History of American medicine
Subtitle: a symposium
Series: MD international symposia -- no. 5
Publisher: MD Publications, Inc.
Published: 1959
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Medicine; History; History of Medicine
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The spirit of American medicine / -- Felix Marti-Ibañez; title: Guideposts in the history of American medicine  -- Benjamin Spector; title: Medicine and medical practices among aboriginal American Indians  -- John Duffy; title: Diseases and medical practice in colonial America  -- John B. Blake; title: Medical education and medical schools in colonial America  -- William Dosite Postell; title: Medicine in the era of the American Revolution  -- William Frederick Norwood; title: The lessons of the War between the States  -- Courtney R. Hall; title: The evolution of American medical literature  -- Norman Shaftel; title: The evolution of medical research in the United States  -- Morris C. Leikind; title: A brief sketch of the rise of American medical societies  -- W.B. McDaniel, II; title: The nineteenth century American physician as a research scientist  -- Phyllis Allen Richmond; title: Trends in American public health, from the colonial period to the present  -- George Rosen; title: The contribution of Holland and Scotland to the evolution of medical education in America  -- Douglas Guthrie; title: American medicine in the world today : an historical perspective and reappraisal -- Ralph H. Major.