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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Geison, Gerald L.,; Grob, Gerald Ν.,; James, Janet Wilson,; Kohler, Robert Ε.,; Maulitz, Russell C.,; Numbers, Ronald L.,; Pellegrino, Edmund D.,; Reed, James,; Rosenberg, Charles Ε.,; Vogel, Morris J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Rosenberg, Charles E.,; Vogel, Morris J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Anniversary Collection
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• 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
• Contributors