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This biography of James Edmund Reeves, whose legislative accomplishments cemented American physicians' control of the medical marketplace, illuminates landmarks of American health care: the troubled introduction of clinical epidemiology and development of botanic medicine and homeopathy, the Civil War's stimulation of sanitary science and hospital medicine, the rise of government involvement, the revolution in laboratory medicine, and the explosive growth of phony cures. It recounts the human side of medicine as well, including the management of untreatable diseases and the complex politics of medical practice and professional organizing. Reeves' life provides a reminder that while politics, economics, and science drive the societal trajectory of modern health care, moral decisions often determine its path.
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Table of ContentsPreface
Prologue: One of the Best and Truest Men in the Profession
¿1.¿The Age of Jackson Begins
¿2.¿Medicine in the Age of Jackson
¿3.¿Regular Medicine's Choice
¿4.¿Becoming a Doctor
¿5.¿A Disease of Perennial Interest
¿6.¿Practice and Politics
¿7.¿Duty, Honor, Country, Statehood
¿8.¿Army Medicine and Public Health
¿9.¿Medical Organizing
10.¿His Lucid and Graceful Pen
11.¿A Particularly Challenging Year
12.¿The Moral High Ground
13.¿Going It Alone
14.¿Medical Licensure Becomes a Public Health Problem
15.¿Reeves' Legislative Triumph
16.¿The Eminent Domain of Sanitary Science
17.¿Going South
18.¿Koch's Rivals
19.¿Professional Indifference to Professional Enemies
Epilogue: Medical Professionalism
Chapter Notes
Bibliography of Selected Sources
Index
A propos de l'auteur
John M. Harris Jr., MD is an internal medicine specialist, medical executive, and medical educator who lives in Tucson, Arizona. He has written about nineteenth-century medicine's persisting and distorting influence on today's interpretation of medical professionalism.
Résumé
A biography of James Edmund Reeves, whose legislative accomplishments cemented American physicians' control of the medical marketplace, that illuminates landmarks in American health care, including the Civil War's stimulation of sanitary science and hospital medicine, the rise of government involvement, and the revolution in laboratory medicine.
