Judith Walzer Leavitt

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According to Wikipedia, Judith Walzer Leavitt is an American historian. She was the Rupple Bascom and Ruth Bleier Professor of History of Medicine, History of Science, and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her book subjects have included a study of Mary Mallon, a history of childbirth in America, and a history of public health in Milwaukee. She is the wife of Waisman Center medical director Lewis Leavitt, as well as the sister of political theorist Michael Walzer.

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Judith Walzer Leavitt's Published Works

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Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950 (1986) (173)
Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America (1977) (138)
Results of a Gender‐climate and Work‐environment Survey at a Midwestern Academic Health Center (2000) (112)
Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health (1997) (93)
Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health (1985) (84)
The Healthiest City: Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform (1982) (60)
A Once Charitable Enterprise: Hospitals and Health Care in Brooklyn and New York, 1885-1915 (1983) (57)
Brought to Bed (1986) (56)
Birthing and Anesthesia: The Debate over Twilight Sleep (1980) (54)
"Typhoid Mary" Strikes Back Bacteriological Theory and Practice in Early Twentieth-Century Public Health (1992) (53)
Make Room for Daddy: The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room (2009) (49)
"Science" enters the birthing room: obstetrics in America since the eighteenth century. (1983) (36)
Public resistance or cooperation? A tale of smallpox in two cities. (2003) (33)
The Growth of Medical Authority: Technology and Morals in Turn‐of‐the‐Century Obstetrics (1987) (31)
What Do Men Have to Do with It? Fathers and Mid-Twentieth-Century Childbirth (2003) (30)
Women and Health in America (1984) (28)
Women and health in America : historical readings (1999) (27)
Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin 1850-1940 (2001) (27)
Under the shadow of maternity: American women's responses to death and debility fears in nineteenth-century childbirth. (1986) (26)
Medicine without Doctors: Home Health Care in American History (1978) (25)
Medicine in context: a review essay of the history of medicine. (1990) (23)
Maternity in dispute: New Zealand, 1920-1939 (1986) (20)
Edward Jarvis and the Medical World of Nineteenth-Century America (1980) (19)
A Decade of Feminist Critiques in the Natural Sciences: An Address by Ruth Bleier (1988) (15)
Politics and public health: smallpox in Milwaukee, 1894-1895. (1976) (15)
We Did It (2009) (12)
Medical institutions. (1981) (11)
The Healthiest City (1982) (10)
Articles: “Strange Young Women on Errands”: Obstetric Nursing Between Two Worlds (1998) (10)
The effect of prenatal support on birth outcomes in an urban midwestern county. (2012) (8)
Safeguarding the Public Health: Newark, 1895-1918 (1976) (8)
The medicalization of childbirth in the twentieth century. (1989) (7)
Lying-In: A History of Childbirth in America. By Richard W. Wertz and Dorothy C. Wertz (New York: The Free Press, 1977. xi + 260 pp. $10.00) (1979) (7)
Langstaff: a nineteenth-century medical life (1995) (7)
Fielding H. Garrison Lecture. "A worrying profession": the domestic environment of medical practice in mid-nineteenth-century America. (1995) (5)
Strange young women on errands". Obstetric nursing between two worlds. (1998) (5)
The wasteland: garbage and sanitary reform in the nineteenth-century American city. (1980) (5)
A chronicle of medicine: the changing humors of portsmouth. (1987) (2)
Our Bodies, Our History (1984) (2)
Pandemics and History: Context, Context, Context. (2021) (2)
The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America. By Lara Freidenfelds (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. 242 pp.) (2010) (2)
Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South (review) (2007) (1)
True Facts and Honest History: A Review of Certain Practices, a Mea Culpa, and Other Thoughts About the Writing of History (2013) (1)
