Description
Book SynopsisWelch won international fame as an authority on medical issues during American medicine's "heroic age", when medical training and practice underwent revolutionary change. This book was originally published in 1941, by which time Welch had set the standards in American medical education.
Trade ReviewA well-written biography... [and] a good read... It is basically the background of modern medicine in the United States. It explains the curriculum that physicians encountered in medical school. Most importantly, this 50-year old gem does it with style. Maryland Medical Journal
Table of ContentsForeword to the 1993 Johns Hopkins Edition
Chapter 1. The Dean of American Medicine
Chapter 2. Shadows Cast Before
Chapter 3. A Quiet Youth and a Crisis
Chapter 4. Lure of the Classics at Yale
Chapter 5. Convert to Medicine
Chapter 6. The Great Awakening
Chapter 7. Struggles in New York
Chapter 8. The Revelation of Bacteriology
Chapter 9. Laboratory Years
Chapter 10. Research in Medicine
Chapter 11. The Johns Hopkins Medical Schoo.
Chapter 12. The Public Arena
Chapter 13. The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
Chapter 14. Science at the Bedside
Chapter 15. Tragedies and Triumphs
Chapter 16. The Health of the Nation
Chapter 17. War and the Building of Peace
Chapter 18. Across the Pacific
Chapter 19. History of Medicine
Chapter 20. Last Adventures
Appendix A. Acknowledgments
Appendix B. Organizations and Honours
Appendix C. Notes to the Text
Index
