Edgar Holden, M.D. of Newark, New Jersey: Provincial Physician on a National Stage
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Descrizione dell’editore
Edgar Holden, M.D., of Newark: Provincial Physician on a National Stage is a study
of medicine and health in Essex County, New Jersey, and its largest city, Newark, in the
decades following the Civil War. Th e book is structured around the multifaceted career of
Edgar Holden, a Newark physician who transcended the provinciality that characterized
Essex Countys medical community and institutions. Th e author demonstrates how
institution building and new paradigms of medical authority funneled from burgeoning
urban medical centers into the provincial and sluggish medical landscape of northern
New Jersey. Th e lack of a medical school within the state stymied the intellectual
and professional ferment that the best nineteenth-century American medical schools
attracted and fostered. New York City, with its medical institutions and elite practitioners
cast a giant shadow over northern New Jersey, which consequently has been somewhat
neglected by historians of medicine. An exploration of this lively community of welltrained
practitioners, fl edgling institutions, and ailing citizens sheds light on similar
medical communities that found themselves importingbut rarely exportingmedical
knowledge and expertise.