Fads in medicine come and go. In lucky cases, the field at large will benefit from the fad, taking from it what was good and what worked and leaving behind that which proved to be wrong. In the grand scheme of things, when there is a fad in medicine the entire population is used as [...]
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War of the Specialists: Late 19th Century views on Women’s Health
Posted in History & Culture, tagged Gynecological History, Victorian Gynecology, Victorian Medicine on August 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
American Power and the Progressive Movement
Posted in History & Culture, tagged 1900 wealth gap, Progressive Era on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By the mid 1880s, the United States was the wealthiest nation in the world. But it was still with Europe where the real international political power lay. Most of us learned the term laissez-faire in high school and learned to apply it to Belle Epoque America. But the situation was a bit more complicated than [...]
