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- Book Title
- Exploring American Healthcare through 50 Historic Treasures
- Publication Name
- Exploring American Healthcare Through 50 Historic Treasures
- Title
- Exploring American Healthcare through 50 Historic Treasures
- ISBN-10
- 1538135469
- EAN
- 9781538135464
- ISBN
- 9781538135464
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
- Format
- Hardcover
- Release Year
- 2022
- Release Date
- 15/01/2022
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Length
- 9.4 in
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Item Weight
- 24.7 Oz
- Genre
- Medicine
- Subject
- Public Health, Museum Administration & Museology, History, United States / General
- Series
- Aaslh Exploring America's Historic Treasures Ser.
- Subject Area
- Business & Economics, History, Medical
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Type
- Textbook
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1538135469
ISBN-13
9781538135464
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20050407784
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Publication Name
Exploring American Healthcare Through 50 Historic Treasures
Language
English
Subject
Public Health, Museum Administration & Museology, History, United States / General
Publication Year
2022
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Business & Economics, History, Medical
Series
Aaslh Exploring America's Historic Treasures Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
24.7 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.3 in
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Trade
LCCN
2021-021610
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Centered on the way tangible artifacts can encourage empathy with patients of the past, Kehoe's well-sourced and approachable primer to the history of the health sciences through its material culture could start curious budding history enthusiasts on a lifelong love affair with the subject., Though much of medical practice is now conducted digitally and virtually, illness and healing still exist as they always have in the realm of bodies, substances, and objects. In this informative and visually fascinating book Tegan Kehoe explores the history of medicine through the physical. George Washington's toothbrush, an iron lung, a straitjacket, a nurse's uniform, and an ambulance crushed on 9/11 are among the 50 artifacts through which Kehoe expertly captures the ingenuity, heroism, cruelty, and even humor of medicine through the ages., Like visiting a museum without ever leaving your favorite reading chair. Kehoe offers a fascinating selection of objects with lively and engaging interpretations., As the COVID-19 pandemic pushes public health and health care to the forefront of global concern, Kehoe offers great insight into how conceptualizations and treatments of disease and promotion of health have evolved over centuries through analysis of 50 medical artifacts. The collection would be a great supplement to George Rosen's canonical A History of Public Health though of course Kehoe's text brings readers closer to the present. The author's introduction notes that medicine has been variously conceived, whether as a progressive march forward of science or as a gruesome, macabre activity. The objects presented here include those representing both sides of the conceptual universe, from tools employed in developing vaccines and antibiotics, encapsulating the former, to some used in nefarious applications of eugenics and pesticide use, recalling the latter. The volume will be a great tool for students of public health history, presenting tangible evidence from the late 1700s to the present. Kehoe's text may also help contextualize current culture wars surrounding responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, including popular debates about masking, vaccinations, and lockdowns. This is a great resource for undergraduates, scholars of medical history, and medical antiquarians. Highly recommended. All readers.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
362.10973
Table Of Content
Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Unwashed Groins and Child Labor: Cancer in the Early Industrial Age Chapter 2: George Washington's Toothbrush Chapter 3: The Age of the Vaccine Chapter 4: No Wrong Way to Eat Chapter 5: A Pioneering Operation Chapter 6: Healing by a Higher Power Chapter 7: Morton's Ether Inhaler and the Advent of Anesthesia Chapter 8: Bitters and Irregulars: Alternative Healing in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 9: Blood Shed After the Battle: Bleeding Cups Chapter 10: Under the Surgeon's Tent: The Physician in the Civil War Chapter 11: "Inflammatory Mischief" Meets Antiseptic Techniques Chapter 12: Answering the Milk Question Chapter 13: Skull Shape and Scientific Racism Chapter 14: "Health and Comfort of Body, With Grace and Beauty of Form" Chapter 15: East Meets West in the Medicine Cabinet: A Chinese Doctor in America Chapter 16: The "Cure" That Wasn't Chapter 17: Cocaine the Medicine and the Drug Chapter 18: Don Pedrito, a Legendary Healer Chapter 19: A Wooden Leg in a Mechanized World Chapter 20: A Community Doctor's Legacy Chapter 21: Carville, the "Louisiana Leper Home" Chapter 22: The Professional Nurse Only Chapter 23: The Pandemic of the Century: The 1918 Flu Chapter 24: The Bubonic Plague Meets Bacteriology Chapter 25: Safe, Simple, Sure? The Power of X-Rays Chapter 26: "Are You Playing The Health Game?" Chapter 27: The Problem with "Good" Genes Chapter 28: Machinery and Machinations Chapter 29: Diabetes: A Fatal Disease Becomes Chronic Chapter 30: The Tools of a Contested Trade: A Midwife's Kit Chapter 31: Sipping on the Sunshine Vitamin Chapter 32: Preemie Care Beyond the World's Fair Chapter 33: The Penicillin Revolution Chapter 34: Blood Transfusion Comes of Age Chapter 35: Insuring and Ensuring Health Chapter 36: Nursing at War Chapter 37: The Science and Politics of Inhaling Dust Chapter 38: Health Uplifted, Health Upended Chapter 39: DDT: The Double-Edged Sword Chapter 40: The Iron Lung and the Polio Epidemics Chapter 41: Two Eras of Change in Pharmacy Chapter 42: More than a Metaphor: The Straitjacket Chapter 43: Changing Ways of Looking at the Gut Chapter 44: The Pill's New Era of Choice (For Some) Chapter 45: Smoking Under Scrutiny Chapter 46: Ed Roberts and the Independent Living Movement Chapter 47: Bypassing the Heart Chapter 48: False Hopelessness or False Hope: The Early Years of AIDS Chapter 49: September 11 and Emergency Response Chapter 50: Saving Lives Amid the Opioid Crisis Conclusion About the Author Bibliography
