations, 1890-1950
ch. 12. The culture of biomedical research: human subjects, power, and the scientific method, 1920-1965
ch. 13. Public health and the state during an age of biomedical miracles, 1925-1960
ch. 14. Rights, access, and the bottom line: health politics and health policies, 1960-2000
ch. 15. The persisting search for health and healing at the end of the twentieth century.
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