Health care in America a history

Health and disease in a land new to EuropeansTraditional treatment and traditional healers -- The beginnings of change in traditional health care -- Setting the stage for modern medicine and health : the 1850s to the 1880s -- The 1880s to the 1910s: the age of surgery and germ theory -- Physiologica...

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1. Verfasser: Burnham, John C. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins University Press 2015
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Zusammenfassung:Health and disease in a land new to EuropeansTraditional treatment and traditional healers -- The beginnings of change in traditional health care -- Setting the stage for modern medicine and health : the 1850s to the 1880s -- The 1880s to the 1910s: the age of surgery and germ theory -- Physiological medicine, 1910s-1930s -- Physicians, public health, and progressivism -- The era of antibiotics, 1930s-1950s -- The age of technological medicine, 1940s-1960s -- Doctors, patients, medical institutions, and society in the age of technological medicine -- Medicine in the environmental era, 1960s-1980s -- Environmental-era health care in a hostile social climate -- The era of genetic medicine: the late 1980s and after -- Conclusion : the recent past as a new epoch.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xiv, 596 Seiten
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ISBN:1421416085
1-4214-1608-5
1421416077
1-4214-1607-7
9781421416083
978-1-4214-1608-3
9781421416076
978-1-4214-1607-6