Licensed to Practice: The Supreme Court Defines the American Medical Profession Paperback – October 7, 2013
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The tale told by Professor Mohr is not a dry sequence of facts, but is instead an evocative page-turner. Mohr’s description of the characters in this tale is massively evocative and filled with palace intrigue and scheming worthy of Henry II... To learn the fascinating details I refer you wholeheartedly to this marvelous depiction.
(Howard Wainer Journal of Medical Regulation)About the Author
James C. Mohr is the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History and the Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Science at the University of Oregon. He is author of Doctors and the Law: Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America and Radical Republicans in the North: State Politics during Reconstruction, both published by Johns Hopkins.
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- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition (October 7, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1421411423
- ISBN-13: 978-1421411422
- Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,058,103 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
In his Metaphysics, Aristotle observed “we understand best those things we see grow from their very beginnings.” Thus one important role of historians is to tell us about those beginnings. In “Licensed to Practice” the distinguished historian James Mohr tells the remarkable story of how the practice of state licensing physicians began.
It is easy to see how the public’s health is under threat if just anyone can hang out a shingle and open a medical practice. Yet, this was precisely the case in the United States throughout much of the 19th century. Few disagreed that only qualified people should be allowed to practice medicine, but controversy erupted over the joint questions of what constitutes being qualified, and who should decide. As one might suspect the controversy included approximately equal parts of science and politics.
Professor Mohr tells the story of how the movement to license physicians grew strong among a minority of physicians in West Virginia who through dint of cleverness and mighty effort convinced the West Virginia legislature to take on this task as a small part of a much greater effort to improve public health. Those whose approach to practicing medicine differed from that which was adopted as required to be licensed understandably objected strenuously. There were a substantial number of individuals, now outsiders to the guild of medicine, who didn’t seem to understand the logic being followed – of course it is always difficult to get someone to understand something if his paycheck requires that he not understand it. Their objections ended up in a legal challenge to the West Virginia statute that ended before the US Supreme Court, which in 1889 (Dent vs.
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