The Therapeutic Perspective : : Medical Practice, Knowledge, and Identity in America, 1820-1885 / / John Harley Warner.
This new paperback edition makes available John Harley Warner's highly influential, revisionary history of nineteenth-century American medicine. Deftly integrating social and intellectual perspectives, Warner explores a crucial shift in medical history, when physicians no longer took for grante...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | With a New preface by the author |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (386 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction: Therapeutics and the Transformation of American Medicine
- Part I. Antebellum Medical Therapeutics
- 1. Intervention and Identity
- 2. Epistemology, Social Change, and the Reorganization of Knowledge
- 3. The Principle of Specificity
- Part II. The Process of Change
- 4. Therapeutic Change
- 5. Attitudes toward Change
- 6. Attitudes toward Foreign Knowledge
- 7. The Arbitration of Change
- Part III. Therapeutic Reconstruction
- 8. Physiological Therapeutics and the Dissipation of Therapeutic Gloom
- 9. Cui Bono?
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- A Note on Sources for the History of Therapeutics
- Index