Medicine in Maryland by Jane Eliot Sewell
According to Jane Eliot Sewell, the Maryland medical experience has been a study in diversity, with sharp divisions along gender, racial, class, religious and geographical lines. This diversity of medical practice partly reflects the general development of American medicine. Yet in other ways, she argues, the history of Maryland medicine is unique. This history of medicine in the state of Maryland tells the story of the people and institutions who helped shape not only the nation's health professions but also the very quality of lives Americans led. Among the topics covered are the development of the Medical Hall in late-18th-century Harford County, the evolution of the teaching hospital that became the University of Maryland, and the origins of the scientific tradition established at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Medical School, and School of Public Health.
"Sewell's work is especially noteworthy for its breadthShe rightly starts with the assumption that health and medical care should include as many different types of practitioners as possible, not only sectarians but pharmacists, dentists, and nurses. She covers public health as well, something not necessarily done in older, more hagiographic histories of state medical heroes."--Margaret Humphreys, Duke University
Jane Eliot Sewell has written on nineteenth-century gynecological surgery, obstetrical surgery, and vaccine development. Her most recent book, with Louis Galambos, is 'Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp & Dohme, and Molford, 1895-1995'.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801861277 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801861276 |
| Title | Medicine in Maryland |
| Author | Jane Eliot Sewell |
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| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Year published | 1999-06-24 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
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