An Informal History Of American Medicine From The Colonial Era Through The 20th Century

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An Informal History of American Medicine from the Colonial Era through the 20th Century

Author : Curtis E. Margo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527504611
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book An Informal History of American Medicine from the Colonial Era through the 20th Century written by Curtis E. Margo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-26 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American medicine defies simple characterization. Its history is filled with as much triumph as controversy, which may explain why the delivery of health care in America is described as both the best and the worst of any industrialized country in the world. This book examines the convoluted course of medical practice in America from its roots in rural colonial society to the end of the 20th century. This story is chronicled through narratives of major events, famous individuals, and professional organizations and institutions. Unlike most historical treatises on medicine, the stories in this book evenly explore accomplishment and misadventure. In many ways, mishap and calamity have done more to steer American medicine to its current position than the exploitation of science and technology. The diversity of medical practice from the conflict over smallpox inoculation and the building of the Mayo Clinic to the disgrace of the Tuskegee affair are brough to life in 26 chapters. These narratives also place in perspective the conflicting tenets of American medicine: humanitarianism and commercialism.

Health Care in America

Author : John C. Burnham
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421416093
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Health Care in America written by John C. Burnham and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of sickness, health, and medicine in America from Colonial times to the present. In Health Care in America, historian John C. Burnham describes changes over four centuries of medicine and public health in America. Beginning with seventeenth-century concerns over personal and neighborhood illnesses, Burnham concludes with the arrival of a new epoch in American medicine and health care at the turn of the twenty-first century. From the 1600s through the 1990s, Americans turned to a variety of healers, practices, and institutions in their efforts to prevent and survive epidemics of smallpox, yellow fever, cholera, influenza, polio, and AIDS. Health care workers in all periods attended births and deaths and cared for people who had injuries, disabilities, and chronic diseases. Drawing on primary sources, classic scholarship, and a vast body of recent literature in the history of medicine and public health, Burnham finds that traditional healing, care, and medicine dominated the United States until the late nineteenth century, when antiseptic/aseptic surgery and germ theory initiated an intellectual, social, and technical transformation. He divides the age of modern medicine into several eras: physiological medicine (1910s–1930s), antibiotics (1930s–1950s), technology (1950s–1960s), environmental medicine (1970s–1980s), and, beginning around 1990, genetic medicine. The cumulating developments in each era led to today's radically altered doctor-patient relationship and the insistent questions that swirl around the financial cost of health care. Burnham's sweeping narrative makes sense of medical practice, medical research, and human frailties and foibles, opening the door to a new understanding of our current concerns.

Medicine in America

Author : James H. Cassedy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Medicine in America written by James H. Cassedy and published by . This book was released on 1991-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 L. Numbers, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

A History of American Medicine from the Colonial Period to the Early Twentieth Century

Author : Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis A History of American Medicine from the Colonial Period to the Early Twentieth Century by : Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra

Download or read book A History of American Medicine from the Colonial Period to the Early Twentieth Century written by Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the establishment of the first medical school in British-ruled America in 1765, Toledo-Pereyra (surgery, Michigan State U.; Borgess Research Institute, Kalamazoo) asserts that medical education in the states was not up to the task of adequately preparing physicians until the end of the 19th century. In this medical history for college and medical students, he traces American healthcare from early settlers' encounter with Native Indian medicine to the advances marking the modern era. Illustrations feature early hospitals, the first woman to receive a MD from an American medical school (Elizabeth Blackwell), a pioneering African-American surgeon/educator (Daniel Hale Williams), other pioneers in the field, and early medical procedures. -- ‡c From publisher's description.

Health and Wellness in Colonial America

Author : Rebecca Tannenbaum Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313384916
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Book Synopsis Health and Wellness in Colonial America by : Rebecca Tannenbaum Ph.D.

Download or read book Health and Wellness in Colonial America written by Rebecca Tannenbaum Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a broad introduction to medical practices among Anglo-Americans, Native Americans, and African Americans during the colonial period, covering everything from dentistry to childcare practices to witchcraft. It is ideal for college or advanced high school courses in early American history, the history of medicine, or general social history. Health and Wellness in Colonial America covers all aspects of medicine from surgery to the role of religion in healing, giving readers a comprehensive overall picture of medical practices from 1600 to 1800—a topic that speaks volumes about the living conditions during that period. In this book, an introductory chapter describes the ways in which all three cultures in colonial America—European, African, and Native American—thought about medicine. The work covers academic and scientific medicine as well as folk practices, women's role in healing, and the traditions of Native Americans and African Americans. Because of its broad scope, the book will be highly useful to advanced high school students; undergraduate students in various areas of studies, such as early American history, women's history, and history of medicine; and general readers interested in the history of medicine.

