Professionalizing Medicine

James Reeves and the Choices That Shaped American Health Care

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2019-03-28
Mått:178 x 254 x 12 mm
Vikt:435 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:244
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9781476676364

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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.

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“This well-researched biography makes a positive contribution to the history of medicine by studying the ennobling example of James Reeves. ... This book offers inspiration for today's medical professionals confronting problems in health care by affirming that moral decisions should determine the path of the politics, economics, and science that may drive modern health care. ...recommended”—Choice

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Table of ContentsPrefacePrologue: One of the Best and Truest Men in the Profession1. The Age of Jackson Begins2. Medicine in the Age of Jackson3. Regular Medicine’s Choice4. Becoming a Doctor5. A Disease of Perennial Interest6. Practice and Politics7. Duty, Honor, Country, Statehood8. Army Medicine and Public Health9. Medical Organizing10. His Lucid and Graceful Pen11. A Particularly Challenging Year12. The Moral High Ground13. Going It Alone14. Medical Licensure Becomes a Public Health Problem15. Reeves’ Legislative Triumph16. The Eminent Domain of Sanitary Science17. Going South18. Koch’s Rivals19. Professional Indifference to Professional EnemiesEpilogue: Medical ProfessionalismChapter NotesBibliography of Selected SourcesIndex