Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health (Revised)

by Ronald L. Numbers

Book Overview

This second edition of Peru s Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest includes Stern s 1992 reflections on the ten years of historical interpretation that have passed since the book s original publication setting his analysis of Huamanga in a larger perspective.

This book is a monument to both scholarship and comprehension, comparable in its treatment of the indigenous peoples after the conquest only to that of Charles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029915324X
• ISBN13: 9780299153243
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Comprehensive Overview

Leavitt is wonderful historian and although the majority of her early work centered on women's health throughout US history, in "Sickness and Health in America" she once again proves her ability to ferret out wonderful historians who write well and on pertinent issues. Encompassing classic works like the work on the Tuskagee Syphilis experiment and early work on attitudes toward persons living with HIV/AIDS, Leavitt should be applauded once again for her tireless efforts toward public health history.