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Medicine

Cooper, Dale, “The Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917 and Synthetic Drugs: Relieving Scarcity, Controlling Prices, and Establishing Pre-Marketing Licensing Controls,” Pharmacy in History, 47 (no. 2, 2005), 47–61.

Gabriel, Joseph M., “Mass-Producing the Individual: Mary C. Jarrett, Elmer E. Southard, and the Industrial Origins of Psychiatric Social Work,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 79 (Fall 2005), 430–58.

Gillis, Jonathan, “Taking a Medical History in Childhood Illness: Representations of Parents in Pediatric Texts since 1850,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 79 (Fall 2005), 393–429.

Grant, H. Roger, “Railroad Rx,” Railroad History (no. 192, Spring–Summer 2005), 8–18. Heavily illustrated.

Holt, Marilyn Irvin, “Children’s Health and the Campaign for Better Babies,” Kansas History, 28 (Autumn 2005), 174–87.

Jasen, Patricia, “Breast Cancer and the Politics of Abortion in the United States,” Medical History (London), 49 (Oct. 2005), 423–44.

Kidd, Thomas S., “The Healing of Mercy Wheeler: Illness and Miracles among Early American Evangelicals,” William and Mary Quarterly, 63 (Jan. 2006), 149–70.

Lewis, Carolyn Herbst, “Waking Sleeping Beauty: The Premarital Pelvic Exam and Heterosexuality during the Cold War,” Journal of Women’s History, 17 (no. 4, 2005), 86–110.

Misbach, Judith, and Henderikus J. Stam, “Medicalizing Melancholia: Exploring Profiles of Psychiatric Professionalization,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 42 (Dec. 2005), 41–59.

Mitman, Gregg, “In Search of Health: Landscape and Disease in American Environmental History,” Environmental History, 10 (April 2005), 184–210.

Parascandola, John, “The Pharmacist and vd Control in World War II America,” Pharmacy in History, 47 (no. 2, 2005), 62–68.

Powers, Janine A., “Worlds beyond Medicine: Nils P. Larsen’s Impact on Hawa‘i,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 39 (2005), 91–113.

Reiss, Benjamin, “Bardolatry in Bedlam: Shakespeare, Psychiatry, and Cultural Authority in Nineteenth-Century America,” English Literary History, 72 (Winter 2005), 769–97.

Siegel, Stephen A., “Justice Holmes, Buck v. Bell, and the History of Equal Protection,” Minnesota Law Review, 90 (Nov. 2005), 106–39.

Suzuki, Nanami, “Daietto cosmology no kindai” (Modernity of diet cosmology), in Seimei: Shourou byoushi no uchu (Life: The cosmology of living, aging, disease, and death), ed. Yoshimasa Ikegami, . (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2004. isbn 4000112376.) In Japanese.

Winter, Alison, “The Making of ‘Truth Serum,’ 1920–1940,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 79 (Fall 2005), 500–533.

 

Ackerman, Michael, “Interpreting the ‘newer knowledge of nutrition’: Science, Interests, and Values in the Making of Dietary Advice in the United States, 1915–1965” (University of Virginia, 2005). Order No. DA3168455.

Maybrey, Catherine R., “From Onanism to Orgasm: Masturbation, Medicine, and Gender in America, 1646–1953” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2005). Order No. DA3175768.

Sheehan, Tanya, “Doctor Photo: The Cultural Authority of Portrait Photography as Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America” (Brown University, 2005). Order No. DA3174673.

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