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Author : John B. Abney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (282 download)
Download or read book On the Rise and Progress of Medicine and the Medical Profession written by John B. Abney and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Starr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780465079353
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (793 download)
Download or read book The Social Transformation of American Medicine written by Paul Starr and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries. "The definitive social history of the medical profession in America....A monumental achievement."—H. Jack Geiger, M.D., New York Times Book Review
Author : Paul Starr
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465093035
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Social Transformation of American Medicine written by Paul Starr and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A monumental achievement” (New York Times) and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of the American health care system. Considered the definitive history of the American health care system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries. How did the financially insecure medical profession of the nineteenth century become a prosperous one in the twentieth? Why was national health insurance blocked? And why are corporate institutions taking over our medical system today? Beginning in 1760 and coming up to the present day, renowned sociologist Paul Starr traces the decline of professional sovereignty in medicine, the political struggles over health care, and the rise of a corporate system. Updated with a new preface and an epilogue analyzing developments since the early 1980s, The Social Transformation of American Medicine is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of our fraught health care system.
Author : James Le Fanu
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780786709670
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine written by James Le Fanu and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2002-01-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following World War II, medicine won major battles against smallpox, diphtheria, and polio. In the same period it also produced treatments to control the progress of Parkinson's, rheumatoid arthritis, and schizophrenia. It made realities of open-heart surgery, organ transplants, test-tube babies. Unquestionably, the medical accomplishments of the postwar years stand at the forefront of human endeavor, yet progress in recent decades has slowed nearly to a halt. In this winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, medical doctor and columnist James Le Fanu both surveys the glories of medicine in the postwar years and analyzes the factors that for the past twenty-five years have increasingly widened the gulf between achievement and advancement: the social theories of medicine, ethical issues, and political debates over health care that have hobbled the development of vaccines and discovery of new "miracle" cures. While fully demonstrating the extraordinary progress effected by medical research in the latter half of the twentieth century, Le Fanu also identifies the perils that confront medicine in the twenty-first. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs add to what the Los Angeles Times cited as "a sobering, contrarian challenge" to the "nostrum of medicine as a never-ending font of ‘miracle cures'." "[From] a respected science writer ... important information that ... has been overlooked or ignored by many physicians." —New Republic "Provocative and engrossing and informative." —Houston Chronicle "Marvelously written, meticulously researched ... one of the most thought-provoking and important works to appear in recent years." —Choice
Author : Ira Rutkow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439171734
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
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.
Author : Johann Hermann Baas
Publisher : New York : Vail
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1186 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Outlines of the History of Medicine and the Medical Profession written by Johann Hermann Baas and published by New York : Vail. This book was released on 1889 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Joseph Walsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book History of Medicine in New York written by James Joseph Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309113695
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Evidence-Based Medicine and the Changing Nature of Health Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-09-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the work of the Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine, the 2007 IOM Annual Meeting assessed some of the rapidly occurring changes in health care related to new diagnostic and treatment tools, emerging genetic insights, the developments in information technology, and healthcare costs, and discussed the need for a stronger focus on evidence to ensure that the promise of scientific discovery and technological innovation is efficiently captured to provide the right care for the right patient at the right time. As new discoveries continue to expand the universe of medical interventions, treatments, and methods of care, the need for a more systematic approach to evidence development and application becomes increasingly critical. Without better information about the effectiveness of different treatment options, the resulting uncertainty can lead to the delivery of services that may be unnecessary, unproven, or even harmful. Improving the evidence-base for medicine holds great potential to increase the quality and efficiency of medical care. The Annual Meeting, held on October 8, 2007, brought together many of the nation's leading authorities on various aspects of the issues - both challenges and opportunities - to present their perspectives and engage in discussion with the IOM membership.
Author : Paul Starr
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780465079353
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (793 download)
Download or read book The Social Transformation of American Medicine written by Paul Starr and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1984-06-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries. "The definitive social history of the medical profession in America....A monumental achievement."—H. Jack Geiger, M.D., New York Times Book Review
Author : Johann Hermann Baas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1204 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Outlines of the history of medicine and the medical profession written by Johann Hermann Baas and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Duffy
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252063008
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)
Download or read book From Humors to Medical Science written by John Duffy and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Duffy's classic history, formerly titled The Healers, has been thoroughly revised and updated for this second edition, which includes new chapters on women and minorities in medicine and on the challenges currently facing the health care field. "This remains the only comprehensive history of American medicine. The treatment of the emergence of modern medicine and the flowering of surgery is especially fresh and well done. As one of the respected scholars in our profession, John Duffy has again demonstrated his wide knowledge of the subject." -- Thomas N. Brunner, author of To the Ends of the Earth: Women's Search for Education in Medicine
Author : Noel Parry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429684142
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book The Rise of the Medical Profession written by Noel Parry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1976 The Rise of the Medical Profession combines a sociological and historical approach to the rise of the medical profession in England. Sociologically it offers a theoretical framework which for the first time links the study of social mobility and professionalism with the theory of stratification. Historically, it examines the movement which led to the unification of the medical profession arising from effective social organisation among the surgeon-apothecaries in the early nineteenth century. It demonstrates that through the successful pursuit of the occupational strategy of professionalism the doctors have been able to raise their income and status in the community and to dominate the institutions and organisations of medical care. In their relationship with the state, they have been generally successful in securing a recognition of their privileged position. The future of the medical profession and of professionalism is discussed in the context of the changing balance between state power and that of free private occupation associations, whether of the type based on professionalism or unionism. The ideal-type conception of the middle class as essentially individualistic is challenged by the exploration of middle class collective action, particularly professionalism.
Author : Richard Harrison Shryock
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512818682
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The Development of Modern Medicine written by Richard Harrison Shryock and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relation of the progress of medical science to the social history of humanity. Starting with the seventeenth century, the author analyzes the defeats as well as the triumphs that medicine has gone through to reach its present usefulness.
Author : Rosemary Stevens
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520210097
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)
Download or read book American Medicine and the Public Interest written by Rosemary Stevens and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reissue offers an opportunity to consider the state of the American health care system. The text chronicles the development of the medical profession and shows how increasing emphasis on specialization has influenced medical education and public policy. It details specialization's effects on health care costs and on health care providers, as well as the implications of technology and the resulting ethical dilemmas, the issues of insurance, and many people's limited access to care.
Author : John William Willcock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Laws Relating to the Medical Profession written by John William Willcock and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521557917
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550-1860 written by Roy Porter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-14 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his short but authoritative study, Roy Porter examines the impact of disease upon the English and their responses to it before the widespread availability and public provision of medical care. Professor Porter incorporates into the revised second edition new perspectives offered by recent research into provincial medical history, the history of childbirth, and women's studies in the social history of medicine. He begins by sketching a picture of the threats posed by disease to population levels and social continuity from Tudor times to the Industrial Revolution, going on to consider the nature and development of the medical profession, attitudes to doctors and disease, and the growing commitment of the state to public health. Drawing together a wide range of often fragmentary material, and providing a detailed annotated bibliography, this book is an important guide to the history of medicine and to English social history.
Author : John Duffy
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Healers written by John Duffy and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1976 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
