Private practice in the early twentieth-century medical office of Dr. Richard Cabot / Christopher Crenner.

Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

xv, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-293) and index.

The authority of a scientific doctor -- Organizing a private office : between home and hospital -- The diagnosis of hidden disease -- Treatment : how to know what works -- Nervous disease and personal identity -- Medical care for the dying, in principle and in fact -- From Cabot's day to ours.