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Licensing American Physicians: 1870-1907

Sandvick, Clinton (University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)

In 1870, physicians in United States were not licensed by the state or federal governments, but by 1900 almost every state and territory passed some form of medical licensing. Regular physicians originally promoted licensing ...
Plague in paradise : a study of plague on Hawaiian sugarcane plantations

Bailey, Kevin R. (University of Oregon, 2007-06)

The third pandemic of bubonic plague menaced the whole globe for more than a century and claimed the lives of more than thirteen million people. In the twentieth century, plague reached America for the first time, arriving ...
"Will My Baby Be Normal?": A History of Genetic Counseling in the United States, 1940-1970

Turner, Adam (University of Oregon, 2012)

Genetic counselors today are at the forefront of helping clients interpret genetic information to help them make decisions, often about childbearing, based on testing and medical histories. Scholars of medicine, reproduction, ...