The Therapeutic Perspective: Medical Practice, Knowledge, and Identity in America, 1820-1885

Yale Medicine Magazine, 1998 - Summer

Contents

Features
News
People
Dialogue
The four humors weren't that funny
To tell the truth
You're both right
Rule of law, not men
Class agent syndrome
Against the Spirit of System: The French Impulse in Nineteenth-Century American Medicine
Antoine Lavoisier: The Next Crucial Year or, the Sources of His Quantitative Method in Chemistry
Biochemistry and Disease: Bridging Basic Science and Clinical Practice
Captain of Death: The Story of Tuberculosis
Chain of Custody
The Therapeutic Perspective: Medical Practice, Knowledge, and Identity in America, 1820-1885
The Therapeutic Narrative: Fictional Relationships and the Process of Psychological Change
New Treatments in Opiate Dependence
Skin Signs of Systemic Disease
Help Me, I'm Sad: Recognizing, Treating, and Preventing Childhood and Adolescent Depression
Surviving the Fall: The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor
The Portrait
Terror in the Medical Office
Improve, Perfect, and Perpetuate: Dr. Nathan Smith and Early American Medical Education

by John Harley Warner, Ph.D., professor of history of medicine and American studies, Princeton University Press (N.J.) paperback edition 1998.

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John Warner, PhD
Avalon Professor in the History of Medicine and Professor of American Studies and of History; Chair (on leave Spring 2024), History of Medicine

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