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Wisconsin medicine : historical perspectives / edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Judith Walzer Leavitt

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Author:
Numbers, Ronald L  Search this
Leavitt, Judith Walzer  Search this
Physical description:
ix, 212 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Wisconsin
Date:
1981
Notes:
Map on lining papers.
Includes index.
Contents:
Frontier medicine in the Territory of Wisconsin / Peter T. Harstad -- From horse and buggy to automobile and telephone: medical practice in Wisconsin, 1848-1930 / Guenter B. Risse -- Sectarians and scientists: alternatives to orthodox medicine / Elizabeth Barnaby Keeney, Susan Eyrich Lederer, and Edmond P. Minihan -- Public protection and self-interest: medical societies in Wisconsin / Ronald L. Numbers -- From infirmaries to intensive care: hospitals in Wisconsin / Philip Shoemaker and Mary Van Hulle Jones -- One hundred years of health and healing in rural Wisconsin / Dale E. Treleven -- Health in urban Wisconsin: from bad to better / Judith Walzer Leavitt -- A note on medical education in Wisconsin / Ronald L. Numbers -- Selected sources on the history of medicine in Wisconsin / Deanna Reed Spring
Topic:
Medicine--History  Search this
Call number:
R357.W57X 1981
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_205554