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Health care in America : a history
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- Summary
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This comprehensive history of medicine and public health in America covers changes and developments over four centuries, from the arrival of the first Europeans to the twenty-first century.
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- Creator
- John C. Burnham
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 596 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781421416076, 1421416077, 9781421416083, 1421416085, 9781421416090, 1421416093
- OCLC
- ocn879642536
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Text in English.
- 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
Subjects
- Public health -- United States -- History.
- Medical care -- United States -- History.
- Delivery of Health Care -- history.
Medical Subject Heading
- History, Modern 1601-
Medical Subject Heading
- United States.
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