Description
Book SynopsisPisano, and Yann Robert, this collection of essays highlights new research in disability studies, debates on slavery and literary history, and analyses of literary genre and form.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Part I
1. Health and Disease in a Land New to Europeans
2. Traditional Treatment and Traditional Healers
3. The Beginnings of Change in Traditional Health Care
4. Setting the Stage for Modern Medicine and Health, 1850s to 1880s
Part II
5. The Age of Surgery and Germ Theory, 1880s to 1910s
6. Physiological Medicine, 1910s to 1930s
7. Physicians, Public Health, and Progressivism
8. The Era of Antibiotics, 1930s to 1950s
Part III
9. The Age of Technological Medicine, 1940s to 1960s
10. Doctors, Patients, Medical Institutions, and Society in the Age of Technological Medicine
11. Medicine in the Environmental Era, 1960s to 1980s
12. Environmental-Era Health Care in a Hostile Social Climate
Part IV
13. The Era of Genetic Medicine, Late 1980s and After
14. The Recent Past as a New Epoch
Notes
Index
