Medicine and Society in America: 1660-1860

by Richard Harrison Shryock

Book Overview

First published in 1960, Richard Harrison Shryock's Medicine and Society in America: 1660-1860 remains a sweeping and informative introduction to the practice of medicine, the education of physicians, the understanding of health and disease, and the professionalization of medicine in the Colonial Era and the period of the Early Republic. Shryock details such developments as the founding of the first medical school in America (at the College...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801490936
• ISBN13: 9780801490934
• Release Date: May 1962
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher