Seeking the cure : a history of medicine in America / Ira Rutkow.

  • Rutkow, Ira, 1948-
Date:
2010
  • Books

About this work

Description

An entertaining and intelligent history of the development of medicine in America by an award-winning physician.

Publication/Creation

New York : Scribner, 2010.

Physical description

x, 356 pages ; 24 cm

Contributors

Edition

1st Scribner hardcover ed.

Contents

1. Colonial medicine -- 2. Democratizaton of healing -- 3. Emergence of modern medicine -- 4. Consolidation of power -- 5. Scientific advancement -- 6. Professional authority -- 7. Challenges of success -- 8. Ascendancy -- 9. Supremacy -- 10. Transformation.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-345) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BW.6
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781416538288
  • 1416538283
  • 9781416538417
  • 1416538410