Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health (Revised)

by Ronald L. Numbers

Book Overview

An invaluable resource for students, scholars, and general readers, this highly regarded and widely used social history of medicine and public health in the United States is now available in a third edition. Extensively revised and updated, it includes twenty-one new essays; graphs illustrating the rise in deaths caused by HIV, homicide, and suicide; and a greatly expanded Guide to Further Reading. Entirely new sections on Sickness and Health, Early...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029915324X
• ISBN13: 9780299153243
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Comprehensive Overview

Leavitt is wonderful historian and although the majority of her early work centered on women's health throughout US history, in "Sickness and Health in America" she once again proves her ability to ferret out wonderful historians who write well and on pertinent issues. Encompassing classic works like the work on the Tuskagee Syphilis experiment and early work on attitudes toward persons living with HIV/AIDS, Leavitt should be applauded once again for her tireless efforts toward public health history.