Exploring American Healthcare through 50 Historic Treasures

Tegan Kehoe

doi:10.5771/9781538135471

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-3546-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-3547-1
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 290
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Timeline of Objects No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
Ch01. Unwashed Groins and Child Labor: Cancer in the Early Industrial Age No access Pages 5 - 8
Ch02. George Washington’s Toothbrush No access Pages 9 - 12
Ch03. The Age of the Vaccine No access Pages 13 - 18
Ch04. No Wrong Way to Eat No access Pages 19 - 22
Ch05. A Pioneering Operation No access Pages 23 - 26
Ch06. Healing by a Higher Power No access Pages 27 - 30
Ch07. Morton’s Ether Inhaler and the Advent of Anesthesia No access Pages 31 - 34
Ch08. Bitters and Irregulars: Alternative Healing in the Nineteenth Century No access Pages 35 - 40
Ch09. Blood Shed after the Battle: Bleeding Cups No access Pages 41 - 44
Ch10. Under the Surgeon’s Tent: The Physician in the Civil War No access Pages 45 - 48
Ch11. “Inflammatory Mischief ”Meets Antiseptic Techniques No access Pages 49 - 52
Ch12. Answering the Milk Question No access Pages 53 - 56
Ch13. Skull Shape and Scientific Racism No access Pages 57 - 60
Ch14. “Health and Comfort of Body, with Grace and Beauty of Form” No access Pages 61 - 64
Ch15. East Meets West in the Medicine Cabinet: A Chinese Doctor in America No access Pages 65 - 68
Ch16. The “Cure” That Wasn’t No access Pages 69 - 72
Ch17. Cocaine the Medicine and the Drug No access Pages 73 - 76
Ch18. Don Pedrito, a Legendary Healer No access Pages 77 - 80
Ch19. A Wooden Leg in a Mechanized World No access Pages 81 - 84
Ch20. A Community Doctor’s Legacy No access Pages 85 - 88
Ch21. Carville, the “Louisiana Leper Home” No access Pages 89 - 92
Ch22. The Professional Nurse Only No access Pages 93 - 96
Ch23. The Pandemic of the Century: The 1918 Flu No access Pages 97 - 100
Ch24. The Bubonic Plague Meets Bacteriology No access Pages 101 - 104
Ch25. Safe, Simple, Sure?The Power of X-Rays No access Pages 105 - 108
Ch26. “Are You Playing the Health Game?” No access Pages 109 - 112
Ch27. The Problem with “Good” Genes No access Pages 113 - 116
Ch28. Machinery and Machinations No access Pages 117 - 120
Ch29. Diabetes: A Fatal Disease Becomes Chronic No access Pages 121 - 124
Ch30. The Tools of a Contested Trade: A Midwife’s Kit No access Pages 125 - 128
Ch31. Sipping on the Sunshine Vitamin No access Pages 129 - 132
Ch32. Preemie Care beyond the World’s Fair No access Pages 133 - 136
Ch33. The Penicillin Revolution No access Pages 137 - 140
Ch34. Blood Transfusion Comes of Age No access Pages 141 - 144
Ch35. Insuring and Ensuring Health No access Pages 145 - 148
Ch36. Nursing at War No access Pages 149 - 152
Ch37. The Science and Politics of Inhaling Dust No access Pages 153 - 156
Ch38. Health Uplifted, Health Upended No access Pages 157 - 162
Ch39. DDT: The Double-Edged Sword No access Pages 163 - 166
Ch40. The Iron Lung and the Polio Epidemics No access Pages 167 - 170
Ch41. Two Eras of Change in Pharmacy No access Pages 171 - 174
Ch42. More Than a Metaphor: The Straitjacket No access Pages 175 - 180
Ch43. Changing Ways of Looking at the Gut No access Pages 181 - 184
Ch44. The Pill’s New Era of Choice (For Some) No access Pages 185 - 188
Ch45. Smoking under Scrutiny No access Pages 189 - 192
Ch46. Ed Roberts and the Independent Living Movement No access Pages 193 - 196
Ch47. Bypassing the Heart No access Pages 197 - 200
Ch48. False Hopelessness or False Hope: The Early Years of AIDS No access Pages 201 - 204
Ch49. September 11 and Emergency Response No access Pages 205 - 208
Ch50. Saving Lives amid the Opioid Crisis No access Pages 209 - 212
Conclusion No access Pages 213 - 214
Notes No access Pages 215 - 248
Bibliography No access Pages 249 - 274
Index No access Pages 275 - 286
About the Author No access Pages 287 - 290