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The therapeutic perspective: medical practice, knowledge, and identity in America, 1820-1885
John Harley Warner
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Frontmatter
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Introduction: Therapeutics and the Transformation of American Medicine (page 1)
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Part I Antebellum Medical Therapeutics
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1. Intervention and Identity (page 11)
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2. Epistemology, Social Change, and the Reorganization of Knowledge (page 37)
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3. The Principle of Specificity (page 58)
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Part II The Process of Change
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4. Therapeutic Change (page 83)
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5. Attitudes toward Change (page 162)
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6. Attitudes toward Foreign Knowledge (page 185)
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7. The Arbitration of Change (page 207)
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Part III Therapeutic Reconstruction
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8. Physiological Therapeutics and the Dissipation of Therapeutic Gloom (page 235)
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9. Cui Bono? (page 258)
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Abbreviations (page 285)
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Notes (page 289)
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A Note on Sources for the History of Therapeutics (page 345)
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Index (page 353)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AHR | 92.5 (Dec. 1987): 1277-1278 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1868634 |
JAH | 74.2 (Sep. 1987): 515-516 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1900073 |
ISIS | 78.4 (Dec. 1987): 621-622 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/231952 |
BJHS | 21.1 (Mar. 1988): 126-127 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4026882 |
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Published: 1986
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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