Recent Scholarship
Medicine
Benjafield, John G., “The Golden Section and American Psychology, 1892–1938,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 46 (Winter 2010), 52–71.
Gibbons, Michelle, “‘Voices from the People’: Letters to the American Phrenological Journal, 1854–64,” Journalism History, 35 (Summer 2009), 72–81.
Irwin, Julia F., “Nation Building and Rebuilding: The American Red Cross in Italy during the Great War,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 8 (July 2009), 407–40.
Kammer, David, “‘A Matter Very Close to My Heart’: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Tingleys, and the Creation of the Carrie Tingley Hospital for Crippled Children,” New Mexico Historical Review, 85 (Winter 2010), 39–60.
Nickel, Dawn D., “Dying in the West, Part 2: Caregiving in the Home and the Death of Daniel Slayton,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History, 59 (Winter 2009), 3–23. Heavily illustrated.
Richert, Lucas, “Pills, Policy Making, and Perceptions: Inside the fda during the ‘Reagan Revolution,’ 1981–1982,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 39 (no. 1, 2009), 41–63.
Carthon, Jacqueline Margo Brooks, “No Place for the Dying: A Tale of Urban Health Work in Philadelphia’s Black Belt, 1900–1930” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3345915.
Higgins, James E., “Keystone of an Epidemic: Pennsylvania’s Urban Experience during the 1918–1920 Influenza Epidemic” (Lehigh University, 2009). Order No. DA3354767.
Mei, Leyla, “The Color of Cancer: Disease and the Measure of Race in the United States from the 1920s to the 1990s” (City University of New York, 2009). Order No. DA3354666.
Zibbel, John E., “‘To Promote, Encourage, or Condone’: Science, Activism, and the Political Role of Moralism in the Formation of Needle Exchange Policy in Springfield, Massachusetts, 1998–2005” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2009). Order No. DA3349706.
Gillett, Mary C., The Army Medical Department, 1917–1941. (Washington: Center of Military History, 2009. xxii, 644 pp. Cloth, $68.00, isbn 978-0-16-083969-6. Paper, $54.00, isbn 978-0-16-083970-2.) Heavily illustrated.
Green, Christopher D., and Ludy T. Benjamin Jr., eds., Psychology Gets in the Game: Sport, Mind, and Behavior, 1880–1960. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. x, 313 pp. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-8032-2226-7.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Wooten, Heather Green, The Polio Years in Texas: Battling a Terrifying Unknown. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2009. xvi, 248 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-1-60344-1640-. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-60344-165-0.)
For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.
Full Text
