| Medical Culture in Revolutionary America: Feuds, Duels and a Court Martial Contributor(s): Myrsiades, Linda (Author) |
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ISBN: 0838641903 ISBN-13: 9780838641903 Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press OUR PRICE: $101.65 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2009 Annotation: Medical Culture in Revolutionary America takes place at a time when American medicine was caught in a period of catastrophic change. This study focuses on doctors' feuds and duels, yellow fever epidemics in Philadelphia, and a court-martial of the medical director of army hospitals in the Revolutionary War. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical - History | Revolutionary |
| Dewey: 610 |
| LCCN: 2008029494 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.00 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Focusing on doctors' feuds and duels, yellow fever epidemics in Philadelphia, and a court-martial of the medical director of army hospitals in the Revolutionary War, this title is set during a time when American medicine was caught in a period of catastrophic change. |