Licensed to Practice: The Supreme Court Defines the American Medical Profession

by James C. Mohr

Book Overview

How did American doctors come to be licensed on the terms we now take for granted?

Licensed to Practice begins with an 1891 shooting in Wheeling, West Virginia, that left one doctor dead and another on trial for his life. Formerly close friends, the doctors had fallen out over the issue of medical licensing. Historian James C. Mohr calls the murder "a sorry personal consequence of the far larger and historically significant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421411423
• ISBN13: 9781421411422
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"