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Disease and Medical Care in the Mountain West : Essays On Region, History, and Practice Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities (Unnumbered)
author
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Hildreth, Martha Lee.
publisher
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University of Nevada Press
isbn10 | asin
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0874173043
print isbn13
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9780874173048
ebook isbn13
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9780874173819
language
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English
subject
Medicine--West (U.S.)--History.
publication date
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1998
lcc
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R154.5.W47D57 1998eb
ddc
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610/.979
subject
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Medicine--West (U.S.)--History.
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Disease and Medical Care in the Mountain West
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Wilbur S. Shepperson Series
in History and Humanities
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Disease and Medical Care in the Mountain West
Essays on Region, History, and Practice
Edited by Martha L. Hildreth & Bruce T. Moran
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Winner of the Wilbur S. Shepperson Humanities Book Award for 1997
This book is the recipient of the Wilbur S. Shepperson Humanities Book Award, which is given annually in his memory by the Nevada Humanities Committee and the University of Nevada Press. One of Nevada's most distinguished historians, Wilbur S. Shepperson was a founding board member and long-time supporter of both organizations.
Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities
Series Editor: Jerome E. Edwards
University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA
Copyright 1998 by University of Nevada Press
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
Design by Carrie Nelson House
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Disease and medical care in the mountain West : essays on region, history, and practice / edited by Martha L. Hildreth and Bruce T. Moran. p. cm. (Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history and humanities) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87417-304-3 (alk. paper) 1. MedicineWest (U.S.)History. I. Hildreth, Martha Lee. II. Moran, Bruce T. III. Series: Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history and humanities (Unnumbered) R154.5.W47D57 1997 97-26959 610'.979dc21 CIP
The paper used in this book meets the requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Binding materials were selected for strength and durability.
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Dedicated to students of the history of medicine in the Great Basin
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Contents
Foreword:
Todd Savitt
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction:
Martha L. Hildreth & Bruce T. Moran
xiii
1 The Significance of Regions in American Medical History
Ronald L. Numbers
1
2 Steaming Saints: Mormons and the Thomsonian Movement in Nineteenth-Century America
Thomas J. Wolfe
18
3 Suicide in the Nevada Hinterlands: A Cultural Perspective
Marie I. Boutt
29
4 White Father Medicine and the Blackfeet, 18551955: Native American Health and the Department of the Interior
Diane D. Edwards
43
5 The Scientific Construction of New Diseases: Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Aids as Comparative Case Studies
Victoria A. Harden
59
6 "Many Have Died and Others Must": The Silicosis Epidemic in Western Hardrock Mining, 19001925
Alan Derickson
72
7 Frontier Nursing: The Deaconess Experience in Montana, 18901960
Pierce C. Mullen
82
8 Chinese Medicine on the "Gold Mountain": Tradition, Adaptation, and Change
Paul D. Buell
95
Notes
111
Contributors
141
Index
143
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Illustrations
John Wesley Powell's Map of the Physiographic Regions of the United States
2
Daniel Drake, M.D.
5
Hydrographical Map of the Interior Valley of North America
6
Epidemiological Subregions of the Southern United States before the Civil War
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