Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-277) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Factors in health and wellness -- Education and training : learned and nonlearned -- Faith, religion, and medicine -- Women's health -- The health of children and infants -- Infectious disease -- Occupational health and dangerous trades -- Surgery, dentistry, and orthopedics -- The brain and mental disorders -- The pharmacopeia -- War and health -- Institutional facilities -- Disease, healing, and the arts.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"This book provides a comprehensive description of what being sick and receiving "medical care" was like in 19th-century America, allowing modern readers to truly appreciate the scale of the improvements in healthcare theory and practice"--
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Medical care-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Medicine-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Public health-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Disease-- ethnology.
History of Medicine.
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
Public Health-- history.
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Gesundheitswesen
HISTORY-- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)