Professionalizing medicine : James Reeves and the choices that shaped American health care /

"This biography of James Edmund Reeves illuminates landmarks of American health care: the troubled introduction of clinical epidemiology and development of botanic medicine and homeopathy, the Civil War's stimulation of sanitary science and hospital medicine, the rise of government involve...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harris, John M. (John Malcolm), 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]
Temas:
Reeves, James E. > (James Edmund), > 1829-1896 > Health.
Medicine > United States > Biography.
Medicine > United States > History > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Medical.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL > Atlases.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
Health.
Medicine.
United States.
Autobiography
Biography
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Prologue: One of the Best and Truest Men in the Profession; 1. The Age of Jackson Begins; 2. Medicine in the Age of Jackson; 3. Regular Medicine's Choice; 4. Becoming a Doctor; 5. A Disease of Perennial Interest; 6. Practice and Politics; 7. Duty, Honor, Country, Statehood; 8. Army Medicine and Public Health; 9. Medical Organizing; 10. His Lucid and Graceful Pen; 11. A Particularly Challenging Year; 12. The Moral High Ground; 13. Going It Alone; 14. Medical Licensure Becomes a Public Health Problem; 15. Reeves' Legislative Triumph
  • 16. The Eminent Domain of Sanitary Science17. Going South; 18. Koch's Rivals; 19. Professional Indifference to Professional Enemies; Epilogue: Medical Professionalism; Chapter Notes; Bibliography of Selected Sources; Index

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