Professionalizing Medicine: James Reeves and the Choices That Shaped American Health Care

by John M. Harris Jr.

This biography of James Edmund Reeves, whose legislative accomplishments cemented American physicians' control of the medical marketplace, illuminates landmarks of American health care: the troubled introduction of clinical epidemiology and development of botanic medicine and homeopathy, the Civil War's stimulation of sanitary science and hospital medicine, the rise of government involvement, the revolution in laboratory medicine, and the explosive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476676364
• ISBN13: 9781476676364
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher