(016883) Grob, Gerald N. Edward Jarvis and the Medical World of Nineteenth-Century America. Knoxville: Univ. Of Tennessee Press, 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 300 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. Biographical study of Edward Jarvis (1803-1884) , a leading physician, psychiatrist, and statistician. The book traces the development of social crises coincident with the growth of Jarvis's career and describes his responses to needs that he perceived in American medicine, mental care, and society in general. Jarvis's practice and philosophy of holistic medicine typified an approach that altered the basic character of Amerivcan medical theory ISBN: 087049239X (Jarvis, Edward, Physicians, Psychiatrists, Biography)
