Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-231) and index.
Contents:
Living and dying in nineteenth-century McLean County -- No place like home : hospitals and the development of institutional care -- Nursing, gender, and modern medicine -- Doctors and organized medicine -- An ounce of prevention : public health services -- Matters of life and death : experience and expectations of health, illness, and medical care in the twentieth century.
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