Public Health and the Risk Factor
A look at how the concept of "risk factor" has influenced public health and preventive medicine, with an emphasis upon the study of heart disease. The greatest revolutions in twentieth-century public health and preventive medicine have b...
American Physicians in the Nineteenth Century
In American Physicians in the Nineteenth Century, William G. Rothstein sombines sociological with historical analysis to explain the devlopment of the medical profession in nineteenth-century America. After describing how medicine first became a f...
American Medical Schools and the Practice of Medicine
American Medical Schools and the Practice of Medicine
