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Wisconsin
Medicine
Historical
Perspectives
Ronald L. Numbers and Judith Walzer Leavitt
A fascinating window on early medicine
in Wisconsin
This historic account of early
medicine in Wisconsin begins in 1836 during the frontier days.
Old photographs and advertisements provide a fascinating window
on horse-drawn ambulances, fresh air schools (part of Milwaukee's
anti-tuberculosis campaign in the 1930s) and such "modern"
conveniences as Doctor's Delight, a Cadillac Model K with a price
tag of $750 (with top, $800).
Ronald
L. Numbers
is William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and Medicine,
University of Wisconsin–Madison. His many books include
The Creationists, God and Nature, Caring and Curing
and Women and Health in America, also
published by the UW Press. Judith Walzer Leavitt is professor
of history of medicine, history of science, and women's studies
and the associate dean for faculty at the medical school, University
of Wisconsin–Madison. Her many books include The
Healthiest City and Women and Health
in America, both also available from the University of
Wisconsin Press, and Typhoid Mary.
For more information regarding publicity
and reviews contact our publicity manager, Chris Caldwell, phone: (608) 263-0734,
email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu
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July 1981
224 pp. 6 x 9
37 b/w illustrations, photos and old newspaper advertisements.
ISBN-10: 0-299-08430-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-299-08430-1
Cloth $19.95 t
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