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Iowa pharmacy, 1880-1905 : an experiment in professionalism /

Popular culture remembers the settling of the Midwest as a golden era of unbounded opportunity, a time when every farm was a family farm and every farmer glowed with health. Pioneers in nineteenth-century Iowa, however, had to battle a formidable host of diseases during this golden era & mdash;m...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Anderson, Lee
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1989.
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: "The Physician's Cook" Pharmacy, Medical History, and the History of the Professions; Chapter 2: "All the Nostrum in the Country" Diseases, Doctors, and Druggists in Early Iowa; Chapter 3: "A True Temperance Reform Measure" Social Reform and the Professionalization of Pharmacy; Chapter 4: "Be Sure You Are Right" The Commission of Pharmacy and the Politics of Regulation; Chapter 5: "An Organization Enthusiastically Supported" The Iowa State Pharmaceutical Association and the Politics of Professionalism.