TAILIEUCHUNG - The Therapeutic Revolution: Medicine, Meaning and Social Change in NineteenthCentury America

It is estimated that medical liability premiums in the United States have reached an astounding $26 billion annually, representing a 2,000% increase since 1975. 1 At 12 percent per year, the growth rate in medical malpractice premiums since 1975 is four times the rate of inflation and twice the rate of inflation in the cost of health care. 2 Million- dollar verdicts are now the norm in jury trials: 52% of all awards exceed $1 million, while the average award now weighs in at $ million. 3 In the face of increasing risk, medical malpractice premiums have skyrocketed for doctors throughout. | D A s H DIGITAL ACCESS TO SCHOLARSHIP AT HARVARD The Therapeutic Revolution Medicine Meaning and Social Change in NineteenthCentury America The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Citation Rosenberg Charles E. 1977. The therapeutic revolution Medicine meaning and social change in nineteenthcentury America. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 20 4 485506. Published Version http pubmed 331231 Accessed November 16 2012 10 56 27 AM EST Citable Link http urn-3 4730383 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University s DASH repository and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material as set forth at http urn-3 use LAA Article begins on next page k ick. K late n sclerosis. lasia a. sinensis t tely direct I chill he Pill. me greasy y are ripe e. sarcoma ma. thankless task would ask and mould ld. L. H. Sobin THE THERAPEUTIC REVOLUTION MEDICINE MEANING AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA CHARLES E. ROSENBERG Medical therapeutics changed in some ways remarkably little in the 2 millennia preceding 1800 by the end of the century traditional therapeutics had altered fundamentally. This is a significant event not only in the history of medicine but in social history as well. Yet historians have not only failed to delineate this change in detail they have hardly begun to place it in a framework of explanation which would relate it to all those other changes which shaped the twentieth-century Western world. Medical historians have always found therapeutics an awkward piece of business. On the whole they have responded by ignoring Most historians who have addressed traditional therapeutics have approached it as a source of anecdote or as a murky bog of routinism from which a comforting path led upward to an ultimately .

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