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What is the History of Medicine and Public Health? |
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1 | (25) |
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Medical Culture and Historical Practice |
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3 | (6) |
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Medicine's Institutional History and Its Policy Implications |
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9 | (8) |
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Disease in the History of Medicine and Public Health |
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17 | (7) |
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24 | (2) |
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Colonial Beginnings: A New World of Peoples, Disease, and Healing |
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26 | (29) |
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a French Observer in Louisiana, Reports on Natchez Nation Healing Practices, 1720-1728 |
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28 | (2) |
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a Boston Minister, Proselytizes for Smallpox Inoculation, 1722 |
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30 | (3) |
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a Boston Physician, Decries the Dangerous ``Infatuation'' with Smallpox Inoculation, 1722 |
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33 | (2) |
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A Broadside Laments the Death of Fifty-Four in a Hartford Epidemic, 1725 |
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Zabdiel Boylston of Boston Recounts His Experiences as the First Physician to Inoculate Against Smallpox in the American Colonies, 1726 |
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A Virginia Domestic Guide to the Diseases of the American Colonies Makes ``Every Man His Own Doctor,'' 1734 |
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Andrew Blackbird of the Ottawa Nation Records a Story from Indian Oral Tradition About the Decimation of His People by Smallpox in the Early 1760s, 1887 |
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40 | (1) |
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Indians, Europeans, and the New World of Disease and Healing |
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41 | (7) |
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Smallpox Inoculation Foments Controversy in Boston |
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48 | (6) |
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54 | (1) |
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The Medical Marketplace in the Early Republic, 1785-1825 |
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55 | (36) |
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George Washington's Physicians Narrate His Final Illness and Death, 1799 |
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57 | (1) |
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a Philadelphia Quaker, Recounts in Her Diary the Physician-Attended Birth of Her Daughter's Sixth Child, 1799 |
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58 | (2) |
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Benjamin Rush Tells His Medical Students at the University of Pennsylvania of the Trials and Rewards of a Medical Career, 1803 |
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60 | (3) |
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A Medical Apprentice in Rural South Carolina Records Daily Life in His Diary, 1807 |
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63 | (1) |
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Leading Boston Doctors, Solicit Support for Founding the Massachusetts General Hospital, 1810 |
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64 | (3) |
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a Harvard Medical Professor, Warns of the Dangers of Women Practicing Midwifery, 1820 |
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67 | (3) |
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A Young Physician Struggles to Get into Practice in Ohio, 1822 |
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70 | (1) |
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a Botanic Healer, Decries the Regular Medical Profession as a Murderous Monopoly, 1822 |
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71 | (2) |
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The Medical Challenge to Midwifery |
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73 | (7) |
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The Philadelphia Medical Marketplace |
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80 | (10) |
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90 | (1) |
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Antebellum Medical Knowledge, Practice, and Patients, 1820-1860 |
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91 | (34) |
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A New York Medical Student Recounts in His Diary His Emotional Responses to Surgery, 1828 |
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a Harvard Medical Professor, Challenges the Physician's Power to Cure, 1835 |
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94 | (2) |
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A Medical Apprentice Writes from Rochester About a Cadaver ``Resurrected'' for Dissection, 1841 |
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An Eastern-Educated Physician in Indiana Advises Other Emigrants About the Distinctive Character of Diseases of the West, 1845 |
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97 | (2) |
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Reformer Dorothea Dix Calls on Tennessee Legislators to Turn State Insane Asylum into a ``Curative'' Hospital, 1847 |
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99 | (2) |
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A Yale Medical Student Decries the Use of Anesthesia in Childbirth, 1848 |
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101 | (2) |
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a Medical Professor and Racial Theorist, Reports to the Medical Association of Louisiana on the ``Diseases and Physical Peculiarities of the Negro Race,'' 1851 |
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103 | (3) |
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A Tennessee Physician Calls for the Cultivation of a Distinctive Southern Medical Literature, 1860 |
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106 | (2) |
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Belief and Ritual in Antebellum Medical Therapeutics |
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108 | (6) |
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Pain, the Calculus of Suffering, and Antebellum Surgery |
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114 | (6) |
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Race, Human Experimentation, and Dissection in the Antebellum South |
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120 | (3) |
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123 | (2) |
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The Healer's Identity in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Character, Care, and Competition, 1830-1875 |
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125 | (34) |
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A County Medical Society Bemoans the Prevalence of Quackery and Public Opinion Opposed to Legal Regulation of Medical Practice, 1843 |
