Major problems in the history of American medicine and public health
Subtitle: documents and essays
By: edited by John Harley Warner, Janet A. Tighe.
Contributors: Warner, John Harley, 1953-; Tighe, Janet A.
Series: Major problems in American history series
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 539
Subjects: Medicine -- United States -- History.; Therapeutics -- United States -- History.; Medical policy -- United States -- History.; Therapeutics -- history -- United States.; History of Medicine -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. What is the history of medicine and public health?; title: ch. 2. Colonial beginnings: a new world of peoples, disease, and healing; title: ch. 3. The medical marketplace in the early republic, 1785-1825; title: ch. 4. Antebellum medical knowledge, practice, and patients, 1820-1860; title: ch. 5. The healer's identity in the mid-nineteenth century: character, care, and competition, 1830-1875; title: ch. 6. The Civil War, efficiency, and the sanitary impulse, 1845-1870; title: ch. 7. Reconfiguring "scientific medicine," 1865-1900; title: ch. 8. The gospel of germs: microbes, strangers, and habits of the home, 1880-1925; title: ch. 9. Strategies for improving medical care: institutions, science, and standardization, 1870-1940; title: ch. 10. Expert advice, social authority, and the medicalization of everyday life, 1890-1930; title: ch. 11. The technological imperative?: hospitals, professions, and patient expectations, 1890-1950; title: ch. 12. The culture of biomedical research: human subjects, power, and the scientific method, 1920-1965; title: ch. 13. Public health and the state during an age of biomedical miracles, 1925-1960; title: ch. 14. Rights, access, and the bottom line: health politics and health policies, 1960-2000; title: ch. 15. The persisting search for health and healing at the end of the twentieth century.