Medicine And Society In America 1660 1860

Author : Richard Harrison Shryock
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0801490936

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Medicine and Society in America, 1660-1860 by Richard Harrison Shryock Pdf

First published in 1960, Richard Harrison Shryock's Medicine and Society in America: 1660-1860 remains a sweeping and informative introduction to the practice of medicine, the education of physicians, the understanding of health and disease, and the professionalization of medicine in the Colonial Era and the period of the Early Republic. Shryock details such developments as the founding of the first medical school in America (at the College of Philadelphia in 1765); the introduction of inoculation against smallpox in Boston in 1721; the creation of the Marine Hospital Service in 1799, under which all merchant marines were required to take out health insurance; and the state of medical knowledge on the eve of the Civil War.

Author : Roy Porter,Economic History Society
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521557917

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Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550-1860 by Roy Porter,Economic History Society Pdf

In his short but authoritative study, Roy Porter examines the impact of disease upon the English and their responses to it before the widespread availability and public provision of medical care. Professor Porter incorporates into the revised second edition new perspectives offered by recent research into provincial medical history, the history of childbirth, and women's studies in the social history of medicine. He begins by sketching a picture of the threats posed by disease to population levels and social continuity from Tudor times to the Industrial Revolution, going on to consider the nature and development of the medical profession, attitudes to doctors and disease, and the growing commitment of the state to public health. Drawing together a wide range of often fragmentary material, and providing a detailed annotated bibliography, this book is an important guide to the history of medicine and to English social history.

Author : Randolph Shipley Klein
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0871691663

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Science and Society in Early America by Randolph Shipley Klein Pdf

These 12 essays reflect Dr. Bell's interests not only as a distinguished scholar of Benjamin Franklin & of the cultural & scientific life of early Amer., but also as Librarian & Exec. Officer of the APS. Contents: Remarks by Jonathan Rhoads; Biographical Sketch of Dr. Bell, with Selected Biblio.; Benjamin Franklin,"The Old England Man" by Esmond Wright; Frustration & Benjamin Franklin's Medical Books, by Edwin Wolf 2nd; William Byrd Reports on His Mission to the Cherokee in 1758, by W. W. Abbot; The Men of '68: Graduates of Amer's. First Medical School, by Randolph Klein; The Search for the State House Yard Observatory, by Silvio Bedini; Benjamin Henry Latrobe, "Learned Engineer," The APS, & the Promotion of Useful Knowledge & Works, 1798-1809, by Edward Carter II; The Phila. Soc. For Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, 1787-1829, by Marvin Wolfgang; Cotton Textiles & Industrialism, by Thomas Cochran; The Amer. Industrial Revolution Through its Survivals, by Brooke Hindle; A Catalog of Books Belonging to Benjamin Smith Barton, by Joseph Swan; Foreign Membership of Biological Scientists in the APS During the 18th & 19th Cent., by Bentley Glass; & Louis Agassiz as an Early Embryologist in Amer., by Jane Oppenheimer. Illus.

Author : Kenneth De Ville
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1992-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814718483

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Medical Malpractice in Nineteenth-century America by Kenneth De Ville Pdf

Author : Virgil J. Vogel
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806189772

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American Indian Medicine by Virgil J. Vogel Pdf

The purpose of this book, says the author, is to show the effect of Indian medicinal practices on white civilization. Actually it achieves far more. It discusses Indian theories of disease and methods of combating disease and even goes into the question of which diseases were indigenous and which were brought to the Indian by the white man. It also lists Indian drugs that have won acceptance in the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary. The influence of American Indian healing arts on the medicine and healing and pharmacology of the white man was considerable. For example, such drugs as insulin and penicillin were anticipated in rudimentary form by the aborigines. Coca leaves were used as narcotics by Peruvian Indians hundreds of years before Carl Koller first used cocaine as a local anesthetic in 1884. All together, about 170 medicines, mostly botanical, were contributed to the official compendia by Indians north of the Rio Grande, about 50 more coming from natives of the Latin-American and Caribbean regions. Impressions and attitudes of early explorers, settlers, physicians, botanists, and others regarding Indian curative practices are reported by geographical regions, with British, French, and Spanish colonies and the young United States separately treated. Indian theories of disease—sorcery, taboo violation, spirit intrusion, soul loss, unfulfilled dreams and desires, and so on -and shamanistic practices used to combat them are described. Methods of treating all kinds of injuries-from fractures to snakebite-and even surgery are included. The influence of Indian healing lore upon folk or domestic medicine, as well as on the "Indian doctors" and patent medicines, are discussed. For the convenience of the reader, an index of botanical names is provided, together with a wide variety of illustrations. The disproportionate attention that has been given to the superstitious and unscientific features of aboriginal medicine has tended to obscure its real contributions to American civilization.

