Disease And Medical Care In The Mountain West: Essays On Region, History, And Practice
edited by Martha L. Hildreth and Bruce T. Moran
University of Nevada Press, 1998
Cloth: 978-0-87417-304-8 | eISBN: 978-0-87417-381-9
Library of Congress Classification R154.5.W47D57 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification 610.979
ABOUT THIS BOOK
This collection of eight essays examines the health, disease, and medical care of the American West—an area flanked by the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, and Cascade Mountains. Topics include Mormons and the Thomsonian Movement in the nineteenth century, the silicosis epidemic in hardrock mining, Native American health, frontier nursing, and Chinese medicine.
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