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Caring for the Heart : Mayo Clinic and the Rise of Specialization.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (705 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199982363
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Caring for the HeartDDC classification:
  • 616.1/2
LOC classification:
  • RC681 -- .F94 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Caring for the Heart -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Foreword by Rosemary A. Stevens -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Section I Inventing the Mayo Clinic and Cardiology -- 1 The Nineteenth-Century Origins of the Mayo Practice -- 2 The Mayos' Invention of Multispecialty Group Practice -- 3 The Development of an Academic Medical Center in Rochester -- 4 Patient Care and Clinical Research in the 1920s -- 5 The Electrocardiograph and the Birth of Cardiology -- 6 Challenges and Changes During the Depression -- Section II Developments in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Heart Disease -- 7 President Roosevelt's Secret Hypertensive Heart Disease -- 8 The Reinvention of the American Heart Association and the Invention of Cardiac Catheterization -- 9 Surgeons Begin Trying to Treat Heart Disease -- 10 Pioneering Open-Heart Surgery at the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Clinic -- 11 The Expansion of Open-Heart Surgery and Cardiac Catheterization -- 12 Beyond Mid-Century: Two Decades of Growth and Change -- Section III Technologies Transform Heart Care and Stimulate Subspecialization -- 13 Creating Coronary Care Units and Empowering Nurses -- 14 Coronary Angiography: The Cleveland Clinic Leads the Way -- 15 Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Stimulates the Growth of Angiography -- 16 Transforming Cardiac Catheters into Treatment Tools -- 17 Analyzing and Managing Abnormal Heart Rhythms -- 18 Seeing the Heart: Echocardiography and Other Imaging Technologies -- 19 Treating Heart Failure and Preventing Cardiovascular Disease -- 20 Challenges and Opportunities Around the New Millennium -- Appendix: Interviews -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: This groundbreaking book describes developments in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease, explains how the Mayo Clinic became a world-famous medical center, and reveals how new technologies and procedures promoted medical specialization. It is written for general readers as well as health care professionals, historians, and policy analysts.
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Cover -- Caring for the Heart -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Foreword by Rosemary A. Stevens -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Section I Inventing the Mayo Clinic and Cardiology -- 1 The Nineteenth-Century Origins of the Mayo Practice -- 2 The Mayos' Invention of Multispecialty Group Practice -- 3 The Development of an Academic Medical Center in Rochester -- 4 Patient Care and Clinical Research in the 1920s -- 5 The Electrocardiograph and the Birth of Cardiology -- 6 Challenges and Changes During the Depression -- Section II Developments in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Heart Disease -- 7 President Roosevelt's Secret Hypertensive Heart Disease -- 8 The Reinvention of the American Heart Association and the Invention of Cardiac Catheterization -- 9 Surgeons Begin Trying to Treat Heart Disease -- 10 Pioneering Open-Heart Surgery at the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Clinic -- 11 The Expansion of Open-Heart Surgery and Cardiac Catheterization -- 12 Beyond Mid-Century: Two Decades of Growth and Change -- Section III Technologies Transform Heart Care and Stimulate Subspecialization -- 13 Creating Coronary Care Units and Empowering Nurses -- 14 Coronary Angiography: The Cleveland Clinic Leads the Way -- 15 Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Stimulates the Growth of Angiography -- 16 Transforming Cardiac Catheters into Treatment Tools -- 17 Analyzing and Managing Abnormal Heart Rhythms -- 18 Seeing the Heart: Echocardiography and Other Imaging Technologies -- 19 Treating Heart Failure and Preventing Cardiovascular Disease -- 20 Challenges and Opportunities Around the New Millennium -- Appendix: Interviews -- Notes -- Index.

This groundbreaking book describes developments in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease, explains how the Mayo Clinic became a world-famous medical center, and reveals how new technologies and procedures promoted medical specialization. It is written for general readers as well as health care professionals, historians, and policy analysts.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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