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Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Wisconsin Press,

Copyright Date:

1981

Description:

ix, 212 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Medicine--Wisconsin--Addresses, essays, lectures.--Addresses, essays, lectures.
History of Medicine--Wisconsin

Other Authors:

Leavitt, Judith Walzer.
Numbers, Ronald L.

Notes:

Includes index. Map on lining papers. 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:

9780299084301
0299084302

LCCN:

80052297

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)