Revolutionary medicine : the Founding Fathers and mothers in sickness and in health / Jeanne E. Abrams.

• Introduction : health and medicine in the era of America's founders -- George and Martha Washington: health, illness, and the First Family -- Benjamin Franklin: a founding father of American medicine -- Abigail and John Adams: partners in sickness and health -- Thomas Jefferson: advocate for healthy living -- Thomas Jefferson: the health of the nation -- Epilogue: evolutionary medicine.

• Before the advent of modern antibiotics, one's life could be abruptly shattered by contagion and death, and debility from infectious diseases and epidemics was commonplace for early Americans, regardless of social status. Concerns over health affected the founding fathers and their families as it did slaves, merchants, immigrants, and everyone else in North America. As both victims of illness and national leaders, the Founders occupied a unique position regarding the development of public health in America. Revolutionary Medicine refocuses the study of the lives of George and Martha Washington. 

Ämnesord

History, 18th Century  (MeSH)

History, 19th Century  (MeSH)

Public Health Practice  -- history (MeSH)

Delivery of Health Care  -- history (MeSH)

Philosophy, Medical  -- history (MeSH)

United States  (MeSH)

Personnamn

Washington, George, 1732-1799.

Washington, Martha, 1731-1802.

Klassifikation

E302.5 (LCC)

WA 11 AA1 (NLM)

973.2 (DDC)

Kqa (kssb/8 (machine generated))