Women and Health in America: Historical ReadingsJudith Walzer Leavitt 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. |
Contents
Introduction to the Second Edition | 3 |
Women and Health in the Seventeenth | 9 |
Childbirth Practices Among Native American Women | 38 |
Midwifery | 48 |
This Trial Was Sent in Love and Mercy for | 67 |
Mother Love and Infant Death 17501920 16 | 91 |
Medical and Biological Views | 111 |
AfricanAmerican | 131 |
Women and Mental Illness | 389 |
Midwives | 423 |
White Nurses Black Midwives and Public Health | 444 |
Nurses | 459 |
Historical | 475 |
Interactions Between Public Health Nurses and Clients | 489 |
Physicians | 507 |
How Women | 526 |
Women and Health in the Late Nineteenth | 147 |
Sexuality | 191 |
Romantic Friends or a Different Race of Creatures? | 213 |
Progressive Psychiatrists | 229 |
Fertility Abortion and Birth Control | 251 |
Women Doctors Dying | 269 |
Childbirth and Motherhood | 327 |
And the Results Showed Promise Physicians | 347 |
in the U S A 19451965 | 371 |
American Medical Women | 540 |
Women Health Reform and Public Health | 557 |
Mary Baker Eddy Ellen G White | 579 |
Sanitary Science and Home | 596 |
Century Public Health | 612 |
TwentiethCentury Medicalization and Women | 635 |
Tomomi Kinukawa | 683 |
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