The Therapeutic Revolution: Essays in the Social History of American Medicine
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.
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The Therapeutic Revolution: Essays in the Social History of American Medicine
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.
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The Therapeutic Revolution: Essays in the Social History of American Medicine

The Therapeutic Revolution: Essays in the Social History of American Medicine

The Therapeutic Revolution: Essays in the Social History of American Medicine

The Therapeutic Revolution: Essays in the Social History of American Medicine

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780812277739
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date: 10/29/1979
Series: Anniversary Collection
Edition description: Reprint 2016 ed.
Pages: 284
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)
Age Range: 18 Years
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