| Contents |
Health and disease in a land new to Europeans -- Traditional treatment and traditional healers -- The beginnings of change in traditional health care -- Setting the stage for modern medicine and health : the 1850s to the 1880s -- The age of surgery and germ theory : 1880s to 1910s -- Physiological medicine, 1910s to 1930s -- Physicians, public health, and Progressivism -- The era of antibiotics, 1930s to 1950s -- The age of technological medicine, 1940s to 1960s -- Doctors, patients, medical institutions, and society in the age of technological medicine -- Medicine in the environmental era, 1960s to 1980s -- Environmental-era health care in a hostile social climate -- The era of genetic medicine : the late 1980s and after -- The recent past as a new epoch. |
| Abstract |
This comprehensive history of medicine and public health in America covers changes and developments over four centuries, from the arrival of the first Europeans to the twenty-first century. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language | Text in English. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2014018369 |
| ISBN | 9781421416076 (hardcover ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 1421416077 (hardcover ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9781421416083 (pbk. ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 1421416085 (pbk. ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | (electronic) |
| ISBN | (electronic) |
