Knowledge in the Time of Cholera: The Struggle over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century Download Knowledge in the Time of Cholera: The Struggle over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century for everyone book 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link
Vomiting. Diarrhea. Dehydration. Death. Confusion. In 1832, the arrival of cholera in the United States created widespread panic throughout the country. For the rest of the century, epidemics swept through American cities and towns like wildfire, killing thousands. Physicians of all stripes offered conflicting answers to the cholera puzzle, ineffectively responding with opiates, bleeding, quarantines, and all manner of remedies, before the identity of the dreaded infection was consolidated under the germ theory of disease some sixty years later.
These cholera outbreaks raised fundamental questions about medical knowledge and its legitimacy, giving fuel to alternative medical sects that used the confusion of the epidemic to challenge both medical orthodoxy and the authority of the still-new American Medical Association. In
Knowledge in the Time of Cholera, Owen Whooley tells us the story of those dark days, centering his narrative on rivalries between medical and homeopathic practitioners and bringing to life the battle to control public understanding of disease, professional power, and democratic governance in nineteenth-century America.
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I found this book to be incredibly interesting, though some of the parts with respect to diarrhea were a bit graphic for my taste. All in all, though, an excellent book.
By kberger1972
Unfortunately, the medical profession is denigrated for lacking knowledge that would have defined and managed cholera in an era before science had the tools to accomplish those ends. In this book, "allopathic" medicine becomes a straw man set up in opposition to homeopathic medicine and other cults (including, I suppose, "Science and Health") that have not added any scientific or practical knowledge to our understanding of cholera. The book reads, in fact, like an expansion of a Ph.D. thesis in Epistemology, using historical material irrelevant to the current understanding of medical care or existing medical organizations or medical professionalism..
By David G. Covell