The Business of Private Medical Practice: Doctors, Specialization, and Urban Change in Philadelphia, 1900–1940 by James A. Schafer Jr.

Abstract

James A. Schafer’s The Business of Private Medical Practice is an outstanding addition to the historiography of medicine. Schafer examines the formative years of private practice in the early twentieth century when science, mandatory hospital internships, and rapidly changing urban demographics influenced the financial and spatial decisions reached by both general practitioners and specialists.