John Harley Warner

Broschiertes Buch

Against the Spirit of System

The French Impulse in Nineteenth-Century American Medicine

Beschreibung

"The best view yet of a lost medical culture... Enormously important for anyone seeking to understand either nineteenth-century medical life in America, or how culture and memory come to be embedded in physicians' careers." -- "Bulletin of the History of Medicine"

Autor

John Harley Warner is professor and chair of the history of medicine and science at Yale University, where he is also professor of American studies and history. He is the author of The Therapeutic Perspective: Medical Practice, Knowledge, and Identity in America, and co-editor (with Janet Tighe) of Major Problems in the History of American Medicine and Public Health.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 159mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 689g
• ISBN-13: 9780801878213
• ISBN-10: 0801878217
• Artikelnr.: 21903577