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Author Beier, Lucinda McCray.

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

Imprint Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  610.977359 B396h 2009    ---  Available
Description xviii, 242 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-231) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Medicine -- Illinois -- McLean County -- History.
Medical care -- Illinois -- McLean County -- History.
Public health -- Illinois -- McLean County -- History.
Community Health Services -- history -- Illinois.
Delivery of Health Care -- history -- Illinois.
ISBN 0252075544 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780252033483 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
0252033485 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
9780252075544 (pbk. : alk. paper)
40015970574
1597057401
9781597057400
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