Explored the human struggle to preserve health, defeat illness and delay death in McLean County. The efforts of doctors, nurses, patients, hospitals, and health and sanitation departments of the last 150 years are detailed to illustrate how our experience of health, illness and healing has changed as a result of progress in public health, medical science and general living standards.
Want to know more? Purchase the book A matter of Life and Death by guest curator Lucinda McCray Beier in our gift shop.