Book ID: CBB001022979

John Shaw Billings: Science and Medicine in the Gilded Age (2009)

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Cassedy, James H. (Author)


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Publication Date: 2009
Physical Details: 253 pp.; index
Language: English

Description On Billings as a leader of the public health movement of late 19th-century America.


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Review Connor, J. T. H. (2011) Review of "John Shaw Billings: Science and Medicine in the Gilded Age". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 569). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Polu, Sandhya Lakshmi
Hong, Soo Kyeong
Ritch, Alistair
Hernandez Berrones, Jethro
Reichardt, Eike
Pols, Hans
Journals
Korean Journal of Medical History
Journal of World History
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Health and History
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Publishers
University of New Mexico Press
York University (Canada)
University of New York at Stony Brook
University of California, San Francisco
Wallstein Verlag
University of Rochester Press
Concepts
Public health
Medicine and government
Disease and diseases
Medicine and politics
Hygiene
Medicine and society
People
Theunissen, W. F.
Shortt, Elizabeth Smith
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Places
Mexico
India
England
Germany
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
New Brunswick (Canada)
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