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Record Nr.

UNINA9910467157703321

Autore

Thompson Catherine L (Catherine Lynne), <1962->

Titolo

Patient expectations : how economics, religion, and malpractice shaped therapeutics in early America / / Catherine L. Thompson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-61376-362-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Disciplina

362.10685

Soggetti

Physician practice patterns

Physician practice patterns - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Medical practice in Massachusetts -- Self-medication in the nineteenth century -- Money and medicine -- Patient expectations and religious beliefs -- Medicine and malpractice.