American cardiology : the history of a specialty and its college / W. Bruce Fye.
Today, more U.S. physicians specialize in cardiology than in any other clinical nonprimary 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 r...
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Johns Hopkins University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / William L. Winters, Jr.
- Ch. 1. Defining a Discipline
- Ch. 2. Organizing the American Heart Association
- Ch. 3. Declaring War on Heart Disease
- Ch. 4. Declaring with a Different Vision: The American College of Cardiology
- Ch. 5. Cardiology and the Federal Funding of Academic Medicine
- Ch. 6. Continuing Medical Education: A Link between Academics and Practitioners
- Ch. 7. Washington, Medicine, and the American College of Cardiology
- Ch. 8. Fueling the Growth of Cardiology: Patients, Procedures, and Profits
- Ch. 9. The Price of Success: Tensions in and around Cardiology.