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The Therapeutic revolution : essays in the social history of American medicine / edited by Morris J. Vogel, Charles E. Rosenberg.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--United States--History--Congresses.
- Medicine.
- United States.
- History.
- Social medicine--United States--History--Congresses.
- Social medicine.
- Therapeutics--United States--History--Congresses.
- Therapeutics.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B., (former owner) (Adams copy)
- Adams, Mark B., (autograph) (Adams copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Morris J. Vogel
- The therapeutic revolution : medicine, meaning, and social change in nineteenth-century America / Charles E. Rosenbert
- Medical reform and biomedical science : biochemistry
- a case study / Robert E. Kohler
- Divided we stand : physiologists and clinicians in the American context / Gerald L. Geison
- "Physician versus bacteriologist" : the ideology of science in clinical medicine / Russell C. Maulitz
- Doctors, birth control, and social values : 1830-1970 / James Reed
- Rediscovering asylums : the unhistorical history of the mental hospital / Gerald N. Grob
- Machine politics and medical care : the city hospital at the turn of the century / Morris J. Vogel
- The third party : health insurance in America / Ronald L. Numbers
- Isabel Hampton and the professionalization of nursing in the 1890s / Janet Wilson James
- The sociocultural impact of twentieth-century therapeutics / Edmund D. Pellegrino.
- Notes:
- Copyright ©1979 by the University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc."--verso of title page
- "Most of the essays in this volume were presented, in preliminary form, to a conference on the history of medicine sponsored by Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania. held in December 1976"--verso of title page.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-268).
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries Rare copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.
- Penn Libraries Rare copy has dust jacket.
- ISBN:
- 0812277732
- OCLC:
- 5286547
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