Rev. and expanded ed. of: The healers. c1976.

Beginnings of American medicine -- Eighteenth century -- Medical profession -- Medicine in the revolutionary years -- Early nineteenth-century medicine -- Irregulars and domestic medicine -- Foundations of American surgery -- Early leaders in medicine and surgery -- Education, licensing and status of physicians -- Medicine in the Civil War -- Emergence of modern medicine -- Flowering of surgery -- Medical education -- Medical profession organizes -- Advancing front of medicine -- Surgery and medical technology since World War I -- Medical education since the Flexner report -- Women in medicine -- Minorities in medicine -- Medical profession in the twentieth century -- Community's health -- Whither medicine?.