American physicians in the nineteenth century : from sects to science

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American physicians in the nineteenth century : from sects to science

William G. Rothstein

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992

Softshell Books ed

  • : alk. paper : pbk.

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Originally published: 1972

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

In American Physicians in the Nineteenth Century, William G. Rothstein sombines sociological with historical analysis to explain the devlopment of the medical profession in nineteenth-century America. After describing how medicine first became a full-time vocation early in the nineteenth century, Rothstein examines the founding of medical schools and societies, regulatory efforts, and the development of "heroic medicine" as the accepted form of medical practice. But widespread public opposition to heroic medicine soon led to the rise of rival sets such as the botanics, who were popular among the rural population, and the homeopaths, who appealed to the urban upper classes. Excluded from the regular ranks of the medical profession, both sects organized their own schools and professional societies. As Rothstein explains, it was the advent of scientific medicine, with its breakthroughs in surgery and other medical specialties, public health, and bacteriology, that put an end to medical sectarianiam and commercialism. The new laboratory science could at last prove-or disprove-the theories and practices of the major sects.

目次

Preface to the 1992 edition Preface Part I. Method of Analysis and Colonial Antecedents Chapter 1. Plan of Analysis Chapter 2. Prologue: The Colonial Period Part II. The Regular Profession in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century Chapter 3. Medical Practice Among Physicians Chapter 4. Medical Societies and Medical Licensing Chapter 5. Medical Education Chapter 6. Relations Between Medical Schools and Medical Societies Part III. The Rebellion Against the Regular Medical Profession Chapter 7. The Thomsonian Movement Chapter 8. The Rise of Homeopathy Part IV. The Institutionalization of Medical Sects Chapter 9. The Therapeutics of the Regular Sect After the Civil War Chapter 10. Stratification and Specialization in the Regular Medical Profession After the Civil War Chapter 11. The Eclectic Sect: Successor to Botanical Medicine Chapter 12. The Homeopathic Sect Part V. The Rise of Scientific Medicine Chapter 13. The Beginnings of Scientific Medicine: Surgery Chapter 14. Bacteriology and the Medical Profession Chapter 15. Developments in Medical Education After the Civil War Chapter 16. The Death of Sectarian Medicine Appendix I. Founding Dates of Important Local and State Regular Medical Societies in Selected States Before the Civil War Appendix II. Medical Licensing Legislation in Selected States Before the Civil War Appendix III. Sources of Citations Given in Appendices I and II Appendix IV. Enumerations of Physicians, 185901900 Index

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