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948389
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b702759
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Rosenberg, Charles E.
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Explaining epidemics and other studies in the history of medicine /\ Charles E. Rosenberg.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, ©1992.
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x, 357 pages ;; 24 cm
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052139340X
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: 0521395690
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: 9780521393409
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: 9780521395694
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| Notes
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Consists of Prof. Rosenberg's essays reprinted from various sources.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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(cont) What is an epidemic? AIDS in historical perspective -- Explaining epidemics -- Framing disease: illness, society, and history -- Looking backward, thinking forward: the roots of hospital crisis.
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The therapeutic revolution: medicine, meaning, and social change in nineteenth-century America -- Medical text and social context: explaining William Buchan's Domestic medicine -- John Gunn: everyman's physician -- Body and mind in nineteenth-century medicine: some clinical origins of the neurosis construct -- Florence Nightingale on contagion: the hospital as moral universe -- Cholera in nineteenth-century Europe: a tool for social and economic analysis -- The practice of medicine in New York a century ago -- Social class and medical care in nineteenth-century America: the rise and fall of the dispensary -- From almshouse to hospital: the shaping of Philadelphia General Hospital -- Making it in urban medicine: a career in the age of scientific medicine -- The crisis in psychiatric legitimacy: reflections on psychiatry, medicine, and public policy -- Disease and social order in America: perceptions and expectations.
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A history of medicine in which the author discusses themes that have become visible to the public - deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill, the economics of the hospital, and the treatment of AIDS.
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Epidemiology-- History-- 19th century.
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Medicine-- History-- 19th century.
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Delivery of Health Care-- history.
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Disease Outbreaks-- history.
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Socioeconomic Factors.
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Épidémiologie-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.
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Médecine-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.
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44.01 history of medicine.
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Epidemics.
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Epidemiologie
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Épidémiologie-- 19e siècle.
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Epidemiology.
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Epidemiology.
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Gesundheitswesen
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Médecine-- 19e siècle.
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Medicine-- History-- 19th century.
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Medicine-- History.
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Medicine.
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Medizin
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Sozialmedizin
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Geneeskunde.
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| Dewey Classification
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610/.9/034
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| LC Classification
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R149.R67 1992
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WZ 40R813e 1992
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44.01bcl
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44.11bcl
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