The Therapeutic Perspective: Medical Practice, Knowledge, and Identity in America, 1820–1885 by John Harley Warner, and: “For the Welfare of Mankind”: The Commonwealth Fund and American Medicine by Harvey A. McGehee and Susan L. Abrams (review)
Reviewed by:
- The Therapeutic Perspective: Medical Practice, Knowledge, and Identity in America, 1820–1885 by John Harley Warner, and: “For the Welfare of Mankind”: The Commonwealth Fund and American Medicine by Harvey A. McGehee and Susan L. Abrams
John Harley Warner. The Therapeutic Perspective: Medical Practice, Knowledge, and Identity in America, 1820–1885. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986. x + 367 pp.
Harvey A. McGehee and Susan L. Abrams. “For the Welfare of Mankind”: The Commonwealth Fund and American Medicine. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. xiii + 696 pp. Illus.
K.G. Pryke
Department of History
University of Windsor, Ontario
University of Windsor, Ontario
