Major Problems in the History of American Medicine and Public Health: Documents and EssaysJohn Harley Warner, Janet Ann Tighe This text presents a carefully selected group of readings on medical history and development that allow students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions. |
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... Medical schools , mostly proprietary ventures run by the faculty for profit , proliferated : twenty - six new ... American Medical Association ( AMA ) was founded , partly to promote educational reforms but chiefly to establish a unified ...
... Medical schools , mostly proprietary ventures run by the faculty for profit , proliferated : twenty - six new ... American Medical Association ( AMA ) was founded , partly to promote educational reforms but chiefly to establish a unified ...
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... American profession sharply divided over what should be the proper sources of medical authority and the best foundations for an authentic , socially relevant scientific medicine . The multiple meanings of scientific medicine were ...
... American profession sharply divided over what should be the proper sources of medical authority and the best foundations for an authentic , socially relevant scientific medicine . The multiple meanings of scientific medicine were ...
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... Medical Doctors : Science and Medicine at Vanderbilt Since Flexner ( 1987 ) . Robert E. Kohler , From Medical Chemistry to Biochemistry : The Making of a Biomedical Discipline ( 1982 ) . Kenneth M ... American Medicine and Public Health.
... Medical Doctors : Science and Medicine at Vanderbilt Since Flexner ( 1987 ) . Robert E. Kohler , From Medical Chemistry to Biochemistry : The Making of a Biomedical Discipline ( 1982 ) . Kenneth M ... American Medicine and Public Health.
Contents
Susan Reverby and David Rosner Medical Culture and Historical Practice | 3 |
Charles E Rosenberg Medicines Institutional History and Its Policy | 9 |
James T Patterson Disease in the History of Medicine and Public Health | 17 |
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