Medical Malpractice in Nineteenth-Century America : : Origins and Legacy / / Kenneth De Ville.
Highly readable . . . . interdisciplinary history of a high order.-- The Historian Well-written and superbly documented . . . . Both physicians and lawyers will find this book useful and fascinating.-- Journal of the American Medical Association This is the first book-length historical study of medi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1990] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 1990 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The American Social Experience ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER 1. Before the Flood, 1790-1835
- CHAPTER 2. The Deluge, 1835-1865
- CHAPTER 3. Schools for Scandal
- CHAPTER 4. "The Expression of a Wellmade Man"
- CHAPTER 5. Community, Providence, and the Social Construction of Legal Action
- CHAPTER 6. "Dangerous Ground for a Surgeon"
- CHAPTER 7. The Road Not Taken: Medical Malpractice and the Path of the Common Law
- CHAPTER 8. The More Things Change . . . : Medical Malpractice, 1865-1900
- CHAPTER 9. Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- APPENDIXES
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index