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127 | (2) |
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a Women's Health Reformer, Explains Why She Became a Water-Cure Practitioner, 1849 |
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129 | (2) |
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A New York State Doctor Rails to His Professional Brethren Against the Education of Women as Physicians, 1850 |
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131 | (2) |
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a Harvard Medical Professor, Advises What Makes a Good Medical Education, 1850 |
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133 | (2) |
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Domestic Practitioners of Hydropathy in the West Testify to Their Faith in Water Cure, 1854 |
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135 | (1) |
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Pioneer Women Physicians, Extoll the Woman Physician as the ``Connecting Link'' Between Women's Health Reform and the Medical Profession, 1859 |
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136 | (4) |
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an Eminent Boston Physician, Asserts That Biology Blocks the Higher Education of Women, 1873 |
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140 | (3) |
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Science, Healing, and the Character of the Physician |
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143 | (6) |
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Science, Health Reform, and the Woman Physician |
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149 | (8) |
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Regina Markell Morantz-Sanchez |
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157 | (2) |
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The Civil War, Efficiency, and the Sanitary Impulse, 1845-1870 |
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159 | (37) |
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a Physician and Reformer, Reports to the Municipal Government on the Sanitary Condition of the Laboring Population of New York, 1845 |
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161 | (4) |
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World Traveler Harriet Martineau Advises America on Keeping Troops Healthy During Wartime, 1861 |
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165 | (3) |
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an Alabama Nursing Volunteer, Writes in Her Journal About Conditions in the Confederate Army Hospital Service, 1862 |
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168 | (4) |
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Medical Editor Stephen Smith Preaches the Gospel of Sanitary Reform During Wartime, 1863 |
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Nursing Volunteer Louisa May Alcott Reports to Readers at Home About Her Experiences with the Union Army, 1863 |
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173 | (3) |
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A Maine Physician Writes to His Wife About His Experiences in the Union Army, 1864 |
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176 | (2) |
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Sanitary Reformers Build upon Civil War Precedents to Clean Up Post-War Cities, 1865 |
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178 | (3) |
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American Wives and Mothers Join the Civil War Struggle in a Battle Against Dirt and Disease |
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181 | (9) |
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Linking Science to the Pursuit of Efficiency in the Reformation of the Army Medical Corps During the Civil War |
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190 | (5) |
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195 | (1) |
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Reconfiguring ``Scientific Medicine,'' 1865-1900 |
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196 | (38) |
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a Recent Harvard Medical Graduate Studying in Europe, Finds in Experimental Laboratory Physiology the Path to a New Scientific Medicine, 1869 |
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198 | (3) |
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a Young Boston Physician Studying in Europe, Finds in Clinical Specialism the Path to a New Scientific Medicine, 1869 |
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201 | (4) |
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a Philadelphia Medical Professor, Celebrates Experimental Medicine and the Ongoing Therapeutic Revolution, 1879 |
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205 | (2) |
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Counsels Physicians on How to Succeed in Business, 1882 |
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207 | (6) |
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New York Newspaper Launches Fundraising Campaign for ``Miraculous'' New Diphtheria Cure, 1894 |
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213 | (3) |
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Professional Optimism and Professional Dismay over the Coming of the New Scientific Medicine |
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216 | (8) |
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Popular Optimism About the Promise of the New Scientific Medicine: The Case of Rabies Vaccine |
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224 | (9) |
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233 | (1) |
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The Gospel of Germs: Microbes, Strangers, and Habits of the Home, 1880-1925 |
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234 | (41) |
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A Professor of Hygiene Reports on the Success of Municipal Laws in Battling the American ``Spitting Habit,'' 1900 |
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237 | (2) |
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a Public Health Leader, Proclaims a New Relationship Among ``Dirt, Disease, and the Health Officer,'' 1902 |
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239 | (2) |
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Commissioner-General of Immigration, Warns of the Menace to the Nation's Health of the New Immigrants, 1902 |
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241 | (4) |
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an African American Physician, Admonishes Antituberculosis Activists to Recognize That Blacks and Whites Must Battle Germs as Their Common Enemy, 1905 |
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245 | (3) |
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Advertising Health, the National Association for the Prevention and Study of Tuberculosis Promotes Antituberculosis Billboards, 1910 |
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248 | (2) |
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A Georgia Physician Addressing ``the Negro Health Problem'' Warns That Germs Know No Color Line, 1914 |
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250 | (3) |
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The Modern Health Crusade Mobilizes Children for Health Reform, 1918 |
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253 | (3) |
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Popular Health Magazine Hygeia Depicts the Germ as a Stereotyped Dangerous Alien Criminal, 1923 |
