Queen of the professions : the rise and decline of medical prestige and power in America

Summary: "Only in the latter part of the nineteenth century did medicine achieve the full eight characteristics of a modern profession. And yet, so quickly, it has seen one--autonomy--erode significantly and is beginning to experience the crumbling of another: monopoly of the market of services. Can social prestige and economic rewards be far behind?"--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781442226319
ISBN: 1442226315
ISBN: 9781442226302
ISBN: 1442226307
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource.
Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: What makes a profession a profession? -- Part I. From healing art to scientific profession : medicine 500 B.C.E. to 1850 C.E -- Swearing by Apollo -- The Levant : saving grace of the Middle Ages -- Physicians, barbers and "old wives" -- Hospitals or hospices? -- Gifts from the sister sciences -- Part II. The making of a doctor : the evolution of medical education -- Acolytes and apprentices -- Starting with Salerno : Europe's first medical schools -- From sacrilege to science : dissection and observation -- Three paths leading to modern medical education -- Money talks : Abraham Flexner's reforms -- High tech, low touch? -- Part III. Changing concepts of medical ethics : when values collide -- A sacred trust : roots of medical ethics -- First, do no harm : the introduction of humanistic values -- The physician as gentle-man -- Balancing individual and public benefit : experimental abuses -- Gods no more : the rise of patients' rights -- Collisions of cultures -- Part IV. The future of medicine as a profession : from Hippocrates to Dr. House -- Cures, at last! -- The conundrum of insurance : raising income, threatening autonomy -- Expanding access to the physician's role -- What it all means.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.