Paul Starr. The Social Transformation of American Medicine. New York: Basic Books. 1982. Pp. xiv, 514. $24.95 (1984) (1)
Alone among Strangers (2009) (1)
Book Review The Tragedy of Childbed Fever By Irvine Loudon. 249 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 2000. $65. 0-19-820499-X (2000) (1)
A History of Public Health in New York City, 1866–1966. JOHN DUFFY, New York, Russel Sage Foundation, 1974, 690 pp., illus., $ 20. (1975) (0)
Joseph B. DeLee and the Practice of Preventive Obstetrics (1989) (0)
The Germ of Laziness: Rockefeller Philanthropy and Public Health in the New South John Ettling (1984) (0)
The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America (review) (2010) (0)
Peaceful and Confident (2009) (0)
He Wants to Know (2009) (0)
Reading Birth and Death: A History of Obstetric Thinking (review) (2000) (0)
Medical Institutions: The Invention of the Modern Hospital . Boston, 1870-1930. Morris J. Vogel. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1980. x, 172 pp. $15.50. (1981) (0)
Giving Birth in Canada, 1900-1950 (review) (2003) (0)
Book Review: A Calculus of Suffering: Pain, Professionalism, and Anesthesia in Nineteenth-Century America, by Judith Walzer Leavitt (1985) (0)
Book Notices (1997) (0)
Book Review:Women Doctors in Gilded-Age Washington: Race, Gender, and Professionalization Gloria Moldow (1987) (0)
Letter to the Editor (1995) (0)
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Medicine's Coming of Age@@@American Medicine in Transition, 1840-1910. (1982) (0)
Public Health, Private Rights (1996) (0)
Book ReviewOrganized for Prohibition: A new history of the Anti-Saloon League (1986) (0)
“Elective Induction of Labor” (1955), by Edward Bishop [1] (2022) (0)
Book Review: Private Matters: American Attitudes toward Childbearing and Infant Nurture in the Urban North, 1800-1860, by Judith Walzer Leavitt (1990) (0)
Obstructed careers. (1982) (0)
Women in Medicine: A Bibliography of the Literature on Women Physicians (1978) (0)
Book Review:Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine Regina Markell Morantz-Sanchez (1986) (0)
Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease. By Joan Jacobs Brumberg (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. 366 pp. $25.00) (1989) (0)
Book Review:Trial by Medicine: Insanity and Responsibility in Victorian Trials Roger Smith (1982) (0)
Book reviews (1982) (0)
Stephen Nissenbaum, Sex, Diet, and Debility in Jacksonian America: Sylvester Graham and Health Reform. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1980, xix + 198 pp., $22.95. (1981) (0)
Letter to the Editor (1995) (0)
Oral History Interview: Gloria Sarto (0715) (2005) (0)
susan m. reverby. Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850–1945. (Cambridge History of Medicine.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1987. Pp. xiv, 286. Cloth $44.50, paper $12.95 (1989) (0)
Childbirth and conspiracy. (1987) (0)
Writing public health history: the need for a social scaffolding. (1976) (0)
RESENHAS REVIEWS TYPHOID MARY: CAPTIVE TO THE PUBLIC’S HEALTH (1999) (0)
Book Review: Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey, by Lillian Schlissel (1982) (0)
Spanish Medicine before the Eighteenth Century (1980) (0)
“Elective Induction of Labor” (1955), by Edward Bishop (2017) (0)
Before Freud: Neurasthenia and the American Medical Community, 1870–1910. By F.G. Gosling (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987. xviii + 192 pp.) (1989) (0)
The Best Backrubber (2009) (0)
Book Review:The Medicine Show: Patients, Physicians and the Perplexities of the Health Revolution in Modern Society Patricia Branca (1979) (0)
Dual-Career Families: (1983) (0)
Medical Institutions. (Book Reviews: The Invention of the Modern Hospital) (1981) (0)
"Science" Enters the Birthing Room: Obstetrics in America since the Eighteenth Century (2018) (0)
Women and Health in America (2nd edition) (2001) (0)
Joseph Bolivar DeLee (1869–1942) (2021) (0)
Book Reviews (2008) (0)
Political Economy of Public Health (2012) (0)

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