Judith Walzer Leavitt: 3 books
Make Room for Daddy
The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2009
Using fathers' first-hand accounts from letters, journals, and personal interviews along with hospital records and medical literature, Judith Walzer Leavitt offers a new perspective on the changing role of expectant fathers from the 1940s to the 1980s. She shows how, as men moved first from the hospital...
Brought to Bed
Childbearing in America, 1750-1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 1988
Based on personal accounts by birthing women and their medical attendants, Brought to Bed reveals how childbirth has changed from colonial times to the present. Judith Walzer Leavitt's study focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices, their replacement by male doctors, and the...
Typhoid Mary
Captive to the Public's Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
She was an Irish immigrant cook. Between 1900 and 1907, she infected twenty-two New Yorkers with typhoid fever through her puddings and cakes; one of them died. Tracked down through epidemiological detective work, she was finally apprehended as she hid behind a barricade of trashcans. To protect the...