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Title The Therapeutic Revolution : Essays in the Social History of American Medicine / Morris J. Vogel, Charles E. Rosenberg
Edition Reprint 2016
Published Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
©1979

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Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Therapeutic Revolution: Medicine, Meaning, and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America -- 2. Medical Reform and Biomedical Science: Biochemistry-a Case Study -- 3. Divided We Stand: Physiologists and Clinicians in the American Context -- 4. "Physician versus Bacteriologist": The Ideology of Science in Clinical Medicine -- 5. Doctors, Birth Control, and Social Values: 1830-1970 -- 6. Rediscovering Asylums: The Unhistorical History of the Mental Hospital -- 7. Machine Politics and Medical Care: The City Hospital at the Turn of the Century -- 8. The Third Party: Health Insurance in America -- 9. Isabel Hampton and the Professionalization of Nursing in the 1890s -- 10. The Sociocultural Impact of Twentieth-Century Therapeutics -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Contributors
Summary This book is not about one glorious triumph after another, nor is it a series of complaints about doctors and hospitals. Rather, these essays examine American medicine within its context, sensitive to the role of medical knowledge, practitioners, and institutions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The selections not only cover general considerations of the social and cultural context in which American medicine developed but also analyze the relationship between science and medicine, the development of mental hospitals, nursing, and health insurance
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Apr. 18, 2017)
Subject Medicine -- United States -- History -- Congresses
Social medicine -- United States -- History -- Congresses
Therapeutics -- United States -- History -- Congresses
MEDICAL -- History.
Medicine
Social medicine
Therapeutics
United States
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Rosenberg, Charles E
Vogel, Morris J
ISBN 9781512819151
1512819158