The DOS: Osteopathic Medicine in America

by Norman Gevitz

Book Overview

A comprehensive portrait of the osteopathic medical profession.

Overcoming suspicion, ridicule, and outright opposition from the American Medical Association, the osteopathic medical profession today serves the health needs of more than thirty million Americans. Osteopathic medicine is now the fastest-growing segment of the US physician and surgeon population. In The DOs, historian Norman Gevitz chronicles the development of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421429616
• ISBN13: 9781421429618
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary