History of Medicine (United States)#Bibliography

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A list of key readings about History of Medicine (United States).

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### Surveys[edit]

* Beecher, Henry K., and Mark D. Altschule. Medicine at Harvard: The First 300 Years (1977),
* Duffy, John. From Humors to Medical Science: A History of American Medicine (2nd ed. 1993)
* Duffy, John. The Sanitarians: A History of American Public Health (1990)
* Leavitt, Judith W.. and Ronald L. Numbers, eds. Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health (3rd ed 1997)
* Reverby, Susan, and David Rosner, eds. Health Care in America: Essays in Social History (1979)
* Shryock, Richard H. "The American Physician in 1846 and in 1946: A Study in Professional Contrasts," Journal of the American Medical Association 134:417-424, 1947.
* Shryock, Richard H. "The Significance of Medicine in American History." The American Historical Review, Vol. 62, No. 1 (Oct., 1956), pp. 81-91 in JSTOR
* Stevens, Rosemary A., Charles E. Rosenberg, and Lawton R. Burns. History And Health Policy in the United States: Putting the Past Back in (2006) excerpt and text search
* Warner, John Harley,ed. Major Problems in the History of American Medicine and Public Health: Documents and Essays (2000)

### To 1910[edit]

* Thomas Neville Bonner, Becoming a Physician: Medical Education in Great Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, 1750–1945 (1995)
* W. Michael Byrd and Linda A. Clayton. An American Health Dilemma, V.1: A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race, Beginnings to 1900 - Vol. 1 (2000) online edition
* H. H. Cunningham; Doctors in Gray: The Confederate Medical Service. (1958) online edition
* Sharla M. Fett. Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations. (2002)
* Simon Flexner and James Thomas Flexner. William Henry Welch and the Heroic Age of American Medicine (1941).
* John S. Haller Jr.; Medical Protestants: The Eclectics in American Medicine, 1825-1939 (1994) online edition
* Kenneth M. Ludmerer. Learning to Heal: The Development of American Medical Education (1985).
* Kenneth M. Ludmerer, "The Rise of the Teaching Hospital in America," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 38:389-414, 1983.
* Packard, Francis R. A History of Medicine in the United States (1931)
* Wendy E. Parmet, "Health Care and the Constitution: Public Health and the Role of the State in the Framing Era," 20 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 267-335, 285-302 (Winter, 1992) online version
* Charles E. Rosenberg. The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866. (2nd ed 1987)
* Charles E. Rosenberg. The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System (1987)
* Barbara G. Rosenkrantz, Public Health and the State: Changing Views in Massachusetts, 1842–1936 (1972).
* David Rosner, A Once Charitable Enterprise: Hospitals and Health Care in Brooklyn and New York 1885-1915 (1982).
* Morris J. Vogel. The Invention of the Modern Hospital: Boston, 1870-1930 (1980)
* James Harvey Young. "American Medical Quackery in the Age of the Common Man." The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Mar., 1961), pp. 579-593 in JSTOR

### Since 1910[edit]

* Brown, E. Richard. Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America (1979).
* Harvey, A. McGehee. Science at the Bedside: Clinical Research in American Medicine, 1905-1945 (1981).
* Liebenau, Jonathan. Medical Science and Medical Industry: The Formation of the American Pharmaceutical Industry (1987)
* Ludmerer, Kenneth M. Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care. (1999) online edition
* Maulitz, Russell C., and Diana E. Long, eds. Grand Rounds: One Hundred Years of Internal Medicine (1988)
* Rothstein, William G. American Medical Schools and the Practice of Medicine (1987)
* Starr, Paul. The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry (1982)
* Stevens, Rosemary. American Medicine and the Public Interest (1971) covers 1900-1970