Umfang:
xiv, 596 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:
1421416085
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1421416077
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9781421416083
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9781421416076
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Health and disease in a land new to EuropeansTraditional 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.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1421416093
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781421416090
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Medizin
Schlagwort(e):
USA
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Gesundheitswesen
;
Geschichte
;
USA
;
Gesundheitswesen
;
Geschichte
Mehr zum Autor:
Burnham, John C. 1929-
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