Author : Judith Walzer Leavitt,Ronald L. Numbers
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Medical care
ISBN : 029915324X

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Sickness and Health in America by Judith Walzer Leavitt,Ronald L. Numbers Pdf

Adds 21 new essays and drops some that appeared in the 1984 edition (first in 1978) to reflect recent scholarship and changes in orientation by historians. Adds entirely new clusters on sickness and health, early American medicine, therapeutics, the art of medicine, and public health and personal hygiene. Other discussions are updated to reflect such phenomena as the growing mortality from HIV, homicide, and suicide. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : James C. Mohr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1979-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199726875

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Abortion in America by James C. Mohr Pdf

Chronicles the incidence of abortion in nineteenthand twentieth-century America and the causes and processes of the profound social change which resulted, by 1900, in the nearly universal legal proscription of abortion.

Author : David S. Zubatsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : UIUC:30112120213167

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The History of American Colleges and Their Libraries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by David S. Zubatsky Pdf

Author : Gert H. Brieger
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780801895210

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Medical America in the Nineteenth Century by Gert H. Brieger Pdf

Students of the history of medicine and of American history in general will welcome this collection of thirty papers originally published in nineteenth-century medical journals and lay publications. Each highlights a specific problem or medical attitude of the period, and together they present an illuminating panorama of the medical profession and of public health in nineteenth-century America. Many of the problems faced by students, practitioners, and patients of the last century are surprisingly similar to those still being encountered today. Dr. Brieger has selected papers that illustrate the issues and developments in medical education, medical practice, surgery, hospitals, hygiene, and psychiatry. They range from Benjamin Rush's "On the Cause of Death in Diseases That Are Not Incurable," to a paper by Robert F. Weir "On the Antiseptic Treatment of Wounds, and Its Results" and an article by Stephen Smith, "New York the Unclean." The final selection, the Announcement of The Johns Hopkins Medical School, stands as a landmark that foretells the beginning of a new era.

Author : John C. Burnham
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781421416090

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Health Care in America by John C. Burnham Pdf

A comprehensive history of sickness, health, and medicine in America from Colonial times to the present. In Health Care in America, historian John C. Burnham describes changes over four centuries of medicine and public health in America. Beginning with seventeenth-century concerns over personal and neighborhood illnesses, Burnham concludes with the arrival of a new epoch in American medicine and health care at the turn of the twenty-first century. From the 1600s through the 1990s, Americans turned to a variety of healers, practices, and institutions in their efforts to prevent and survive epidemics of smallpox, yellow fever, cholera, influenza, polio, and AIDS. Health care workers in all periods attended births and deaths and cared for people who had injuries, disabilities, and chronic diseases. Drawing on primary sources, classic scholarship, and a vast body of recent literature in the history of medicine and public health, Burnham finds that traditional healing, care, and medicine dominated the United States until the late nineteenth century, when antiseptic/aseptic surgery and germ theory initiated an intellectual, social, and technical transformation. He divides the age of modern medicine into several eras: physiological medicine (1910s–1930s), antibiotics (1930s–1950s), technology (1950s–1960s), environmental medicine (1970s–1980s), and, beginning around 1990, genetic medicine. The cumulating developments in each era led to today's radically altered doctor-patient relationship and the insistent questions that swirl around the financial cost of health care. Burnham's sweeping narrative makes sense of medical practice, medical research, and human frailties and foibles, opening the door to a new understanding of our current concerns.

Author : John S. Haller
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0809318946

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Medical Protestants by John S. Haller Pdf

By the late nineteenth century, the eclectics found themselves in the backwaters of modern medicine. Unable to break away from their botanic bias and ill-equipped to accept the implications of germ theory, the financial costs of salaried faculty and staff, and the research demands of laboratory science, the eclectics were pushed aside by the rush of modern academic medicine.

Author : Robert Hamlett Bremner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : 0674116100

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Children and Youth in America: 1600-1865 by Robert Hamlett Bremner Pdf

This book, the first of three volumes that will provide the most complete documentary history of public provision for American children, traces the changing attitudes of the nation toward youth during the first two and one half centuries of its history.

Author : Kristin Luker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1985-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520907928

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Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood by Kristin Luker Pdf

In this important study of the abortion controversy in the United States, Kristin Luker examines the issues, people, and beliefs on both sides of the abortion conflict. She draws data from twenty years of public documents and newspaper accounts, as well as over two hundred interviews with both pro-life and pro-choice activists. She argues that moral positions on abortion are intimately tied to views on sexual behavior, the care of children, family life, technology, and the importance of the individual.

Author : Linda Myrsiades
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611461039

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Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America by Linda Myrsiades Pdf

This study focuses on two critical figures in late eighteenth-century America—the physician Benjamin Rush and the journalist William Cobbett— as they clashed in one of the most important trials of post-revolutionary America, a libel trial that pitted medicine against the press, republicanism against federalism, and privacy against the public welfare.

Author : Bruce A. Kimball
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0847681432

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The "true Professional Ideal" in America by Bruce A. Kimball Pdf

Bruce A. Kimball attacks the widely held assumption that the idea of American "professionalism" arose from the proliferation of urban professional positions during the late nineteenth century. This first paperback edition of The "True Professional Ideal" in America argues that the professional ideal can be traced back to the colonial period. This comprehensive intellectual history illuminates the profound relationships between the idea of a "professional" and broader changes in American social, cultural, and political history.