Medicine in Maryland

According to Jane Eliot Sewell, the Maryland medical experience has been a study in diversity, with sharp divisions along gender, racial, class, religious and geographical lines. This diversity of medical practice partly reflects the general development of American medicine. Yet in other ways, she argues, the history of Maryland medicine is unique. This history of medicine in the state of Maryland tells the story of the people and institutions who helped shape not only the nation's health professions but also the very quality of lives Americans led. Among the topics covered are the development of the Medical Hall in late-18th-century Harford County, the evolution of the teaching hospital that became the University of Maryland, and the origins of the scientific tradition established at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Medical School, and School of Public Health.