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Women, health, and medicine in America : a historical handbook
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- Creator
- edited by Rima D. Apple
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Garland Pub., 1990
- Physical Details
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- xxii, 580 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780824084479, 0824084470
- OCLC
- ocm20993397
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [517]-556) and index.
- Women's health / Adele E. Clarke -- Pathways of health and death / Lois M. Verbrugge -- Sexuality and woman's sexual nature / Nancy Sahli --Childbirth in America, 1650-1990 / Janet Carlisle Bogdan -- Race as a factor in health / Edward H. Beardsley -- Historical perspectives on women and mental illness / Nancy Tomes -- Surgical gynecology / Judith M. Roy -- Professionalization of obstetrics / Charlotte G. Borst -- Women's reproductive health / Suzanne Poirier -- Institutionalizing women's health care in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America / Joan E.Lynaugh -- Women and sectarian medicine / Naomi Rogers -- Self-help and the patent medicine business / Susan E. Cayleff -- Charismatic womenand health / Jonathan M. Butler, Rennie B. Schoepflin -- Knowledge and power / Martha H. Verbrugge -- Women's health and public policy / Molly Ladd-Taylor -- Women's toxic experience / Anthony Bale -- Midwives and history / Judy Barrett Litoff -- Nurses / Ellen D. Baer -- Physicians / Regina Morantz-Sanchez -- Pharmacists / Gregory J. Higby
Subjects
- Women -- Health and hygiene -- United States -- History.
- Women healers -- United States -- History.
- Women in medicine -- United States -- History.
- Women's Health -- United States.
Medical Subject Heading
- Women -- history -- United States.
Medical Subject Heading
- Physicians, Women -- history -- United States.
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