Sickness and Health in America
Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health
by Judith Walzer Leavitt, Ronald L. Numbers

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• Release date: April 15, 1997
• Genres: history
• Language: english
• Author: Judith Walzer Leavitt, Ronald L. Numbers
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Format: paperback, 600 pages
• ISBN: 9780299153243 (029915324X)

About The Book

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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