Judith Walzer Leavitt

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.

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. book summary at University of North Carolina Press website

Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health, (Beacon Press, 1996); hbk ; "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). The Healthiest City : Milwaukee and the politics of health reform, (Princeton University Press, 1982). 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

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).