The Therapeutic Perspective
Subtitle: Medical Practice, Knowledge, and Identity in America, 1820-1885
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Published: March 1987
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780674883307
Subjects: Medical; Therapeutics (General); History Of Medicine; Medical / Nursing; Therapeutics; United States; History; 19th century; Medicine
First sentence: IN A COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS to Cincinnati medical students in 1877 on "the dignity and sanctity of the medical profession," the speaker asserted that "its chief excellence is, not that it is scientific, but that it is redemptive."