Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health / Edition 3

Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health / Edition 3

ISBN-10:
029915324X
ISBN-13:
9780299153243
Pub. Date:
04/15/1997
Publisher:
University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-10:
029915324X
ISBN-13:
9780299153243
Pub. Date:
04/15/1997
Publisher:
University of Wisconsin Press
Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health / Edition 3

Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health / Edition 3

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780299153243
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 04/15/1997
Edition description: REVISED
Pages: 600
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

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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