White House physician
Subtitle: a history from Washington to George W. Bush
By: Ludwig M. Deppisch.
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780786429769
Subjects: White House (Washington, D.C.) -- History; Physicians -- United States -- Biography; Presidents -- United States -- History; Physician and patient -- United States -- History; Medicine -- United States -- History; Physicians -- United States -- Biography; Government -- history -- United States; History, 19th Century -- United States; History, 20th Century -- United States; Physician-Patient Relations -- United States; Physicians -- history -- United States
Genres: Biography.
Description: "While biographical sketches detailing the background of each physician are included, the main focus of the work is the especially complex physician-patient relationship and the ways in which it has changed over time. The evolution of the presidential physician's responsibilities is also discussed, as are developments in American medicine during presidential terms"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Samuel Bard: the first presidential physician; title: The pillars of the profession: presidential physicians, 1812-1865; title: The military steps in, pt. I: the early days, 1823-1865; title: The military steps in, pt. II: conflicts and cooperation, 1865-1898; title: Admiral Presley Rixey: the first authentic White House physician; title: Captain Joel Boone and the institutionalization of the office of the White House physician; title: The military keepers of the stethoscope: doctors Cary Grayson, Ross Mcintire, and Howard Snyder; title: Physician anecdotes: the returnee, the academic, the consultant, and the defendant, 1953-1981; title: Civilian interlude, pt. I: medical chaos in Camelot; title: Civilian interlude, pt. II: the specialist physicians of presidents Reagan and Bush; title: The White House medical unit today; title: The Twenty-Fifth Amendment and its impact on the White House medical unit; title: Psychiatry and the presidency; title: The medical care of vice presidents; title: Presidential physicians after their tenures; title: Final thoughts.