Recent Scholarship
Medicine
Bamberg, Cherry Fletcher, “Peleg Gifford’s Tale,” Rhode Island History, 63 (Fall 2005), 51–68.
Bellin, Joshua David, “Taking the Indian Cure: Thoreau, Indian Medicine, and the Performance of American Culture,” New England Quarterly, 79 (March 2006), 3–36.
Bittel, Carla, “Science, Suffrage, and Experimentation: Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Controversy over Vivisection in Late Nineteenth-Century America,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 79 (Winter 2005), 664–94.
Borst, Charlotte G., and Kathleen W. Jones, “As Patients and Healers: The History of Women and Medicine,” oah Magazine of History, 19 (Sept. 2005), 23–26.
Daly, Walter J., “The ‘Slows’: The Torment of Milk Sickness on the Midwest Frontier,” Indiana Magazine of History, 102 (March 2006), 29–40.
Greene, Jeremy A., “Releasing the Flood Waters: Diuril and the Reshaping of Hypertension,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 79 (Winter 2005), 749–94.
Herzberg, David, “‘The Pill You Love Can Turn On You’: Feminism, Tranquilizers, and the Valium Panic of the 1970’s,” American Quarterly, 58 (March 2006), 79–103.
Kopperman, Paul E., “The Medical Aspect of the Braddock and Forbes Expeditions,” Pennsylvania History, 71 (Summer 2004), 257–83.
Lederer, Susan, “Experimentation on Human Beings,” oah Magazine of History, 19 (Sept. 2005), 20–22.
Schuster, David G., “Personalizing Illness and Modernity: S. Weir Mitchell, Literary Women, and Neurasthenia, 1870–1914,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 79 (Winter 2005), 695–722.
Sloane, David, “‘Not Designed Merely to Heal’: Women Reformers and the Emergence of Children’s Hospitals,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 4 (Oct. 2005), 331–54.
Smith, Susan L., “Teaching the History of Public Health and Health Reform,” oah Magazine of History, 19 (Sept. 2005), 27–29.
Tomes, Nancy, “Bodies of Evidence,” oah Magazine of History, 19 (Sept. 2005), 7–13.
Tomes, Nancy, “The Great American Medicine Show Revisited,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 79 (Winter 2005), 627–63.
Tuckel, Peter, et al., “The Diffusion of the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 in Hartford, Connecticut,” Social Science History, 30 (Summer 2006), 167–96.
Weaver, Karol K., “‘She Knew All the Old Remedies’: Medical Caregiving and Neighborhood Women of the Anthracite Coal Region of Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania History, 71 (Autumn 2004), 421–44.
Becker, Ann Marie, “Smallpox in Washington’s Army: Strategic Implications of the Disease during the American Revolutionary War” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2005). Order No. DA3179616.
Bosia, Michael J., “Blood Ties: Identity, Citizenship, and the Politics of aids in France and the United States” (Northwestern University, 2005). Order No. DA3177688.
Emin-Tunc, Tanfer, “Technologies of Choice: A History of Abortion Techniques in the United States, 1850–1980” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2005). Order No. DA3179633.
Hatcher, Jessamyn, “Psychoanalysis and Everyday Life: The Popularization and Popular Use of Psychoanalysis in the United States, 1909–1935” (Duke University, 2004). Order No. DA3177857.
Herzberg, David L., “Designer Consciousness: Medicine, Marketing, and Identity in American Culture from Miltown to Prozac” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2005). Order No. DA3186190.
Hribkova, Klara, “Power, Subject, and Syphilis: Towards a Sociology of Venereal Disease in the United States, 1900–1950” (Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2004). Order No. DANR03129.
McGraw, Charles Dean, “‘Every nurse is not a sister’: Sex, Work, and the Invention of the Spanish-American War Nurse” (University of Connecticut, 2005). Order No. DA3180230.
Myers, Judith Gay, “A Socio-Historical Analysis of the Kentucky Birth Control Movement, 1933–1943” (University of Kentucky, 2005). Order No. DA3178520.
Wake, Naoko, “Private Practices: Harry Stack Sullivan, Homosexuality, and the Limits of Psychiatric Liberalism” (Indiana University, 2005). Order No. DA3178480.
Dickerson, James L., Yellow Fever: A Deadly Disease Poised to Kill Again. (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus, 2006. 271 pp. $25.00, isbn 1-59102-399-8.)
Goldwasser, Eugene, Jake: Leon O. Jacobson, M.D.—The Life and Work of a Distinguished Medical Scientist. (Canton: Science History Publications, 2006. xii, 83 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 0-88135-279-9.)
Snyder, Sharon L., and David T. Mitchell, Cultural Locations of Disability. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiv, 245 pp. Cloth, $58.00, isbn 0-226-76731-0. Paper, $19.00, isbn 0-226-76732-9.)
Zink, Brian J., Anyone, Anything, Anytime: A History of Emergency Medicine. (Philadelphia: Mosby, 2006. xvi, 310 pp. $69.95, isbn 1-56053-710-8.) Heavily illustrated.
Vagelos, Roy, and Louis Galambos, The Moral Corporation: Merck Experiences. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. x, 185 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 0-521-86455-0. Paper, $18.95, isbn 0-521-68383-1.)
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