Health Care in America
Subtitle: a history
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Baltimore, MD
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9781421416083
Table of contents: title: Health and disease in a land new to Europeans; title: Traditional treatment and traditional healers; title: The beginnings of change in traditional health care; title: Setting the stage for modern medicine and health : the 1850s to the 1880s; title: The age of surgery and germ theory : 1880s to 1910s; title: Physiological medicine, 1910s to 1930s; title: Physicians, public health, and Progressivism; title: The era of antibiotics, 1930s to 1950s; title: The age of technological medicine, 1940s to 1960s; title: Doctors, patients, medical institutions, and society in the age of technological medicine; title: Medicine in the environmental era, 1960s to 1980s; title: Environmental-era health care in a hostile social climate; title: The era of genetic medicine : the late 1980s and after; title: The recent past as a new epoch