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Wisconsin medicine : historical perspectives

Title
Wisconsin medicine : historical perspectives / edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Judith Walzer Leavitt.
Publication
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1981.

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Additional Authors
  • Numbers, Ronald L.
  • Leavitt, Judith Walzer.
Description
ix, 212 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
Subjects
Note
  • Map on lining papers.
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 185-200.
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.
ISBN
0299084302 :
LCCN
80052297
OCLC
  • 7328136
  • ocm07328136
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries