Diseases in the District of Maine 1772 - 1820: The Unpublished Work of Jeremiah Barker, a Rural Physician in New England

ISBN-13: 9780190053253 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 568 str.

Richard Kahn

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This is an extraordinary look at "ordinary" Maine physician Jeremiah Barker and his attempt to practice medicine at the turn of the 19th century. We see Barker practicing and writing his ultimately unpublished History of Diseases in the District of Maine amidst the rise and fall of medical theories and practices, the birth of medical journals in this country, and the attempt by orthodox medical practitioners to establish a seemingly rational therapeutics. Complementing Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's contextualization of Maine midwife Martha Ballard in A Midwife's Tale, Kahn places Barker's own evolving theories, practices, and identity, along with the full and annotated transcript of Barker's History of Diseases of the District of Maine itself, into historical context." - Scott Podolsky, MD, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Director, Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Medical Library, Boston, MA

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Richard Kahn (1940) is an internist and medical historian who graduated from Rutgers University and Tufts University School of Medicine, where his interest in medical history began. After internship at Maine Medical Center in Portland, he spent two years in the U.S. Public Health Service, returning to MMC for an Internal Medicine residency. Practicing in Rockport, Maine, he has had teaching appointments at Tufts, Dartmouth, and the University of Vermont medical schools. He has been active in several organizations devoted to medical history, most notably the American Association for the History of Medicine and the American Osler Society. He received the Osler Society's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. Assisted by his wife Patricia, a medical librarian, Kahn began work on the Jeremiah Barker papers more than 30 years ago with the rediscovery of the Barker Manuscript at the Maine Historical Society Library, culminating at last in the publication of Diseases in the District of Maine 1772-1820.