Divide and conquer : a comparative history of medical specialization /
Weisz, George.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-346) and index.
The rise of specialties in early nineteenth-century Paris -- Specialization and its opponents in London -- Specialization in the German-speaking world -- The rise of American specialties -- Regulating specialists in national medical directories -- Regulating specialists in Germany -- Regulating specialists the American way -- The French style of regulating specialists -- Regulating specialists in the British manner -- From divisions of medicine to specialties -- Division, unification, and competition.
Medicine