Medicine by the People by Jim Downs (Hardcover)

Medicine by the People by Jim Downs retells the history of American medicine by focusing on ordinary people rather than doctors. From enslaved individuals and village midwives to cowboys, everyday Americans have long cared for their communities. In colonial Boston, Black people's knowledge led to smallpox inoculations that slowed an epidemic, midwives often delivered babies more successfully than doctors, and women nursed the wounded during the Civil War.