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Medicine

 

Appel, Jacob M., “‘Physicians Are Not Bootleggers’: The Short, Peculiar Life of the Medicinal Alcohol Movement,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 82 (Summer 2008), 355–86.

Cautin, Robin L., “David Shakow and Schizophrenia Research at Worcester State Hospital: The Roots of the Scientist-Practitioner Model,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 44 (Summer 2008), 219–37.

Embry, Jessie, “Diploma Nursing at Salt Lake City Religious Based Hospitals,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Summer 2008), 281–99.

Hamilton, Cynthia S., “‘Am I Not a Man and a Brother?’: Phrenology and Anti-slavery,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 29 (June 2008), 173–87.

Hampel, Robert, “Testing Medical Students at Harvard, 1870–1930,” History of Education and Children’s Literature (Macerata), 3 (no. 1, 2008), 155–74.

Howe, Barbara, “Practicing Medicine in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Wheeling: The Story of Dr. Eliza Clark Hughes,” Journal of Appalachian Studies, 12 (Fall 2006), 7–35.

Kastor, Peter J., and Conevery Bolton Valencius, “Sacagawea’s ‘Cold’: Pregnancy and the Written Record of the Lewis and Clark Expedition,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 82 (Summer 2008), 276–309.

Raz, Mical, “Between the Ego and the Icepick: Psychosurgery, Psychoanalysis, and Psychiatric Discourse,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 82 (Summer 2008), 387–420.

 

Boyle, Eric W., “The Boundaries of Medicine: Redefining Therapeutic Orthodoxy in an Age of Reform” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007). Order No. DA3283775.

Espino, Virginia Rose, “Women Sterilized as They Give Birth: Population Control, Eugenics, and Social Protest in the Twentieth-Century United States” (Arizona State University, 2007). Order No. DA3287938.

Mandel, Ellen D., “The Mythic Image of the American Physician” (Drew University, 2007). Order No. DA3284521.

Osborn, Matthew Warner, “The Anatomy of Intemperance: Alcohol and the Diseased Imagination in Philadelphia, 1784–1860” (University of California, Davis, 2007). Order No. DA3283017.

Padamsee, Tasleem Juana, “Infusing Health into the Welfare State: hiv/aids Policy Making in the United States and the United Kingdom” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287600.

Schafer, James A., Jr., “Finding a Niche: Doctors, Urban Change, and the Business of Private Medical Practice in Philadelphia, 1900–1940” (Johns Hopkins University, 2008). Order No. DA3288529.

 

Cantor, David, ed., Cancer in the Twentieth Century. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. x, 350 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8867-0.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Colgrove, James, Gerald Markowitz, and David Rosner, eds., The Contested Boundaries of American Public Health. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. x, 293 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8135-4311-6. x, 293 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4312-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Krueger, Gretchen, Hope and Suffering: Children, Cancer, and the Paradox of Experimental Medicine. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xii, 216 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8831-1.)

McLendon, William W., Floyd W. Denny Jr., and William B. Blythe, Bettering the Health of the People: W. Reece Berryhill, the unc School of Medicine, and the North Carolina Good Health Movement. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, 2007. xiv, 477 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3195-3.)

 

Wells, Cheryl A., ed., A Surgeon in the Army of the Potomac: Francis M. Wafer. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008. xliv, 225 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-7735-3381-3.)

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