Explaining epidemics and other studies in the history of medicine Charles E. Rosenberg

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenberg, Charles E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epidemiology--History--19th century.

Epidemiology.

Delivery of Health Care--history--collected works.

Disease Outbreaks--history--collected works.

Socioeconomic Factors--collected works.

Medicine--History--19th century.

Medicine.

Medical Subjects:

Delivery of Health Care--history--collected works.

Disease Outbreaks--history--collected works.

Socioeconomic Factors--collected works.

Physical Description:

x, 357 p. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1992.

Contents:

(cont) What is an epidemic? AIDS in historical perspective

Explaining epidemics

Framing disease: illness, society, and history

Looking backward, thinking forward: the roots of hospital crisis.

The therapeutic revolution: medicine, meaning, and social change in nineteenth-century America

Medical text and social context: explaining William Buchan's Domestic medicine

John Gunn: everyman's physician

Body and mind in nineteenth-century medicine: some clinical origins of the neurosis construct

Florence Nightingale on contagion: the hospital as moral universe

Cholera in nineteenth-century Europe: a tool for social and economic analysis

The practice of medicine in New York a century ago

Social class and medical care in nineteenth-century America: the rise and fall of the dispensary

From almshouse to hospital: the shaping of Philadelphia General Hospital

Making it in urban medicine: a career in the age of scientific medicine

The crisis in psychiatric legitimacy: reflections on psychiatry, medicine, and public policy

Disease and social order in America: perceptions and expectations.

Notes:

Consists of Prof. Rosenberg's essays reprinted from various sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives

ISBN:

0521395690 (pbk.)

052139340X (hardback)

OCLC:

25026119