{"product_id":"health-care-in-america-john-c-burnham-9781421416083","title":"Health Care in America: A History","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eA comprehensive history of sickness, health, and medicine in America from Colonial times to the present.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHealth Care in America\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the 1600s through the 1990s, Americans turned to a variety of healers, practices, and institutions in their efforts to prevent and survive epidemics of smallpox, yellow fever, cholera, influenza, polio, and AIDS. Health care workers in all periods attended births and deaths and cared for people who had injuries, disabilities, and chronic diseases.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on primary sources, classic scholarship, and a vast body of recent literature in the history of medicine and public health, Burnham finds that traditional healing, care, and medicine dominated the United States until the late nineteenth century, when antiseptic\/aseptic surgery and germ theory initiated an intellectual, social, and technical transformation. He divides the age of modern medicine into several eras: physiological medicine (1910s-1930s), antibiotics (1930s-1950s), technology (1950s-1960s), environmental medicine (1970s-1980s), and, beginning around 1990, genetic medicine. The cumulating developments in each era led to today's radically altered doctor-patient relationship and the insistent questions that swirl around the financial cost of health care.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBurnham's sweeping narrative makes sense of medical practice, medical research, and human frailties and foibles, opening the door to a new understanding of our current concerns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John C. Burnham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421416085\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421416083\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 616\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2015","brand":"John C. Burnham","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46747626275071,"sku":"9781421416083","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1b07c81e-2eef-4868-bd0f-45058f8a6b74.jpg?v=1743584269","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/health-care-in-america-john-c-burnham-9781421416083","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}