Medical History and Bioethics
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Judith W. Leavitt
Education
1963 B.A. Social Science, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio1966 M.A. History, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1975 Ph.D. History, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Professional Experience
1975-1981 University of Wisconsin-Madison Assistant Professor History of Medicine, History of Science, and Women's Studies1981-1986 University of Wisconsin-Madison Associate Professor History of Medicine, History of Science, and Women's Studies
1981-1993 Chair, History of Medicine Department
1985-Present Affiliate Faculty, History Department
1985-Present Permanent Honorary Member, History Department
1986-Present Professor History of Medicine, History of Science, and Women's Studies
1990-1995 Evjue-Bascom Professor of Women's Studies
1996-1999 Associate Dean for Faculty, School of Medicine
1997-Present Ruth Bleier WARF Professor History of Medicine, History of Science, and Women ’s Studies
Honors and Awards
1983 Gambrinus Prize for outstanding contribution to Milwaukee history from the Milwaukee County Historical Society, for The Healthiest City1987 Wisconsin Library Association Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Wisconsin Author, for Brought to Bed
1991 Faculty and Administration Award, Medical Students for Minority Concerns, University of Wisconsin Medical School
1991-1995 Evjue-Bascom Professor of Women's Studies
1993-94 Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities
1995 Arthur Viseltear Award, American Public Health Association
1997 Ruth Bleier WARF Professorship
1998 Elected Vice President (President Elect), American Association of the History of Medicine
1999 Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1999 Folkert Belzer Lifetime Achievement Award, UW Medical School
2000-2002 President, American Association for the History of Medicine
2004 Hilldale Award for Arts and Humanities
2004-2009 University of Wisconsin Chair Rupple Bascom Professor
Fellowships and Grants
1977-78 University of Wisconsin Graduate School
"Milwaukee Physicians 1837-1915: A Collective Biography"1978-79 National Institutes of Health
" Health and Politics in 19th Century Milwaukee"1981-82 Ford Foundation
Motherhood: An Interdisciplinary Approach, a center grant to the Women's Studies Research Center1983-84 University of Wisconsin Graduate School
"Brought to Bed: Women and Childbirth in American History 1750-1950"1984-85 Brittingham Trust
"Women and Childbirth in American History"1984-86 National Institute of Health
"Women and Childbirth in America 1750-1950"1993-94 Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities
1993-96 National Endowment for the Humanities "Typhoid Mary": Personal Liberty v. the Public's Health in the Early Twentieth Century
1997-98 Burroughs-Wellcome Fund 40th Anniversary Award
Publications
Books and Edited Volumes
Medicine Without Doctors: Home Health Care in American History (New York: Science History Publications, 1977) Edited with Guenter B. Risse and Ronald L. Numbers
Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978) Edited with Ronald L. Numbers (Second Revised Edition, 1985) (Third Revised Edition, 1997)
Wisconsin Medicine: Historical Perspectives (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981) Edited with Ronald L. Numbers
The Healthiest City: Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982; Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, paperback edition with new preface, 1996)
Women and Health in America: Historical Readings (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984) Edited (Second Revised Edition, 1999)
Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America 1750-1950 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986) (Paperback edition, 1988)
Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health (Boston: Beacon Press, 1996) (Paperback edition, 1997)
Articles Published in the Last 10 Years
"Public Resistance or Cooperation? A Tale of Smallpox in Two Cities,"Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science, volume 1, number 3, 2003, pp. 1-8."‘Typhoid Mary’ Strikes Back: Bacteriological Theory and Practice in Early Twentieth Century Public Health,"Isis 83 (December 1992): 608-629. Reprinted in Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health, eds. Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald L. Numbers, third revised edition (University of Wisconsin Press, 1997).
"‘ Typhoid Mary’ and the Public's Health,"Humanities 15 (1994): 32-33.
"‘ Alone Among Strangers’: The Transition from Home to Hospital in American Childbirth History,"International Journal of Childbirth Education 9 (August 1994): 5-7.
"‘ Be Safe. Be Sure’: New York City's Experience with Epidemic Smallpox,"in Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in New York City, edited by David Rosner (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995), pp. 95-114. Reprinted in Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health, eds. Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald L. Numbers, third revised edition (University of Wisconsin Press, 1997).
"‘ A Worrying Profession': The Domestic Environment of Medical Practice in the Mid-Nineteenth Century,"Garrison Lecture, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 69 (Spring 1995): 1-29. Reprinted in Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health, eds. Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald L. Numbers, third revised edition (University of Wisconsin Press, 1997).
"Gendered Expectations: Women and Early Twentieth Century Public Health,"in U.S. History as Women's History: New Feminist Essays, eds. Linda Kerber, Alice Kesslar-Harris, and Kathryn Kish Sklar (University of North Carolina Press, 1995).
"‘ Strange Young Women on Errands’, Obstetric Nursing Between Two Worlds", Nursing History Review, 6 (1998): 3-24. Reprinted in Enduring Issues in American Nursing, eds. Ellen D. Baer, Patricia D’Antonio, Sylvia Rinker, and Joan E. Lynaugh (New York: Springer Publishing Company, 2001).
"Mary Mallon," American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 24 vols (NY: Oxford University Press, 1999), vol 15, pp. 377-378.
"Winds of Change: Results of a Gender Climate Survey from a Midwest Academic Health Center," by Sharon Foster, Julia E. McMurray, Mark Linzer, Judith W. Leavitt, Marjorie Rosenberg, and Molly Carnes, Academic Medicine, June, 2000.
"A Celebration of Intergenerational Mentoring and ‘Mothering’: Judith Walzer Leavitt," in Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources, vol. 23, issue 1 (Fall, 2001).
"What Do Men Have to Do With It? Fathers and mid-20th Century Childbirth," Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2003, 77:235-262.
"Ruth Bleier," Notable American Women, Supplement 3, Harvard University Press, forthcoming, 2004.
Current Research Projects/Interests
Continuing to work on 20th century American childbirth experiences, with a special focus on the role of fathers.
Contributed to "The Most Dangerous Woman in America"now on the PSB website.
Courses Taught
Undergraduate
- 504: Society and Health Care in America
- 509: Development of Public Health in America [syllabus]
- 531: Women and Health in American History
- Women's Studies 430: Biology and Psychology of Women
- Women's Studies 431: Childbirth in the United States [syllabus]
Graduate
- 720: Historical Perspectives in Medicine
- 725: Topics in American Medicine
- 919: Graduate Studies in Medical History
- 920: Research Seminar in Medical History and Public Health
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