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Zusatztext "[Warner] pursues a sophisticated argument with extraordinary diligence! thus producing a carefully crafted book. . . . Judged by its methodology! insights! presentation! and prose! this book ranks as a model of American scholarship." ---Dora B. Weiner! Social History of Medicine Informationen zum Autor John Harley WarnerWith a new preface by the author Klappentext This new paperback edition makes available John Harley Warner's highly influential, revisionary history of nineteenth-century American medicine. Deftly integrating social and intellectual perspectives, Warner explores a crucial shift in medical history, when physicians no longer took for granted such established therapies as bloodletting, alcohol, and opium and began to question the sources and character of their therapeutic knowledge. He examines what this transformation meant in terms of patient care and assesses the impact of clinical research, educational reform, unorthodox medical movements, newly imported European method, and the products of laboratory science on medical ideology and action.Originally published in 1997.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Zusammenfassung This new paperback edition makes available John Harley Warner's highly influential, revisionary history of nineteenth-century American medicine. Deftly integrating social and intellectual perspectives, Warner explores a crucial shift in medical history, when physicians no longer took for granted such established therapies as bloodletting, alcohol, and opium and began to question the sources and character of their therapeutic knowledge. He examines what this transformation meant in terms of patient care and assesses the impact of clinical research, educational reform, unorthodox medical movements, newly imported European method, and the products of laboratory science on medical ideology and action. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Therapeutics and the Transformation of American Medicine Pt. IAntebellum Medical Therapeutics Intervention and identity 2Epistemology! Social Change! and the Reorganization of Knowledge 3The Principle of Specificity Pt. IIThe Process of Change Therapeutic Change 5Attitudes toward Change 6Attitudes toward Foreign Knowledge 7The Arbitration of Change Pt. IIITherapeutic Reconstruction Physiological Therapeutics and the Dissipation of Therapeutic Gloom 9Cui Bono? Abbreviations Notes A Note on Sources for the History of Therapeutics Index ...
