How Health and Medicine Have Shaped the State
Civil War surgical instruments and case, 1861-1865. This kit used by a Fifth Minnesota Infantry Regiment surgeon, with its prominent amputation saws and scarificators for bloodletting, illustrates the reliance of physicians in the era before germ theory on "heroic" medical interventions.
Bibliography
Benoit, Virgil. "Gentilly: A French-Canadian Community in the Minnesota Red River Valley. Minnesota History 44, no. 8 (Winter 1975): 278–289.
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/44/v44i08p278-289.pdf
Blegen, Theodore C. Minnesota: A History of the State. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1963.
Bollet, A.J. "Politics and Pellagra: The Epidemic of Pellagra in the U.S. in the Early Twentieth Century." Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 65 (1992): 211–221.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2589605/pdf/yjbm00051-0058.pdf
Bulletin of the History of Medicine 84 (2010): 323–357.
"Child Rearing Hazards Reduced," Minnesota's Health 3 (1949): 1.
Clapesattle, Helen. The Doctors Mayo. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1941.
———. "Health and Medicine in Rochester, 1855–70." Minnesota History 20, no. 3 (September 1939): 221–242.
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/20/v20i03p221-242.pdf
———. "When Minnesota Was Florida's Rival." Minnesota History 35, no. 5 (March 1957): 214–221.
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/35/v35i05p214-221.pdf
Creevy, C.D., and M.M. Weaver. "Requirement of Internship for Graduation." Academic Medicine 20 (1945): 216–225.
Dublin, Louis I. "48 States of Health." The American Magazine 140 (1945): 34–35+.
Faribault State School and Hospital Records. Minnesota Historical Society and Minnesota State Archives. St. Paul, Minnesota.
"Medicine: The Fat of the Land." Time Magazine, January 13, 1961.
Folsom, William Henry Carman. E.E. Edwards, ed. Fifty Years in the Northwest. With an introduction and appendix containing reminiscences, incidents, and notes.
St. Paul: Pioneer Press Company, 1888.
Freedman, Ben. "The First State Public Health Laboratories in the United States." Public Health Reports 69 (1954): 867–875.
Fye, W. Bruce. "The Origins and Evolution of the Mayo Clinic from 1864 to 1939: A Minnesota Family Practice Becomes an International 'Medical Mecca.' " Bulletin of the History of Medicine 84 (2010): 323–357.
Gilman, Rhoda. "Last Days of the Upper Mississippi Fur Trade." Minnesota History 42, no. 4 (Winter 1970): 122–140.
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/42/v42i04p122-140.pdf
Grady, Denise, "Slaughterhouse 12," New York Times, February 5, 2008. Late Edition (East Coast).
Haines, Michael. "Fertility and Mortality in the United States." EH.net Encyclopedia. http://eh.net/encyclopedia/fertility-and-mortality-in-the-united-states/
Hartley, E.C., and Ruth E. Boynton. "A Survey of the Midwife Situation in Minnesota." Minnesota Medicine 7 (1924): 439–446.
Harwick, Harry J. Forty-Four Years with the Mayo Clinic: 1908-1952. Rochester, Minnesota: Harry J. Harwick, 1957.
Hennepin, Father Louis. "Narrative of the Voyage to the Upper Mississippi from his 'Description de la Louisiane,' printed at Paris, in 1693." In Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley, with the Original Narratives of Marquette, Allouez, Membré, Hennepin, and Anastase Douay. John Gilmary Shea, ed. New York: Redfield, 1853.
"Hennepin, Louis." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?BioId=34963
Hill-Burton Hospital Grant Program. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine. Bethesda, Maryland.
Huffman, Thomas R. "Exploring the Legacy of Reserve Mining: What Does the Longest Environmental Trial in History Tell Us About the Meaning of American Environmentalism?" Journal of Policy History 12 (2000): 339–368.
Jordan, Phillip D. The People's Health: A History of Public Health in Minnesota to 1948. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1953.
Kaplan, Anne, and Marilyn Ziebarth. Making Minnesota Territory, 1849-1858. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1999.
Kaups, Matti. "A Finnish Savusauna in Minnesota." Minnesota History 45, no. 1 (Spring 1976): 11–20.
