This account discusses the outbreak of medical malpractice litigation in the 1840s in America that disrupted professional relations, injured individual reputations, and burdened physicians with legal fees and damage awards.
''Well written, with a very useful bibliographical essay and index, this book can be recommended for medical and general readers alike.''--Guenter B. Risse, M.D., Ph.D., Journal of the American Medical Association.''The best brief history of health care in America since Richard H. Shryock's classic survey appeared over thirty years ago.''--Ronald ......
Sixty million Americans have relied at some point in their lives on osteopaths, chiropractors, folk or religious healers, naturopaths, homeopaths, and acupuncturists; millions more employ alternative psychological systems, unorthodox diet and fitness programs, and a range of self-help treatments. Yet until recently, most historians and social ......
The history of medicine has come to occupy a significant place in our understanding of modern society and the American cultural fabric. To fully understand and appreciate American medicine in the twentieth century one must contend with the twin processes of specialization and professionalization. Grand Rounds considers the critical period for ......
A classic study of medicine in antiquity, Ancient Medicine brings together much of Ludwig Edelstein's most important work on a subject that occupied him throughout a distinguished career. Included is his widely known translation of and commentary on the Hippocratic Oath, as well as his other writings on the oath which demonstrate how atypical it ......
On the Causes and Mode of Propagation of the Common Continued Fevers of Great Britain and Ireland
W. Goodall and Margaret Pelling, this book sets forth Williams Budd's thoughts on typhoid by reference to an unsuccessful essay he submitted for the Thackeray Prize in 1840.
The philosophical thought of John Locke, a physician by profession, was colored by Locke's medical outlook to a much greater degree than had ever been suspected. This book examines his medical writings and asks how Locke's own distinctive conception of human knowledge, traditionally classified under British empiricism, developed.
After the great pandemic of 1348, the plague became endemic in Europe, affecting life at every level for more than three hundred years. In attempting to fight the dread enemy, the North Italian states had developed, by the early sixteenth century, a highly sophisticated system of public health. Special permanent magistracies combining legislative ......
This book is not about one glorious triumph after another, nor is it a series of complaints about doctors and hospitals. Rather, these essays examine American medicine within its context, sensitive to the role of medical knowledge, practitioners, and institutions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The selections not only cover general ......
