Health culture in the heartland, 1880-1980 : an oral history / Lucinda McCray Beier.

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009], ©2009.

xviii, 242 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Living and dying in nineteenth-century McLean County -- No place like home : hospitals and the development of institutional care -- Nursing, gender, and modern medicine -- Doctors and organized medicine -- An ounce of prevention : public health services -- Matters of life and death : experience and expectations of health, illness, and medical care in the twentieth century.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-231) and index.