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/45/v45i01p011-020.pdf
Ladd-Taylor, Molly. "Coping with a 'Public Menace': Eugenic Sterilization in Minnesota." Minnesota History 59, no. 6 (Summer 2005): 237–248.
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/59/v59i06p237-248.pdf
Lass, William E. "Minnesota: An American Siberia?" Minnesota History 49, no. 4 (Winter 1984): 149–155.
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/49/v49i04p149-155.pdf
Lillehei, C. Walton. "Chapter 1: Historical Development of Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Minnesota." In Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Principles and Practice, 2nd edition. Glenn P. Gravlee, Richard F. Davis, Mark Kursz, and Joe R. Utley, eds. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2000.
Meier, Peg. Bring Warm Clothes: Letters and Photos from Minnesota's Past. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Tribune, 1981.
Miles, Steven H., Nicole Lurie, Lois Quam, and Arthur Kaplan. "Health Care Reform in Minnesota," New England Journal of Medicine 327 (1992): 1092–1095.
Minnesota Agency History Records. Minnesota Historical Society and Minnesota State Archives. St. Paul, Minnesota.
Minnesota Department of Health. "Four new cases of asbestos-related cancer to be included in University of Minnesota's Taconite Workers Health Study." Press release, March 30, 2010.
http://taconiteworkers.umn.edu/news/pages/Four%20new%20cases%20of%20asbestos-related%20cancer%20to%20be%20included.html
Minnesota Department of Health Records. Minnesota Historical Society and Minnesota State Archives. St. Paul, Minnesota.
Najarian, John S., and J. Michael Cecka. "Norman E. Shumway, MD, PhD (1923–2006)." Clinical Transplantation 20 (2006): 269–271.
Norton, Jeffrey A. "History of Endocrine Surgery." In Surgery: Basic Science and Clinical Evidence, 2nd edition. Jeffrey A. Norton, Philip S. Barie, R. Randal Bollinger, Alfred E. Chang, Stephen F. Lowry, Sean J. Mulvihill, Harvey I. Pass, and Robert W. Thompson, eds. New York, New York: Springer, 2008.
O'Keefe, Michael. "Social Services: Minnesota as Innovator." Daedalus 29 (2000): 247–267.
Phelps, David, "After 10 years, smoke clears on state's tobacco lawsuit." Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 26, 2008.
Qualey, Carlton C. "A New El Dorado: Guides to Minnesota, 1850s-1880s." Minnesota History 42, no. 6 (Summer 1971): 215–224.
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/42/v42i06p215-224.pdf
Rajakumar, K. "Pellagra in the United States: A Historical Perspective." Southern Medical Journal 93 (2000): 272–277.
The Robins, Kaplan, Miller, and Ciresi, LLP, website. Minnesota Tobacco Litigation.
http://www.robinskaplan.com/verdicts-and-settlements/mn-tobacco-litigation
Rogers, Naomi. " 'Silence Has Its Own Stories': Elizabeth Kenny, Polio, and the Culture of Medicine." Social History of Medicine 21 (2008): 145–161.
Rølvaag, Ole E. Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie. Translated from the Norwegian by Lincoln Colcord and the author. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927.
The United Health Foundation website. America's Health Rankings. Minnesota (2010).
Uphoff, Mary Jo, Walter H. Uphoff, and Russell Lewis. Group Health, an American Success Story in Prepaid Health Care. Minneapolis: Dillon Press, 1980.
Wall, Barbra Mann. Unlikely Entrepreneurs: Catholic Sisters and the Hospital Marketplace, 1865–1925. Columbus: Ohio University Press, 2005.
Weiner, Lynn. " 'Who Are Wanted in Minnesota.' " Labor History 18 (1977): 403–406.
Wikipedia. Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agreement
Wilder, R.M. "A Brief History of the Enrichment of Bread and Flour." JAMA (1956) 162: 1539–1541.
Willoughby, Kelvin. "Minnesota's Competitive Position in the Biobusiness Technology Industries—Executive Summary." Minneapolis: The BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota, 2011.
Wilson, Leonard G. Medical Revolution in Minnesota: A History of the University of Minnesota Medical School. St. Paul: Midewiwin Press, 1989.
