Health care in America : a history / John C. Burnham.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2015]

xiv, 596 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Health and disease in a land new to Europeans -- Traditional treatment and traditional healers -- The beginnings of change in traditional health care -- Setting the stage for modern medicine and health : the 1850s to the 1880s -- The 1880s to the 1910s: the age of surgery and germ theory -- Physiological medicine, 1910s-1930s -- Physicians, public health, and progressivism -- The era of antibiotics, 1930s-1950s -- The age of technological medicine, 1940s-1960s -- Doctors, patients, medical institutions, and society in the age of technological medicine -- Medicine in the environmental era, 1960s-1980s -- Environmental-era health care in a hostile social climate -- The era of genetic medicine: the late 1980s and after -- Conclusion : the recent past as a new epoch.