Synopsis
Healthcare history is more than leeches and drilling holes in skulls. It is stories of scientific failures and triumphs. Exploring American Healthcare through 50 Historic Treasures presents a visual and narrative history of health and medicine in the United States, tracing paradigm shifts such as the introduction of anesthesia, the adoption of germ theory, and advances in public health. In this book, museum artifacts are windows into both famous and ordinary people's experiences with healthcare throughout American history, from patent medicines and faith healing to laboratory science. With 50 vignette-like chapters and 50 color photographs, Exploring American Healthcare through 50 Historic Treasures showcases little-known objects that illustrate the complexities of our relationship with health, such as a bottle from the short period when the Schlitz beer company sold lager that was supposed to be high in vitamin D during the first vitamin craze. It also highlights famous moments in medicine, such as the discovery of penicillin, as illustrated by a mold-culturing pan. Each artifact tells some piece of the story of how its creators or users approached fundamental questions in health. Some of these questions are, "What causes sickness, and what causes health?" and "How much can everyone master the principles of health, and how much do laypeople need to rely on outside authorities?" Exploring American Healthcare through 50 Historic Treasures describes the days when surgeons worked on patients without anesthesia and wiped their scalpels on their coats, and the day that EMTs raced to provide help when the Twin Towers were attacked in 2001. The book discusses social and cultural influences that have shaped healthcare, providing insight relevant to today's problems and colorful anecdotes along the way., This full-color book tells the story of American healthcare history through color photographs of real objects from museums and both famous and little-known medical discoveries., Healthcare history is more than leeches and drilling holes in skulls. It is stories of scientific failures and triumphs. Exploring American Healthcare History through 50 Historic Treasures presents a visual and narrative history of health and medicine in the United States, tracing paradigm shifts such as the introduction of anesthesia, the adoption of germ theory, and advances in public health. The book provides windows into ordinary people's experiences with different schools of thought about treatment, from patent medicines and faith healing to hospital-based clinical trials. Exploring American Healthcare History showcases little-known objects that illustrate the complexities of our relationship with health, like a set of teeth from a small town in Arkansas where the link between fluoride and dental health was first discovered. It also highlights famous moments in medicine, such as the discovery of penicillin, and puts them into social and cultural context. Exploring American Healthcare History through 50 Historic Treasures will discuss concepts that are key to history curricula and to using history as a lens to understand society. The concepts include healthcare's intersection with race, law, and changing cultural attitudes in a society shaped by science, religion, and economic forces. The choice of "healthcare" as the focus reflects the fact that the book encompasses conventional medicine, surgery, nursing, alternative medicines, and public health. The book discusses some areas of healthcare history in which practitioners were led by bias or greed rather than evidence. Some patent medicines, for example, lived up to their reputation as get-rich-quick schemes for their inventors. A few of the historic artifacts in the book, such as eugenics medals awarded to families with "good" genes, are treasures in the sense that they are a vital connection to shameful episodes in our past. The book explores artifacts and historic sites as individual things or places with their own stories, and as objects and sites representative of larger trends. This full-color book with over 50 photographs of artifacts like a beer advertised as harnessing the health-giving power of the sun show how the advancing science of health touched people's everyday lives as well as their doctor visits. Patent medicines and machines highlight ways that people avoided or reacted to mainstream medicine, like faith healing, commercial nostrums, and alternative medicine. Thermometers and mold-culturing pans provide a tour of developments such as professional nursing and the "miracle drug" penicillin, while offering insight into epidemics from tuberculosis, plague, and the 1918 flu to HIV and opioid misuse. Historical caregivers featured include Pedro Jaramillo, a Mexican-American curandero, Dr. Susan LaFlesche Picotte, a trailblazing Omaha medical doctor, and Mattie Donnell Hicks, a Black nurse who served with both segregated and integrated units in the Army Corps of Nurses. This book describes the days when surgeons worked on patients without anesthesia and wiped their scalpels on their coats, and the day that EMTs raced to provide help when the Twin Towers were attacked in 2001, providing insight relevant to today's problems and colorful anecdotes along the way.
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