Major problems in the history of American medicine and public health : documents and essays / edited by John Harley Warner, Janet A. Tighe.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [2001], ©2001.

xix, 539 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Ch. 1. What is the history of medicine and public health? -- ch. 2. Colonial beginnings: a new world of peoples, disease, and healing -- ch. 3. The medical marketplace in the early republic, 1785-1825 -- ch. 4. Antebellum medical knowledge, practice, and patients, 1820-1860 -- ch. 5. The healer's identity in the mid-nineteenth century: character, care, and competition, 1830-1875 -- ch. 6. The Civil War, efficiency, and the sanitary impulse, 1845-1870 -- ch. 7. Reconfiguring "scientific medicine," 1865-1900 -- ch. 8. The gospel of germs: microbes, strangers, and habits of the home, 1880-1925 -- ch. 9. Strategies for improving medical care: institutions, science, and standardization, 1870-1940 -- ch. 10. Expert advice, social authority, and the medicalization of everyday life, 1890-1930 -- ch. 11. The technological imperative?: hospitals, professions, and patient expectations, 1890-1950 -- ch. 12. The culture of biomedical research: human subjects, power, and the scientific method, 1920-1965 -- ch. 13. Public health and the state during an age of biomedical miracles, 1925-1960 -- ch. 14. Rights, access, and the bottom line: health politics and health policies, 1960-2000 -- ch. 15. The persisting search for health and healing at the end of the twentieth century.

Includes bibliographies.