Purge and Bleed: Philadelphia's Yellow Fever Epidemic and the Stagnation of American Medicine - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Virginia PressISBN-13:9780813953120ISBN-10:081395312XUPC:9780813953120Book Category:Medical, HistoryBook Subcategory:Infectious Diseases, United States, HistoryBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SCT77ZYVAN
Explaining the deadly stasis of American medicine in the nineteenth century The 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia was a shock to the system of American medicine--or it should have been. In the decades that followed the most infamous health crisis of the early republic, American doctors by and large failed to move beyond ancient ideas of disease and treatment. The contentiousness of...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Virginia PressISBN-13:9780813953120ISBN-10:081395312XUPC:9780813953120Book Category:Medical, HistoryBook Subcategory:Infectious Diseases, United States, HistoryBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SCT77ZYVAN
Marshall Foletta is an independent scholar. He completed his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley and is the author of Coming to Terms with Democracy: Federalist Intellectuals and the Shaping of an American Culture, 1800-1828 (Virginia).
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