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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780801490934 03 01 Cornell University Press 01 GCOI 80140100153470 02 0801490936 03 9780801490934 15 9780801490934 59 BC 1 A01 Shryock, Richard Harrison Richard Harrison Shryock 01 eng 192 00 192 03 03 0 03 HIS036020 10 HIS036040 10 MED039000 24 Internet History of Medicine 01 01 01 First published in 1960, Richard Harrison Shryock's Medicine and Society in America: 1660–1860 remains a sweeping and informative introduction to the practice of medicine, the education of physicians, the understanding of health and disease, and the professionalization of medicine in the Colonial Era and the period of the Early Republic. Shryock details such developments as the founding of the first medical school in America (at the College of Philadelphia in 1765); the introduction of inoculation against smallpox in Boston in 1721; the creation of the Marine Hospital Service in 1799, under which all merchant marines were required to take out health insurance; and the state of medical knowledge on the eve of the Civil War. 02 First published in 1960, Richard Harrison Shryock's Medicine and Society in America: 1660–1860 remains a sweeping and informative introduction to the practice of medicine, the education of physicians, the understanding of health and disease, and the... 04 <p>I. Origins of a Medical Profession</p> <p>II. Medical Thought and Practice: 1660–1820</p> <p>III. Health and Disease: 1660–1820</p> <p>IV. Medicine and Society in Transition, 1820–1860</p> <p>Index</p> 08 <p>"This book will be most useful to the general historian who seeks depth of understanding about the role of medicine in the early life of this country and to the medical historian who seeks a larger frame for his or her specific knowledge. Shryock's wit and perspective will please all who refer to this book."—<em>American Historical Review</em></p> 08 <p>"The sweep of the work is excellent, and the stirring times of which Shryock writes need to be recalled to us in an age when everything is taken for granted and where any suggestion that people struggled to give us the country in its present state is thought sentimental."—<em>Yale Review</em></p> 08 <p>"In three chapters covering the period 1660–1820 and one covering 1820–1860, Shryock lucidly describes medical thought and practice, the composition of the profession, as well as its education, regulation, research (or lack of it), institutions, organizations, and publications. He discusses health conditions among the general population and the efforts made to improve these conditions by public and private measures. These topics are carefully related to one another, to the general background of American society, and to their European origins or counterparts. This book offers, in compact form, a sound and readable synthesis of many aspects of American medical history, which is based on the author's years of brilliant and productive research in the field."—<em>Science</em></p> 04 03 72 01 http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/resources/titles/80140100153470/images/80140100153470L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/resources/titles/80140100153470/images/80140100153470S.jpg http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100153470 Cornell University Press 01 02 2021862 Cornell University Press 04 New York University Press Ithaca US 04 19620430 01 WORLD 01 7.5 in 02 5 in 08 6 oz 07 2021862 CUP Services http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu 02 CA MX US BV AL AD AM AU AT AZ BY BA BG HR CY CZ DK EE FO FI GE DE GI GR HM HU IS IE MK IT PS KZ LV LI LT LU UM MT MC ME NL NZ NO PG PL PT RO RU SM AX SK SI ES SJ SE CH TR UA GB VA 02 Y 21 46 01 02 s 21.00 USD 06 5013546051314 NBN International http://www.nbninternational.com 02 BV AL AD AM AT AZ BY BE BA BG HR CY CZ DK EE FO FI FR GE DE GI GR HM HU IS IE MK IT PS KZ LV LI LT UM MT MD MC ME NL NO PL PT RO RU SM AX SK SI ES SJ SE CH TR UA GB VA AU CA JP MX US NZ PG 02 Y 20 19620430 46 01 02 s 02 15.95 GBP