Enter the Physician: The Transformation of Domestic Medicine, 1760-1860 (History Amer Science & Technol)
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0817305149 / Publisher: University Alabama Press, June 1991
Examining the transition in medical care provision (at least for literate, middle- to upper-class wh...
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Examining the transition in medical care provision (at least for literate, middle- to upper-class white Protestants) from lay healers to professional physicians, Murphy comprehensively surveys both popular and professional healthcare literature and finds that health publicists transformed medical care by promoting a reallocation of duties, in a crusade reflecting larger social and cultural trends toward new gender and family roles. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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