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Cantor, David, “Uncertain Enthusiasm: The American Cancer Society, Public Education, and the Problems of the Movie, 1921–1960,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 81 (Spring 2007), 39–69.

Colgrove, James Keith, “Reform and Its Discontents: Public Health in New York City during the Great Society,” Journal of Policy History, 19 (no.1, 2007), 3–28.

Harkness, Jon M., “The U.S. Public Health Service and Smoking in the 1950s: The Tale of Two More Statements,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 62 (April 2007), 171–212.

Keating, Peter, and Alberto Cambrosio, “Cancer Clinical Trials: The Emergence and Development of a New Style of Practice,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 81 (Spring 2007), 197–223.

Krueger, Gretchen Marie, “‘For Jimmy and the Boys and Girls of America’: Publicizing Childhood Cancers in Twentieth-Century America,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 81 (Spring 2007), 70–93.

Kushner, Howard I., “The Other War on Drugs: The Pharmaceutical Industry, Evidence-Based Medicine, and Clinical Practice,” Journal of Policy History, 19 (no.1, 2007), 49–70.

Lederer, Susan E., “Dark Victory: Cancer and Popular Hollywood Film,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 81 (Spring 2007), 94–115.

Lerner, Barron H., “Ill Patient, Public Activist: Rose Kushner’s Attack on Breast Cancer Chemotherapy,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 81 (Spring 2007), 224–40.

Mohr, James, ed., “Special Issue: New Perspectives on Public Health Policy,” Journal of Policy History, 19 (no.1, 2007), 1–144.

Nathanson, Constance A., “The Contingent Power of Experts: Public Health Policy in the United States, Britain, and France,” Journal of Policy History, 19 (no.1, 2007), 71–94.

Necochea, Raul, “From Cancer Families to hnpcc: Henry Lynch and the Transformations of Hereditary Cancer, 1975–1999,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 81 (Spring 2007), 267–85.

Pickstone, John V., “Contested Cumulations: Configurations of Cancer Treatments through the Twentieth Century,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 81 (Spring 2007), 164–96.

Pollack, Harold, “Learning to Walk Slow: America’s Partial Policy Success in the Arena of Intellectual Disability,” Journal of Policy History, 19 (no.1, 2007), 95–112.

Praglin, Laura J., “Ida Cannon, Ethel Cohen, and Early Medical Social Work in Boston: The Foundations of a Model of Culturally Competent Social Service,” Social Service Review, 81 (March 2007), 27–45.

Reber, Vera Blinn, “The Sanatorium Age: Pennsylvania and Argentina,” Pennsylvania History, 73 (Autumn 2006), 412–45.

Stern, Alexandra Minna, “‘We Cannot Make a Silk Purse Out of a Sow’s Ear’: Eugenics in the Hoosier Heartland,” Indiana Magazine of History, 103 (March 2007), 3–38.

Teigen, Philip M., “Legislating Fear and the Public Health in Gilded Age Massachusetts,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 62 (April 2007), 141–70.

Wickham, Parnel, “Idiocy in Virginia, 1616–1860,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 80 (Winter 2006), 677–701.

 

Anroman, Gilda Marie, “Infectious Disease in Philadelphia, 1690–1807: An Ecological Perspective” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006). Order No. DA3222311.

folk, Holly, “Vertebral Vitalism: American Metaphysics and the Birth of Chiropractic” (Indiana University, 2006). Order No. DA3223040.

Harris, Lisa Hope, “Challenging Conception: A Clinical and Cultural History of In Vitro Fertilization in the United States” (University of Michigan, 2006). Order No. DA3224897.

Marinski, Deborah R., “Unfortunate Minds: Mental Insanity in Ohio, 1883–1909” (University of Toledo, 2006). Order No. DA3218760.

Morales, Michele Elaine, “Persistent Pathologies: The Odd Coupling of Alcoholism and Homosexuality in the Discourses of Twentieth Century Science” (University of Michigan, 2006). Order No. DA3224705.

Muller, Jennifer Lynn, “Trauma as a Biological Consequence of Inequality: A Biocultural Analysis of the Skeletal Remains of Washington, D.C.’s African American Poor” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2006). Order No. DA3226897.

Nelson, Katherine H., “The Temperance Physicians: Developing Concepts of Addiction” (American University, 2006). Order No. DA3227753.

 

Cueto, Marcos, The Value of Health: A History of the Pan American Health Organization. (Washington: Pan American Health Organization, 2007. x, 239 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 1-58046-263-4.) Published in Spanish in 2004.

Hoffman, Beatrix, “Sympathy and Exclusion: Access to Health Care for Undocumented Immigrants in the United States,” in A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citzenship, ed. Keith Wailoo, Julie Livingston, and Peter Guarnaccia, 237–54. (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.)

Lederer, Susan E., “Tucker’s Heart: Racial Politics and Heart Transplantation in America,” in A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citzenship, ed. Keith Wailoo, Julie Livingston, and Peter Guarnaccia, 142–57. (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.)

Lerner, Barron H., “From Libby Zion to Jesica Santillan: Many Truths,” in A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citzenship, ed. Keith Wailoo, Julie Livingston, and Peter Guarnaccia, 82–94. (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.)

 

Culpeper, Nicholas, The English Physician, ed. Michael A. Flannery. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. xii, 113 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8173-1558-0.) Originally published in 1708.

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