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Explaining epidemics and other studies in the history of medicine / / Charles E. Rosenberg.   Author:  Rosenberg, Charles E. Title:  Explaining epidemics and other studies in the history of medicine / / Charles E. Rosenberg. Publisher:  Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1992. Description:  x, 357 p. ; 24 cm. Notes:  Consists of Prof. Rosenberg's essays reprinted from various sources. Bibliography Note:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  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. (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. Subject:  Medicine -- History -- 19th century. Epidemiology -- History -- 19th century. Catalog Source No.:  (OCoLC)ocm25026119 ISBN:  052139340X (hardback) 0521395690 (pbk.) Copy/Holding information Call No. Collection Barcode Status Due Date   R149 .R67 1992X American History, National Museum of 39088007496870 Checked out 09/09/2025 Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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