Health culture in the heartland, 1880-1980
Subtitle: an oral history
By: Lucinda McCray Beier.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780252033483; 9780252075544
Subjects: Medicine -- Illinois -- McLean County -- History; Medical care -- Illinois -- McLean County -- History; Public health -- Illinois -- McLean County -- History; Community Health Services -- history -- Illinois; Delivery of Health Care -- history -- Illinois; History, 19th Century -- Illinois; History, 20th Century -- Illinois; Public Health -- history -- Illinois
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Living and dying in nineteenth-century McLean County; title: No place like home : hospitals and the development of institutional care; title: Nursing, gender, and modern medicine in McLean County; title: Doctors and organized medicine in McLean County; title: An ounce of prevention : public health services in McLean County; title: Matters of life and death : experience and expectations of health, illness, and medical care in the twentieth century.