num_pages: 457
description: Medicine in the United States has traveled a twisted path from its beginnings in a rural society to achieve unprecedented technological and commercial success. In Glass Half Full, Curtis E. Margo examines pivotal events in this journey, from the use of inoculation in the Boston smallpox epidemic of 1721 to the promotion of bone marrow transplant for the treatment of advanced breast cancer in the 1990s. On another level, Glass Half Full is a story of how the tenets of humanitarianism and commercialism continue to compete for primacy within an increasingly polarized profession.
language: English
title: Glass Half Full. An Informal History of American Medicine
publisher: Clio Mentor