عنوان

Explaining epidemics and other studies in the history of medicine /

(Number (ISBN

052139340X

(Number (ISBN

0521395690

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9780521393409

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9780521395694

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b702759

Title Proper

Explaining epidemics and other studies in the history of medicine /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Charles E. Rosenberg.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©1992.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

x, 357 pages ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Consists of Prof. Rosenberg's essays reprinted from various sources.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

(cont) What is an epidemic? AIDS in historical perspective -- Explaining epidemics -- Framing disease: illness, society, and history -- Looking backward, thinking forward: the roots of hospital crisis.

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The therapeutic revolution: medicine, meaning, and social change in nineteenth-century America -- Medical text and social context: explaining William Buchan's Domestic medicine -- John Gunn: everyman's physician -- Body and mind in nineteenth-century medicine: some clinical origins of the neurosis construct -- Florence Nightingale on contagion: the hospital as moral universe -- Cholera in nineteenth-century Europe: a tool for social and economic analysis -- The practice of medicine in New York a century ago -- Social class and medical care in nineteenth-century America: the rise and fall of the dispensary -- From almshouse to hospital: the shaping of Philadelphia General Hospital -- Making it in urban medicine: a career in the age of scientific medicine -- The crisis in psychiatric legitimacy: reflections on psychiatry, medicine, and public policy -- Disease and social order in America: perceptions and expectations.

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Text of Note

A history of medicine in which the author discusses themes that have become visible to the public - deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill, the economics of the hospital, and the treatment of AIDS.

Epidemiology-- History-- 19th century.

Medicine-- History-- 19th century.

Delivery of Health Care-- history.

Disease Outbreaks-- history.

Socioeconomic Factors.

Épidémiologie-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.

Médecine-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.

44.01 history of medicine.

Epidemics.

Epidemiologie

Épidémiologie-- 19e siècle.

Epidemiology.

Epidemiology.

Geneeskunde.

Gesundheitswesen

Médecine-- 19e siècle.

Medicine-- History-- 19th century.

Medicine-- History.

Medicine.

Medizin

Sozialmedizin

Number

362.1(091

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Edition

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Book number

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Book Number

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Rosenberg, Charles E.

Date of Transaction

20201207181637.0

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[Book]

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