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 movements, newly imported European method, and
the products of laboratory science on medical ideology and
action.
Originally published in 1997.
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General
Imprint: |
Princeton University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Princeton Legacy Library |
Release date: |
July 2014 |
First published: |
July 2014 |
Authors: |
John Harley Warner
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
386 |
Edition: |
Revised edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-691-60604-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Medicine >
General issues >
History of medicine
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LSN: |
0-691-60604-8 |
Barcode: |
9780691606040 |
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