Health care in America : a history
Record details
- ISBN: 9781421416076
- ISBN: 1421416077
- ISBN: 9781421416083
- ISBN: 1421416085
- ISBN: 9781421416090
- ISBN: 1421416093
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Physical Description:
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xiv, 596 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm - Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Health and disease in a land new to Europeans -- Traditional treatment and traditional healers -- The beginnings of change in traditional health care -- Setting the stage for modern medicine and health : the 1850s to the 1880s -- The age of surgery and germ theory : 1880s to 1910s -- Physiological medicine, 1910s to 1930s -- Physicians, public health, and Progressivism -- The era of antibiotics, 1930s to 1950s -- The age of technological medicine, 1940s to 1960s -- Doctors, patients, medical institutions, and society in the age of technological medicine -- Medicine in the environmental era, 1960s to 1980s -- Environmental-era health care in a hostile social climate -- The era of genetic medicine : the late 1980s and after -- The recent past as a new epoch. |
Language Note: | Text in English. |
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Subject: | Public health United States History Medical care United States History Delivery of Health Care history |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | RA 445 .B87 2015 | 30775305546005 | General Collection | Available | - |