Health Care in America: A History

by John C. Burnham

Book Overview

In Health Care in America, historian John C. Burnham describes changes over four centuries of medicine and public health in America. Beginning with seventeenth-century concerns over personal and neighborhood illnesses, Burnham concludes with the arrival of a new epoch in American medicine and health care at the turn of the twenty-first century.

From the 1600s through the 1990s, Americans turned to a variety of healers, practices, and institutions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421416085
• ISBN13: 9781421416083
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"