The Therapeutic Perspective: Medical Practice, Knowledge, and Identity in America, 1820-1885

by John Harley Warner

Book Overview

This new paperback edition makes available John Harley Warner's highly influential, revisionary history of nineteenth-century American medicine. Deftly integrating social and intellectual perspectives, Warner explores a crucial shift in medical history, when physicians no longer took for granted such established therapies as bloodletting, alcohol, and opium and began to question the sources and character of their therapeutic knowledge. He examines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691606048
• ISBN13: 9780691606040
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"