Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- One Worldly Goods and the Transformations of Objectivity -- Two An Information Economy -- Three Reformations Tempered: In Pursuit of Natural Facts -- Four Commerce and Medicine in Amsterdam -- Five Truths and Untruths from the Indies -- Six Medicine and...

"Meticulously tracing the dramatic conflicts both inside organized medicine and between the medical profession and the larger society over quality, equality, and economy in health care, Peter A. Swenson illuminates the history of American medical politics from the late nineteenth century to the...