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"Duffy is an outstanding historian of American medicine... This survey, taking account of more recent events and of new writing in the field, is a major historiographical event." -- James Harvey Young, author of The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth-Century America
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A STARTLING CONTRAST exists between the economic and health conditions experienced by the early settlers and what they had been led to expect. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
colonial physicians, obstetrical anesthesia, bacteriological revolution, chemical anesthesia, licensure laws, orthodox physicians, folk practitioners, medical sects, sanitary movement, graded curriculum, medical licensure, fee bill Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, World War, New Orleans, Civil War, Johns Hopkins, New England, New Jersey, Benjamin Rush, Charity Hospital, Nobel Prize, Pennsylvania Hospital, Great Britain, South Carolina, University of Pennsylvania, American Surgical Association, Hospital Department, Massachusetts Medical Society, American Medical Association, William Shippen, Public Health Service, Jefferson Medical College, Rockefeller Foundation, Social Security, Benjamin Franklin New!
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A STARTLING CONTRAST exists between the economic and health conditions experienced by the early settlers and what they had been led to expect. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
colonial physicians, obstetrical anesthesia, bacteriological revolution, chemical anesthesia, licensure laws, orthodox physicians, folk practitioners, medical sects, sanitary movement, graded curriculum, medical licensure, fee bill Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, World War, New Orleans, Civil War, Johns Hopkins, New England, New Jersey, Benjamin Rush, Charity Hospital, Nobel Prize, Pennsylvania Hospital, Great Britain, South Carolina, University of Pennsylvania, American Surgical Association, Hospital Department, Massachusetts Medical Society, American Medical Association, William Shippen, Public Health Service, Jefferson Medical College, Rockefeller Foundation, Social Security, Benjamin Franklin New!
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- Medicine in America by Professor Richard Harrison Shryock on 5 pages
- Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines in America Before Federal Regulation by James Harvey Young on 5 pages
- Introduction to the History of Medicine by F Garrison on 5 pages
- The history of surgical anesthesia by Thomas E Keys on 4 pages
- Medicine in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century (Medicine & society in America) by Wyndham Bolling Blanton on 4 pages
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- Susan La Flesche Picotte, M.D.: Omaha Indian Leader and Reformer by Benson Tong in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- America's Botanico-Medical Movements by Michael A Flannery in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Nymphomania: A History by Carol Groneman in Back Matter
- Women's Health Care: Activist Traditions and Institutional Change by Carol S. Weisman in Back Matter
- Health Care Systems of the Developed World: How the United States' System Remains an Outlier by Duane Matcha on page 45
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