Research Catalog

Title

The Therapeutic revolution : essays in the social history of American medicine / edited by Morris J. Vogel, Charles E. Rosenberg.

Publication

[Philadelphia] : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Vogel, Morris J.
• Rosenberg, Charles E.

Description

xiii, 270 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Medicine > United States > History > Congresses
• Social medicine > United States > History > Congresses
• Therapeutics > United States > History > Congresses
• Medicine > History
• History of Medicine
• Social Medicine > history
• Therapeutics > history
• history of medicine
• Medicine
• Social medicine
• Therapeutics
• United States

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.
• Actes de congrès.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [267]-268.

Contents

Introduction / Morris J. Vogel -- The therapeutic revolution : medicine, meaning, and social change in nineteenth-century America / Charles E. Rosenbert -- Medical reform and biomedical science : biochemistry-- a case study / Robert E. Kohler -- Divided we stand : physiologists and clinicians in the American context / Gerald L. Geison -- "Physician versus bacteriologist" : the ideology of science in clinical medicine / Russell C. Maulitz -- Doctors, birth control, and social values : 1830-1970 / James Reed -- Rediscovering asylums : the unhistorical history of the mental hospital / Gerald N. Grob -- Machine politics and medical care : the city hospital at the turn of the century / Morris J. Vogel -- The third party : health insurance in America / Ronald L. Numbers -- Isabel Hampton and the professionalization of nursing in the 1890s / Janet Wilson James -- The sociocultural impact of twentieth-century therapeutics / Edmund D. Pellegrino.

ISBN

• 0812277732
• 9780812277739

LCCN

79005043

OCLC

• ocm05286547
• 5286547
• SCSB-7305

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library