Going to the doctor
By: Rebecca Rissman
Series: Comparing past and present; Acorn; Acorn (Heinemann Library (Firm))
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9781432989927; 9781432990268
Subjects: Physicians; Social change; Medical change; Health; Medical care; Modernization (Sociology); Juvenile literature; History
Description: Compares the ways people in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries got medical care and the conditions in hospitals with contemporary practices.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Comparing the past and present; title: Seeing the doctor; title: Getting to the doctor; title: Medicine; title: Hospitals; title: Doctors and nurses; title: Then and now; title: Picture glossary; title: Index and notes for parents and teachers.