Medical Malpractice in Nineteenth-Century America Origins and Legacy

Name: Medical Malpractice in Nineteenth-Century America Origins and Legacy
Price: 12.03 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780814718483

ISBN-10: 0814718485

ISBN-13: 9780814718483

Edition: 1992

Authors: Kenneth De Ville, R. B. Freeman

List price: $30.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $31.16

Marketplace

4 new & used from $12.03

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Highly readable . . . . interdisciplinary history of a high order. -- The Historian Well-written and superbly documented . . . . Both physicians and lawyers will find this book useful and fascinating. -- Journal of the American Medical Association This is the first book-length historical study of medical malpractice in 19th-century America and it is exceedingly well done . . . . The author reveals that, beginning in the 1840s, Americans began to initiate malpractice lawsuits against their physicians and surgeons. Among the reasons for this development were the decline in the belief in divine providence, increased competition between physicians and medical sects, and advances in medical…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 4/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Kenneth Allen De Ville received a Ph.D. in history from Rice University and a J.D. from the University of Texas Law School. He is Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities and History at East Carolina Medical School.