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History of Medicine in the Early U.S. Navy (POD)

ISBN-13: 9780801866722
Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
By Harold D. Langley
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Local release date: 14/11/2000
Format: Paperback 464 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: History of medicine [MBX]

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In this first detailed history of the development of medical treatment and professionalization in the early U.S. Navy, Harold Langley traces the evolution of medical practice in the Navy from the time Congress authorized the building of the first frigates in 1794, to the establishment of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in the Navy Department in 1842. Langley reveals that the earliest federal efforts to deal with sailors' health care problems were seriously flawed. The early hospital system was poorly funded, sailors' contributions were misappropriated, and the hospitals themselves were often administered in a shameful fashion. At the same time, medical officers commanded little respect from their naval colleagues, who rarely considered medical men to be ''real officers.'' In the first half of the nineteenth century, legal and administrative changes significantly improved the lot of medical officers and of the men under their care. Langley shows how these changes helped to shape health care in the later U.S. Navy. He also offers detailed descriptions of just what the naval doctor did, and examines the influence of health on readiness, morale, promotions, and retention.

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Preface

Secretaries of the Navy, 1798-1843

Chapter 1 The Health, Welfare, and Safety of Seamen

Chapter 2 The Quasi-War with France

Chapter 3: Medicine and Health in the Quasi-War

Chapter 4: The Barbary Wars

Chapter 5: New Orleans

Chapter 6: Medical Care Ashore: Boston

Chapter 7: Naval Health Care in the North and South

Chapter 8: Washington, D.C.

Chapter 9: The War of 1812 at Sea

Chapter 10: The War of 1812 Ashore

Chapter 11: The War of 1812 on the Lakes

Chapter 12: Toward a More Professional Service

Chapter 13: Health Care and Hospitals, 1816-1829

Chapter 14: Continuing Reform Efforts

Chapter 15: Health Problems, 1829-1842

Chapter 16: The Growth of Professionalism

Chapter 17: Establishment of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

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""Chronicling half a century of history in acomprehendible, yet thorough fashion is no easy task. In A History of Medicine in the Early U.S. Navy, Harold Langley is able to accomplish both... an impressive overview of medicine in the early Navy.""

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