From humors to medical science : a history of American medicine / John Duffy.

Author/creator Duffy, John
Format Book
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1993.
Descriptionxii, 418 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Beginnings of American medicine -- Eighteenth century -- Medical profession -- Medicine in the revolutionary years -- Early nineteenth-century medicine -- Irregulars and domestic medicine -- Foundations of American surgery -- Early leaders in medicine and surgery -- Education, licensing and status of physicians -- Medicine in the Civil War -- Emergence of modern medicine -- Flowering of surgery -- Medical education -- Medical profession organizes -- Advancing front of medicine -- Surgery and medical technology since World War I -- Medical education since the Flexner report -- Women in medicine -- Minorities in medicine -- Medical profession in the twentieth century -- Community's health -- Whither medicine?
Local noteLaupus-CDM copy is from Cihak collection.
General noteRev. and expanded ed. of: The healers. c1976.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 357-403) and index.
Acquisitions source Laupus- Robert W. Cihak History of Medicine Collection
Other titleHealers.
LCCN 92048760
ISBN0252017366 (cl : alk. paper)
ISBN0252063007 (pb : alk. paper)

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Laupus Books - Stacks WZ 70 AA1 D858H 1993 ✔ Available Place Hold
Laupus Country Doctor Museum - Does not circulate WZ 70 AA1 D858H 1993 CDM ✔ Available