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Tables of Contents for Sickness and Health in America
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the Third Edition
xi
Sickness and Health: An Overview
3
8
SICKNESS AND HEALTH
11
34
American Physicians' ``Discovery'' of Homosexuals, 1880-1900: A New Diagnosis in a Changing Society
13
19
Bert Hansen
Black Lung: Miners' Militancy and Medical Uncertainty, 1968-1972
32
13
Daniel M. Fox
Judith F. Stone
EARLY AMERICAN MEDICINE
45
40
Medicine in New England
47
25
Eric H. Christianson
Martha Moore Ballard and the Medical Challenge to Midwifery
72
13
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
THERAPEUTICS
85
28
From Specificity to Universalism in Medical Therapeutics: Transformation in the 19th-Century United States
87
15
John Harley Warner
The Introduction of Antibiotics into Therapeutics
102
11
John Parascandola
THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE
113
30
Divided We Stand: Physiologists and Clinicians in the American Context
115
15
Gerald L. Geison
The Maturation of American Medical Science
130
13
Ronald L. Numbers
John Harley Warner
THE ART OF MEDICINE
143
44
``A Worrying Profession'': The Domestic Environment of Medical Practice in Mid-19th-Century America
145
16
Judith Walzer Leavitt
Seeing Themselves at Work: Physicians and the Case Narrative in the Mid-19th-Century American South
161
26
Steven M. Stowe
EDUCATION
187
24
The German Model of Training Physicians in the United States, 1870-1914: How Closely Was It Followed?
189
11
Thomas Neville Bonner
Abraham Flexner in Perspective: American Medical Education, 1865-1910
200
11
Robert P. Hudson
THE ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONS
211
56
The ``Connecting Link'': The Case for the Woman Doctor in 19th-Century America
213
12
Regina Morantz-Sanchez
The Fall and Rise of the American Medical Profession
225
12
Ronald L. Numbers
The Training and Practice of Midwives: A Wisconsin Study
237
16
Charlotte G. Borst
``Neither for the Drawing Room nor for the Kitchen'': Private Duty Nursing in Boston, 1873-1920
253
14
Susan Reverby
IMAGE AND INCOME
267
40
The Third Party: Health Insurance in America
269
15
Ronald L. Numbers
American Medicine's Golden Age: What Happened to It?
284
23
John C. Burnham
Pictorial Essay on Sickness and Health in America
295
12
INSTITUTIONS
307
42
Social Class and Medical Care in 19th-Century America: The Rise and Fall of the Dispensary
309
14
Charles E. Rosenberg
Patrons, Practitioners, and Patients: The Voluntary Hospital in Mid-Victorian Boston
323
11
Morris J. Vogel
The Severely and Chronically Mentally Ill in America: Retrospect and Prospect
334
15
Gerald N. Grob
RACE AND MEDICINE
349
56
Black Health on the Plantation: Masters, Slaves, and Physicians
351
18
Todd L. Savitt
Roots of the Black Hospital Reform Movement
369
23
Vanessa Northington Gamble
Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
392
13
Allan M. Brandt
EPIDEMICS
405
30
``Be Safe. Be Sure.'': New York City's Experience with Epidemic Smallpox
407
11
Judith Walzer Leavitt
Social Impact of Disease in the Late 19th Century
418
8
John Duffy
AIDS in Historical Perspective: Four Lessons from the History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
426
9
Allan M. Brandt
PUBLIC HEALTH REFORM
435
48
Sanitary Reform in New York City: Stephen Smith and the Passage of the Metropolitan Health Bill
437
15
Gert H. Brieger
The Decline in Mortality in Philadelphia from 1870 to 1930: The Role of Municipal Services
452
15
Gretchen A. Condran
Henry Williams
Rose A. Cheney
The Early Movement for Occupational Safety and Health, 1900-1917
467
16
David Rosner
Gerald Markowitz
PUBLIC HEALTH AND PERSONAL HYGIENE
483
46
The Design of Reform: The Public Bath Movement in America
485
9
David Glassberg
The Cigarette, Risk, and American Culture
494
12
Allan M. Brandt
The Private Side of Public Health: Sanitary Science, Domestic Hygiene, and the Germ Theory, 1870-1900
506
23
Nancy Tomes
PUBLIC HEALTH AND MEDICAL THEORY
529
46
Raising and Watering A City: Ellis Sylvester Chesbrough and Chicago's First Sanitation System
531
12
Louis P. Cain
Dirt, Flies, and Immigrants: Explaining the Epidemiology of Poliomyelitis, 1900-1916
543
12
Naomi Rogers
``Typhoid Mary'' Strikes Back: Bacteriological Theory and Practice in Early 20th-Century Public Health
555
20
Judith Walzer Leavitt
A Guide to Further Reading
575
10
Abbreviations of Journal Titles
585