Sickness
and Health in America
Readings
in the History of Medicine and Public Health
Third Edition, Revised
Edited by Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald L. Numbers
"Anyone interested in the medical
history of the United States in the past two centuries will find
these essays of great interest."—The
Lancet
An invaluable resource for students, scholars, and general
readers, this highly regarded and widely used social history
of medicine and public health in the United States is now available
in a third edition.
Extensively revised and updated, it includes
twenty-one new essays; graphs illustrating the rise in deaths
caused by HIV, homicide, and suicide; and a greatly expanded
Guide to Further Reading. Entirely new sections on Sickness and
Health, Early American Medicine, Therapeutics, the Art of Medicine,
and Public Health and Personal Hygiene have been added, supplementing
updated sections on the Science of Medicine, Education, the Allied
Health Professions, Image and Income, Institutions, Race and
Medicine, Epidemics, Public Health Reform, and Public Health
and Medical Theory. An introductory essay and a series of historical
photographs complement the articles.
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. 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 Wisconsin Medicine Historical Perspectives, also
published by the UW Press.
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May 1997
600 pp. 7 x 9
19 illus., 24 graphs
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Paper $34.95 x
ISBN 978-0-299-15324-3 |
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Cloth OUT OF PRINT
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