| 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. |
| Contents |
(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. |
| General note | "Consists largely of Prof. Rosenberg's essays reprinted from various sources."--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Acquisitions source |
Laupus- Robert W. Cihak History of Medicine Collection |
| LCCN | 91046538 |
| ISBN | 0521395690 |
| ISBN | 9780521395694 |
