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Cholera Years
The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866
E-bok, 2009
566 kr
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Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought. Rosenberg has focused his study on New York City, the most highly …
Cholera Years
The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866
Häftad, 1987
264 kr
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Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought. Rosenberg has focused his study on New York City, the most highly …
Trial of the Assassin Guiteau
Psychiatry and the Law in the Gilded Age
Häftad, 1995
377 kr
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This study uses the celebrated American trial of Charles Guiteau, who assassinated President James A. Garfield in 1881, to explore attitudes towards insanity and criminal responsibility in the the late-19th century. The author reconstructs the courtroom battle waged by 24 expert witnesses who …
Explaining Epidemics
Inbunden, 1992
1928 kr
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Medicine has always had its historians; but until recently it was a history written by and for practitioners. Charles Rosenberg has been one of the key figures in recent decades in opening up the history of medicine beyond parochial concerns and instead viewing medicine in the rich currents of …
Explaining Epidemics
Häftad, 1992
586 kr
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Medicine has always had its historians; but until recently it was a history written by and for practitioners. Charles Rosenberg has been one of the key figures in recent decades in opening up the history of medicine beyond parochial concerns and instead viewing medicine in the rich currents of …
Care of Strangers
The Rise of America's Hospital System
Häftad, 1995
449 kr
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This widely acclaimed history traces every facet of the hospital's social and professional transformations. Many of today's obsessions with technology, rigid bureaucracy, and uncontrolled cost can be found in hospitals more than half a century ago. Illustrated.
Our Present Complaint
American Medicine, Then and Now
Häftad, 2008
325 kr
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Charles E. Rosenberg, one of the world's most influential historians of medicine, presents a fascinating analysis of the current tensions in American medicine. Situating these tensions within their historical and social contexts, Rosenberg investigates the fundamental characteristics of medicine: …
Family in History
Inbunden, 1975
938 kr
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This is a book that goes beyond a mere examination of the role of the family in structuring sexual relationships, kinship relations, and child rearing practices. Here are historical examples of the family as a source of labor and capital accumulation, as a mechanism for the transmission of …
Therapeutic Revolution
Essays in the Social History of American Medicine
Av Morris J. Vogel, Charles E. Rosenberg
Inbunden, 1979
1112 kr
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This book is not about one glorious triumph after another, nor is it a series of complaints about doctors and hospitals. Rather, these essays examine American medicine within its context, sensitive to the role of medical knowledge, practitioners, and institutions in the nineteenth and twentieth …
Structure of American Medical Practice, 1875-1941
Av George Rosen, Charles E. Rosenberg
Inbunden, 1983
938 kr
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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the …
Pictures of Health
A Photographic History of Health Care in Philadelphia, 1860-1945
Av Janet Golden, Charles E. Rosenberg
Inbunden, 1991
938 kr
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From the days of its colonial glory, Philadelphia has had an important place in the history of American health care. In Pictures of Health, Janet Golden and Charles E. Rosenberg have assembled a series of photographs illuminating that history.
Framing Disease
Studies in Cultural History
Häftad, 1992
430 kr
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"In some ways disease does not exist until we have agreed that it does, by perceiving, naming, and responding to it, " writes Charles E. Rosenberg in his introduction to this stimulating set of essays. Disease is both a biological event and a social phenomenon. Patient, doctor, family, and social …
History and Health Policy in the United States
Putting the Past Back in
Av Rosemary A. Stevens, Charles E. Rosenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
417 kr
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In our rapidly advancing scientific and technological world, many take great pride and comfort in believing that we are on the threshold of new ways of thinking, living, and understanding ourselves. But despite dramatic discoveries that appear in every way to herald the future, legacies still carry …
Family in History
E-bok, 2016
1544 kr
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This is a book that goes beyond a mere examination of the role of the family in structuring sexual relationships, kinship relations, and child rearing practices. Here are historical examples of the family as a source of labor and capital accumulation, as a mechanism for the transmission of …
Structure of American Medical Practice, 1875-1941
Av George Rosen, Charles E. Rosenberg
E-bok, 2016
1560 kr
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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press''s distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the …
Pictures of Health
A Photographic History of Health Care in Philadelphia, 1860-1945
Av Janet Golden, Charles E. Rosenberg
E-bok, 2017
1595 kr
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From the days of its colonial glory, Philadelphia has had an important place in the history of American health care. In Pictures of Health , Janet Golden and Charles E. Rosenberg have assembled a series of photographs illuminating that history.
Therapeutic Revolution
Essays in the Social History of American Medicine
Av Morris J. Vogel, Charles E. Rosenberg
E-bok, 2017
1347 kr
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This book is not about one glorious triumph after another, nor is it a series of complaints about doctors and hospitals. Rather, these essays examine American medicine within its context, sensitive to the role of medical knowledge, practitioners, and institutions in the nineteenth and twentieth …
No Other Gods
On Science and American Social Thought
Häftad, 1997
287 kr
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In its original edition, No Other Gods offered a pioneering and influential examination of the ways in which social institutions and values shaped American scientific practice and thought. In this revised and expanded edition, Rosenberg directs our attention to the dilemma posed by the social study …
Right Living
An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene
Inbunden, 2003
484 kr
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During the eighteenth and much of the nineteenth century, most Americans healed themselves at home, as their ancestors had done for centuries. They relied upon books and pamphlets addressing health and diseases, diet, exercise, sex, mental health-everything one needed to know about how to avoid …
Our Present Complaint
American Medicine, Then and Now
Inbunden, 2008
556 kr
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Charles E. Rosenberg, one of the world's most influential historians of medicine, presents a fascinating analysis of the current tensions in American medicine. Situating these tensions within their historical and social contexts, Rosenberg investigates the fundamental characteristics of medicine: …
