The Association of American Physicians 1886-1986: A Century of Progress in Medical Science

This volume, written by one of America's great physicans, is a remarkable contribution to the history of American medicine. It is based on the transactions of a senior medical society, the Association of American Physicians, which celebrated its centennial this year. The kaleidoscopic events reflecting the evolution of the major phases of medicine— medical science, medical education, medical practice, and public health— are skillfully interwoven to provide a readable account of the status of medicine since the Association's first assembly on June 17, 1886. A major theme of the book is the crescendo of advances in the basic sciences and their potential or actual application to clinical medicine. These advances are traced from the first meeting, when most papers were presented by pathologists and bacteriologists, through the period in which pathophysiology and biochemistry were in ascendancy to the present day, when the new biologies—modern immunology and molecular biology—have taken over