The Therapeutic Revolution: Essays in the Social History of American Medicine (Anniversary Collection)

The Therapeutic Revolution: Essays in the Social History of American Medicine (Anniversary Collection) image
ISBN-10:

0812277732

ISBN-13:

9780812277739

Edition: Reprint 2016 ed.
Released: Jan 01, 1979
Format: Hardcover, 284 pages
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Description:

This book is not about one glorious triumph after another, nor is it a series of complaints about doctors and hospitals. Rather, these essays examine American medicine within its context, sensitive to the role of medical knowledge, practitioners, and institutions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The selections not only cover general considerations of the social and cultural context in which American medicine developed but also analyze the relationship between science and medicine, the development of mental hospitals, nursing, and health insurance.












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