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Seeking the Cure : A History of Medicine in America by Ira M. Rutkow is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Seeking the Cure : A History of Medicine in America about?
A timely, authoritative, and entertaining history of medicine in America by an eminent physician Despite all that has been written and said about American medicine, narrative accounts of its history are uncommon. Until Ira Rutkow’s Seeking the Cure, there have been no modern works, either for the lay reader or the physician, that convey the extraordinary story of medicine in the United States. Yet for more than three centuries, the flowering of medicine—its triumphal progress from ignorance to science—has proven crucial to Americans’ under-standing of their country and themselves. Seeking the Cure tells the tale of American medicine with a series of little-known anecdotes that bring to life the grand and unceasing struggle by physicians to shed unsound, if venerated, beliefs and practices and adopt new medicines and treatments, often in the face of controversy and scorn. Rutkow expertly weaves the stories of individual doctors—what they believed and how they practiced—with the economic, political, and social issues facing the nation. Among the book’s many historical personages are Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington (whose timely adoption of a controversial me
Who reads Seeking the Cure : A History of Medicine in America?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ira M. Rutkow
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781416538417
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Medical, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.29 / 5 (35 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
