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Burnham's sweeping narrative makes sense of medical practice, medical research, and human frailties and foibles, opening the door to a new understanding of our current concerns.
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In Health Care in America, historian John C. Burnham describes changes over four centuries of medicine and public health in America. Beginning with seventeenth-century concerns over personal and neighborhood illnesses, Burnham concludes with the arrival of a new epoch in American medicine and health care at the turn of the twenty-first century. From the 1600s through the 1990s, Americans turned to a variety of healers, practices, and institutions in their efforts to prevent and survive epidemics of smallpox, yellow fever, cholera, influenza, polio, and AIDS. Health care workers in all periods attended births and deaths and cared for people who had injuries, disabilities, and chronic diseases. Drawing on primary sources, classic scholarship, and a vast body of recent literature in the history of medicine and public health, Burnham finds that traditional healing, care, and medicine dominated the United States until the late nineteenth century, when antiseptic/aseptic surgery and germ theory initiated an intellectual, social, and technical transformation.He divides the age of modern medicine into several eras: physiological medicine (1910s-1930s), antibiotics (1930s-1950s), technology (1950s-1960s), environmental medicine (1970s-1980s), and, beginning around 1990, genetic medicine. The cumulating developments in each era led to today's radically altered doctor-patient relationship and the insistent questions that swirl around the financial cost of health care. Burnham's sweeping narrative makes sense of medical practice, medical research, and human frailties and foibles, opening the door to a new understanding of our current concerns.
Author Biography
John C. Burnham is a research professor of history at the Ohio State University, where he is also an associated scholar in the Medical Heritage Center. His most recent books include What Is Medical History? and Accident Prone: A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I.1. Health and Disease in a Land New to Europeans2. Traditional Treatment and Traditional Healers3. The Beginnings of Change in Traditional Health Care4. Setting the Stage for Modern Medicine and Health, 1850s to 1880sPart II.5. The Age of Surgery and Germ Theory, 1880s to 1910s6. Physiological Medicine, 1910s to 1930s7. Physicians, Public Health, and Progressivism8. The Era of Antibiotics, 1930s to 1950sPart III9. The Age of Technological Medicine, 1940s to 1960s10. Doctors, Patients, Medical Institutions, and Society in the Age of Technological Medicine11. Medicine in the Environmental Era, 1960s to 1980s12. Environmental-Era Health Care in a Hostile Social ClimatePart IV.13. The Era of Genetic Medicine, Late 1980s and After14. The Recent Past as a New EpochNotesIndex
Review
Burnham writes for a broad audience, and the prose is easily accessible to undergraduates. Choice Captivating and enjoyable. Stanford Magazine Burnham's thematic analysis of more than four hundred years of history is clearly presented, and his sweeping survey is illustrated with detailed stories and evocative images. Health Care in America is grand narrative in its finest form. This book will be most useful for advanced undergraduates, particularly students interested in the health-related disciplines, as well as graduate students interested in the long history of medicine. Burnham provides a great starting point for scholars interested in the broad meaning of medicine and the questions associated with health and healing. Journal of the History of Medicine Burnham accomplishes exactly what the general synthesis should: providing the reader with all of the basic, essential information, while simultaneously provoking questions addressed in more specialized texts. On that score, Burnham performs quite admirably, and, as such, I heartily recommend Health Care in America. British Journal for the History of Science Burnham's volume will rightfully find a wide readership among historians and lay readers alike, and this ambitious, thoughtful, sweeping synthesis of the history of American health care is a welcome addition to the historiography of medicine in the United States. Isis ... [Burnham] concentrates not so much on medical, surgical, or even administrative innovations, but on the social, political, religious, and economic reactions to these innovations. By thus seeing the development of American medicine in this broad context, he brings into sharp relief the interaction between the health care enterprise and those who either cannot afford health care or have inadequate access to it. Watermark
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A synthetic work that enlightens a complex historical subject, Health Care in America is logical, coherent, and very well-written. There are many books that touch upon the American health care system, but none that provide a comprehensive overview that covers the span of American history. This book, which represents the thinking of a mature and distinguished intellectual, will be of interest to scholars, students, and laypeople in history, medicine, policy studies, and the social sciences. -- Gerald N. Grob, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, author of Aging Bones: A Short History of Osteoporosis
Long Description
InHealth Care in America, historian John C. Burnham describes changes over four centuries of medicine and public health in America. Beginning with seventeenth-century concerns over personal and neighborhood illnesses, Burnham concludes with the arrival of a new epoch in American medicine and health care at the turn of the twenty-first century. From the 1600s through the 1990s, Americans turned to a variety of healers, practices, and institutions in their efforts to prevent and survive epidemics of smallpox, yellow fever, cholera, influenza, polio, and AIDS. Health care workers in all periods attended births and deaths and cared for people who had injuries, disabilities, and chronic diseases. Drawing on primary sources, classic scholarship, and a vast body of recent literature in the history of medicine and public health, Burnham finds that traditional healing, care, and medicine dominated the United States until the late nineteenth century, when antiseptic/aseptic surgery and germ theory initiated an intellectual, social, and technical transformation. He divides the age of modern medicine into several eras: physiological medicine (1910s1930s), antibiotics (1930s1950s), technology (1950s1960s), environmental medicine (1970s1980s), and, beginning around 1990, genetic medicine. The cumulating developments in each era led to todays radically altered doctor-patient relationship and the insistent questions that swirl around the financial cost of health care. Burnhams sweeping narrative makes sense of medical practice, medical research, and human frailties and foibles, opening the door to a new understanding of our current concerns.
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""... [Burnham] concentrates not so much on medical, surgical, or even administrative innovations, but on the social, political, religious, and economic reactions to these innovations. By thus seeing the development of American medicine in this broad context, he brings into sharp relief the interaction between the health care enterprise and those who either cannot afford health care or have inadequate access to it.""
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This book will be most useful for advanced undergraduates, particularly students interested in the health-related disciplines, as well as graduate students interested in the long history of medicine. Burnham provides a great starting point for scholars interested in the broad meaning of medicine and the questions associated with health and healing.
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A comprehensive history of sickness, health, and medicine in America from Colonial times to the present.
Details ISBN1421416085 Author John C. Burnham Pages 616 Audience Age 13 Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press Year 2015 ISBN-10 1421416085 ISBN-13 9781421416083 Format Paperback Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press Subtitle A History Place of Publication Baltimore, MD Country of Publication United States DEWEY 362.10973 Media Book Short Title HEALTH CARE IN AMER Language English Birth 1929 Affiliation Ohio State University Position Research Professor History and Associated Scholar Publication Date 2015-07-10 NZ Release Date 2015-07-10 US Release Date 2015-07-10 UK Release Date 2015-07-10 Illustrations 43 Line drawings, black and white; 99 Halftones, black and white Alternative 9781421416076 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2015-05-14 We've got this
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