The renaissance of American medicine : a century of new learning and caring / Alan C. Mermann.

Lanham, Md. ; Oxford : University Press of America, [2001], ©2001.

xi, 234 pages ; 23 cm

Preface -- Introduction -- Medicine in colonial America -- Years of conflict and change -- Jacob Bigelow, 1787-1879 -- John Young Bassett, 1805-1851 -- Henry Ingersoll Blowditch, 1808-1892 -- John Hoskins Griscom, 1809-1874 -- Oliver Wendell Holmes,1809-1874 -- Elizabeth Blackwell, 1821-1910 -- William Henry Holcombe, 1825-1893 -- Mary Putnam Jacobi, 1842-1906 -- William James, 1842-1910 -- Richard Clarke Cabot, 1869-1939 -- Alice Hamilton, 1869-1970 -- Postscript.

Includes bibliographical references and index.