Frontier Medicine: From the ATlantic to the Pacific, 1492-1941 - Brossura

Dary, David

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ISBN 10: 0307455424 ISBN 13: 9780307455420

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009

Riassunto

In this intriguing narrative, David Dary charts how American medicine has evolved since 1492, when New World settlers first began combining European remedies with the traditional practices of the native populations. It’s a story filled with colorful characters, from quacks and con artists to heroic healers and ingenious medicine men, and Dary tells it with an engaging style and an eye for the telling detail. Dary also charts the evolution of American medicine from these trial-and-error roots to its contemporary high-tech, high-cost pharmaceutical and medical industry.

Packed with fascinating facts about our medical past, Frontier Medicine is an engaging and illuminating history of how our modern medical system came into being.

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Recensione:

“A grand-slam contribution to Western history. . . . Dary, one of our greatest historians, reminds us anew how health issues oftentimes determine history.”
—Douglas Brinkley

“Entertaining and informative. . . . Fast-paced and engaging, rich with colorful events and characters.”
—The Washington Post

“Dary knows this material cold, and his narrative accumulates authority and dignity as it rolls along. . . . The results are both a horror show and undeniably engrossing.”
—New York Times Book Review

“Masterly. . . . Enthralling. . . . Enlightening. . . . Dary is particularly effective at showing us the strengths and foibles of early American doctors.”
—The Wall Street Journal

“Impressive. . . . Entertaining. . . . Dary provides an overview not only of medicine but of society and a searching commentary on how the West evolved.”
—North Florida Daily News

“A deeply researched, anecdotal history. . . . [Dary is] a skilled storyteller.”
—Publishers Weekly

“An entertaining survey of the journey to American well-being.”
—Kirkus

“A wealth of historical discovery.”
—Booklist

“Colorful. . . . Rich. . . . Those wanting a light and engaging look at a little-explored field of Western lore will not be disappointed.”
—Library Journal

L'autore:

David Dary is the author of more than a dozen previous books including The Buffalo Book, Cowboy Culture, Entrepreneurs of the Old West, Seeking Pleasure in the Old West, Red Blood and Black Ink, The Santa Fe Trail, The Oregon Trail, and True Tales of the Prairies and Plains. He is the recipient of two Wrangler Awards from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, two Western Writers of America Spur Awards, the WWA’s Wister Owen Award for lifetime achievement, the Westerners International Best Nonfiction Book Award, and the Oklahoma Center for the Book 2008 Arrell Gibson Award for lifetime achievement. Frontier Medicine won the Alvarez Award from the American Medical Writers Association. He lives in Norman, Oklahoma.

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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0307455424
• ISBN 13: 9780307455420
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400