Medicine and Society in America, 1660-1860
Title | Medicine and Society in America, 1660-1860 PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Harrison Shryock |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | 198 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9780801490934 |
First published in 1960, Richard Harrison Shryock's Medicine and Society in America: 1660-1860 remains a sweeping and informative introduction to the practice of medicine, the education of physicians, the understanding of health and disease, and the professionalization of medicine in the Colonial Era and the period of the Early Republic. Shryock details such developments as the founding of the first medical school in America (at the College of Philadelphia in 1765); the introduction of inoculation against smallpox in Boston in 1721; the creation of the Marine Hospital Service in 1799, under which all merchant marines were required to take out health insurance; and the state of medical knowledge on the eve of the Civil War.
Medicine and Society in America, 1660-1860. By Richard Harrison Shryock
Title | Medicine and Society in America, 1660-1860. By Richard Harrison Shryock PDF eBook |
Author | Richard H. Shryock |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 182 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Medicine and Society in America: 1600-1860
Title | Medicine and Society in America: 1600-1860 PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Harrison Shryock |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | Medicine |
ISBN |
Medicine and Society in Ame[Cca, 1660-1860
Title | Medicine and Society in Ame[Cca, 1660-1860 PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Harrison Shryock |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 182 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Medicine |
ISBN |
Medicine and Society in America 1660-1880
Title | Medicine and Society in America 1660-1880 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 182 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Medicine and Society in America, 1680-1860
Title | Medicine and Society in America, 1680-1860 PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Harrison Shryock |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 182 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Medicine |
ISBN |
The Social Transformation of American Medicine
Title | The Social Transformation of American Medicine PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Starr |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 532 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780465079353 |
Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries. "The definitive social history of the medical profession in America....A monumental achievement."—H. Jack Geiger, M.D., New York Times Book Review