Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving

Books in this series explore issues and ideas related to health and health-care systems in the United States and elsewhere. Applying theory and methodology from history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and political science, books in the series investigate such topics as changing ideas about health and illness, the use of medical technology, the role of gender and class in the delivery of health care, and community responses to disease. The series is closed to new submissions.

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Clara Barton, Professional Angel

Elizabeth Brown Pryor

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780812212730

Pub Date: February 1988

Format: Paperback

476 Pages

Widely known today as the "Angel of the Battlefield," Clara Barton's personal life has always been shrouded in mystery. In Clara Barton, Professional Angel, Elizabeth Brown Pryor presents a biography...

Bring Out Your Dead

The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793

J. H. Powell

Introduction by Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins and Anna Coxe Toogood

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780812214239

Pub Date: June 1993

Format: Paperback

334 Pages

In 1793 a disastrous plague of yellow fever paralyzed Philadelphia, killing thousands of residents and bringing the nation's capital city to a standstill. In this psychological portrait of a city in...

Say Little, Do Much

Nursing, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century

Sioban Nelson

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780812217834

Pub Date: September 2003

Format: Paperback

240 Pages

In the nineteenth century, more than a third of American hospitals were established and run by women with religious vocations. In Say Little, Do Much, Sioban Nelson casts light on the work of these...

Bargaining for Life

A Social History of Tuberculosis, 1876-1938

Barbara Bates

Price: $74.95

ISBN: 9780812231205

Pub Date: March 1992

Format: Hardcover

456 Pages

Tuberculosis was the most common cause of death in the United States during the nineteenth century. The lingering illness devastated the lives of patients and families, and by the turn of the century,...

Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale

Selections and Commentaries

Edited by Michael D. Calabria and Janet A. Macrae

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780812215014

Pub Date: January 1994

Format: Paperback

224 Pages

Florence Nightingale is best known as the founder of modern nursing, a reformer in the field of public health, and a pioneer in the use of statistics. It is not generally known, however, that Nightingale...

The Friendship of Florence Nightingale and Mary Clare Moore

Edited by Mary C. Sullivan

Price: $64.95

ISBN: 9780812234893

Pub Date: May 1999

Format: Hardcover

240 Pages

Florence Nightingale is best known as a woman of action—a founder of modern nursing, a reformer in the field of public health, and a pioneer in the use of statistics. What is not generally appreciated...

Women at War

The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam

Elizabeth Norman

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780812213171

Pub Date: August 1990

Format: Paperback

238 Pages

Norman tells the dramatic story of fifty women—members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps—who went to war, working in military hospitals, aboard ships, and with air evacuation squadrons...

Healing Traditions

Alternative Medicine and the Health Professions

Bonnie Blair O'Connor

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780812213980

Pub Date: December 1994

Format: Paperback

288 Pages

The popularity and practice of alternative medicine continues to expand at astonishing rates. In Healing Traditions, Bonnie Blair O'Connor considers the conflicts that arise between the values and assumptions...

Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired

Black Women's Health Activism in America, 189-195

Susan L. Smith

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780812214499

Pub Date: August 1995

Format: Paperback

288 Pages

Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired moves beyond the depiction of African Americans as mere recipients of aid or as victims of neglect and highlights the ways black health activists created public...

Nurses' Work, The Sacred and The Profane

Zane Robinson Wolf

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780812212662

Pub Date: April 1988

Format: Paperback

324 Pages

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Showing results 1-10 of 11

Clara Barton, Professional Angel

Bring Out Your Dead

The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793

Say Little, Do Much

Nursing, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century

Bargaining for Life

A Social History of Tuberculosis, 1876-1938

Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale

Selections and Commentaries

The Friendship of Florence Nightingale and Mary Clare Moore

Women at War

The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam

Healing Traditions

Alternative Medicine and the Health Professions

Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired

Black Women's Health Activism in America, 189-195

Nurses' Work, The Sacred and The Profane