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Exploring American Healthcare through 50 Historic Treasures (Hardcover)
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Exploring American Healthcare through 50 Historic Treasures (Hardcover)
Series: AASLH Exploring America's Historic Treasures
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Healthcare history is more than leeches and drilling holes in
skulls. It is stories of scientific failures and triumphs.
Exploring American Healthcare History through 50 Historic Treasures
presents a visual and narrative history of health and medicine in
the United States, tracing paradigm shifts such as the introduction
of anesthesia, the adoption of germ theory, and advances in public
health. The book provides windows into ordinary people’s
experiences with different schools of thought about treatment, from
patent medicines and faith healing to hospital-based clinical
trials. Exploring American Healthcare History showcases
little-known objects that illustrate the complexities of our
relationship with health, like a set of teeth from a small town in
Arkansas where the link between fluoride and dental health was
first discovered. It also highlights famous moments in medicine,
such as the discovery of penicillin, and puts them into social and
cultural context. Exploring American Healthcare History through 50
Historic Treasures will discuss concepts that are key to history
curricula and to using history as a lens to understand society. The
concepts include healthcare’s intersection with race, law, and
changing cultural attitudes in a society shaped by science,
religion, and economic forces. The choice of “healthcare” as
the focus reflects the fact that the book encompasses conventional
medicine, surgery, nursing, alternative medicines, and public
health. The book discusses some areas of healthcare history in
which practitioners were led by bias or greed rather than evidence.
Some patent medicines, for example, lived up to their reputation as
get-rich-quick schemes for their inventors. A few of the historic
artifacts in the book, such as eugenics medals awarded to families
with “good” genes, are treasures in the sense that they are a
vital connection to shameful episodes in our past. The book
explores artifacts and historic sites as individual things or
places with their own stories, and as objects and sites
representative of larger trends. This full-color book with over 50
photographs of artifacts like a beer advertised as harnessing the
health-giving power of the sun show how the advancing science of
health touched people’s everyday lives as well as their doctor
visits. Patent medicines and machines highlight ways that people
avoided or reacted to mainstream medicine, like faith healing,
commercial nostrums, and alternative medicine. Thermometers and
mold-culturing pans provide a tour of developments such as
professional nursing and the “miracle drug” penicillin, while
offering insight into epidemics from tuberculosis, plague, and the
1918 flu to HIV and opioid misuse. Historical caregivers featured
include Pedro Jaramillo, a Mexican-American curandero, Dr. Susan
LaFlesche Picotte, a trailblazing Omaha medical doctor, and Mattie
Donnell Hicks, a Black nurse who served with both segregated and
integrated units in the Army Corps of Nurses. This book describes
the days when surgeons worked on patients without anesthesia and
wiped their scalpels on their coats, and the day that EMTs raced to
provide help when the Twin Towers were attacked in 2001, providing
insight relevant to today’s problems and colorful anecdotes along
the way.
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