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a history from Washington to George W. Bush
x, 256 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Samuel Bard: the first presidential physician -- The pillars of the profession: presidential physicians, 1812-1865 -- The military steps in, part I: the early days, 1823-1865 -- The military steps in, part II: conflicts and cooperation, 1865-1898 -- Admiral Presley Rixey: the first authentic White House physician -- Captain Joel Boone and the institutionalization of the office of the White House physician -- The military keepers of the stethoscope: doctors Cary Grayson, Ross Mcintire, and Howard Snyder -- Physician anecdotes: the returnee, the academic, the consultant, and the defendant, 1953-1981 -- Civilian interlude, part I: medical chaos in Camelot -- Civilian interlude, part II: the specialist physicians of presidents Reagan and Bush I -- The White House medical unit today -- The Twenty-Fifth Amendment and its impact on the White House medical unit -- Psychiatry and the presidency -- The medical care of vice presidents -- Presidential physicians after their tenures -- Final thoughts.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-247) and index.