| Description |
275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Pain, parturition, and the profession : twilight sleep in America / Lawrence G. Miller -- Social meaning of personal health : the Ladies' Physiological Institute of Boston and Vicinity in the 1850s / Martha H. Verbrugge -- Loomis trial : social mores and obstetrics in the mid-nineteenth century / Virginia G. Drachman -- Politics and public health : smallpox in Milwaukee 1894-1895 / Judith Walzer Leavitt -- Transformation of the American hospital 1850-1920 / Morris J. Vogel -- Business at the bedside : health care in Brooklyn 1890-1915 / David Rosner -- He who pays the piper : foundations, the medical profession, and medical education / E. Richard Brown -- Sustaining "the flickering flame of life" : accountability and culpability for death in ante-bellum Massachusetts asylums / Barbara G. Rosenkrantz & Maris A. Vinovskis -- Doctors in crisis : medical education and medical reform during the Progressive Era, 1895-1915 / Gerald E. Markowitz & David Rosner -- Search for the hospital yardstick : nursing and the rationalization of hospital work / Susan Reverby -- Organizing Montefiore : labor militancy meets a progressive health care empire / Leon Fink & Brian Greenberg -- Individual responsibility and health politics in the 1970s / Robert Crawford. |
| Subject |
Social medicine -- United States -- History.
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Social medicine. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Medical care -- United States -- History.
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Medical care. |
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Médecine sociale -- États-Unis -- Histoire. |
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Soins médicaux -- États-Unis -- Histoire. |
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Medical care. |
| Added Author |
Reverby, Susan M., 1946-
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Rosner, David, 1947-
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| ISBN |
0877221537 : $15.00 |
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9780877221531 |
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0877221715 (paperback) |
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9780877221715 (paperback) |
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