Pneumonia Before Antibiotics - Therapeutic Evolution and Evaluation in Twentieth-Century America

Informationen zum Autor Scott H. Podolsky is an internist at Massachusetts General Hospital, professor of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. Klappentext In Pneumonia Before Antibiotics! clinician-historian Scott H. Podolsky uses pneumonia's enduring prevalence and its centrality to the medical profession's therapeutic self-identity to examine the evolution of therapeutics in twentieth-century America. Zusammenfassung This intriguing study will interest historians of medicine and science! policymakers! and clinicians alike.

Product details

• Authors: Scott H Podolsky, Scott H. Podolsky, Scott H. (Countway Library of Medicine) Podolsky
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.06.2006
• EAN: 9780801883279
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8327-9
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Public Health, SCIENCE / History, MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine, History of Science, Public health & preventive medicine