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Divide and conquer : a comparative history of medical specialization / George Weisz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weisz, George, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Specialties and specialists--History.
- Medicine.
- Medicine--history--Europe.
- Medicine--history--United States.
- Government Regulation--history--Europe.
- Government Regulation--history--United States.
- History, 19th Century--Europe.
- History, 19th Century--United States.
- History, 20th Century--Europe.
- History, 20th Century--United States.
- Specialization--history--Europe.
- Specialization--history--United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Medicine--history--Europe.
- Medicine--history--United States.
- Government Regulation--history--Europe.
- Government Regulation--history--United States.
- History, 19th Century--Europe.
- History, 19th Century--United States.
- History, 20th Century--Europe.
- History, 20th Century--United States.
- Specialization--history--Europe.
- Specialization--history--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxx, 359 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Based on research in three languages, this text traces the origins of modern medical specialization to 1830s Paris & examines the spread of the concept to Germany, Great Britain and the U.S., showing how it evolved from an outgrowth of academic teaching & research into the dominant mode of medical practice.
- Contents:
- The rise of specialties in early nineteenth-century Paris
- Specialization and its opponents in London
- Specialization in the German-speaking world
- The rise of American specialties
- Regulating specialists in national medical directories
- Regulating specialists in Germany
- Regulating specialists the American way
- The French style of regulating specialists
- Regulating specialists in the British manner
- From divisions of medicine to specialties
- Separating, combining and competing.
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2005.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780190292638
- 0190292636
- 9780197706381
- 019770638X
- 9781280428470
- 1280428473
- 9780199749102
- 0199749108
- 9781602565494
- 160256549X
- OCLC:
- 62332901
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