Against the Spirit of System
Subtitle: The French Impulse in Nineteenth-Century American Medicine
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: October 23, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780801878213
Subjects: History of medicine; c 1800 to c 1900; Medical / Nursing; French influences; United States; Medical; USA; Medical education; Europe - France; History / Europe / General; France; United States - General; 19th century; History; Medicine; Paris
First sentence: OUT OF the reorganization of medicine in the wake of the French Revolution, the Paris hospitals emerged as the most vibrant center of Western medicine.