The Therapeutic Revolution : : Essays in the Social History of American Medicine / / ed. by Charles E. Rosenberg, Morris J. Vogel.

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 cent...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]
©1980
Year of Publication:2017
Edition:Reprint 2016
Language:English
Series:Anniversary Collection
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Physical Description:1 online resource (284 p.)
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Other title: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 --
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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.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781512819151
9783110442526
DOI:10.9783/9781512819151
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Charles E. Rosenberg, Morris J. Vogel.