Recent Scholarship
Medicine
Beito, David T., “‘Let Down Your Bucket Where You Are’: The Afro-American Hospital and Black Health Care in Mississippi, 1924–1966,” Social Science History, 30 (Winter 2006), 551–69.
Bud, Robert, “From Germophobia to the Carefree Life and Back Again: The Lifecycle of the Antibiotic Brand,” in Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History, ed. Andrea Tone and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, 17–41. (New York: New York University Press, 2007. vi, 262 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8147-8300-9. Paper, $22.00, isbn 978-0-8147-8301-6.)
Cantor, David, “The Frustrations of Families: Henry Lynch, Heredity, and Cancer Control, 1962–1975,” Medical History (London), 50 (July 2006), 279–302.
Coelho, Philip R. P., and Robert A. McGuire, “Racial Differences in Disease Susceptibilities: Intestinal Worm Infections in the Early Twentieth-Century American South,” Social History of Medicine (Oxford), 19 (Dec. 2006), 461–82.
Dorr, Gregory Michael, “Defective or Disabled? Race, Medicine, and Eugenics in Progressive Era Virginia and Alabama,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 5 (Oct. 2006), 359–92.
Greene, Jeremy A., “The Abnormal and the Pathological: Cholesterol, Statins, and the Threshold of Disease,” in Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History, ed. Andrea Tone and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, 183–228. (New York: New York University Press, 2007. vi, 262 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8147-8300-9. Paper, $22.00, isbn 978-0-8147-8301-6.)
Healy, David, “Folie to Folly: The Modern Mania for Bipolar Disorders and Mood Stabilizers,” in Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History, ed. Andrea Tone and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, 42–62. (New York: New York University Press, 2007. vi, 262 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8147-8300-9. Paper, $22.00, isbn 978-0-8147-8301-6.)
Hoffman, Beatrix Rebecca, “Restraining the Health Care Consumer: The History of Deductibles and Co-payments in U.S. Health Insurance,” Social Science History, 30 (Winter 2006), 501–28.
Junod, Suzanne White, “Women over 35 Who Smoke: A Case Study in Risk Management and Risk Communications, 1960–1989,” in Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History, ed. Andrea Tone and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, 97–130. (New York: New York University Press, 2007. vi, 262 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8147-8300-9. Paper, $22.00, isbn 978-0-8147-8301-6.)
Singh, Ilina, “Not Just Naughty: 50 Years of Stimulant Drug Advertising,” in Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History, ed. Andrea Tone and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, 131–55. (New York: New York University Press, 2007. vi, 262 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8147-8300-9. Paper, $22.00, isbn 978-0-8147-8301-6.)
Thomasson, Melissa A., “Racial Differences in Health Insurance Coverage and Medical Expenditures in the United States: A Historical Perspective,” Social Science History, 30 (Winter 2006), 529–50.
Tone, Andrea, “Tranquilizers on Trial: Psychopharmacology in the Age of Anxiety,” in Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History, ed. Andrea Tone and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, 156–79. (New York: New York University Press, 2007. vi, 262 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8147-8300-9. Paper, $22.00, isbn 978-0-8147-8301-6.)
Wake, Naoko, “‘The Full Story by No Means All Told’: Harry Stack Sullivan at Sheppard-Pratt, 1922–1930,” History of Psychology, 9 (Nov. 2006), 325–58.
Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel, “‘Educate Yourself’: Consumer Information about Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy,” in Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History, ed. Andrea Tone and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, 63–93. (New York: New York University Press, 2007. vi, 262 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8147-8300-9. Paper, $22.00, isbn 978-0-8147-8301-6.)
Wirth, Thomas, “Urban Neglect: The Environment, Public Health, and Influenza in Philadelphia, 1915–1919,” Pennsylvania History, 73 (Summer 2006), 316–42.
Gabbert, Ann R., “Defining the Boundaries of Care: Local Responses to Global Concerns in El Paso Public Health Policy, 1881–1941” (University of Texas, El Paso, 2006). Order No. DA3214012.
Janke, Linda Sharon, “Prisoners of War: Sexuality, Venereal Disease, and Women’s Incarceration during World War I” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 2006). Order No. DA3210253.
Linker, Beth, “For Life and Limb: The Reconstruction of a Nation and Its Disabled Soldiers in World War I America” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3214246.
Pence, Ray, “First and Foremost a Scientist? Lee Myerson and Changing Definitions of Disability, 1948–1988” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3214793.
Regenhardt, Christy Erin, “The Psychology of Democracy: Psychological Concepts in American Culture, 1940–1965” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006). Order No. DA3212031.
Romano, Sally Dunne, “The Dark Side of the Sun: Skin Cancer, Sunscreen, and Risk in Twentieth-Century America” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3214283.
Sullivan, Patricia A., “Commercial, Political, and Cultural Uses (and Abuses?) of Diagnostic Medical Ultrasound: Unforeseen Consequences, 1970–2005” (University of Nebraska Medical Center, 2006). Order No. DA3214516.
Abel, Emily K., Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006. xx, 176 pp. Cloth, $68.00, isbn 978-0-8135-3900-3. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8135-3901-0.)
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, Marriage of Convenience: Rockefeller International Health and Revolutionary Mexico. (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006. xii, 434 pp. $95.00, isbn 1-58046-222-7.)
DeGrandpre, Richard, The Cult of Pharmacology: How America Became the World’s Most Troubled Drug Culture. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. x, 294 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3881-9.)
Lael, Richard L., Barbara Brazos, and Margot Ford McMillen, Evolution of a Missouri Asylum: Fulton State Hospital, 1851–2006. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xx, 252 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1689-2.)
Wailoo, Keith, Julie Livingston, and Peter Guarnaccia, eds., A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citzenship. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 378 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3059-8. Paper, $21.50, isbn 978-0-8078-5773-1.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
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