Seeking the cure
Subtitle: a history of medicine in America
By: Ira Rutkow
Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781416538288; 9781416538417; 9781439171738
Description: An entertaining and intelligent history of the development of medicine in America by an award-winning physician.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-345) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Colonial medicine; title: 2. Democratizaton of healing; title: 3. Emergence of modern medicine; title: 4. Consolidation of power; title: 5. Scientific advancement; title: 6. Professional authority; title: 7. Challenges of success; title: 8. Ascendancy; title: 9. Supremacy; title: 10. Transformation.