Licensed to Practice : The Supreme Court Defines the American Medical Profession /

"Licensed to Practice begins with an 1891 shooting in Wheeling, West Virginia, that left one doctor dead and another on trial for his life. Formerly close friends, the doctors had fallen out over the issue of medical licensing. Historian James C. Mohr calls the murder 'a sorry personal con...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mohr, James C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Lizenz
Arzt
Physicians > Licenses.
Medicine > Practice.
Medical laws and legislation.
Medecins > Permis, licences, etc. > États-Unis.
Medecine > Pratique > États-Unis.
Legislation as Topic
Delivery of Health Care > legislation & jurisprudence
Medical laws and legislation > United States.
Physicians > Licenses > United States.
Medicine > Practice > United States.
USA
United States.
United States
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Medical regulation in the United States through the Civil War
  • Dr. Reeves and the founding
  • Building the "True Church"
  • Challenges from within
  • Securing legislation
  • Exercising power
  • The dents confront the board
  • The West Virginia State Supreme Court
  • Conflict and enforcement
  • The United States Supreme Court
  • American medical practice after Dent.

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