Wisconsin medicine
Subtitle: historical perspectives
By: edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Judith Walzer Leavitt.
Contributors: Numbers, Ronald L.; Leavitt, Judith Walzer.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Madison, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Medicine -- Wisconsin -- History.; History of medicine -- Wisconsin.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 185-200.
Map on lining papers.
Includes index.
Table of contents: value: Frontier medicine in the Territory of Wisconsin / Peter T. Harstad; value: From horse and buggy to automobile and telephone: medical practice in Wisconsin, 1848-1930 / Guenter B. Risse; value: Sectarians and scientists: alternatives to orthodox medicine / Elizabeth Barnaby Keeney, Susan Eyrich Lederer, and Edmond P. Minihan; value: Public protection and self-interest: medical societies in Wisconsin / Ronald L. Numbers; value: From infirmaries to intensive care: hospitals in Wisconsin / Philip Shoemaker and Mary Van Hulle Jones; value: One hundred years of health and healing in rural Wisconsin / Dale E. Treleven; value: Health in urban Wisconsin: from bad to better / Judith Walzer Leavitt; value: A note on medical education in Wisconsin / Ronald L. Numbers; value: Selected sources on the history of medicine in Wisconsin / Deanna Reed Spring.