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

By: Rutkow, Ira M .

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Scribner, 2010Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-345) and index.Description: x, 356 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781416538288 (hc.); 9781416538417 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Medicine -- United States -- History

| Physicians -- United States -- History

DDC classification: 610

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.

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

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Two Weeks	Davenport Library Circulating Collection	Print-Circulating	610 R935 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		34284003712064

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