Recent Scholarship
Medicine
Blank, Trevor J., “Contesting the Contested: Preservation Politics, Collective Memory, and the First Institution for the Criminally Insane in America,” Material Culture, 41 (Spring 2009), 39–60.
Blue, Ethan, “The Strange Career of Leo Stanley: Remaking Manhood and Medicine at San Quentin State Penitentiary, 1913–1951,” Pacific Historical Review, 78 (May 2009), 213–41.
Bradley, William G., “History of Medical Imaging,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 152 (Sept. 2008), 349–61.
Brighton, Stephen A., “Degrees of Alienation: The Material Evidence of the Irish and Irish American Experience, 1850–1910,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no. 4, 2008), 132–53.
Carson, Scott Alan, “Geography, Insolation, and Vitamin D in Nineteenth-Century U.S. African-American and White Statures,” Explorations in Economic History, 46 (Jan. 2009), 149–59.
Crenner, Christopher, “Race and Medical Practice in Kansas City’s Free Dispensary,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 82 (Winter 2008), 820–46.
Doyle, Dennis, “‘A Fine New Child’: The Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic and Harlem’s African American Communities, 1946–1958,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 64 (April 2009), 173–212.
Gabriel, Joseph M., “A Thing Patented Is a Thing Divulged: Francis E. Stewart, George S. Davis, and the Legitimization of Intellectual Property Rights in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, 1879–1911,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 64 (April 2009), 135–72.
Getz, Lynne M., “‘A Strong Man of Large Human Sympathy’: Dr. Patrick L. Murphy and the Challenges of Nineteenth-Century Asylum Psychiatry in North Carolina,” North Carolina Historical Review, 86 (Jan. 2009), 32–58.
Hales, David A., and Dorothy Bird Killpack, “Health Care in Millard County: The Medical Career of Myron E. Bird,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 77 (Winter 2009), 52–66.
Mustakeem, Sowande, “‘I Never Have Such a Sickly Ship Before’: Diet, Disease, and Mortality in 18th-Century Atlantic Slaving Voyages,” Journal of African American History, 93 (Fall 2008), 474–96.
Pritchett, Jonathan, and Myeong-Su Yun, “The In-Hospital Mortality Rates of Slaves and Freemen: Evidence from Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855–1860,” Explorations in Economic History, 46 (April 2009), 241–52.
Raynor, Laura A., and Douglas J. Kennett, “Dietary Variability among a Sample of United States Soldiers during the War of 1812,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no. 4, 2008), 76–87.
Ruffner, Malissa, and Emily J. Glenn, “Highly Subjective: The Librarianship of Winifred Sewell,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 44 (no. 2, 2009), 256–75.
Tobbell, Dominique A., “Allied against Reform: Pharmaceutical Industry–Academic Physician Relations in the United States, 1945–1970,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 82 (Winter 2008), 878–912.
Wilson, Daniel J., “Psychological Trauma and Its Treatment in the Polio Epidemics,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 82 (Winter 2008), 848–77.
Cimons, Marlene Frances, “The Medicalization of Menopause: Framing Media Messages in the Twentieth Century” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3315435.
Eid, Jean, “Essays in Empirical Industrial Organization” (University of Toronto, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR39467.
Foss, Katherine Ann, “The Heroic Doctor and the Foolish Patient: Constructions of Health Responsibility in Medical Dramas, 1994–2007” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3311425.
Franz, Gregor Andreas Gottfried, “Essays in Health and Urban Economics” (University of California, Irvine, 2008). Order No. DA3319224.
Inrig, Stephen, “In a Place So Ordinary: North Carolina and the Problem of aids, 1981–1997” (Duke University, 2007). Order No. DA3321835.
Jones, Marian Moser, “Confronting Calamity: The American Red Cross and the Politics of Disaster Relief, 1881–1939” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3317567.
Liu, Hui, “The Times They Are a Changin’: Marital Status and Health Differentials from the 1970s to the 2000s” (University of Texas, Austin, 2008). Order No. DA3315246.
Olszewski, Todd Michael, “Cholesterol: A Scientific, Medical, and Social History, 1908–1962” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3317192.
Wilson, Rob, “The Disease of Fear and the Fear of Disease: Cholera and Yellow Fever in the Mississippi Valley” (Saint Louis University, 2008). Order No. DA3324235.
Brieger, Gert H., ed., Medical America in the Nineteenth Century: Readings from the Literature. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. x, 338 pp. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9268-4.) Originally published in 1972.
Solberg, Winton U., Reforming Medical Education: The University of Illinois College of Medicine, 1880–1920. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xvi, 309 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-03359-9.)
Taylor, Steven J., Acts of Conscience: World War II, Mental Institutions, and Religious Objectors. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009. xviii, 484 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8156-0915-5.)
Warner, John Harley, and James M. Edmonson, Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine, 1880–1930. (New York: Blast, 2009. 207 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-922233-34-2.) Heavily illustrated.
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