Seeking the cure : a history of medicine in America / Ira Rutkow.

Author/creator Rutkow, Ira, 1948-
Format Book
Edition1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Scribner, 2010.
Descriptionx, 356 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents 1. Colonial medicine -- 2. Democratizaton of healing -- 3. Emergence of modern medicine -- 4. Consolidation of power -- 5. Scientific advancement -- 6. Professional authority -- 7. Challenges of success -- 8. Ascendancy -- 9. Supremacy -- 10. Transformation.
Abstract An entertaining and intelligent history of the development of medicine in America by an award-winning physician.
Local noteLaupus-WCP
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 311-345) and index.
Acquisitions source Laupus- E. Daniel Shingleton Public Health Collection
LCCN 2009049758
ISBN9781416538288 (hc.)
ISBN1416538283 (hc.)
ISBN9781416538417 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1416538410 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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