Medicine by the People How Ordinary People Changed American Healthcare

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Title: Medicine by the People How Ordinary People Changed American Healthcare
Author: Jim Downs
Category: Social Science, History, Health Care Issues
Language: English | 182 Pages | ISBN: 9781324086611

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A grassroots history of American medicine that shows how regular people were architects of medical knowledge and care.
Most histories of medicine center doctors: the standard-bearers of expertise and innovation. Yet these narratives underplay the role that ordinary people have, and always have had, on medicine and public health.
Throughout early American history, everyday people-from enslaved individuals to village midwives to cowboys-have been caring for their communities. In colonial Boston, Black people's knowledge led to smallpox inoculations, stymieing that epidemic. Midwives, more plentiful than doctors, also delivered babies more successfully. During the Civil War, women served, taking care of the wounded, making nutritious food, and keeping hospitals clean.
Once doctors professionalized in the later 1800s, they protected their domain. Still, the Black community of the early 1900s created a public campaign to prevent...

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