Caitjan Gainty: The Product of Medicine

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In The Product of Medicine, Caitjan Gainty traces the history of the early twentieth-century medical efficiency movement in the United States, restoring it as a significant driver of medicine's modernization while also revealing its broader significance as a cultural force shaping modern American life. Covering a range of efficiency's uses in medicine-from the assembly-line structure of the early Mayo Clinic and Henry Ford Hospital to the landmark Flexner Report and the prosecution of the American Medical Association as a monopoly-Gainty challenges long-standing presumptions about how medicine acquired power and prestige during the Progressive Era. Gainty demonstrates how, rather than as a result of pathbreaking scientific advance or the rise of professional organizations, medicine came to be understood as modern through the more prosaic processes of standardization and organization. In doing so, Gainty uncovers medical efficiency as not only a function of industrial capitalism but also a vehicle for balancing populist and autocratic tendencies to maintain a workable American democracy.

Über den Autor

Caitjan Gainty is Senior Lecturer in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine at King’s College, London.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. The Product 17
2. The Factory 39
3. The Standard 63
4. The Labor 91
5. The Market 115
6. Monopoly 139
Afterword 163
Notes 169
Bibliography 199
Index 221

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781478031604
ISBN-10:	1478031603
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Gainty, Caitjan
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Caitjan Gainty
Erscheinungsdatum:	18.03.2025
Gewicht:	0,396 kg