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256 | (1) |
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Germ Theory, Public Health Education, and the Moralization of Behavior in the Antituberculosis Crusade |
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257 | (7) |
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Physicians and the New Immigration During the Progressive Era |
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264 | (4) |
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Bubonic Plague, Bacteriology, and Anti-Asian Racism in San Francisco, 1900 |
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268 | (5) |
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273 | (2) |
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Strategies for Improving Medical Care: Institutions, Science, and Standardization, 1870-1940 |
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275 | (42) |
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Educational Reformer Abraham Flexner Writes a Muckraking Report on Medical Schools, 1910 |
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277 | (6) |
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Black Woman Physician Isabella Vandervall Laments the Racial and Gender Discrimination in the Program for Reforming Medical Education, 1917 |
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283 | (3) |
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The American College of Surgeons Urges Standards for Hospital Efficiency and Physician Accountability, 1918 |
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286 | (4) |
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Reform Committee Led by Josephine Goldmark Probes Nursing Education, 1923 |
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290 | (2) |
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Rockefeller Foundation Reacts to a Growing Concern That Medical Education Reform Has Worsened Doctor Shortages in Rural America, 1924 |
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292 | (6) |
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Physicians, Community, and the Qualified Ascent of the American Medical Profession |
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298 | (6) |
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Balancing Educational and Patient Needs in the Creation of the Modern Teaching Hospital |
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304 | (5) |
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A Lesson in the Political Economics of Medical Education |
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309 | (6) |
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315 | (2) |
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Expert Advice, Social Authority, and the Medicalization of Everyday Life, 1890-1930 |
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317 | (32) |
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Questions Answered in a Leading Popular Journal About the Medical Status of Inebriety, 1911 |
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319 | (1) |
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A Doctor Advises Mothers in a Mass-Circulation Women's Journal, 1920 |
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320 | (2) |
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Psychiatrist Augusta Scott Proselytizes for Greater Legal Reliance on Medical Assessments of Mental Health, 1922 |
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322 | (2) |
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The United States Army Tests the Mental Fitness of Recruits, 1922 |
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324 | (3) |
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Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Upholds State Sterilization Practices, 1924 |
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327 | (2) |
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Families Seek Expert Advice from the Children's Bureau When Health Questions Arise, 1916-1926 |
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329 | (3) |
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Physicians and Mothers Construct ``Scientific Motherhood'' |
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332 | (7) |
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Psychiatrists, the ``Hypersexual Female,'' and a New Medical Management of Morality in the Progressive Era |
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339 | (8) |
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347 | (2) |
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The Technological Imperative? Hospitals, Professions, and Patient Expectations, 1890-1950 |
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349 | (39) |
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Physician Charles L. Leonard Extolls the Diagnostic Virtues of the New X-ray Technology, 1897 |
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351 | (1) |
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Editor of Leading Medical Journal Urges ``Precautionary X-ray Examinations,'' 1912 |
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352 | (2) |
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Journalist William Armstrong Reports to Women About His Investigation of the New Birthing Technology ``Twilight Sleep,'' 1915 |
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354 | (3) |
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Doctor Analyzes Clinical Data to Determine the Safety and Effectiveness of ``Twilight Sleep,'' 1915 |
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357 | (4) |
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Advertisement Insists That for a Hospital to Refuse to Buy Its ``Pulmotor'' Is Tantamount to Malpractice, 1919 |
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361 | (1) |
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Medical Educator Francis Peabody Cautions Against Blind Faith in the Clinical Authority of the Laboratory, 1922 |
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362 | (4) |
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Prominent African American Anatomy Professor Montagu Cobb Questions the Assumptions of a Leading Textbook About the Biology of Race, 1942 |
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366 | (2) |
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Making Machines Clinically Useful in the Modern Hospital |
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368 | (4) |
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``Twilight Sleep'': Technology and the Medicalization of Childbirth |
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372 | (7) |
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The Power of Genetic Testing in a Conflicted Society |
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379 | (7) |
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386 | (2) |
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The Culture of Biomedical Research: Human Subjects, Power, and the Scientific Method, 1920-1965 |
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388 | (36) |
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Public Health Service Physicians Publish Their Observations of Untreated Syphilis in a Population of African American Men in Macon County, Alabama, 1936 |
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390 | (3) |
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A Tuskegee Doctor in the Field Requests Research Advice from the Public Health Service Office in Washington, D.C., 1939 |
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393 | (1) |
