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Shryock, Richard Harrison

The Development of Modern Medicine

An Interpretation of the Social and Scientific Factors Involved

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

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Reprint 2016
Publication Date:
April 2017
Copyright year:
1936
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978-1-5128-1868-0
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Frontmatter

Pages I-VIII

Preface

Pages IX-XI

Acknowledgments

Pages XII-XIV

Contents

Pages XV-XVI

Illustrations

Pages XVII-XVIII

I. First Attempts to Establish a Physical Science, 1600-1700

Pages 1-14

II. The Partial Failure of Physical Science, 1700-1800

Pages 15-36

III. Social Factors in Medical Lag After 1700

Pages 37-55

IV. Renewed Progress Toward an Objective Science 1750-1800

Pages 56-77

V. Early Contributions of Physic and Physicians to the Public Welfare, 1750-1800

Pages 78-106

VI. Science in a Romantic Age, 1800-1850

Pages 107-117

VII. Medicine and “The Basic Sciences”

Pages 118-132

VIII. Medicine, Mathematics, and the Social Sciences

Pages 133-148

IX. The Emergence of Modern Medicine 1800-1850

Pages 149-166

X. The Influence of French Medicine in Europe and America

Pages 167-186

XI. Modern Medicine in Germany, 1830-1880

Pages 187-205

XII. Medicine and the Public Health Movement 1800-1880

Pages 206-240

XIII. Public Confidence Lost

Pages 241-264

XIV. The Triumphs of Modern Medicine, 1870-1900

Pages 265-293

XV. Further Progress and Some of the Consequences

Pages 294-327

XVI. Public Confidence Regained

Pages 328-346

XVII. A Delayed Advance Against Mental Disease

Pages 347-368

XVIII. Practice in a Changing Society, 1880-1930

Pages 369-389

XIX. American Experience

Pages 390-411

XX. Some Contemporary Questions

Pages 412-424

INDEX

Pages 425-454

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