Divided Legacy
Publisher: Center for Empirical Medicine
Published: June 1973
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780916386009
Subjects: History: World
First sentence: In the 1820's and 1830's the corporate body of American physicians-a well-established professional class with a virtual monopoly over the legal practice of medicine-lost its privileged position and political power to a series of competing and hostile groups of practitioners.