Judith Walzer Leavitt Explained

Judith Walzer Leavitt (born July 22, 1940 in New York City) is an American historian.

Judith Walzer graduated in 1963 with a B.A. in social science from Antioch College. In July 1966 she married and assumed the name "Judith Walzer Leavitt". At the University of Chicago she graduated in history with an M.A. in 1966 and a Ph.D. in 1975.^[1]

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, retiring in 2010 as professor emerita.^[1] 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. She and her husband have a daughter and a son.

She is a past president of the American Association for the History of Medicine, and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Leavitt received her B.A. from Antioch College in 1963, and her M.A.T., M.A., and PhD in history from the University of Chicago in 1975.

Published works

• Make Room for Daddy: The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009).^[2] book summary at University of North Carolina Press website
• Leavitt . J. W. . "Strange young women on errands". Obstetric nursing between two worlds . Nursing History Review. 6 . 1998 . 1062-8061 . 9357294 . 3–24. 10.1891/1062-8061.6.1.3 . 27207280 .
• Book: Women and Health in America: Historical Readings . Second revised . Leavitt . J.W. . Madison . . 1999 . 0299159647 . 1984. ^[3]
• Book: Leavitt . JW . Ronald Numbers. Numbers . RL . Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health . Third . Madison . University of Wisconsin Press . 1997 . 0299153207. ^[4]
• Book: Gendered expectations: Women and early twentieth century public health . U.S. History as Women's History: New Feminist Essays . Kerber L . Kesslar-Harris A . Sklar K.K. . Chapel Hill . University of North Carolina Press . 1995 . 0-8078-2185-3.
• Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health, (Beacon Press, 1996); hbk ;^[5] Book: 1997 pbk edition. 0807021032 . Leavitt . Judith Walzer . July 31, 1997 . Beacon Press .
• "A worrying profession: The domestic environment of medical practice in the mid-nineteenth century". Garrison Lecture, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 1995;69: 1-29.
• Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America 1750-1950, (Oxford University Press, 1986).^[6] Book: 30th anniversary edition. 2016. 978-0190264123 . Leavitt . Judith Walzer . Oxford University Press .
• The Healthiest City : Milwaukee and the politics of health reform, (Princeton University Press, 1982).^[7] Book: 1996 pbk edition. 0-299-15164-6 . Leavitt . Judith W. . May 15, 1996 . University of Wisconsin Press .
• Ronald L. Numbers and Judith Walzer Leavitt, eds. Wisconsin Medicine: Historical Perspectives (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981). ; book details at University of Wisconsin Press website
• Leavitt . Judith Walzer . The Wasteland: Garbage and Sanitary Reform in the Nineteenth-Century American City . Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences . XXXV . 4 . 1980 . 0022-5045 . 10.1093/jhmas/XXXV.4.431 . 431–452. 7005319 .
• Guenter B. Risse, Ronald L. Numbers, and Judith Walzer Leavitt, eds. Medicine without Doctors: Home Health Care in American History (New York: Science History Publications, 1977).

External links

• Academic homepage, Department of History of Medicine and Bioethics
• Academic homepage, Department of the History of Science
• Article for PBS

Notes and References

1. Web site: Curriculum Vitae, Judith Walzer Leavitt. Department of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
2. 10.1177/0891243211408894 . Book Review: Make Room for Daddy: The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room . 2012 . Marsiglio . William . Gender & Society . 26 . 2 . 325–327 . 145332127 .
3. Book Review: Women and Health in America, edited by Judith Walzer Leavitt. Jones, Daniel P.. Isis. 76. 1. 112–113. March 1985. 10.1086/353772.
4. 10.1086/352368 . review of Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health . Judith Walzer Leavitt, Ronald L. Numbers . 1979 . Stevens . Rosemary . Rosemary A. Stevens . Isis . 70 . 4 . 608–609 .
5. Web site: review of Typhoid Mary by Judith Walzer Leavitt. May 1996. Kirkus Reviews .
6. 44442356 . Jones . Kathleen W. . Reviewed work: Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950, Judith Walzer Leavitt . Bulletin of the History of Medicine . 1988 . 62 . 2 . 301–303 .
7. 10.2307/3376895. 3376895 . Olesen . Virginia . Reviewed work: The Healthiest City: Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform, Judith Walzer Leavitt . The Public Historian . 1983 . 5 . 4 . 141–142 .