The real Typhoid Mary was an Irish immigrant cook who infected some twenty-two New Yorkers with typhoid fever before she was traced, caught, and exiled for life. "Resurrecting forgotten history, Judith Leavitt raises an alarm that is much needed in this day of AIDS". PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.
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 ...
Based on personal accounts by birthing women and their medical attendants, Brought to Bed reveals how childbirth has changed from colonial times to the present. Judith Walzer Leavitt's study focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices, their replacement by male doctors, and the movement from the home to the hospital. She ...
Between 1850 and 1900, Milwaukee's rapid population growth gave rise to high death rates, infectious diseases, filthy streets and inadequate water supplies. This history of one city's efforts to ensure high standards of public health is a reminder for the 1990s.
This title covers childbirth and what men have to do with it.In "Make Room for Daddy", historian Judith Walzer Leavitt offers a fascinating look at an important but long-neglected aspect of childbirth in America - the changing role of the expectant father.Leavitt uses fathers' first-hand accounts from letters, journals, and personal interviews ...
In this second edition, Judith Walzer Leavitt has collected 35 articles representing important scholarship in this once-neglected field. Organized chronologically and then by topic, this volume covers studies of women and health in the colonial and revolutionary periods and the 19th century through the Civil War. The remainder of the book ...
In this thoroughly updated second edition, Leavitt has collected thirty-five articles on women and health from the colonial and revolutionary periods to the twentieth century.
This is a comprehensive history of women and childbirth in America. Many of the basic changes that have occurred since 1750 resulted from two factors: the replacement of midwives and other female support systems by male doctors in the actual delivery process, and the movement of childbirth from the home to hospitals.
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