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Bell, Andrew McIlwaine, “‘Gallinippers’ and Glory: The Links between Mosquito-Borne Disease and U.S. Civil War Operations and Strategy, 1862,” Journal of Military History, 74 (April 2010), 379–405.

Bhalla, Vibha, “‘We Wanted to End Disparities at Work’: Physician Migration, Racialization, and a Struggle for Equality,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 29 (Spring 2010), 40–78.

Costa, Dora L., and Matthew E. Kahn, “Health, Wartime Stress, and Unit Cohesion: Evidence from Union Army Veterans,” Demography, 47 (Feb. 2010), 45–66.

Doyle, Dennis, “‘Where the Need Is Greatest’: Social Psychiatry and Race-Blind Universalism in Harlem’s Lafargue Clinic, 1946–1958,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 83 (Winter 2009), 746–74.

Elenbaas, Robert M., and Dennis B. Worthen, “Transformation of a Profession: An Overview of the 20th Century,” Pharmacy in History, 51 (no. 4, 2009), 151–82. Heavily illustrated.

Finger, Simon, “An Indissoluble Union: How the American War for Independence Transformed Philadelphia’s Medical Community and Created a Public Health Establishment,” Pennsylvania History, 77 (Winter 2010), 37–72.

Galusca, Roxana, “From Fictive Ability to National Identity: Disability, Medical Inspection, and Public Health Regulations on Ellis Island,” Cultural Critique, 72 (Spring 2009), 137–63.

Goitein, Patricia L., “Meet Me in Heaven: Confronting Death along the Galena Trail Frontier, 1825–1855,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 102 (Fall–Winter 2009), 248–81.

Halliwell, Martin, “Cold War Ground Zero: Medicine, Psyops, and the Bomb,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 44 (May 2010), 313–31.

Hirshbein, Laura D., “Gender, Age, and Diagnosis: The Rise and Fall of Involutional Melancholia in American Psychiatry, 1900–1980,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 83 (Winter 2009), 710–45.

Manela, Erez, “A Pox on Your Narrative: Writing Disease Control into Cold War History,” Diplomatic History, 34 (April 2010), 299–323.

Marisam, Jason, “Local Governance and Pandemics: Lessons from the 1918 Flu,” University of Detroit Mercy Law Review, 85 (Spring 2008), 347–83.

Orentlicher, David, “Presumed Consent to Organ Donation: Its Rise and Fall in the United States,” Rutgers Law Review, 61 (Winter 2009), 295–321.

Reagan, Leslie J., “Rashes, Rights, and Wrongs in the Hospital and in the Courtroom: German Measles, Abortion, and Malpractice before Roe and Doe,” Law & History Review, 27 (Summer 2009), 241–79.

 

Cooke, Margaret, “The Place of Madness in American Culture and Discourse” (University of Nevada, Reno, 2009). Order No. DA3362213.

Guise-Richardson, Catherine, “Protecting Mental Health in the Age of Anxiety: The Context of Valium’s Development, Synthesis, and Discovery in the United States” (Iowa State University, 2009). Order No. DA3355221.

Park, Hyung Wook, “Refiguring Old Age: Shaping Scientific Research on Senescence, 1900–1960” (University of Minnesota, 2009). Order No. DA3366913.

Stevens, Robin Stanback, “aids in Black and White: The Influence of News Coverage of hiv/aids Testing among African Americans and White Americans, 1993–2007” (University of Pennsylvania, 2009). Order No. DA3363671.

 

Agnew, Jeremy, Medicine in the Old West: A History, 1850–1900. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2010. xii, 252 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7864-4623-0.) Heavily illustrated.

Haller, John S., Jr., Swedenborg, Mesmer, and the Mind/Body Connection: The Roots of Contemporary Medicine. (West Chester: Swedenborg Foundation, 2010. xxii, 321 pp. Cloth, $29.95, isbn 978-0-87785-331-2. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-87785-330-5.)

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