Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Prologue: One of the Best and Truest Men in the Profession; 1. The Age of Jackson Begins; 2. Medicine in the Age of Jackson; 3. Regular Medicine's Choice; 4. Becoming a Doctor; 5. A Disease of Perennial Interest; 6. Practice and Politics; 7. Duty, Honor, Country, Statehood; 8. Army Medicine and Public Health; 9. Medical Organizing; 10. His Lucid and Graceful Pen; 11. A Particularly Challenging Year; 12. The Moral High Ground; 13. Going It Alone; 14. Medical Licensure Becomes a Public Health Problem; 15. Reeves' Legislative Triumph
16. The Eminent Domain of Sanitary Science17. Going South; 18. Koch's Rivals; 19. Professional Indifference to Professional Enemies; Epilogue: Medical Professionalism; Chapter Notes; Bibliography of Selected Sources; Index
Summary
"This biography of James Edmund Reeves illuminates landmarks of American health care: the troubled introduction of clinical epidemiology and development of botanic medicine and homeopathy, the Civil War's stimulation of sanitary science and hospital medicine, the rise of government involvement, the revolution in laboratory medicine, and the explosive growth of phony cures"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 18, 2019)
