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Sickness and Health in America is written by Judith Walzer Leavitt and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 029915324X (ISBN 10) and 9780299153243 (ISBN 13).
Adds 21 new essays and drops some that appeared in the 1984 edition (first in 1978) to reflect recent scholarship and changes in orientation by historians. Adds entirely new clusters on sickness and health, early American medicine, therapeutics, the art of medicine, and public health and personal hygiene. Other discussions are updated to reflect such phenomena as the growing mortality from HIV, homicide, and suicide. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR