| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Private Practice: In the Early Twentieth-Century Medical Office of Dr. Richard Cabot. By Christopher Crenner. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xvi, 303 pp. $48.00, ISBN 0-8018-8117-X.)
Richard Cabot (1868–1939), scion of an illustrious Boston family, received his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School in 1892 and served on the faculty from 1899 to 1933. He created the field of medical social work, popularized the clinico-pathological conference, performed pioneering research on blood chemistry, wrote a textbook on physical diagnosis that went through ten editions, and wrote candidly and critically on physician behavior, medical ethics, patients' rights, and similar subjects.	1
Between 1897 and 1926, Cabot maintained a private practice at his home in Back Bay, a wealthy Boston neighborhood with many physicians' offices. He kept careful records on 5,358 patients and thousands of letters from patients and physicians. Christopher Crenner has drawn a random sample of two hundred cases from 1900–1915, Cabot's most active period, and analyzed them in the context of the contemporary medical literature.	. . .

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