Divide and conquer : a comparative history of medical specialization

Divide and conquer : a comparative history of medical specialization / George Weisz.

This wide-ranging book is the first to examine one of the most significant and characteristic features of modern medicine - specialization - in historical and comparative context. Based on research in three languages, it traces the origins of modern medical specialization to 1830s Paris and examines...

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Main Author: Weisz, George
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Medicine > Specialties and specialists > History.
MEDICAL > History.
Medicine > Specialties and specialists
Europe.
Europe
History
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Table of Contents:
  • The rise of specialties in early nineteenth-century Paris
  • Specialization and its opponents in London
  • Specialization in the German-speaking world
  • The rise of American specialties
  • Regulating specialists in national medical directories
  • Regulating specialists in Germany
  • Regulating specialists the American way
  • The French style of regulating specialists
  • Regulating specialists in the British manner
  • From divisions of medicine to specialties
  • Separating, combining and competing.

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