The therapeutic perspective : medical practice, knowledge, and identity in America, 1820-1885 /
This new paperback edition makes available John Harley Warner's highly influential, revisionary history of nineteenth-century American medicine. Deftly integrating social and intellectual perspectives, Warner explores a crucial shift in medical history, when physicians no longer took for grante...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1997]
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| Series: | Princeton legacy library.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | This new paperback edition makes available John Harley Warner's highly influential, revisionary history of nineteenth-century American medicine. Deftly integrating social and intellectual perspectives, Warner explores a crucial shift in medical history, when physicians no longer took for granted such established therapies as bloodletting, alcohol, and opium and began to question the sources and character of their therapeutic knowledge. He examines what this transformation meant in terms of patient care and assesses the impact of clinical research, educational reform, unorthodox medical move. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1986. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (385 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400864638 1400864631 |