Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. Abbreviations xv
5. Introduction: Political Transformations in American Medicine 1
6. Part One. The American Medical Disorder
7. 1 Medical Mayhem 21
8. 2 Organizing for Order 37
9. Part Two. Drug Problems
10. 3 Therapeutic Chaos and Commercial Conquest 61
11. 4 Heal Thyself 85
12. 5 Legal Remedy 111
13. Part Three. Public Health and the Body Politic
14. 6 Bacillus Politicus and the Diseased State 137
15. 7 Cattlemen, Commanders, Capitalists, and Crusaders 164
16. 8 Health or Freedom 197
17. Part Four. Schooling Physicians
18. 9 A Plague of Doctors 235
19. 10 Unnatural Selection and Intelligent Design 260
20. 11 A Great Wave of Improvement 287
21. Part Five. Reactionary Turn and Beyond
22. 12 Insurgency 317
23. 13 The Conservative Medico-Political Order 360
24. 14 Medical Power Politics 398
25. 15 A New Medical Progressivism 441
26. Notes 477
27. Index 545