Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture

Michelle Burnham is a professor of English at Santa Clara University. She is author of Folded Selves: Colonial American Writing in the World System and editor of A Separate Star: Selected Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson. Eve Tavor Bannet is a professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. She is author of Transatlantic Stories and the History of Reading: Migrant Fictions 1720-1810 and co-editor of Transatlantic Literary Studies 1660-1830.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I1. Health and Disease in a Land New to Europeans2. Traditional Treatment and Traditional Healers3. The Beginnings of Change in Traditional Health Care4. Setting the Stage for Modern Medicine and Health, 1850s to 1880sPart II5. The Age of Surgery and Germ Theory, 1880s to 1910s6. Physiological Medicine, 1910s to 1930s7. Physicians, Public Health, and Progressivism8. The Era of Antibiotics, 1930s to 1950sPart III9. The Age of Technological Medicine, 1940s to 1960s10. Doctors, Patients, Medical Institutions, and Society in the Age of Technological Medicine11. Medicine in the Environmental Era, 1960s to 1980s12. Environmental-Era Health Care in a Hostile Social ClimatePart IV13. The Era of Genetic Medicine, Late 1980s and After14. The Recent Past as a New EpochNotesIndex