Medical Lives and Scientific Medicine at Michigan, 1891-1969

ISBN-13: 9780472104659 Publisher: University of Michigan Press Publication date: 12/01/1993 Pages: 208 Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d) U.S. health care has changed dramatically during the past century. A new breed of physicians use new machines, vaccines, and ideas in ways that have touched the lives of virtually everyone. How and why did these changes occur?The biographical essays comprising this volume address this question through the stories of six scientific innovators at the University of Michigan Medical School. Michigan was the first major U.S. medical school to admit women, to run its own university hospital, and, by the turn of the century, was recognized as one of the finest medical schools in the country. The people whose stories unfold here played a central part in defining the place of medical science at the University of Michigan and in the larger world of U.S. health care.Introductory sections are followed by biographical profiles of George Dock, Thomas