{"product_id":"frontier-medicine-from-the-atlantic-to-the-pacific-1492-1941-paperback","title":"Frontier Medicine: From the Atlantic to the Pacific, 1492-1941 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Dary\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this intriguing narrative, David Dary charts how American medicine has evolved since 1492, when New World settlers first began combining European remedies with the traditional practices of the native populations. It's a story filled with colorful characters, from quacks and con artists to heroic healers and ingenious medicine men, and Dary tells it with an engaging style and an eye for the telling detail. Dary also charts the evolution of American medicine from these trial-and-error roots to its contemporary high-tech, high-cost pharmaceutical and medical industry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePacked with fascinating facts about our medical past, \u003ci\u003eFrontier Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging and illuminating history of how our modern medical system came into being.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Dary is the author of more than a dozen previous books including \u003ci\u003eThe Buffalo Book, Cowboy Culture, Entrepreneurs of the Old West, Seeking Pleasure in the Old West, Red Blood and Black Ink, The Santa Fe Trail, The Oregon Trail, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e True Tales of the Prairies and Plains\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the recipient of two Wrangler Awards from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, two Western Writers of America Spur Awards, the WWA's Wister Owen Award for lifetime achievement, the Westerners International Best Nonfiction Book Award, and the Oklahoma Center for the Book 2008\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eArrell Gibson\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAward for lifetime achievement. \u003ci\u003eFrontier Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e won the Alvarez Award from the American Medical Writers Association. He lives in Norman, Oklahoma.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.84 x 8.04 x 5.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 06, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52071176831277,"sku":"9780307455420","price":24.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/frontier-medicine-from-the-atlantic-to-the-pacific-1492-1941-paperback-1359548.webp?v=1780165985","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/frontier-medicine-from-the-atlantic-to-the-pacific-1492-1941-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}