Recent Scholarship
Medicine
Barker, Clyde F., “Thomas Eakins and His Medical Clinics,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 153 (March 2009), 1–47. Heavily illustrated.
Bieloh, Christina, “Bad Water and Epidemics: The Wages of Neglect at the Seneca Indian School,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 87 (Spring 2009), 56–75.
Boster, Dea H., “An ‘Epeleptick’ Bondswoman: Fits, Slavery, and Power in the Antebellum South,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 83 (Summer 2009), 271–301.
Carpenter, Laura M., and Monica J. Casper, “Global Intimacies: Innovating the hpv Vaccine for Women’s Health,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 37 (Spring–Summer 2009), 80–100.
Cochran, Bambi L. Ray, “Rowena Spencer: A Study of Changing Gender Roles in Twentieth-Century Louisiana Medicine,” in Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Judith F. Gentry and Janet Allured, 286–302. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi, 354 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2946-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2947-5.)
Emerson, Jason, “New Mary Lincoln Letter Discovered,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 101 (Fall–Winter 2008), 315–28.
Greene, Jeremy A., and Scott H. Podolsky, “Keeping Modern in Medicine: Pharmaceutical Promotion and Physician Education in Postwar America,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 83 (Summer 2009), 331–77.
Hao, Lingxin, and Julie J. H. Kim, “Immigration and the American Obesity Epidemic,” International Migration Review, 43 (Summer 2009), 237–62.
Hiratai, Yumi, “Amerika nambu koshu eisei gyosei no tenkai: Rokkufera Eisei Linkai to 20 Seiki no kochubyo kontororu” (Development of public health in the South: The Rockefeller Sanitary Commission and the control of hookworm disease in the early twentieth century), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 32 (2009), 20–35. In Japanese.
Jensen, Joan M., “Silver City Health Tourism in the Early Twentieth Century: A Case Study,” New Mexico Historical Review, 84 (Summer 2009), 321–61.
Jensen, Joan, “The World of Theta Mead, County Nurse: Private and Public Health Care in Rural Wisconsin, 1900–1922,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 92 (Spring 2009), 2–15. Heavily illustrated.
Lander, Kevin, and Jonathan Pritchett, “When to Care: The Economic Rationale of Slavery Health Care Provision,” Social Science History, 33 (Summer 2009), 155–82.
Mosby, Ian, “‘That Won-Ton Soup Headache’: The Chinese Restaurant Syndrome, msg, and the Making of American Food, 1968–1980,” Social History of Medicine (Oxford), 22 (April 2009), 133–51.
Olmstead, Alan L., “The First Line of Defense: Inventing the Infrastructure to Combat Animal Diseases,” Journal of Economic History, 69 (June 2009), 327–57.
Parascandola, John, “From Mercury to Miracle Drugs: Syphilis Therapy over the Centuries,” Pharmacy in History, 51 (no. 1, 2009), 14–23.
Peitzman, Steven J., “‘I Am Their Physician’: Dr. Owen J. Wister of Germantown and His Too Many Patients,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 83 (Summer 2009), 245–70.
Rosner, David, and Gerald Markowitz, “The Trials and Tribulations of Two Historians: Adjudicating Responsibility for Pollution and Personal Harm,” Medical History (London), 53 (April 2009), 271–92.
Scull, Andrew, and Jah Schulkin, “Psychobiology, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis: The Intersecting Careers of Adolf Meyer, Phyllis Greenacre, and Curt Richter,” Medical History (London), 53 (Jan. 2009), 5–36.
Swanson, Kara W., “Human Milk as Technology and Technologies of Human Milk: Medical Imaginings in the Early Twentieth-Century United States,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 37 (Spring–Summer 2009), 21–37.
Vernon, Irene S., and Pamela Jumper Thurman, “Native American Women and hiv/aids: Building Healthier Communities,” American Indian Quarterly, 33 (Summer 2009), 352–72.
Wilde, Sally, “Truth, Trust, and Confidence in Surgery, 1890–1910: Patient Autonomy, Communication, and Consent,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 83 (Summer 2009), 302–30.
Evans, Suzanne Elizabeth, “Parental Eugenics: Congenitally Anomalous Newborns and the Continuing Debate over Selective Non-treatment and Neonatal Euthanasia in the United States, 1915–2008” (University of California, Berkeley, 2008). Order No. DA3331590.
Harmon, Geraldine Mart, “William Faulkner, His Eye for Archetypes, and America’s Divided Legacy of Medicine” (Georgia State University, 2008). Order No. DA3326932.
Lessy, Rose Ellen, “‘This Mysterious Miasma’: Environmental Risk, Edith Wharton, and the Literature of Bad Air” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3330023.
McQuade, Lena, “Troubling Reproduction: Sexuality, Race, and Colonialism in New Mexico, 1919–1945” (University of New Mexico, 2008). Order No. DA3329461.
Reinhard, Diana T., “Bodies on Display: Gender, Sexuality, and the Visual Culture of American Medicine, 1870–1920” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3326372.
Robinson, Sara Libby, “Blood Will Tell: Blood and Vampires as Metaphors in the Political and Popular Cultures of Great Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, 1870–1914” (Brandeis University, 2008). Order No. DA3316480.
Sliter-Hays, Sara Maria, “Narratives and Rhetoric: Persuasion in Doctors’ Writings about the Summer Complaint, 1883–1939” (University of Texas, Austin, 2008). Order No. DA3329869.
Abrams, Jeanne E., Dr. Charles David Spivak: A Jewish Immigrant and the American Tuberculosis Movement. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2009. xiv, 226 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-87081-941-4.)
Nuwer, Deanne Stephens, Plague among the Magnolias: The 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Mississippi. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009. xviii, 188 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8173-1653-2.)
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