Disease And Medical Care In The Mountain West: Essays On Region, History, And Practice [Hardcover]

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.

"This work represents a twofold contribution to the literature of the American West: It explores the medical challenges and health conditions of the inter-mountain region between the Rocky Mountains and Pacific ranges while simultaneously examining the creation of region itself.” —Conevery Bolton,Journal of the West, Spring 2000
 

“Each chapter is carefully crafted by delineating the history of a disease or medically related idea, providing extensive footnotes that will be useful to the scholar, and analyzing the uniqueness of each group’s—miners, Chinese, Mormons, Native Americans, rural Nevadans, or frontier nurses—reaction to a regional environment.” —Martha L. Hildreth,Nevada Humanities Bulletin, 1998
 

“This volume emphasizes a sense of place, environment, work patterns, and cultural factors in the Mountain West’s particular medical history instead of examining the diseases themselves and their treatment. . . . This is an informative and well crafted volume.” —Mark Shelstad,Annals of Wyoming: The Wyoming History Journal, Winter 1999

Martha Hildrethis a professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno. She received her PhD from the University of California, Riverside.

Bruce Moranjoined the faculty of the University of Nevada in 1976. His primary areas of study are the history of science and early medicine as well as European cultural and intellectual history. Professl£»