| Description |
1 online resource : 10 illustrations |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- PART I. INTRODUCTION: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES -- 1. Grand Rounds: An Introduction to the History of Internal Medicine -- 2. The Inner History of Internal Medicine -- 3. The Literature of Internal Medicine -- PART II. THE SUBSPECIALTIES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE: CASE STUDIES -- 4. History of the Subspecialty of Infectious Diseases in the United States -- 5. One Hundred Years of American Gastroenterology -- 6. A Century of American Rheumatology -- 7. Nephrology in America from Thomas Addis to the Artificial Kidney -- 8. Hearts and Minds: The Invention and Transformation of American Cardiology -- PART III. HISTORICAL PROBLEMS IN DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY -- 9. Classifications in Medicine -- 10. Notes from the Underground: The Social Organization of Therapeutic Research -- PART IV. A CONCLUDING VIEW -- 11. The Curious Career of Internal Medicine: Functional Ambivalence, Social Success -- Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
An historical overview of the evolution of modern internal medicine; includes discussions of cardiology and gastroenerology, rheumatology, infectious diseases, nephrology and endocrinology, and other subspecialties |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016) |
| Subject |
Wood, Francis C. (Francis Clark), 1901-1990 -- Congresses
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| SUBJECT |
Wood, Francis C. (Francis Clark), 1901- fast |
| Subject |
Internal medicine -- United States -- History -- Congresses
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MEDICAL -- History.
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Internal medicine
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Long, Diana E
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| ISBN |
9781512804294 |
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1512804290 |
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