The Therapeutic Revolution
eBook - PDF

The Therapeutic Revolution

Essays in the Social History of American Medicine

  1. 284 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Therapeutic Revolution

Essays in the Social History of American Medicine

About this book

This book is not about one glorious triumph after another, nor is it a series of complaints about doctors and hospitals. Rather, these essays examine American medicine within its context, sensitive to the role of medical knowledge, practitioners, and institutions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The selections not only cover general considerations of the social and cultural context in which American medicine developed but also analyze the relationship between science and medicine, the development of mental hospitals, nursing, and health insurance.

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Yes, you can access The Therapeutic Revolution by Morris J. Vogel, Charles E. Rosenberg, Morris J. Vogel,Charles E. Rosenberg in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Medical Theory, Practice & Reference. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. 1. The Therapeutic Revolution: Medicine, Meaning, and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America
  4. 2. Medical Reform and Biomedical Science: Biochemistry–a Case Study
  5. 3. Divided We Stand: Physiologists and Clinicians in the American Context
  6. 4. “Physician versus Bacteriologist”: The Ideology of Science in Clinical Medicine
  7. 5. Doctors, Birth Control, and Social Values: 1830–1970
  8. 6. Rediscovering Asylums: The Unhistorical History of the Mental Hospital
  9. 7. Machine Politics and Medical Care: The City Hospital at the Turn of the Century
  10. 8. The Third Party: Health Insurance in America
  11. 9. Isabel Hampton and the Professionalization of Nursing in the 1890s
  12. 10. The Sociocultural Impact of Twentieth-Century Therapeutics
  13. Suggestions for Further Reading
  14. Contributors