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The Therapeutic Perspective : Medical Practice, Knowledge, and Identity in America, 1820-1885 /

This new paperback edition makes available John Harley Warner's highly influential, revisionary history of nineteenth-century American medicine. Deftly integrating social and intellectual perspectives, Warner explores a crucial shift in medical history, when physicians no longer took for grante...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Warner, John Harley, 1953- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1997]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This new paperback edition makes available John Harley Warner's highly influential, revisionary history of nineteenth-century American medicine. Deftly integrating social and intellectual perspectives, Warner explores a crucial shift in medical history, when physicians no longer took for granted such established therapies as bloodletting, alcohol, and opium and began to question the sources and character of their therapeutic knowledge. He examines what this transformation meant in terms of patient care and assesses the impact of clinical research, educational reform, unorthodox medical move.
Notas:Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1986.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (380 pages): illustrations.
ISBN:9781400864638