The Therapeutic Perspective: Medical Practice, Knowledge, and Identity in America, 1820-1885 (Princeton Legacy Library) - Softcover

Warner, John Harley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691606048 ISBN 13: 9780691606040

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2014

Synopsis

This new paperback edition makes available John Harley Warner's highly influential, revisionary history of nineteenth-century American medicine. Deftly integrating social and intellectual perspectives, Warner explores a crucial shift in medical history, when physicians no longer took for granted such established therapies as bloodletting, alcohol, and opium and began to question the sources and character of their therapeutic knowledge. He examines what this transformation meant in terms of patient care and assesses the impact of clinical research, educational reform, unorthodox medical movements, newly imported European method, and the products of laboratory science on medical ideology and action.

Originally published in 1997.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

About this title

About the Author

Frank Huisman is a professor in the history of medicine at the University Medical Center Utrecht and Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He also teaches in the Department of History at Maastricht University. He is the author of Stadsbelang en standsbesef and co-editor of Medische geschiedenis in regionaal perspectief. John Harley Warner is Avalon Professor and Chair of the History of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine and a professor of history and of American studies at Yale University. He is the author of The Therapeutic Perspective and Against the Spirit of System.

Review

"Warner tells his story in powerful and lucid . . . prose. . . . [He] has written an important and radical book."---Steven Shapin, The Times Higher Education Supplement

"Winner of the 1991 William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of Medicine"

"Combining a prodigiously researched and thoroughly fascinating depiction of actual nineteenth-century therapy with a sophisticated and widely applicable model of scientific change, The Therapeutic Perspective is a superb book, likely to become a classic in the literature of medical history."---Martin S. Pernick, Science

"[The Therapeutic Perspective] is a clearly written and well-organized analytic study that should bring much credit to its author, for he has made far more understandable an important aspect of our history."---Gert H. Brieger, M.D., Journal of the American Medical Association

"[Warner] pursues a sophisticated argument with extraordinary diligence, thus producing a carefully crafted book. . . . Judged by its methodology, insights, presentation, and prose, this book ranks as a model of American scholarship."---Dora B. Weiner, Social History of Medicine

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0691606048
• ISBN 13: 9780691606040
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 386