Professionalizing medicine : James Reeves and the choices that shaped American health care

Harris, John M. (John Malcolm) 1948- (Author).

Summary: Prologue: One of the Best and Truest Men in the Profession -- The Age of Jackson Begins -- Medicine in the Age of Jackson -- Regular Medicine's Choice -- Becoming a Doctor -- A Disease of Perennial Interest -- Practice and Politics -- Duty, Honor, Country, Statehood -- Army Medicine and Public Health -- Medical Organizing -- His Lucid and Graceful Pen -- A Particularly Challenging Year -- The Moral High Ground -- Going It Alone -- Medical Licensure Becomes a Public Health Problem -- Reeves' Legislative Triumph -- The Eminent Domain of Sanitary Science -- Going South -- Koch's Rivals -- Professional Indifference to Professional Enemies.

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ISBN: 9781476676364
ISBN: 1476676364
ISBN: 9781476636221
Physical Description: print
vii, 236 pages ; 26 cm
Publisher: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]