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Licensed to practice :

(Number (ISBN

1421411415

(Number (ISBN

1421411423

(Number (ISBN

9781421411415

(Number (ISBN

9781421411422

Erroneous ISBN

1421411431

Erroneous ISBN

9781421411439

Title Proper

Licensed to practice :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the Supreme Court defines the American medical profession /

First Statement of Responsibility

James C. Mohr.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Baltimore :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The Johns Hopkins University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2013]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

viii, 216 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-212) and index.

Text of Note

Medical regulation in the United States through the Civil War -- Dr. Reeves and the founding -- Building the "True Church" -- Challenges from within -- Securing legislation -- Exercising power -- The dents confront the board -- The West Virginia State Supreme Court -- Conflict and enforcement -- The United States Supreme Court -- American medical practice after Dent.

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Text of Note

"Licensed to Practice begins with an 1891 shooting in Wheeling, West Virginia, that left one doctor dead and another on trial for his life. Formerly close friends, the doctors had fallen out over the issue of medical licensing. Historian James C. Mohr calls the murder 'a sorry personal consequence of the far larger and historically significant battle among West Virginia's physicians over the future of their profession.' Through most of the nineteenth century, anyone could call themselves a doctor and could practice medicine on whatever basis they wished. But an 1889 U.S. Supreme Court case, Dent v. West Virginia, effectively transformed medical practice from an unregulated occupation to a legally recognized profession. The political and legal battles that led up to the decision were unusually bitter--especially among physicians themselves--and the outcome was far from a foregone conclusion. So-called Regular physicians wanted to impose their own standards on the wide-open medical marketplace in which they and such non-Regulars as Thomsonians, Botanics, Hydropaths, Homeopaths, and Eclectics competed. The Regulars achieved their goal by persuading the state legislature to make it a crime for anyone to practice without a license from the Board of Health, which they controlled. When the high court approved that arrangement--despite constitutional challenges--the licensing precedents established in West Virginia became the bedrock on which the modern American medical structure was built. And those precedents would have profound implications. Thus does Dent, a little-known Supreme Court case, influence how Americans receive health care more than a hundred years after the fact"--Unedited summary from book cover.

Medical laws and legislation-- United States.

Medicine-- Practice-- United States.

Physicians-- Licenses-- United States.

Delivery of Health Care-- legislation & jurisprudence.

Legislation as Topic.

Arzt.

Lizenz.

Medical laws and legislation.

Medicine-- Practice.

Physicians-- Licenses.

United States.

United States.

USA.

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Edition

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Book number

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Class number

Mohr, James C.

Date of Transaction

20200822182324.0

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[Book]

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