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The therapeutic perspective : medical practice, knowledge, and identity in America, 1820-1885 / John Harley Warner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Warner, John Harley, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Therapeutics--United States--History--19th century.
- Therapeutics.
- Medicine--United States--History--19th century.
- Medicine.
- History.
- United States.
- Therapeutics--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- Medical Subjects:
- Therapeutics--history.
- United States.
- History, 19th Century.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- A new paperback edition makes available John Harley Warner's award-winning and highly influential history of 19th-century American medicine. Deftly integrating social and intellectual perspectives, Warner explores a crucial shift in medical history, when physicians no longer took for granted such established therapies as bloodletting, alcohol, and opium and began to question the sources and character of their therapeutic knowledge.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1986.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-344) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0691012091
- OCLC:
- 37533910
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