History of Medicine (United States)/Bibliography

Surveys

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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