Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
The Transactions of the American Medical Association
Author: Pestilence, Insanity, and Trees
Author: John M. Harris Jr.Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003821340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
This is the first full-length biography of New York surgeon and social activist Stephen Smith (1823–1922), who was appointed to fifty years of public service by three mayors, seven governors, and two U.S. presidents. The book presents the complex life of Stephen Smith, a consistent figure in the history of public health, mental health, housing reform in New York, and even urban reforestation. Utilizing Smith’s writings, public records, and recently discovered personal correspondence, this research shows how Smith succeeded where others failed. It also acknowledges that Smith was unsuccessful in convincing his fellow professionals to fight for a cabinet level public health department or to resist the rise of custodial care for the mentally impaired. Given Smith’s many accomplishments, the book asks us to consider if what stopped him stops us, highlighting the relevance of Smith’s story to contemporary debates. Pestilence, Insanity, and Trees is a readable and well-documented narrative and a resource for students and scholars, filling gaps in the history of American medicine, public health, mental health, and New York social reform.
Catalogue of Medical Library of George Wheeler Jones
Author: Chicago Medical College.).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
A Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences Embracing the Entire Range of Scientific and Allied Sciences
Author: Albert Henry BuckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
A Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences
Author: Albert Henry BuckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
Book Description
Journal of the American Medical Association
Author: Professionalizing Medicine
Author: John M. Harris Jr.Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476636222
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
This biography of James Edmund Reeves, whose legislative accomplishments cemented American physicians' control of the medical marketplace, illuminates landmarks of American health care: the troubled introduction of clinical epidemiology and development of botanic medicine and homeopathy, the Civil War's stimulation of sanitary science and hospital medicine, the rise of government involvement, the revolution in laboratory medicine, and the explosive growth of phony cures. It recounts the human side of medicine as well, including the management of untreatable diseases and the complex politics of medical practice and professional organizing. Reeves' life provides a reminder that while politics, economics, and science drive the societal trajectory of modern health care, moral decisions often determine its path.
The National Magazine
Author: Post-graduate
Author: Catalogue No. 11
Author: San Francisco Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description