This new paperback edition makes available John Harley Warner's highly influential, revisionary history of nineteenth-century American medicine. Deftly integrat

Prior to the nineteenth century, the practice of medicine in the Western world was as much art as science. But, argues W. F. Bynum, 'modern' medicine as practic

In the late nineteenth century, medical educators intent on transforming American physicians into scientifically trained, elite professionals recognized the val

Professional education forms a key element in the transmission of medical learning and skills, in occupational solidarity and in creating and recreating the ver