Women and health in America
Subtitle: historical readings
By: edited by Judith Walzer Leavitt.
Contributors: Leavitt, Judith Walzer.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Madison, WI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 692
Subjects: Women -- Health and hygiene -- United States -- History; Women -- United States -- Sexual behavior -- History; Women -- Diseases -- United States -- History; Women in medicine -- United States -- History
Description: Organised chronologically and then by topic, this volume covers studies of women and health in the colonial and revolutionary periods through the Civil War. The remainder of the book focuses on the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Notes: "A Guide for Further Reading": p. 683-692.
Includes bibliographical references.