Midwifery and Medicine in Boston : Walter Channing, M.D., 1786-1876 /
Amalie M. Kass ; [new foreword by Scott Podolsky, M.D.].
- 1 online resource (408 pages): illustrations
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Reprint of 2002 edition with new foreword.
Youth -- Medical studies -- Launching a career, 1811-1822 -- Obstetrical practice --The hospitals --The education of physicians --The middle years, 1822-1840 -- Puerperal fever -- Obstetrical anesthesia -- Social reform -- "Action of a man's whole nature," 1840-1854 -- The medical profession at mid-century -- Retirement and repose.