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Health care in America : a history
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Health care in America : a history

John C. Burnham

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Health and disease in a land new to Europeans
Traditional treatment and traditional healers
The beginnings of change in traditional health care
Setting the stage for modern medicine and health : the 1850s to the 1880s
The 1880s to the 1910s: the age of surgery and germ theory
Physiological medicine, 1910s-1930s
Physicians, public health, and progressivism
The era of antibiotics, 1930s-1950s
The age of technological medicine, 1940s-1960s
Doctors, patients, medical institutions, and society in the age of technological medicine
Medicine in the environmental era, 1960s-1980s
Environmental-era health care in a hostile social climate
The era of genetic medicine: the late 1980s and after
Conclusion : the recent past as a new epoch.

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Health care in America : a history by John C. Burnham. ISBN 9781421416083. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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