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Health care in America : a history

Author

Burnham, John C. (John Chynoweth), 1929-2017 author.

Title

Health care in America : a history / John C. Burnham.

Format

Book

Published

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2015]

Description

xiv, 596 pages ; 24 cm

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 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 1880s to the 1910s: the age of surgery and germ theory
• Physiological medicine, 1910s-1930s
• Physicians, public health, and progressivism
• The era of antibiotics, 1930s-1950s
• The age of technological medicine, 1940s-1960s
• Doctors, patients, medical institutions, and society in the age of technological medicine
• Medicine in the environmental era, 1960s-1980s
• Environmental-era health care in a hostile social climate
• The era of genetic medicine: the late 1980s and after
• Conclusion : the recent past as a new epoch.

Subject headings

Public health--United States--History. Medical care--United States--History.

Medical subjects

Delivery of Health Care--United States--History. History, Modern 1601---United States.

ISBN

9781421416076 hardcover alkaline paper 1421416077 hardcover alkaline paper 9781421416083 paperback alkaline paper 1421416085 paperback alkaline paper 9781421416090 electronic book 1421416093 electronic book 1421416077 1421416085 1421416093