Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public HealthJudith Walzer Leavitt, Ronald L. Numbers 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. |
Contents
SICKNESS AND HEALTH | 11 |
Miners Militancy and Medical Uncertainty | 32 |
EARLY AMERICAN MEDICINE | 45 |
MARTHA MOORE BALLARD AND THE MEDICAL CHALLENGE | 72 |
THERAPEUTICS | 85 |
THE INTRODUCTION OF ANTIBIOTICS INTO THERAPEUTICS | 102 |
THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE | 113 |
THE MATURATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL SCIENCE | 130 |
INSTITUTIONS | 307 |
The Voluntary Hospital | 323 |
RACE AND MEDICINE | 349 |
ROOTS OF THE BLACK HOSPITAL REFORM MOVEMENT | 369 |
The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study | 392 |
EPIDEMICS | 405 |
SOCIAL IMPACT OF DISEASE IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY | 418 |
PUBLIC HEALTH REFORM | 435 |
THE ART OF MEDICINE | 143 |
Physicians and the Case Narrative | 161 |
EDUCATION | 187 |
American Medical Education | 200 |
The Case for the Woman Doctor | 213 |
A Wisconsin Study | 237 |
IMAGE AND INCOME | 267 |
What Happened to It? | 284 |
THE DECLINE IN MORTALITY IN PHILADELPHIA FROM | 452 |
THE EARLY MOVEMENT FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH | 467 |
PUBLIC HEALTH AND PERSONAL HYGIENE | 483 |
Sanitary Science | 506 |
PUBLIC HEALTH AND MEDICAL THEORY | 529 |
Explaining the Epidemiology | 543 |
A GUIDE TO FURTHER READING | 575 |
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