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Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: W. F. Bynum
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-05-27 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Prior to the nineteenth century, the practice of medicine in the Western world was as much art as science. But, argues W. F. Bynum, 'modern' medicine as practic
American Physicians in the Nineteenth Century
Language: en
Pages: 390
Authors: William G. Rothstein
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-03 - Publisher: JHU Press

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Paper edition, with a new preface, of a 1972 work. The author, a sociologist, explains how ...19th-century medicine did not disappear; it evolved into modern me
Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-century America
Language: en
Pages: 349
Authors: Carla Jean Bittel
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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In the late nineteenth century, as Americans debated the "woman question," a battle over the meaning of biology arose in the medical profession. Some medical me
French Medical Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors:
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-29 - Publisher: BRILL

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The eleven essays in this volume illustrate the richness, complexity, and diversity of French medical culture in the nineteenth century, a period that witnessed
Doctoring the South
Language: en
Pages: 387
Authors: Steven M. Stowe
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-20 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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Offering a new perspective on medical progress in the nineteenth century, Steven M. Stowe provides an in-depth study of the midcentury culture of everyday medic