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Book SynopsisContributors examine the nature of industrial illnesses, including silicosis in the Mountain West's hardrock mining industry, and the management of Native American health. The editors offer an overview of the circumstances that created the region's medical history and suggest topics for study.
Trade ReviewThis work represents a twofold contribution to the literature of the American West: It explores the medical challenges and health conditions of the inter-mountain region between the Rocky Mountains and Pacific ranges while simultaneously examining the creation of region itself.” —Conevery Bolton,
Journal of the West, Spring 2000
“Each chapter is carefully crafted by delineating the history of a disease or medically related idea, providing extensive footnotes that will be useful to the scholar, and analyzing the uniqueness of each group’s—miners, Chinese, Mormons, Native Americans, rural Nevadans, or frontier nurses—reaction to a regional environment.” —Martha L. Hildreth,
Nevada Humanities Bulletin, 1998
“This volume emphasizes a sense of place, environment, work patterns, and cultural factors in the Mountain West’s particular medical history instead of examining the diseases themselves and their treatment. . . . This is an informative and well crafted volume.” —Mark Shelstad,
Annals of Wyoming: The Wyoming History Journal, Winter 1999
