Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents III
3. Introduction V
4. 1. The Therapeutic Revolution: Medicine, Meaning, and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America 1
5. 2. Medical Reform and Biomedical Science: Biochemistry–a Case Study 27
6. 3. Divided We Stand: Physiologists and Clinicians in the American Context 67
7. 4. “Physician versus Bacteriologist”: The Ideology of Science in Clinical Medicine 91
8. 5. Doctors, Birth Control, and Social Values: 1830–1970 109
9. 6. Rediscovering Asylums: The Unhistorical History of the Mental Hospital 135
10. 7. Machine Politics and Medical Care: The City Hospital at the Turn of the Century 159
11. 8. The Third Party: Health Insurance in America 177
12. 9. Isabel Hampton and the Professionalization of Nursing in the 1890s 201
13. 10. The Sociocultural Impact of Twentieth-Century Therapeutics 245
14. Suggestions for Further Reading 267
15. Contributors 269