John M. Harris

Professionalizing Medicine

James Reeves and the Choices That Shaped American Health Care

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Produktbeschreibung

This biography of James Edmund Reeves, whose legislative accomplishments cemented American physicians' control of the medical marketplace, illuminates landmarks of American health care: the troubled introduction of clinical epidemiology and development of botanic medicine and homeopathy, the Civil War's stimulation of sanitary science and hospital medicine, the rise of government involvement, the revolution in laboratory medicine, and the explosive growth of phony cures. It recounts the human side of medicine as well, including the management of untreatable diseases and the complex politics of medical practice and professional organizing. Reeves' life provides a reminder that while politics, economics, and science drive the societal trajectory of modern health care, moral decisions often determine its path.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9781476676364
• ISBN-10: 1476676364
• Artikelnr.: 55086151

Autorenporträt

John M. Harris Jr., MD is an internal medicine specialist, medical executive, and medical educator who lives in Tucson, Arizona. He has written about nineteenth-century medicine's persisting and distorting influence on today's interpretation of medical professionalism.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Preface Prologue: One of the Best and Truest Men in the Profession
1.
The Age of Jackson Begins
2.
Medicine in the Age of Jackson
3.
Regular Medicine's Choice
4.
Becoming a Doctor
5.
A Disease of Perennial Interest
6.
Practice and Politics
7.
Duty, Honor, Country, Statehood
8.
Army Medicine and Public Health
9.
Medical Organizing 10.
His Lucid and Graceful Pen 11.
A Particularly Challenging Year 12.
The Moral High Ground 13.
Going It Alone 14.
Medical Licensure Becomes a Public Health Problem 15.
Reeves' Legislative Triumph 16.
The Eminent Domain of Sanitary Science 17.
Going South 18.
Koch's Rivals 19.
Professional Indifference to Professional Enemies Epilogue: Medical Professionalism Chapter Notes Bibliography of Selected Sources Index