Therapeutic perspective, the: medical practice, knowledge, and identity in america, 1820-1885
Auteur :
Warner, John Harley
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691606040
Date de publication :
14 juil. 2014
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
540 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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,