Warner The Therapeutic Perspective

Medical Practice, Knowledge, and Identity in America, 1820-1885
With a New preface by the author
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6463-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 386 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

This new paperback edition makes available John Harley Warner's highly influential, revisionary history of nineteenth-century American medicine. Deftly integrating social and intellectual perspectives, Warner explores a crucial shift in medical history, when physicians no longer took for granted such established therapies as bloodletting, alcohol, and opium and began to question the sources and character of their therapeutic knowledge. He examines what this transformation meant in terms of patient care and assesses the impact of clinical research, educational reform, unorthodox medical movements, newly imported European method, and the products of laboratory science on medical ideology and action.

Originally published in 1997.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Warner, John Harley

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Therapeutics and the Transformation of American Medicine 1

Pt. I Antebellum Medical Therapeutics

1 Intervention and identity 11

2 Epistemology, Social Change, and the Reorganization of Knowledge 37

3 The Principle of Specificity 58

Pt. II The Process of Change

4 Therapeutic Change 83

5 Attitudes toward Change 162

6 Attitudes toward Foreign Knowledge 185

7 The Arbitration of Change 207

Pt. III Therapeutic Reconstruction

8 Physiological Therapeutics and the Dissipation of Therapeutic Gloom 235

9 Cui Bono? 258

Abbreviations 285

Notes 289

A Note on Sources for the History of Therapeutics 345

Index 353