American Cardiology: The History of a Specialty and Its College by Fye, Professor W. Bruce

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UsedVeryGood. We flipped through this book and didn't notice any notes or underlines. Minor shelf wear. Very slight shelf wear to the dust jacket. Some writing on the text block edge. Fast Shipping - Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. First Edition edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 23.5 cm. ... Hardcover, very good condition, w. ltly slanted, ltly compressed sp. Ltly tanned p. edges. Ltly warped fr brd. Cln, tight, unmarked. Dj very good, ltly rubbed, sme lt marks. 2 cm tear at r. base, a few v. sm tears. Sme v. lt edgwr, bumping at top and Boards . ISBN: 0801852927. Catalogs: Medicine.

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Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. First Printing. Hardcover. 0801852927 . Light wear around bottom of spine. .

Sponsor: American College of Cardiology

Today, more U.S. physicians specialize in cardiology than in any other clinical non-primary care, nonsurgical discipline. In this book cardiologist and medical historian Bruce Fye offers a comprehensive history of this medical specialty, from its invention in the early twentieth century to its more recent transformation into one of medicine's most significant fields. He also examines the origin, evolution, and significance of the American College of Cardiology, the specialty's professional society.

Fye describes both the discoveries and innovations in cardiology and the socioeconomic forces that led to the professionalization of the field in the United States. He shows how, in the period following World War II, such factors as the prevalence of heart disease, liberal government research funding, technological innovations, and the growing availability of health insurance worked together to shape cardiology into a major academic and clinical discipline. Bringing… Read More

Johns Hopkins, 1996. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Short tear to jacket..

Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1996. Hardcover. New. 8vo, hardcover. NEW in dust jacket. Bright, crisp & clean, unread. xvi, 489 p.

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Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 1996,. hbk 8vo 489pp ISBN 0801852927 dj v sl shelf worn now in protective sleeve excellent clean tight text