Wolf, Jacqueline H. " 'Let Us Have More Mother-Fed Babies': Early Twentieth-Century Breastfeeding Campaigns in Chicago and Minneapolis." Journal of Human Lactation 15 (1999): 101–105.
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Bibliography
Benoit, Virgil. "Gentilly: A French-Canadian Community in the Minnesota Red River Valley. Minnesota History 44, no. 8 (Winter 1975): 278–289.
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/44/v44i08p278-289.pdf
Blegen, Theodore C. Minnesota: A History of the State. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1963.
Bollet, A.J. "Politics and Pellagra: The Epidemic of Pellagra in the U.S. in the Early Twentieth Century." Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 65 (1992): 211–221.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2589605/pdf/yjbm00051-0058.pdf
Bulletin of the History of Medicine 84 (2010): 323–357.
"Child Rearing Hazards Reduced," Minnesota's Health 3 (1949): 1.
Clapesattle, Helen. The Doctors Mayo. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1941.
———. "Health and Medicine in Rochester, 1855–70." Minnesota History 20, no. 3 (September 1939): 221–242.
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/20/v20i03p221-242.pdf
———. "When Minnesota Was Florida's Rival." Minnesota History 35, no. 5 (March 1957): 214–221.
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/35/v35i05p214-221.pdf
Creevy, C.D., and M.M. Weaver. "Requirement of Internship for Graduation." Academic Medicine 20 (1945): 216–225.
Dublin, Louis I. "48 States of Health." The American Magazine 140 (1945): 34–35+.
Faribault State School and Hospital Records. Minnesota Historical Society and Minnesota State Archives. St. Paul, Minnesota.
"Medicine: The Fat of the Land." Time Magazine, January 13, 1961.
Folsom, William Henry Carman. E.E. Edwards, ed. Fifty Years in the Northwest. With an introduction and appendix containing reminiscences, incidents, and notes.
St. Paul: Pioneer Press Company, 1888.
Freedman, Ben. "The First State Public Health Laboratories in the United States." Public Health Reports 69 (1954): 867–875.
Fye, W. Bruce. "The Origins and Evolution of the Mayo Clinic from 1864 to 1939: A Minnesota Family Practice Becomes an International 'Medical Mecca.' " Bulletin of the History of Medicine 84 (2010): 323–357.
Gilman, Rhoda. "Last Days of the Upper Mississippi Fur Trade." Minnesota History 42, no. 4 (Winter 1970): 122–140.
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/42/v42i04p122-140.pdf
Grady, Denise, "Slaughterhouse 12," New York Times, February 5, 2008. Late Edition (East Coast).
Haines, Michael. "Fertility and Mortality in the United States." EH.net Encyclopedia. http://eh.net/encyclopedia/fertility-and-mortality-in-the-united-states/
Hartley, E.C., and Ruth E. Boynton. "A Survey of the Midwife Situation in Minnesota." Minnesota Medicine 7 (1924): 439–446.
Harwick, Harry J. Forty-Four Years with the Mayo Clinic: 1908-1952. Rochester, Minnesota: Harry J. Harwick, 1957.
Hennepin, Father Louis. "Narrative of the Voyage to the Upper Mississippi from his 'Description de la Louisiane,' printed at Paris, in 1693." In Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley, with the Original Narratives of Marquette, Allouez, Membré, Hennepin, and Anastase Douay. John Gilmary Shea, ed. New York: Redfield, 1853.
"Hennepin, Louis." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?BioId=34963
Hill-Burton Hospital Grant Program. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine. Bethesda, Maryland.
Huffman, Thomas R. "Exploring the Legacy of Reserve Mining: What Does the Longest Environmental Trial in History Tell Us About the Meaning of American Environmentalism?" Journal of Policy History 12 (2000): 339–368.
Jordan, Phillip D. The People's Health: A History of Public Health in Minnesota to 1948. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1953.
Kaplan, Anne, and Marilyn Ziebarth. Making Minnesota Territory, 1849-1858. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1999.
Kaups, Matti. "A Finnish Savusauna in Minnesota." Minnesota History 45, no. 1 (Spring 1976): 11–20.
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/45/v45i01p011-020.pdf
Ladd-Taylor, Molly. "Coping with a 'Public Menace': Eugenic Sterilization in Minnesota." Minnesota History 59, no. 6 (Summer 2005): 237–248.
