Research Catalog

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Description

1. xviii, 242 p., [10] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

1. Medicine > Illinois > McLean County > History
2. Medical care > Illinois > McLean County > History
3. Public health > Illinois > McLean County > History
4. Community Health Services > history > Illinois
5. Delivery of Health Care > history > Illinois
6. History, 19th Century > Illinois
7. History, 20th Century > Illinois
8. Public Health > history > Illinois

Contents

1. Living and dying in nineteenth-century McLean County -- No place like home : hospitals and the development of institutional care -- Nursing, gender, and modern medicine -- Doctors and organized medicine -- An ounce of prevention : public health services -- Matters of life and death : experience and expectations of health, illness, and medical care in the twentieth century.

Call number

1. IVF (McLean Co.) 09-4352

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-231) and index.

Author

1. Beier, Lucinda McCray.

Title

1. Health culture in the heartland, 1880-1980 : an oral history / Lucinda McCray Beier.

Imprint

1. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-231) and index.

LCCN

1. 2008029715

Other standard identifier

1. 40015970574

ISBN

1. 9780252033483 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
2. 0252033485 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
3. 9780252075544 (pbk. : alk. paper)
4. 0252075544 (pbk. : alk. paper)
5. 40015970574

Research call number

1. IVF (McLean Co.) 09-4352