Health and Wellness in 19th-Century America

John C. Waller is associate professor of the history of medicine at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

As with others in the series, this title does a thorough job of covering broad health topics in a particular time period. High school and college students requiring reference material on the history of health and wellness for different eras will be well served by this set.

• Series ForewordAcknowledgments1. Factors in Health and WellnessThe Disease EnvironmentAfrican American Cultures of Health, Disease, and HealingNative American Cultures of Health, Disease, and HealingHealth, Disease, and Healing in the European Tradition2. Education and Training: Learned and NonlearnedIdentifying and Training African American HealersThe Selection and Training of Native American HealersThe Selection and Training of European-Style Healers3. Faith, Religion, and MedicineReligion in European-Style MedicineReligion and African American HealingReligion and Native American HealingReligion in White, Black, and Native Medicine4. Women's HealthReproduction and ChildbirthThe Politics of ReproductionDoctors Writing about Women5. The Health of Children and InfantsA Dangerous Time to Be YoungCoping with the Loss of a ChildTrying to Save Children's LivesThe Balance Sheet6. Infectious DiseaseThe Specter of Infectious DiseaseInfectious Disease and the Native PopulationSlavery and Infectious DiseaseThe Culture of "Live and Let Die"The Slow Beginnings of Sanitary ReformSanitary Reform AcceleratesPublic Health in the AscendantThe Recovery BeginsReckoning Up7. Occupational Health and Dangerous TradesSlavery and DeathSickness and Accidents on FarmsThe Exploitation of Irish Men and WomenThe Perils of ManufacturingThe Dangers of MiningDeath and Debility on the RailwaysThe Miseries of ProstitutionChild LaborUnnecessary Deaths8. Surgery, Dentistry, and OrthopedicsPain, Infection, and DeathRare BreakthroughsSurgery and SlaveryThe Birth of AnesthesiaSurgery and the Civil WarThe Rise of Aseptic SurgeryThe Transformation of the HospitalThe Flourishing of American DentistryThe Limits of Surgical Advance9. The Brain and Mental DisordersAntebellum Ideas about InsanityInsanity, Religion, and MoralityMedicine for the InsaneMoral Treatment and the Rise of the AsylumThe Rise of NeurologyNew and Old Directions10. The PharmacopeiaDrugs in the European Medical TraditionThe Pharmacopeia of African American MedicineThe Pharmacopeia of Native American MedicineThe Three Traditions11. War and HealthMilitary Medicine at the Start of the CenturyThe American–Mexican War and Its AftermathThe Civil War YearsSickness and the Spanish–American War of 1898Military Medicine in Transition12. Institutional FacilitiesThe Antebellum HospitalThe American DispensaryThe Transformation of the HospitalInventing the Professional NurseThe Hospital and Medical EducationInstitutional Care at the End of the Century13. Disease, Healing, and the ArtsDepicting Sickness and DeathThe Politics of HealthRepresentations of Doctors and SurgeonsBibliographyIndex