Health care in America : a history

Health care in America : a history / John C. Burnham.

This comprehensive history of medicine and public health in America covers changes and developments over four centuries, from the arrival of the first Europeans to the twenty-first century.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burnham, John C. (John Chynoweth), 1929- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Public health > United States > History.
Medical care > United States > History.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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 age of surgery and germ theory : 1880s to 1910s
  • Physiological medicine, 1910s to 1930s
  • Physicians, public health, and Progressivism
  • The era of antibiotics, 1930s to 1950s
  • The age of technological medicine, 1940s to 1960s
  • Doctors, patients, medical institutions, and society in the age of technological medicine
  • Medicine in the environmental era, 1960s to 1980s
  • Environmental-era health care in a hostile social climate
  • The era of genetic medicine : the late 1980s and after
  • The recent past as a new epoch.

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