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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog alternative "Sickness & health in America".
- catalog contributor b10378325.
- catalog contributor b10378326.
- catalog coverage "United States".
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "Sickness and Health: An Overview -- 1. American Physicians "Discovery" of Homosexuals, 1880-1900: A New Diagnosis in a Changing Society / Bert Hansen -- 2. Black Lung: Miners' Militancy and Medical Uncertainty, 1968-1972 / Daniel M. Fox and Judith F. Stone -- 3. Medicine in New England / Eric H. Christianson -- 4. Martha Moore Ballard and the Medical Challenge to Midwifery / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -- 5. From Specificity to Universalism in Medical Therapeutics: Transformation in the 19th-Century United States / John Harley Warner -- 6. The Introduction of Antibiotics into Therapeutics / John Parascandola -- 7. Divided We Stand: Physiologists and Clinicians in the American Context / Gerald L. Geison -- 8. The Maturation of American Medical Science / Ronald L. Numbers and John Harley Warner -- 9. "A Worrying Profession": The Domestic Environment of Medical Practice in Mid-19th-Century America / Judith Walzer Leavitt.".
- catalog extent "xi, 587 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Sickness and health in America.".
- catalog identifier "0299153207 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "029915324X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Sickness and health in America.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Madison : University of Wisconsin Press,".
- catalog relation "Sickness and health in America.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "362.1/0973 20".
- catalog subject "Delivery of Health Care United States History Collected Works.".
- catalog subject "History, Modern 1601- United States Collected Works.".
- catalog subject "History, Modern 1601-".
- catalog subject "Medical care United States History.".
- catalog subject "Medicine United States History.".
- catalog subject "Public Health United States History Collected Works.".
- catalog subject "Public Health history".
- catalog subject "Public health United States History.".
- catalog subject "R151 .S5 1997".
- catalog subject "WZ 70 AA1 S48 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "Sickness and Health: An Overview -- 1. American Physicians "Discovery" of Homosexuals, 1880-1900: A New Diagnosis in a Changing Society / Bert Hansen -- 2. Black Lung: Miners' Militancy and Medical Uncertainty, 1968-1972 / Daniel M. Fox and Judith F. Stone -- 3. Medicine in New England / Eric H. Christianson -- 4. Martha Moore Ballard and the Medical Challenge to Midwifery / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -- 5. From Specificity to Universalism in Medical Therapeutics: Transformation in the 19th-Century United States / John Harley Warner -- 6. The Introduction of Antibiotics into Therapeutics / John Parascandola -- 7. Divided We Stand: Physiologists and Clinicians in the American Context / Gerald L. Geison -- 8. The Maturation of American Medical Science / Ronald L. Numbers and John Harley Warner -- 9. "A Worrying Profession": The Domestic Environment of Medical Practice in Mid-19th-Century America / Judith Walzer Leavitt.".
- catalog title "Sickness & health in America".
- catalog title "Sickness and health in America : readings in the history of medicine and public health / edited by Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald L. Numbers.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".