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Caring for the Heart - Mayo Clinic and the Rise of Specialization (Hardcover)
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Caring for the Heart - Mayo Clinic and the Rise of Specialization (Hardcover)
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This groundbreaking book weaves together three important themes. It
describes major developments in the diagnosis and treatment of
heart disease in the twentieth century, explains how the Mayo
Clinic evolved from a family practice in Minnesota into one of the
world's leading medical centers, and reveals how the invention of
new technologies and procedures promoted specialization among
physicians and surgeons. Caring for the Heart is written for
general readers as well as health care professionals, historians,
and policy analysts. Unlike traditional institutional or
disease-focused histories, this book places individuals and events
in national and international contexts that emphasize the interplay
of medical, scientific, technological, social, political, and
economic forces that have resulted in contemporary heart care.
Patient stories and media perspectives are included throughout to
help general readers understand the medical and technological
developments that are described. The book is a synthetic study, but
it is written so that readers may pick and choose the chapters of
most interest to them. Another feature of the book is that readers
may follow the stories without looking at the notes. Those who are
interested in delving deeper into the main topics will find a
wealth of carefully chosen references that offer greater detail and
additional perspectives. The descriptions and interpretations that
fill the book benefit from the fact that the author has been a
practicing cardiologist and medical historian for almost four
decades. This is mainly a twentieth-century story, but it begins
earlier-before physicians who were identified as cardiologists, a
time when medical specialization was just emerging in America. The
final chapter, which addresses present-day concerns about health
care costs, counterbalances earlier ones that might be read as
celebrations of new technologies.
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