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Medicine

Brier, Jennifer, “Locating Lesbian and Feminist Responses to aids, 1982–1984,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 35 (Spring-Summer 2007), 234–48.

Hong, Sok Chul, “The Burden of Early Exposure to Malaria in the United States, 1850–1860: Malnutrition and Immune Disorders,” Journal of Economic History, 67 (Dec. 2007), 1001–35.

Jones, David S., “Human Radiation Experiments and the Anxieties of Cold War Medicine,” New England Journal of History, 64 (Fall 2007), 119–40.

Lawrence, Susan C., “Iowa Physicians: Legitimacy, Institutions, and the Practice of Medicine; Part 3, Dealing with Poverty and Defending Autonomy, 1929–1950,” Annals of Iowa, 66 (Winter 2007), 1–74.

Musser, Amber Jamilla, “From Our Body to Yourselves: The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective and Changing Notions of Subjectivity, 1969–1973,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 35 (Spring-Summer 2007), 93–109.

Turk, Michelle Follette, “Dead Roses and Blooming Deserts: The Medical History of a New Deal Icon,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 50 (Fall 2007), 239–64.

Zetka, James R., Jr., “Radical Logics and Their Carriers in Medicine: The Case of Psychopathology and American Obstetric Gynecologists,” Social Problems, 55 (Feb. 2008), 95–116.

 

Green, Alexa Harcourt, “The Market Cultures of William Beaumont: Ethics, Science, and Medicine in Antebellum America, 1820–1865” (Johns Hopkins University, 2007). Order No. DA3262421.

Guerrasio, Venetia M., “Dissecting the Pennsylvania Anatomy Act: Laws, Bodies, and Science, 1880–1960” (University of New Hampshire, 2007). Order No. DA3260599.

Jamison, DeReef F., “The Evolution of Black Psychology: Major Issues, Concepts, and Themes from 1974–1999” (Temple University, 2007). Order No. DA3255123.

Jentzen, Jeffrey M., “Death Investigation in America: Coroners, Medical Examiners, and the Pursuit of Medical Certainty” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2007). Order No. DA3261437.

 

Dammann, Gordon, and Alfred Jay Bollet, Images of Civil War Medicine: A Photographic History. (New York: Demos, 2008. x, 204 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-1-932603-39-2.) Heavily illustrated.

Walker, L. G., Jr., Dr. Henry R. Porter: The Surgeon Who Survived Little Big Horn. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2008. x, 221 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7864-3171-7.)

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