Health and Wellness in Colonial America

Author : Rebecca Tannenbaum Ph.D.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Health and Wellness in Colonial America written by Rebecca Tannenbaum Ph.D. and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a broad introduction to medical practices among Anglo-Americans, Native Americans, and African Americans during the colonial period, covering everything from dentistry to childcare practices to witchcraft. It is ideal for college or advanced high school courses in early American history, the history of medicine, or general social history. Health and Wellness in Colonial America covers all aspects of medicine from surgery to the role of religion in healing, giving readers a comprehensive overall picture of medical practices from 1600 to 1800--a topic that speaks volumes about the living conditions during that period. In this book, an introductory chapter describes the ways in which all three cultures in colonial America--European, African, and Native American--thought about medicine. The work covers academic and scientific medicine as well as folk practices, women's role in healing, and the traditions of Native Americans and African Americans. Because of its broad scope, the book will be highly useful to advanced high school students; undergraduate students in various areas of studies, such as early American history, women's history, and history of medicine; and general readers interested in the history of medicine.

Seeking the Cure

Author : Ira Rutkow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439171734
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Seeking the Cure written by Ira Rutkow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely, authoritative, and entertaining history of medicine in America by an eminent physician Despite all that has been written and said about American medicine, narrative accounts of its history are uncommon. Until Ira Rutkow’s Seeking the Cure, there have been no modern works, either for the lay reader or the physician, that convey the extraordinary story of medicine in the United States. Yet for more than three centuries, the flowering of medicine—its triumphal progress from ignorance to science—has proven crucial to Americans’ under-standing of their country and themselves. Seeking the Cure tells the tale of American medicine with a series of little-known anecdotes that bring to life the grand and unceasing struggle by physicians to shed unsound, if venerated, beliefs and practices and adopt new medicines and treatments, often in the face of controversy and scorn. Rutkow expertly weaves the stories of individual doctors—what they believed and how they practiced—with the economic, political, and social issues facing the nation. Among the book’s many historical personages are Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington (whose timely adoption of a controversial medical practice probably saved the Continental Army), Benjamin Rush, James Garfield (who was killed by his doctors, not by an assassin’s bullet), and Joseph Lister. The book touches such diverse topics as smallpox and the Revolutionary War, the establishment of the first medical schools, medicine during the Civil War, railroad medicine and the beginnings of specialization, the rise of the medical-industrial complex, and the thrilling yet costly advent of modern disease-curing technologies utterly unimaginable a generation ago, such as gene therapies, body scanners, and robotic surgeries. In our time of spirited national debate over the future of American health care amid a seemingly infinite flow of new medical discoveries and pharmaceutical products, Rutkow’s account provides readers with an essential historic, social, and even philosophical context. Working in the grand American literary tradition established by such eminent writer-doctors as Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Carlos Williams, Sherwin Nuland, and Oliver Sacks, he combines the historian’s perspective with the physician’s seasoned expertise. Capacious, learned, and gracefully told, Seeking the Cure will satisfy armchair historians and doctors alike, for, as Rutkow shows, the history of American medicine is a portrait of America itself.

Race and Medicine in Nineteenth- and Early-twentieth-century America

Author : Todd Lee Savitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Race and Medicine in Nineteenth- and Early-twentieth-century America written by Todd Lee Savitt and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the days of slavery in America, racism and often-faulty medical theories contributed to an atmosphere in which African Americans were seen as chattel: some white physicians claimed that African Americans had physiological and anatomical differences that made them well suited for slavery. These attitudes continued into the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras. In Race and Medicine, historian Todd Savitt presents revised and updated versions of his seminal essays on the medical history of African Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially in the South. This collection examines a variety of aspects of African American medical history, including health and illnesses, medical experimentation, early medical schools and medical professionals, and slave life insurance. Savitt examines the history of sickle-cell anemia and identifies the first two patients with the disease noted in medical literature. He proposes an explanation of why the disease was not well known in the general African American population for at least 50 years after its discovery. Charleston Low Country and not elsewhere in the country. Other topics Savitt explores include African American medical schools, the formation of an African American medical profession, and SIDS among Virginia slaves. With its new research data and interpretations of existing materials, Race and Medicine will be a valuable resource to those interested in the history of medicine and African American history as well as to the medical community.

