The Development of Modern Medicine : : An Interpretation of the Social and Scientific Factors Involved / / Richard Harrison Shryock.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Shryock, Richard Harrison,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]; ©1936
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Anniversary Collection
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (464 p.) :; illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; Illustrations --; I. First Attempts to Establish a Physical Science, 1600-1700 --; II. The Partial Failure of Physical Science, 1700-1800 --; III. Social Factors in Medical Lag After 1700 --; IV. Renewed Progress Toward an Objective Science 1750-1800 --; V. Early Contributions of Physic and Physicians to the Public Welfare, 1750-1800 --; VI. Science in a Romantic Age, 1800-1850 --; VII. Medicine and "The Basic Sciences" --; VIII. Medicine, Mathematics, and the Social Sciences --; IX. The Emergence of Modern Medicine 1800-1850 --; X. The Influence of French Medicine in Europe and America --; XI. Modern Medicine in Germany, 1830-1880 --; XII. Medicine and the Public Health Movement 1800-1880 --; XIII. Public Confidence Lost --; XIV. The Triumphs of Modern Medicine, 1870-1900 --; XV. Further Progress and Some of the Consequences --; XVI. Public Confidence Regained --; XVII. A Delayed Advance Against Mental Disease --; XVIII. Practice in a Changing Society, 1880-1930 --; XIX. American Experience --; XX. Some Contemporary Questions --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512818680; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512818680
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Richard Harrison Shryock.

The relation of the progress of medical science to the social history of humanity. Starting with the seventeenth century, the author analyzes the defeats as well as the triumphs that medicine has gone through to reach its present usefulness.