Social Factors in Medical Progress / / Bernhard J. Stern.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Stern, Bernhard J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1927]; ©1927
• Year of Publication: 1927
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law ; 287
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (136 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; PART I: FACTORS WHICH RETARD THE DIFFUSION OF MEDICAL DISCOVERIES --; CHAPTER I. FACTORS WHICH RETARD THE DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS --; CHAPTER II. CONSERVATISM IN MEDICINE, A PERSPECTIVE --; CHAPTER III. OPPOSITION TO DISSECTION --; CHAPTER IV. OPPOSITION TO HARVEY'S THEORY OF THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD --; CHAPTER V. RECEPTION OF AUENBRUGGER'S THEORY OF PERCUSSION --; CHAPTER VI. THE OPPOSITION TO VACCINATION --; CHAPTER VII. OPPOSITION TO HOLMES AND SEMMELWEIS --; CHAPTER VIII. OPPOSITION TO PASTEUR AND HIS DISCOVERIES --; CHAPTER IX. OPPOSITION TO THE DOCTRINE OF ANTISEPSIS --; CHAPTER X. OPPOSITION TO ASEPSIS --; CHAPTER XI. SUMMARY --; PART II: THE NATURE OF MEDICAL PROGRESS --; CHAPTER I. BIOGRAPHY IN MEDICAL HISTORY --; CHAPTER II. THE DEPENDENCE OF A DISCOVERY UPON THE EXISTING KNOWLEDGE --; CHAPTER III. MULTIPLE DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231890731; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/ster92842
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Bernhard J. Stern.

Looks at two aspects of cultural change in the field of medicine. The first is an analysis of the psychological and sociological factors which slow innovations and second is the nature of progress in medicine.