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The Oxford handbook of American medical history / edited by James A. Schafer, Jr., Richard Mizelle, Jr., H.K. Quinn Valier
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--United States--History.
- Medicine.
- Public health--United States--History.
- Public health.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Other Title:
- American medical history
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2026]
- Summary:
- "The Oxford Handbook of American Medical History examines the social, political, and economic history of medicine as it has been practiced in the United States from the colonial period to the present day. The volume consists of original chapters, written by thirty-nine scholars, that explain the causes and effects of major changes in American medicine and the larger historical context in which American medicine has developed. The Handbook provides both a composite overview for readers new to the history of American medicine, as well as robust historiographical analysis for scholars preparing undergraduate lectures, teaching graduate seminars, and conducting background research. Chapters include recommendations for further reading to guide readers who are interested in learning more about topics covered in the Handbook. There are four sections: the first analyzes how patterns of life and death have changed over time and the factors that influence morbidity, mortality, and health disparities; the second assesses the ever-changing medical marketplace, how health care has been monetized, and the effects of the business of medicine on medical careers and patient care; the third evaluates the establishment of medical institutions and the ways in which institutions reinforce pre-existing power structures in American society; and the fourth section studies how medical knowledge is created and whose interests are served by medical research"-- Oxford Academic
- Contents:
- Life and death in the English colonies, 1585-1776 / Thomas J. Humphrey
- The politics of epidemics and public health, 1721-1800 / Simon Finger
- Public health challenges : Urban growth, industrialization, and sanitation in the nineteenth century / Melanie A. Kiechle
- The mortality transition, 1850-1930 / Gretchen Condran
- Environmental health / Frederick Rowe Davis
- The politics of health care disparities, 1965-present / Richard M. Mizelle
- The return of infectious and contagious disease, 1981-present / Powel Kazanjian
- The medical marketplace in colonial America / Mark A. Goldberg
- Medical heterodoxy and the market revolution of the nineteenth century / David G. Schuster
- The professionalization of American physicians, revisited / James A. Schafer
- The rise of health insurance, 1910s-1960s / Jonathan Engel
- Navigating post-World War II health care : Health professionals other than physicians / Julie A. Fairman
- Specialization and technology in the twentieth century / Joel D. Howell
- Health care activism in the 1960s and 1970s / Wendy Kline
- Jim Crow medicine and the elusive pursuit of universal health care / David Barton Smith
- Health care, Inc., 1973-present / Gregory B. Kruse and others
- Slavery and medicine / Elise A. Mitchell
- American medical ethics and jurisprudence, 1665-1957 / Robert Baker
- The modern hospital and consumerism / H. K. Quinn Valier
- Promise, peril, and the contested history of defending America’s borders from disease and destitution / Caitlin E. McMahon and Amy L. Fairchild
- Health and modern warfare : The Civil War through the early Cold War / Jessica L. Adler
- The pharmaceutical industry and drug regulation, 1906-1997 / Jay Stone and Keith Wailoo
- The health effects of segregation in the United States, 1880-1950 / Samuel Kelton Roberts
- Biomedical research ethics : From Tuskegee to Institutional Review Boards / Jason E. Glenn
- Immigration and health care, 1924-present / Natalie Lira
- The scientific construction of race in early America / Christopher D. E. Willoughby
- Science, research, and therapeutic change : Chloroform and the American Civil War / Shauna Devine
- Gender boundaries in nineteenth-century medicine / Rebecca J. Tannenbaum
- Germ theories and the laboratory revolution / Helen Bynum
- Eugenics, 1883-present / Michael Yudell
- Controlled clinical trials and evidence-based medicine / Laura E. Bothwell and Scott H. Podolsky
- Medicalization and the making of the modern patient / Nancy Tomes
- Gender and sexuality in biomedical research and clinical practice, 1948-present / Sandra Eder
- The resurgence of racial science : From The Bell Curve to BiDil / Dorothy E. Roberts
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed September 17, 2026)
- Other Format:
- Print version: Oxford handbook of American medical history
- ISBN:
- 9780190645083
- 0190645083
- 9780197683118
- 0197683118
- 9780190645076
- 0190645075
- OCLC:
- 1596274058
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000406364
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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