Health Care in America: A History

by John C. Burnham

Book Overview

A comprehensive history of sickness, health, and medicine in America from Colonial times to the present.

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...

• 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"