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Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health de Judith W. Leavitt

Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health

Editat de Judith W. Leavitt, Ronald L. Numbers
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 apr 1997
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780299153243
ISBN-10: 029915324X
Pagini: 600
Ilustrații: 19 illus., 24 graphs
Dimensiuni: 178 x 229 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.94 kg
Ediția:2
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press

Recenzii

“Teachers will find Sickness and Health in America well suited to their needs. It was designed as an introductory reader for basic courses in the history of American medicine and public health … and follows a coherent topical pattern.”—Todd L. Savitt, Clio Medica

 “Anyone interested in the medical history of the United States in the past two centuries will find these essays of great interest.”—The Lancet
“A major work.”—Norman Gevitz, Journal of the American Medical Association

Notă biografică

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, and Caring and Curing.

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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.