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Head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Updates the Medical Community on Promising Wartime Science, 1943 |
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394 | (1) |
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The Elite of World War II Medical Science Rally Support for a Greater Public Investment in Biomedical Research, 1945 |
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395 | (5) |
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A Leading Research Scientist Embraces the Nuremberg Code as a Guide to Ethical Practice in an Age of Human Experimentation, 1953 |
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400 | (3) |
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Public Health Service Physicians Praise Thirty Years of Government-Sponsored Human Subject Research in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, 1964 |
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403 | (2) |
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A Private Physician Raises Questions That Go Unanswered About the Morality of the Tuskegee Experiment, 1965 |
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405 | (1) |
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A Physician-Historian-Activist Explores the ``Legacy of Distrust'' Fostered by the Tuskegee Study, 1993 |
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406 | (3) |
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The Politics and Protocols of World War II Venereal Disease and Penicillin Research Programs |
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409 | (7) |
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The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment and the Conventions and Practice of Biomedical Research |
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416 | (7) |
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423 | (1) |
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Public Health and the State During an Age of Biomedical Miracles, 1925-1960 |
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424 | (35) |
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The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Calls Out the Vote for a County Tuberculosis Hospital, ca. 1920s |
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427 | (1) |
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A Group of Private Citizens Organizes to Investigate and Reform the American Health Care System, 1932 |
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428 | (1) |
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Texas Congressman Maury Maverick Pleads for a National Cancer Center, 1937 |
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429 | (2) |
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Science Writer Paul de Kruif and Surgeon General Thomas Parran Join Forces to Admonish Women About the Dangers of Venereal Disease, 1937 |
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431 | (4) |
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President Truman Confronts Congress About the Need for a National Health Program, 1947 |
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435 | (2) |
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Journalist Bernard Devoto Offers a Public Tour of the AMA's Annual Meeting and a Glimpse into the Mind of the Medical Profession, 1947 |
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437 | (4) |
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The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis Instructs Parents and Physicians About Human Trials of a New Polio Vaccine, 1954 |
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441 | (3) |
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Screening Syphilis: Hollywood, the Public Health Service, and the Fight Against Venereal Disease |
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444 | (7) |
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Polio, Politics, Publicity, and Duplicity: The Salk Vaccine and the Protection of the Public |
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451 | (6) |
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457 | (2) |
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Rights, Access, and the Bottom Line: Health Politics and Health Policies, 1960-2000 |
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459 | (40) |
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Medical Editor Warns About the ``New Medical-Industrial Complex,'' 1980 |
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461 | (6) |
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Public Health Advocates Plead for AIDS Awareness, 1980s |
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467 | (2) |
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President Clinton Calls for a Health Security Act, 1993 |
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469 | (5) |
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Journalist Laurie Abraham Captures the Human Drama of Medicare, 1993 |
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474 | (3) |
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Federal Committee Criticizes Actions of the National Cancer Institute, 1994 |
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477 | (4) |
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Surgeon General C. Everett Koop Remembers the ``Early Days of AIDS,'' 1995 |
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481 | (4) |
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Medicare and the Transformation of the Medical Economy |
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485 | (4) |
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Breast Cancer and AIDS Activism Revolutionize Health Politics |
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489 | (9) |
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498 | (1) |
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The Persisting Search for Health and Healing at the End of the Twentieth Century |
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499 | (2) |
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Feminists Reclaim Women's Health Care, 1971 |
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501 | (3) |
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A Psychiatrist Integrates Folk and Medical Healing Practices, 1975 |
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504 | (3) |
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Patient Audre Lorde Confronts Breast Cancer Treatment, 1980 |
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507 | (5) |
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Mexican Immigrant Jesusita Aragon Recounts Her Work as a Midwife, 1980 |
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512 | (4) |
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a Physician and Writer, Ponders the Feminization of the Medical Profession, 1992 |
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516 | (4) |
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Journalist Anne Fadiman Chronicles the Collision of Healing Cultures, 1997 |
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520 | (4) |
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The Doctor as Stranger: Medicine and Public Distrust |
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524 | (8) |
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Risk, Behavior, and Disease: Who Is Responsible for Keeping Americans Healthy? |
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532 | (6) |
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