Title: From humors to medical science : a history of American medicine /
Authors: Duffy, John, 1915-1996; Duffy, John, 1915-1996.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Education, Medical; Education, Medical history; Medicine United States History; History, Modern 1601-; History, Modern 1601- United States.; United States
Contents: Beginnings of American medicine -- Eighteenth century -- Medical profession -- Medicine in the revolutionary years -- Early nineteenth-century medicine -- Irregulars and domestic medicine -- Foundations of American surgery -- Early leaders in medicine and surgery -- Education, licensing and status of physicians -- Medicine in the Civil War -- Emergence of modern medicine -- Flowering of surgery -- Medical education -- Medical profession organizes -- Advancing front of medicine -- Surgery and medical technology since World War I -- Medical education since the Flexner report -- Women in medicine -- Minorities in medicine -- Medical profession in the twentieth century -- Community's health -- Whither medicine?