Readings

Required Texts

Hertzler, Arthur.  The Horse and Buggy Doctor.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1970.

Kraut, Alan M. Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes and the Immigrant Menace.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

Lewis, Sinclair.  Arrowsmith.  New York: Penguin, 1998.

Nash, Linda. Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge.  Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006.

Rothman, Sheila.  Living in the Shadow of Death.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

Whorton, James.  Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Additional Readings

A. Articles

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Abel, Emily. 1994.  " Family Caregiving in the Nineteenth Century: Emily Hawley Gillespie and Sarah Gillespie, 1858-88."  Bulletin of the History of Medicine 68: 573-99.

Appel, Jacob. 2004.  " A Duty to Kill? A Duty to Die? Rethinking the Euthanasia Controversy of 1906."  Bulletin of the History of Medicine 78: 610-34.

Atwater, Edward. 1990.  "Of Grandes Dames, Surgeons, and Hospitals: Batavia, New York."  Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 45(3): 414-51.

Blake, John. 1952.  " The Inoculation Controversy in Boston: 1721-1722." New England Quarterly 25: 489-506.

Brieger, Gert. 1966.  " Sanitary Reform in New York City: Stephen Smith and the Passage of the Metropolitan Health Bill."  Bulletin of the History of Medicine 40: 407-29.

Brandt, Allen. 1978.  " Racism and Research: the Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study."  Hastings Center Report 8: 21-9.

D'Antonio, Patricia. 1999.  " Revisiting and Rethinking the Rewriting of Nursing History."  Bulletin of the History of Medicine 73: 268-90.

Fairchild, Amy. 2001.  " The Polio Narratives: Dialogues with FDR."  Bulletin of the History of Medicine 75: 488-534.

Gabriel, Joseph. 2005.  " Mass-Producing the Individual: Mary C. Jarrett, Elmer E. Southard, and the Industrial Origins of Psychiatric Social Work."  Bulletin of the History of Medicine 79: 430-58.

Hirshbein, Laura. 2006.  " Science, Gender, and the Emergence of Depression in American Psychiatry, 1952-1980."  Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 61: 187-216.

Kenny, Michael. 2006.  " A Question of Blood, Race, and Politics."  Journal of the History of Medcine and Allied Sciences 61: 456-91.

Rasmussen, Nicholas. 2005.  " The Drug Industry and Clinical Research in Interwar America." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 79, no.1: 50-80.

Rosenberg, C., and Smith-Rosenberg, C. 1968.  "Pietism and the Origins of the American Public Health Movement: A Note on John H. Griscom and Robert M. Hartley."  Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 23: 15-35.

Sellars, Christopher. 2003.  " The Dearth of the Clinic: Lead, Air, and Agency in Twentieth-Century America."  Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 58: 255-91.

Sicherman, Barbara. 1977.  "The Uses of a Diagnosis: Doctors, Patients, and Neurasthenia."  Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 32: 33-54.

Smith, Dale.  1996.  " Appendicitis, Appendectomy, and the Surgeon."  Bulletin of the History of Medicine 70, no. 3: 414-41.

Talley, Colin, Howard Kushner, and Claire Sterk. 2004.  " Lung Cancer, Chronic Disease Epidemiology, and Medicine, 1948-1964."  Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 59: 329-74.

Tomes, Nancy. 1990.  " The Private Side of Public Health: Sanitary Science, Hygiene, and Germ Theory, 1870-1900."  Bulletin of the History of Medicine 64: 509-39.

Tomes, Nancy. 2005.  " The Great American Medicine Show revisited."  Bulletin of the History of Medicine 79: 627-63.

B. Book Selections

Christianson, Eric. 1987.  "Medicine in New England," in Ronald Numbers, ed., Medicine in the New World: New Spain, New France, and New England.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Eliott, Carl. 2003.  "Amputees by Choice," chapter nine in Better than Well: American Medicine meets the American Dream.  New York: Norton.

Epstein, Steven. 2004.  "Democracy, Expertise, and Activisim for AIDS Treatment," in Randall M. Packard, Peter J. Brown, Ruther L. Berkelman, and Howard Frumkin, eds., Emerging Illnesses and Society: Negotiating the Agenda of Public Health.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 102-20.

Grob, Gerald. 2002.  "The Discovery of Chronic Illness," chapter nine in The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Mather, Cotton. 1972.  Selections from The Angel of Bethesda, ed. Gordon W. Jones.  Barre, MA: American Antiquarian Society.

Morantz-Sanchez, Regina. 1997.  "The 'Connecting Link': The Case for the Woman Doctor in 19th-Century America," in Ronald Numbers and Judith Leavitt, eds.,  Sickness and Health in America.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 213-24.

Numbers, Ronald. 1979.  "The Third Party: Health Insurance in America," in Morris Vogel and Charles E. Rosenberg, eds., The Therapeutic Revolution: Essays in the Social History of American Medicine.  Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 177-200.

Rosenberg, Charles. 1979.  "The Therapeutic Revolution: Medicine, Meaning, and Social Change in Nineteenth Century America," in Morris Vogel and Charles E. Rosenberg, eds., The Therapeutic Revolution: Essays in the Social History of American Medicine.  Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press.

Savitt, Todd. 1989.  "Black Health on the Plantation: Masters, Slaves, and Physicians," in Ronald Numbers and Todd Savitt, eds., Science and Medicine in the Old South.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 327-55.

Starr, Paul. 1982.  "The Consolidation of Professional Authority, 1850-1930," chapter three in The Social Transformation of American Medicine.  New York: Basic Books.

Ulrich, Laurel. 1991.  "August 1787," chapter one in A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard based on her Diary, 1785-1812.  New York: Vintage.

Vogel, Morris. 1976.  "Patrons, Practitioners, and Patients: The Voluntary Hospital in Mid-Victorian Boston," in Daniel Walker Howe, ed., Victorian America.  Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 121-38.