The Development of Modern Medicine
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The Development of Modern Medicine

An Interpretation of the Social and Scientific Factors Involved

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The Development of Modern Medicine

An Interpretation of the Social and Scientific Factors Involved

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The relation of the progress of medical science to the social history of humanity. Starting with the seventeenth century, the author analyzes the defeats as well as the triumphs that medicine has gone through to reach its present usefulness.

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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
Year
2017
ISBN
9781512818680
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Contents
  4. Illustrations
  5. I. First Attempts to Establish a Physical Science, 1600-1700
  6. II. The Partial Failure of Physical Science, 1700-1800
  7. III. Social Factors in Medical Lag After 1700
  8. IV. Renewed Progress Toward an Objective Science 1750-1800
  9. V. Early Contributions of Physic and Physicians to the Public Welfare, 1750-1800
  10. VI. Science in a Romantic Age, 1800-1850
  11. VII. Medicine and “The Basic Sciences”
  12. VIII. Medicine, Mathematics, and the Social Sciences
  13. IX. The Emergence of Modern Medicine 1800-1850
  14. X. The Influence of French Medicine in Europe and America
  15. XI. Modern Medicine in Germany, 1830-1880
  16. XII. Medicine and the Public Health Movement 1800-1880
  17. XIII. Public Confidence Lost
  18. XIV. The Triumphs of Modern Medicine, 1870-1900
  19. XV. Further Progress and Some of the Consequences
  20. XVI. Public Confidence Regained
  21. XVII. A Delayed Advance Against Mental Disease
  22. XVIII. Practice in a Changing Society, 1880-1930
  23. XIX. American Experience
  24. XX. Some Contemporary Questions
  25. INDEX