THE SOCIAL IDEAS OF AMERICAN PHYSICIANS (1776-1976) By Eugene Perry Link, 1992

Description: THE SOCIAL IDEAS OF AMERICAN PHYSICIANS (1776-1976 by Eugene Perry Link; Susquehanna University Press; 1992 Hardcover book with DJ. DJ: Worn around the corners ,edges and spine. A small bit of sticker residue in the front lower corner. Book: Binding tight. Minor edge/corner wear. Gold imprinting on spine in VG condition. Cover boards are firmly attached. Inside, no markings. No missing pages. All pages are unmarked, clean, and crisp. 6.5" x 9.75" 317 Pages with B&W photos. This study makes the provocative claim that the social lives of physicians are dramatically intertwined with their practice of medicine. It illustrates through detailed examination of the lives of individual physicians how social orientations and social contexts shape medical practice. In doing so, it challenges the claim that advances in medical practice evolve ineluctably from the sequential uncovering of scientific facts. Instead, discoveries emerge from the social concerns of physicians and their immersion in community affairs. The book also demonstrates that physicians are frequently looked down on or even censured for their social involvements - punished, in effect, for the very activities that facilitated their great discoveries.The Social Ideas of American Physicians explores the social orientations, views, and actions of American physicians from postrevolutionary years to the revolutions of rising expectations that characterized social change in mid-twentieth century. It considers the doctors most often discussed in medical history volumes as a basis of selection. Of necessity it also deals with certain physicians who seem to have been pushed toward oblivion because of their association with black slavery, women's rights, the plight of the poor, pacifism, and other reform movements.Presented here is a documentation of these basic themes. This book examines the doctors most often chosen as examples who have been discussed in medical histories and the volumes of The Dictionary of American Biography and The Dictionary of American Medical History Biography (1984), which undoubtedly eliminated many worthy physicians who were leaders in their communities but were recognized only for their medical skills. The social movements - the crusades - of the last two hundred fifty years are the organizing themes of this study, thus several outstanding physicians, who may not be found in standard references, are included. The book includes extensive notes, bibliography, and sources, as well as some photos of individuals influential in the humanitarian developments in medicine and society in the period between 1776 & 1976.

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