Against the Spirit of System: The French Impulse in Nineteenth-Century American Medicine (paperback)

by John Harley Warner, Ph.D., professor and chair of the history of medicine, American studies and history (Johns Hopkins University Press) Warner describes how, between the 1810s and the 1860s, when Paris emerged as the center of Western medicine, hundreds of Americans studied in Parisian hospitals and dissection rooms and then applied their new knowledge to advance their careers at home and to reform American medicine.