Explaining epidemics and other studies in the history of medicine /
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Main Author: Rosenberg, Charles E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1992.
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Table of Contents:
  • The therapeutic revolution: medicine, meaning, and social change in nineteenth-century America
  • Medical text and social context: explaining William Buchan's Domestic medicine
  • John Gunn: everyman's physician
  • Body and mind in nineteenth-century medicine: some clinical origins of the neurosis construct
  • Florence Nightingale on contagion: the hospital as moral universe
  • Cholera in nineteenth-century Europe: a tool for social and economic analysis
  • The practice of medicine in New York a century ago
  • Social class and medical care in nineteenth-century America: the rise and fall of the dispensary
  • From almshouse to hospital: the shaping of Philadelphia General Hospital
  • Making it in urban medicine: a career in the age of scientific medicine
  • The crisis in psychiatric legitimacy: reflections on psychiatry, medicine, and public policy
  • Disease and social order in America: perceptions and expectations.
  • (cont) What is an epidemic? AIDS in historical perspective
  • Explaining epidemics
  • Framing disease: illness, society, and history
  • Looking backward, thinking forward: the roots of hospital crisis.