Recent Scholarship
Medicine
Beatty, Barbara, “Transitory Connections: The Reception and Rejection of Jean Piaget’s Psychology in the Nursery School Movement in the 1920s and 1930s,” History of Education Quarterly, 49 (Nov. 2009), 442–64.
Gibian, Peter, “Doctor Holmes: The Life in Conversation,” in Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician and Man of Letters, ed. Scott H. Podolsky and Charles S. Bryan, 71–92. (Sagamore Beach, Mass.: Science History Publications/usa, 2009. xiv, 274 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-88135-379-2. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-88135-381-5.)
Haller, John S., Jr., “Oliver Wendell Holmes’s 1842 Lectures ‘Homoeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions’: A Retrospective Look,” in Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician and Man of Letters, ed. Scott H. Podolsky and Charles S. Bryan, 23–38. (Sagamore Beach, Mass.: Science History Publications/usa, 2009. xiv, 274 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-88135-379-2. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-88135-381-5.)
Herzberg, David, “‘Will Wonder Drugs Never Cease!’: A Prehistory of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising,” Pharmacy in History, 51 (no. 2, 2009), 47–56.
Kass, Amalie M., “A Private Pestilence: Holmes and Puerpal Fever,” in Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician and Man of Letters, ed. Scott H. Podolsky and Charles S. Bryan, 39–58. (Sagamore Beach, Mass.: Science History Publications/usa, 2009. xiv, 274 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-88135-379-2. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-88135-381-5.)
Kovac, Anthony, et al., “‘A Brave and Gallant Company’: A Kansas City Hospital in France during the First World War,” Kansas History, 32 (Autumn 2009), 168–85. Heavily illustrated.
Lee, Chang-Shin, “Yeoseongeu Yookchee Daehan Yeoseongeu Keonri: Margaret Sanger Wa Migookeu Sanajaehan Woondong” (A woman’s right for woman’s body: Margaret Sanger and the birth control movement in America), Migukhaknongip, 40 (Sept. 2008), 215–50. In Korean.
Nickel, Dawn, “Dying in the West, Part 1: Hospitals and Health Care in Montana and Alberta, 1880–1950,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History, 59 (Autumn 2009), 25–45. Heavily illustrated.
Pampel, Fred C., “The Persistence of Educational Disparities in Smoking,” Social Problems, 56 (Aug. 2009), 526–42.
Parascandola, John, “Quarantining Women: Veneral Disease Rapid Treatment Centers in World War II America,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 83 (Fall 2009), 431–59.
Rosenberg, Charles E., “Medical Therapeutics and Its Kindred Delusions: Oliver Wendell Holmes on Drugs, Disease, and Rational Care,” in Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician and Man of Letters, ed. Scott H. Podolsky and Charles S. Bryan, 59–70. (Sagamore Beach, Mass.: Science History Publications/usa, 2009. xiv, 274 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-88135-379-2. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-88135-381-5.)
Sappol, Michael, “The Odd Case of Charles Knowlton: Anatomical Performance, Medical Narrative, and Identity in Antebellum America,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 83 (Fall 2009), 460–98.
Schnittker, Jason, “Mirage of Health in the Era of Biomedicalization: Evaluating Change in the Threshold of Illness, 1972–1996,” Social Forces, 87 (June 2009), 2155–82.
Wehrman, Andrew M., “The Siege of ‘Castle Pox’: A Medical Revolution in Marblehead, Massachusetts, 1764–1777,” New England Quarterly, 82 (Sept. 2009), 385–429.
Weinstein, Michael A., “Oliver Wendell Holmes’s Depth Psychology: A Reconstruction,” in Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician and Man of Letters, ed. Scott H. Podolsky and Charles S. Bryan, 93–103. (Sagamore Beach, Mass.: Science History Publications/usa, 2009. xiv, 274 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-88135-379-2. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-88135-381-5.)
Yuill, Kevin, “Another Take on the Nixon Presidency: The First Therapeutic President?,” Journal of Policy History, 21 (no. 2, 2009), 138–62.
Batt, Ronald Elmer, “Emergence of Endometriosis in North America: A Study in the History of Ideas” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2009). Order No. DA3342084.
Cooper Owens, Deirdre Benia, “‘Courageous Negro Servitors’ and Laboring Irish Bodies: An Examination of Antebellum-Era Modern American Gynecology” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3335952.
de la Cova, Carlina, “Silent Voices of the Destitute: An Analysis of African American and Euro-American Health during the Nineteenth Century” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3331240.
Johnson, Jenell M., “Echoes of the Soul: A Rhetorical History of Lobotomy” (Pennsylvania State University, 2008). Order No. DA3336048.
Matthews, Eric Paul, “The Education of Early Nineteenth Century American Physicians: With Relevance to the Intercession Attempts on the Smallpox Virus, with Focus on the Smallpox Epidemic of 1837—1838” (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2008). Order No. DA3337329.
Raymundo, Jose Emmanuel, “The Political Culture of Leprosy in the U.S. Occupied Philippines, 1902–1941” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3342664.
Siff, Stephen I., “Glossy Visions: Coverage of lsd in Popular Magazines, 1954–1968” (Ohio University, 2008). Order No. DA3338743.
Staros, James D., “The Making of Public Morality: Politics, Social Engineering, and the Development of a Safer Cigarette” (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2008). Order No. DA3342324.
Brown, Julie K., Health and Medicine on Display: International Expositions in the United States, 1876–1904. (Cambridge: mit Press, 2009. xiv, 326 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-20-262-02657-.)
Podolsky, Scott H., and Charles S. Bryan, eds., Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician and Man of Letters. (Sagamore Beach, Mass.: Science History Publications/usa, 2009. xiv, 274 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-88135-379-2. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-88135-381-5.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Reiser, Stanley Joel, Technological Medicine: The Changing World of Doctors and Patients. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvi, 229 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-521-83569-5.)
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