Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care

by Kenneth M. Ludmerer

Book Overview

Already the recipient of extraordinary critical acclaim, this magisterial book provides a landmark account of American medical education in the twentieth century, concluding with a call for the reformation of a system currently handicapped by managed care and by narrow, self-centered professional interests.
Kenneth M. Ludmerer describes the evolution of American medical education from 1910, when a muck-raking report on medical diploma mills spurred...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195118375
• ISBN13: 9780195118377
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 9.3" x 6.4"

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Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care

Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care I received the book in excellent condition. The price of the item was the best part.

A superb history of 20th Century American medical practice.

Time to Heal surveys the state of American medical education from the turn of the century to modern HMO times, providing a sweeping survey of American medical education in modern times and examining how American medical education evolved. From the transformation of medical schools and student learning processes to social programs which affected research, this provides an important history for any aspiring medical student.