War and Healing: Stanhope Bayne-Jones and the Maturing of American Medicine

by Albert E. Cowdrey

Book Overview

New Orleans--born Stanhope Bayne-Jones was one of the pivotal figures in the modernization of American medicine. Through his life story Albert E. Cowdrey's War and Healing dramatizes the growth of American medicine from a provincial and amateurish state into a major national endeavor.Cowdrey shows the diversity and wide-ranging impact of Bayne-Jones's career. A brilliant student at Johns Hopkins, and a prot g of William Welch, bayne-Jones became in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080711717X
• ISBN13: 9780807117170
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"