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Medicine

 

McKiven, Henry M., Jr., “The Political Construction of a Natural Disaster: The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1853,” Journal of American History, 94 (Dec. 2007), 734–42.

 

Chepaitis, Amy E., “Beyond the Rhetoric: What Are ‘True’ Public Private Partnerships? An Exploratory Study of Strategic Intent, Form, and Function in Healthcare ppps in New York State” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3265448.

Dudley, Anú King, “What Was in the Doctor’s Bag: A Material Culture Study of the Performance of Medicine in Antebellum New England” (University of Maine, 2007). Order No. DA3267951.

Garcia, Angela N., “The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Absolution along the Río Grande” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3264961.

Hong, Sok Chul, “The Health and Economic Burdens of Malaria: The American Case” (University of Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3262247.

Kinder, John Matthew, “Encountering Injury: Modern War and the Problem of the Wounded Soldier” (University of Minnesota, 2007). Order No. DA3263109.

Lawrence, Sarah Raphael, “On Their Own Terms: African Americans and Birth Control in the Rural South, 1900–1942” (Pennsylvania State University, 2007). Order No. DA3266149.

Luna, Marcos, “The Biomedicalization of Public Health and the Marginalization of the Environment: A Policy History from the Environment to the Hospital and Back Again” (University of Delaware, 2007). Order No. DA3267192.

Marshall, Tabitha, “The Health of the British Soldier in America, 1775–1781” (McMaster University, Canada, 2006). Order No. DANR28244.

Patel, Sejal S., “The Eclipse of the Community Study: The Roseto Study in Historical Context” (University of Pennsylvania, 2007). Order No. DA3271797.

Pollock, Anne, “Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference” (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007). Order No. DA0818739.

Tousignant, Noémi R., “Pain and the Pursuit of Objectivity: Pain-Measuring Technologies in the United States, c. 1890–1975” (McGill University, Canada, 2006). Order No. DANR27851.

White, Paul W., “Kennedy General Hospital: Its Impact on Memphis in War and Peace” (University of Memphis, 2007). Order No. DA3263718.

 

Schroeder-Lein, Glenna R., The Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine. (Armonk: Sharpe, 2008. xvi, 421 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-7656-1171-0.)

Talley, Colin L., A History of Multiple Sclerosis. (Westport: Praeger, 2008. xviii, 201 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-275-99788-5.)

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