Medicine in Colonial America

Author : Oscar Reiss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Medicine in Colonial America written by Oscar Reiss and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Medicine in Colonial America, Oscar Reiss recognizes the theories and practices exercised by colonial physicians, and illustrates the gradual evolution of Dark Age medical ignorance to the beginnings of modern-day enlightenment. Reiss identifies the various levels of training for physicians from extensive schooling at respected universities to the informal instruction of mountebanks and quacks. He illustrates the numerous, unorthodox methods including bleeding, vomiting, purging, and cupping, used by both charlatans and educated practitioners alike to treat disease, and weighs the quality of colonial life against the available medical knowledge of the day. Reiss discusses the early attempts to license physicians, competitive pricing of medical service, colonial surgery and early autopsies, and cites important medical breakthroughs and theories. An interesting and informative read, Medicine in Colonial America will be of great value to physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and dentists as well as historians.

Disease, Medicine and Empire

Author : Roy Macleod
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000566153
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Disease, Medicine and Empire written by Roy Macleod and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1988, the essays in this book focus primarily on colonial medicine in the British Empire but comparative material on the experience of France and Germany is also included. The authors show how medicine served as an instrument of empire, as well as constituting an imperializing cultural force in itself, reflecting in different contexts, the objectives of European expansion – whether to conquer, to occupy or to settle. With chapters from a distinguished array of social and medical historians, colonial medicine is examined in its topical, regional and professional diversity. Ranging from tropical to temperate regions, from 18th Century colonial America to 20th Century South Africa, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of the influence of European medicine on imperial history.

Medicine and Society in America, 1660-1860

Author : Richard Harrison Shryock
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801490934
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Medicine and Society in America, 1660-1860 written by Richard Harrison Shryock and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1960 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1960, Richard Harrison Shryock's Medicine and Society in America: 1660-1860 remains a sweeping and informative introduction to the practice of medicine, the education of physicians, the understanding of health and disease, and the professionalization of medicine in the Colonial Era and the period of the Early Republic. Shryock details such developments as the founding of the first medical school in America (at the College of Philadelphia in 1765); the introduction of inoculation against smallpox in Boston in 1721; the creation of the Marine Hospital Service in 1799, under which all merchant marines were required to take out health insurance; and the state of medical knowledge on the eve of the Civil War.

Women and Health in America

Author : Judith Walzer Leavitt
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299159641
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Women and Health in America written by Judith Walzer Leavitt and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organised chronologically and then by topic, this volume covers studies of women and health in the colonial and revolutionary periods through the Civil War. The remainder of the book focuses on the late 19th and 20th centuries.

Sickness and Health in America

Author : Judith Walzer Leavitt
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299153243
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Sickness and Health in America written by Judith Walzer Leavitt and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adds 21 new essays and drops some that appeared in the 1984 edition (first in 1978) to reflect recent scholarship and changes in orientation by historians. Adds entirely new clusters on sickness and health, early American medicine, therapeutics, the art of medicine, and public health and personal hygiene. Other discussions are updated to reflect such phenomena as the growing mortality from HIV, homicide, and suicide. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

History of Medicine in the United States; 2

Author : Francis R (Francis Randolph) Packard
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781022883291
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book History of Medicine in the United States; 2 written by Francis R (Francis Randolph) Packard and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive history of medicine in the United States, covering its evolution from colonial times to the present day. With a focus on key figures and milestones in the development of modern medicine, this is an essential read for anyone interested in the history of healthcare in America. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Early History of Medicine in Philadelphia

Author : George Washington Norris
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019494042
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Early History of Medicine in Philadelphia written by George Washington Norris and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive look at the early history of medicine in Philadelphia, one of the most important cities in the United States during the colonial era. Norris covers a range of topics, including the rise of medical education, the establishment of hospitals, and the role of physicians in shaping medical practice in the city. The book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of medicine in the United States. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Colonial American Medicine

Author : Susan Neiburg Terkel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780531125397
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Colonial American Medicine written by Susan Neiburg Terkel and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the health risks in the American colonies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and looks at the questionable, and even dangerous, treatments and remedies available at the time.

American Medical Biography

Author : James Thacher
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019610879
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book American Medical Biography written by James Thacher and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book provides a comprehensive history of medicine in America, from the earliest days of colonial settlement to the modern era. Including detailed biographies of some of the most important and influential physicians in the country's history, this volume is an essential resource for anyone interested in the development of medical science in America. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.