Explaining epidemics and other studies in the history of medicine / Charles E. Rosenberg.

Author/creator Rosenberg, Charles E.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©1992.
Descriptionx, 357 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Medicine--History. --19th century.
Epidemiology--History. --19th century.
Delivery of Health Care--history. --Collected Works.
Disease Outbreaks--history. --Collected Works.
Socioeconomic Factors--Collected Works.
History of Medicine.

Contents The therapeutic revolution: medicine, meaning, and social change in nineteenth-century America -- Medical text and social context: explaining William Buchan's Domestic Medicine -- John Gunn: everyman's physician -- Body and mind in nineteenth-century medicine: some clinical origins of the neurosis construct -- Florence Nightingale on contagion: the hospital as moral universe -- Cholera in nineteenth-century Europe: a tool for social and economic analysis -- The practice of medicine in New York a century ago -- Social class and medical care in nineteenth-century America: the rise and fall of the dispensary -- From almshouse to hospital: the shaping of Philadelphia General Hospital -- Making it in urban medicine: a career in the age of scientific medicine -- The crisis in psychiatric legitimacy: reflections on psychiatry, medicine, and public policy -- Disease and social order in America: perceptions and expectations.
Contents (cont) What is an epidemic? AIDS in historical perspective -- Explaining epidemics -- Framing disease: illness, society, and history -- Looking backward, thinking forward: the roots of hospital crisis.
General note"Consists largely of Prof. Rosenberg's essays reprinted from various sources."--T.p. verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Acquisitions source Laupus- Robert W. Cihak History of Medicine Collection
LCCN 91046538
ISBN0521395690
ISBN9780521395694