Student Bodies: The Influence of Student Health Services in American Society & Medicine

by Heather Munro Prescott

Student Bodies is the first book to link developments in college health with larger trends in American cultural and medical history. This comprehensive and engrossing study describes the origins and development of health services at institutions of higher education in the United States from the early 1800s---when administrators sought to restrict habits "unfavorable to study and morality" such as drunkenness, gambling, and solicitation of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472116088
• ISBN13: 9780472116089
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.1"