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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Numbers, Ronald L.

Leavitt, Judith Walzer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Wisconsin--History.

Medicine.

Wisconsin.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 212 pages :bill., facsimiles, mapages, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1981.

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.

Notes:

Map on lining papers.

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 185-200.

ISBN:

0299084302 :

OCLC:

7328136