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/59/v59i06p237-248.pdf
Lass, William E. "Minnesota: An American Siberia?" Minnesota History 49, no. 4 (Winter 1984): 149–155.
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/49/v49i04p149-155.pdf
Lillehei, C. Walton. "Chapter 1: Historical Development of Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Minnesota." In Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Principles and Practice, 2nd edition. Glenn P. Gravlee, Richard F. Davis, Mark Kursz, and Joe R. Utley, eds. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2000.
Meier, Peg. Bring Warm Clothes: Letters and Photos from Minnesota's Past. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Tribune, 1981.
Miles, Steven H., Nicole Lurie, Lois Quam, and Arthur Kaplan. "Health Care Reform in Minnesota," New England Journal of Medicine 327 (1992): 1092–1095.
Minnesota Agency History Records. Minnesota Historical Society and Minnesota State Archives. St. Paul, Minnesota.
Minnesota Department of Health. "Four new cases of asbestos-related cancer to be included in University of Minnesota's Taconite Workers Health Study." Press release, March 30, 2010.
http://taconiteworkers.umn.edu/news/pages/Four%20new%20cases%20of%20asbestos-related%20cancer%20to%20be%20included.html
Minnesota Department of Health Records. Minnesota Historical Society and Minnesota State Archives. St. Paul, Minnesota.
Najarian, John S., and J. Michael Cecka. "Norman E. Shumway, MD, PhD (1923–2006)." Clinical Transplantation 20 (2006): 269–271.
Norton, Jeffrey A. "History of Endocrine Surgery." In Surgery: Basic Science and Clinical Evidence, 2nd edition. Jeffrey A. Norton, Philip S. Barie, R. Randal Bollinger, Alfred E. Chang, Stephen F. Lowry, Sean J. Mulvihill, Harvey I. Pass, and Robert W. Thompson, eds. New York, New York: Springer, 2008.
O'Keefe, Michael. "Social Services: Minnesota as Innovator." Daedalus 29 (2000): 247–267.
Phelps, David, "After 10 years, smoke clears on state's tobacco lawsuit." Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 26, 2008.
Qualey, Carlton C. "A New El Dorado: Guides to Minnesota, 1850s-1880s." Minnesota History 42, no. 6 (Summer 1971): 215–224.
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/42/v42i06p215-224.pdf
Rajakumar, K. "Pellagra in the United States: A Historical Perspective." Southern Medical Journal 93 (2000): 272–277.
The Robins, Kaplan, Miller, and Ciresi, LLP, website. Minnesota Tobacco Litigation.
http://www.robinskaplan.com/verdicts-and-settlements/mn-tobacco-litigation
Rogers, Naomi. " 'Silence Has Its Own Stories': Elizabeth Kenny, Polio, and the Culture of Medicine." Social History of Medicine 21 (2008): 145–161.
Rølvaag, Ole E. Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie. Translated from the Norwegian by Lincoln Colcord and the author. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927.
The United Health Foundation website. America's Health Rankings. Minnesota (2010).
Uphoff, Mary Jo, Walter H. Uphoff, and Russell Lewis. Group Health, an American Success Story in Prepaid Health Care. Minneapolis: Dillon Press, 1980.
Wall, Barbra Mann. Unlikely Entrepreneurs: Catholic Sisters and the Hospital Marketplace, 1865–1925. Columbus: Ohio University Press, 2005.
Weiner, Lynn. " 'Who Are Wanted in Minnesota.' " Labor History 18 (1977): 403–406.
Wikipedia. Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agreement
Wilder, R.M. "A Brief History of the Enrichment of Bread and Flour." JAMA (1956) 162: 1539–1541.
Willoughby, Kelvin. "Minnesota's Competitive Position in the Biobusiness Technology Industries—Executive Summary." Minneapolis: The BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota, 2011.
Wilson, Leonard G. Medical Revolution in Minnesota: A History of the University of Minnesota Medical School. St. Paul: Midewiwin Press, 1989.
Wolf, Jacqueline H. " 'Let Us Have More Mother-Fed Babies': Early Twentieth-Century Breastfeeding Campaigns in Chicago and Minneapolis." Journal of Human Lactation 15 (1999): 101–105.