Sickness and Health in America

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Sickness and Health in America

Author	: Judith Walzer Leavitt
File Size	: 48,7 Mb
Publisher	: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 22 June 1997
ISBN	: 029915324X
Pages	: 606 pages

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Sickness and Health in America by Judith Walzer Leavitt Book PDF Summary

Adds 21 new essays and drops some that appeared in the 1984 edition (first in 1978) to reflect recent scholarship and changes in orientation by historians. Adds entirely new clusters on sickness and health, early American medicine, therapeutics, the art of medicine, and public health and personal hygiene. Other discussions are updated to reflect such phenomena as the growing mortality from HIV, homicide, and suicide. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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