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Judith Walzer Leavitt

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Description:Praise for Women & Health in America "Superb."-Isis "Highly recommended for everyone interested in women's health."-Journal of the American Medical Women's Association "Should be on everyone's reference shelf."-Women's Studies in Indiana "Leavitt is to be commended for selecting pieces which highlight the major debates."-Women's Review of Books "It's a pleasure, as well as useful, to have such a range of excellent work in one book."-Journal of the History of Medicine "[Leavitt's] approach ensures that women's history will meet high standards and, in fact, raises the standards of historical scholarship."-Bulletin of the History of Dentistry "This anthology may be just the prescription to cure a current deficiency disease, to supply in one place the information that has been sadly lacking in historical treatments of women as patients and practitioners."-Mobius In this thoroughly updated second edition, Judith Walzer Leavitt, a leading authority on the history of women's health issues, has collected thirty-five articles representing important scholarship in this once-neglected field. Timely and fascinating, this volume is organized chronologically and then by topic, covering studies of women and health in the colonial and revolutionary periods and the nineteenth century through the Civil War. The remainder of the book concentrates on the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries and addresses such controversial issues as body image and physical fitness, sexuality, fertility, abortion and birth control, childbirth and motherhood, mental illness, women's health care providers (midwives, nurses, physicians), and health reform and public health.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Women and Health in America (Wisconsin Publications in the History of). To get started finding Women and Health in America (Wisconsin Publications in the History of), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Praise for Women & Health in America "Superb."-Isis "Highly recommended for everyone interested in women's health."-Journal of the American Medical Women's Association "Should be on everyone's reference shelf."-Women's Studies in Indiana "Leavitt is to be commended for selecting pieces which highlight the major debates."-Women's Review of Books "It's a pleasure, as well as useful, to have such a range of excellent work in one book."-Journal of the History of Medicine "[Leavitt's] approach ensures that women's history will meet high standards and, in fact, raises the standards of historical scholarship."-Bulletin of the History of Dentistry "This anthology may be just the prescription to cure a current deficiency disease, to supply in one place the information that has been sadly lacking in historical treatments of women as patients and practitioners."-Mobius In this thoroughly updated second edition, Judith Walzer Leavitt, a leading authority on the history of women's health issues, has collected thirty-five articles representing important scholarship in this once-neglected field. Timely and fascinating, this volume is organized chronologically and then by topic, covering studies of women and health in the colonial and revolutionary periods and the nineteenth century through the Civil War. The remainder of the book concentrates on the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries and addresses such controversial issues as body image and physical fitness, sexuality, fertility, abortion and birth control, childbirth and motherhood, mental illness, women's health care providers (midwives, nurses, physicians), and health reform and public health.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Women and Health in America (Wisconsin Publications in the History of). To get started finding Women and Health in America (Wisconsin Publications in the History of), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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