Women and Health in America by Judith Walzer Leavitt
In this second edition, Judith Walzer Leavitt has collected 35 articles representing important scholarship in this once-neglected field. Organized chronologically and then by topic, this volume covers studies of women and health in the colonial and revolutionary periods and the 19th century through the Civil War. The remainder of the book concentrates on the late 19th and 20th centuries and addresses such controversial issues as body image and physical fitness, sexuality, fertility, abortion and birth control, childbirth and motherhood, mental illness, women's health care providers (midwives, nurses, physicians) and health reform and public health.
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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| ISBN 13 | 9780299159641 |
| ISBN 10 | 0299159647 |
| Title | Women and Health in America |
| Author | Judith Walzer Leavitt |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press |
| Year published | 1999-01-31 |
| Number of pages | 560 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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