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Additional Reading
Webster’s Medical Desk Dictionary (1986), is a reference source for the layman. The Oxford Companion to Medicine, 2 vol., edited by John Walton, Paul B. Beeson, and Ronald Bodley Scott (1986), is a comprehensive text of 20th-century developments and persons.
George Rosen, The Structure of American Medical Practice, 1875–1941 (1983), is a historical study. Particular kinds of medical practice are explored in Wesley Fabb and John Fry (eds.), Principles of Practice Management in Primary Care (1984); Sir Douglas Black et al., Inequalities in Health: The Black Report, edited by Peter Townsend and Nick Davidson (1982); David Sanders and Richard Carver, The Struggle for Health: Medicine and the Politics of Underdevelopment (1985); and V. Djukanovic and E.P. Mach (eds.), Alternative Approaches to Meeting Basic Health Needs in Developing Countries: A Joint UNICEF/WHO Study (1975). Also see the articles of such journals as Private Practice (monthly) and Modern Healthcare (semimonthly). For a view of alternative medicine, see Douglas Stalker and Clark Glymour (eds.), Examining Holistic Medicine (1985); and Richard Grossman, The Other Medicines (1985). The variety of roles in the health-care profession are the subject of Louise Simmers, Diversified Health Occupations (1983); C. Wesley Eisele, William R. Fifer, and Toma C. Wilson, The Medical Staff and the Modern Hospital (1985); and Eli Ginzberg (ed.), From Physician Shortage to Patient Shortage: The Uncertain Future of Medical Practice (1986).
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| Modified link of Web site: National Center for Biotechnological Information - PubMed Central - History of Medicine between tradition and modernity. | Sep 18, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Rear Vision - Modern miracles; a history of medicine. | Dec 20, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: PNAS - Evolutionary perspectives on health and medicine. | Sep 13, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CiteSeerx - In the Name of Medicine (PDF). | Apr 25, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: History World - History of Medicine. | Dec 21, 2024 | ||
| Links added. | May 05, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnological Information - PubMed Central - History of Medicine between tradition and modernity. | Oct 06, 2022 | ||
| Removed media. | Mar 21, 2022 | ||
| Added information on affordable housing in overcrowded urban areas. | Aug 27, 2020 | ||
| Replaced photograph. | Feb 02, 2018 | ||
| Added video. | Jan 18, 2016 | ||
| Added video. | Dec 23, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: History World - History of Medicine. | Feb 06, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Nemours Foundation - For Kids - What Medicines Are and What They Do. | Feb 06, 2013 | ||
| Added image of a healthcare worker in surgical scrubs. | Feb 02, 2012 | ||
| New illustration added. | Jan 15, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Merck Manual - Consumer Version - The Science of Medicine. | Sep 24, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Dec 06, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Library of Christian Medical College - Primitive Medicine. | Feb 20, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Official Site of the National Institutes of Health. | Oct 04, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Official Site of The National Research Council. | Jun 16, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Official Site of The National Research Council. | Jun 16, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: InteliHealth. | May 15, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Aug 25, 2000 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |