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Book SynopsisAs American Melancholy reveals, if you read about depression anywhere today—medical journal, popular magazine, National Institute of Mental Health pamphlet, or pharmaceutical company drug promotional literature--you will find three main pieces of information either explicitly stated or strongly implied: depression is a disease (like any other physical disease); it is extraordinarily prevalent in the world; and it occurs about twice as frequently in women as in men. Yet, depression was not classified as a disease until the 1980 publication of the American Psychiatric Association''s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-III (DSM-III). How is it that such an illness, thought to affect between 14 and 17 million Americans, was not specifically defined until the late twentieth century?American Melancholy traces the growth of depression as an object of medical study and as a consumer commodity and illustrates how and why depression came to be such a huge meTrade Review"An interesting, useful, and exceptionally readable review of the evolution of the idea of depression as a diagnosis in the United States." * Journal of the American Medical Association *"Hirshbein illustrates how and why depression became a medical, social, and cultural phenomenon. In paying careful attention to the role of gender in shaping the conception and treatment of depression, Hirshbein adds a new component to the literature on and understanding of depression. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Laura Hirshbein's analysis of the explosive growth of depression in American society, psychiatry, and pharmacology emphasizes the overlapping roles of the medicalization and commercialization of mental states; the contemporary hyper-consumerist American's habits; the quest of psychiatric communities for professional and scientific security; and the drive, relentless and resourceful, by global pharmaceutical companies for new markets. This book is likely to be regarded eventually as the finest and most in-depth account around of gender and depression." -- Mark S. Micale * department of history, University of Illinois *"Laura Hirshbein demonstrates that the modern diagnosis of depression is only a recent creation and reveals more about our society and culture than our mental states. In tracing the manner in which depression entered medical diagnostic systems, she has made a major contribution that should force us to question claims about the pervasive nature of this diagnosis." -- Gerald N. Grob * Henry E. Sigerist Professor of the History of Medicine Emeritus, Rutgers University *"American Melancholy provides new insight into a diagnostic category that has become central not only to modern psychiatry but also to the very definition of ordinary life in late twentieth-century America. Perhaps its greatest contribution lies in Hirshbein's careful attention to the role of gender in shaping the conception and treatment of depression." -- Nancy Tomes * author of Madness in America *"A badly needed book, executed brilliantly. Hirshbein's arguments are nuanced but forceful, and many readers should find themselves questioning commonly held notions about depression and diagnosis. Her analysis of gender, in particular, should compel re-evaluations of vast bodies of research on psychiatry and mental illness." -- Jonathan Sadowsky * Castele Professor of Medical History, Case Western Reserve University *"An interesting, useful, and exceptionally readable review of the evolution of the idea of depression as a diagnosis in the United States." * Journal of the American Medical Association *"Hirshbein illustrates how and why depression became a medical, social, and cultural phenomenon. In paying careful attention to the role of gender in shaping the conception and treatment of depression, Hirshbein adds a new component to the literature on and understanding of depression. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Laura Hirshbein's analysis of the explosive growth of depression in American society, psychiatry, and pharmacology emphasizes the overlapping roles of the medicalization and commercialization of mental states; the contemporary hyper-consumerist American's habits; the quest of psychiatric communities for professional and scientific security; and the drive, relentless and resourceful, by global pharmaceutical companies for new markets. This book is likely to be regarded eventually as the finest and most in-depth account around of gender and depression." -- Mark S. Micale * department of history, University of Illinois *"Laura Hirshbein demonstrates that the modern diagnosis of depression is only a recent creation and reveals more about our society and culture than our mental states. In tracing the manner in which depression entered medical diagnostic systems, she has made a major contribution that should force us to question claims about the pervasive nature of this diagnosis." -- Gerald N. Grob * Henry E. Sigerist Professor of the History of Medicine Emeritus, Rutgers University *"American Melancholy provides new insight into a diagnostic category that has become central not only to modern psychiatry but also to the very definition of ordinary life in late twentieth-century America. Perhaps its greatest contribution lies in Hirshbein's careful attention to the role of gender in shaping the conception and treatment of depression." -- Nancy Tomes * author of Madness in America *"A badly needed book, executed brilliantly. Hirshbein's arguments are nuanced but forceful, and many readers should find themselves questioning commonly held notions about depression and diagnosis. Her analysis of gender, in particular, should compel re-evaluations of vast bodies of research on psychiatry and mental illness." -- Jonathan Sadowsky * Castele Professor of Medical History, Case Western Reserve University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter One: Prelude to Depression Chapter Two: Redefining Treatment, Patients, and Disease in the Ever-Expanding Diagnosis of Depression Chapter Three: American Moods and the Consumer Solution Chapter Four: Gender, Depression, Diagnosis, and Power Chapter Five: Feelings and Relationships Epilogue: Real Men, Real Depression Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a timely and thoughtful book. It clearly reveals the disconnect between public pronouncements on obesity and what a great many fat people experience in their own lives." * The Journal of American Culture *"[Boero] deals with an accusation of the media for the spread and perpetuation of the 'obesity panic,' ... the role of medical intervention, especially bariatric surgery, for obese individuals, and of government activites in harnessing this 'postmodern epidemic' and in the now open warfare against obesity waged by public health officials. Recommended." * Choice *"Boero’s analysis provides an insightful perspective on the framing of the obesity epidemic. Her book is an engaging and fascinating read, as well as a vital contribution to medical sociology." -- Jennifer Fosket * McGill University *"Boero weighs in powerfully for healthy sanity in the 'war against obesity.' Killer Fat clarifies complex science, punitive clinical care, and the relentless screech of the media with aplomb. Brava!" -- Adele E. Clarke * UC San Francisco *"This book is both an enjoyable read and incredibly informative. Written in a style that is both authoritative and accessible, Natalie Boero's Killer Fat is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the so-called 'Obesity Epidemic.'" -- Kjerstin Gruys * author of Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall *"Killer Fat is a significant contribution to the project of skepticism about the so-called 'obesity' epidemic and a compassionate exploration of the burdens it imposes on individuals' lives." -- Marilyn Wann * author of FAT!SO? *"This is a timely and thoughtful book. It clearly reveals the disconnect between public pronouncements on obesity and what a great many fat people experience in their own lives." * The Journal of American Culture *"[Boero] deals with an accusation of the media for the spread and perpetuation of the 'obesity panic,' ... the role of medical intervention, especially bariatric surgery, for obese individuals, and of government activites in harnessing this 'postmodern epidemic' and in the now open warfare against obesity waged by public health officials. Recommended." * Choice *"Boero’s analysis provides an insightful perspective on the framing of the obesity epidemic. Her book is an engaging and fascinating read, as well as a vital contribution to medical sociology." -- Jennifer Fosket * McGill University *"Boero weighs in powerfully for healthy sanity in the 'war against obesity.' Killer Fat clarifies complex science, punitive clinical care, and the relentless screech of the media with aplomb. Brava!" -- Adele E. Clarke * UC San Francisco *"This book is both an enjoyable read and incredibly informative. Written in a style that is both authoritative and accessible, Natalie Boero's Killer Fat is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the so-called 'Obesity Epidemic.'" -- Kjerstin Gruys * author of Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall *"Killer Fat is a significant contribution to the project of skepticism about the so-called 'obesity' epidemic and a compassionate exploration of the burdens it imposes on individuals' lives." -- Marilyn Wann * author of FAT!SO? *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] carefully researched and informative history. The tale is one of good intentions, money, fear, and social class, and Connolly provides an excllent overview not only of preventoriums but also of how the preventorium movement evolved naturally as an outgrowth of the ideals of the Progressive Era." * New England Journal of Medicine *"Superbly researched and elegantly written, Saving Sickly Children is a a wonderful contribution to the history of tuberculosis and American society." -- Howard Markel, M.D., Ph.D. * author of When Germs Travel and Quarantine! *"In this evocative and engaging history, Cynthia Connolly brings alive American doctors, nurses, patrons and children and their families as they struggled to shape clinical and public policies around children considered 'at risk' of the White Plague. Written with a sparkling clarity and a wise eye to current clinical and health policy debates, this book brings together medical, family and welfare history in ways that will linger with every reader." -- Naomi Rogers * Yale University *"...a fascinating book. Interspersed with the story of the preventoria is a history of tuberculosis control and treatment in the first half of the 20th century. Saving Sickly Children is a treat to read." -- Abraham Bergman * Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine *"Connolly has produced a study of interest to both historians and health professionals." * Social History of Medicine *"Informative and solidly researched. The focus on prevention of pediatric tuberculosis, and on an institution far less studied than the TB sanatorium, makes this book a welcome addition to the historiography of tuberculosis. The author's engagement in current debates on children's health makes the sound historical analysis also highly relevant for today's concern in preventive and public health." * Medical History *"Connolly draws on her sophisticated understanding of the health care system to ask important questions. She makes a unique contribution to the history of medicine, nursing, tuberculosis, child health, and social welfare." -- Emily Abel * author of Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Healt *"[A] carefully researched and informative history. The tale is one of good intentions, money, fear, and social class, and Connolly provides an excllent overview not only of preventoriums but also of how the preventorium movement evolved naturally as an outgrowth of the ideals of the Progressive Era." * New England Journal of Medicine *"Superbly researched and elegantly written, Saving Sickly Children is a a wonderful contribution to the history of tuberculosis and American society." -- Howard Markel, M.D., Ph.D. * author of When Germs Travel and Quarantine! *"In this evocative and engaging history, Cynthia Connolly brings alive American doctors, nurses, patrons and children and their families as they struggled to shape clinical and public policies around children considered 'at risk' of the White Plague. Written with a sparkling clarity and a wise eye to current clinical and health policy debates, this book brings together medical, family and welfare history in ways that will linger with every reader." -- Naomi Rogers * Yale University *"...a fascinating book. Interspersed with the story of the preventoria is a history of tuberculosis control and treatment in the first half of the 20th century. Saving Sickly Children is a treat to read." -- Abraham Bergman * Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine *"Connolly has produced a study of interest to both historians and health professionals." * Social History of Medicine *"Informative and solidly researched. The focus on prevention of pediatric tuberculosis, and on an institution far less studied than the TB sanatorium, makes this book a welcome addition to the historiography of tuberculosis. The author's engagement in current debates on children's health makes the sound historical analysis also highly relevant for today's concern in preventive and public health." * Medical History *"Connolly draws on her sophisticated understanding of the health care system to ask important questions. She makes a unique contribution to the history of medicine, nursing, tuberculosis, child health, and social welfare." -- Emily Abel * author of Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Healt *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Child-Saving in the United States ​Chapter 2. Tuberculosis: A Children's Disease ​Chapter 3. Founding the Preventorium ​Chapter 4. The Preventorium Goes Nationwide ​Chapter 5. Science and the Preventorium​ Chapter 6. Tuberculosis in the "World of Tomorrow" Conclusion: Saving Children: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Notes Index

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Book SynopsisPublic health demonstration projects have been touted as an innovative solution to the US's health care crisis. Yet, such projects actually have a long but little-known history, dating back to the 1920s. This new book reveals the key role that these local health programs had in influencing how Americans perceived their personal health choices and the well-being of their communities.Trade Review"With clarity and historical sophistication, D'Antonio has identified a crucial hiatus in our historical knowledge. This is definitely a timely and important book." -- Susan M. Reverby * author of Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy *"Nursing with a Message is a tour de force—a sophisticated and nuanced book that subtly and powerfully shifts the received arguments and historiography on nursing." -- Jennifer Gunn * Program in the History of Medicine, University of Minnesota *"Skillfully crafted, historically accurate, and well referenced, the book is a must read for anyone interested in the complexity of coordinating inter-professional healthcare – past or present." * History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *"This is a necessary work that calls attention to the essential role the nursing profession played in negotiating and constructing what counts as public health policy in the United States." * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Medicine and a Message 2 The Houses That Health Built 3 Practicing Nursing Knowledge 4 Shuttering the Service 5 Not Enough to Be a Messenger Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBy the mid-1980s, over half the hemophiliacs in the United States had become infected with HIV. Blood on Their Hands reveals the toxic combination of corporate greed, governmental complacency, and medical negligence that exacerbated this public health disaster.Trade Review"Weinberg, a member of the legal team behind a 1994 class action negligence lawsuit, lends astounding detail to the suffering of unwitting patients... The authors make a powerful and important case by unveiling the suffering that devastated families know 'could have been entirely prevented.'" * Publishers Weekly *"This book will make your blood boil at the inhumanity of people who knew they were killing patients by the thousands and kept right on, caring for themselves and their pocketbooks. Eric Weinberg and Donna Shaw tell a powerful human story that is hard to put down and will be even harder to forget." -- David Cay Johnston * Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and best-selling author *"Blood on Their Hands is a well-written, gripping, and important book – thorough and engaging. Weinberg and Shaw have crafted a valuable addition to the literature of the AIDS tragedy." -- Douglas Starr * author of Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce *"An impressively informative, thoughtful and thought-provoking expose of one of the American medical system's most shameful debacles in living memory, "Blood on Their Hands: How Greedy Companies, Inept Bureaucracy, and Bad Science Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs" is a vivid example that through perseverance and the American justice systems, the victims of pharmaceutical corporate greed, corrupt or incompetent politicians, uninformed and negligent physicians can achieve deserved recompense for themselves and those they love. Exceptionally well written, organized and presented study... "Blood on Their Hands" is an especially recommended addition to both community and academic library collections" -- Willis M. Buhle * Midwest Book Review *"Eric Weinberg and his recent work, co-authored with Rutgers journalism professor Donna Shaw, Blood on Their Hands: How Greedy Companies, Inept Bureaucracy, and Bad Science Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs... I hope it's widely read and reviewed" -- David Introcaso * Healthcare Policy Podcast *"While triumphantly heartwarming, the narrative especially highlights how easily the litigation could have divided, dissolved, and failed. And in all the hurt, sickness, sadness and anger--the resolve and championing spirit of the hemophilia community yet rises." * Matrix Health News *"Donna Shaw’s book traces the bloodline of tainted hemophilia drugs" by Catherine Bialkowski * TCNJ *"Blood on Their Hands: How Greedy Companies, Inept Bureaucracy, and Bad Science Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs" by Jason Zasky * Failure Magazine *"Blood on Their Hands is a must-read for anyone interested in the historic settlement between American hemophilia patients and the industry that made the products that exposed them to deadly HIV and hepatis infections. The book’s unsubtle title signals to potential readers that they have before them a story of colossal wrongdoing and collective failure." * Perspectives in Biology and Medicine *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Note on Text 1 Liquid Gold 2 Beginnings 3 How Could It Happen and Nobody Did Anything Wrong? 4 A History Ignored 5 Digging In 6 Reaching Out 7 Help Wanted 8 All for Business 9 Somewhere Here, I Have the Documents 10 More Lawyers, More Experts 11 A Meeting with Roger 12 An Act of Man 13 The Trouble with Torts 14 I Murdered My Child, But Not Alone 15 Of Sheep and Men 16 A Failure of Leadership 17 From Prime Chuck to Dogeza 18 Endings Epilogue Notes Index

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Book Synopsis Halliwell examines the cultural history of modern American medicine and psychiatry focusing on the late twentieth century. He pays particular attention to the politics of the post-Watergate, bicentennial-era American nation and brings into conversation a diverse cast of writers, filmmakers, physicians, policy-makers, social critics, and public figures. Trade Review"In this gracefully argued, erudite study, Martin Halliwell places the complex issue of mental health at the centre of the history of the decades since Jimmy Carter’s Commission on Mental Health in 1977. It is a model of interdisciplinary scholarship, equally at home with federal public health policy and the cultural politics of identity and community." -- Jonathan Bell * Professor of American History, University College London *“Voices of Mental Health is a terrific contribution to the areas of contemporary American literature and culture, federal policy studies, and literature and medicine. Halliwell provides an impressive, vast amount of research.” -- Jacqueline Foertsch * author of Reckoning Day: Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America *"Professor Halliwell breaks new ground in understanding the place, politics, and trajectory of mental health from the moon landing to the millennium" * University of Leicester Press Office *"Topics include the voices of patients and former patients in survivor narratives, and through advocacy and support groups." * Chronicle *

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Book SynopsisFrederick E. Lepore delves into the strange, elusive tale of what became of Einstein’s brain and what it represents for brain and/or intelligence studies. This "biography of a brain" explores how Einstein’s brain anatomy was truly exceptional, and how “found” photographs of the organ begin to explain the brain of a genius. Trade Review"Revisiting Einstein’s Brain, Six Decades Later" by Kevin Coyne feature with Fred Lepore * New Jersey Monthly *"With this original book, [Lepore] gives Einstein’s brain a second life and offers the reader a rare opportunity to discover the distinctive features of a genius’s brain, while insisting on the explanatory gap that still exists between brain and mind." * Science Magazine *"Finding Einstein’s Brain isn’t just about neuroanatomy....It also contains wonderful discussions about relativity, other aspects of physics, and the personalities of the physicists Einstein hung out with. Lepore’s writing combines erudition, unexpected asides to the reader and occasional interjections of humour." * Brain Journal *"However often you may lose your way on this expedition across planet Einstein, it’s good to have [Lepore], a man 'of most excellent fancy' as your guide." * Town Topics *"An extraordinary, informed and informative study that reads with the gripping attention of a riveting novel, Finding Einstein's Brain is an impressive work of seminal scholarship that is enhanced for academia with the inclusion of thirty-eight pages of Notes and a seventeen page Index. While strongly and unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library collections, it should be noted for the personal reading lists of academia and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject." * Midwest Book Review *"Princetonians New Releases" roundup * Princeton Alumni Weekly *"Recommended." * Choice *"Does Einstein’s brain (and his mind) have anything to teach us?" by Frederick E. Lepore, MD * The Ladders *"Einstein’s Brain has a history all its own," by Melissa Drift * Echo *"Happy Pi Day! What do you give a genius on his 140th birthday?" by Frederick E. Lepore * The Ladders *"Breezin' with Bierman" interview with Dr. Frederick Lepore * "Breezin' with Bierman" *"Who Stole Einstein's Brain," by Simon Murray, MD * MD Magazine *Frederick Lepore interview on WNYC's Radiolab's "G" https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/g-relative-genius * WNYC Radiolab's "G" *"Very extensively referenced, chapter by chapter, inviting the interested read to delve deeper into the background on this subject. Einstein's Brain literally is a "page turner," which, for a book based on scientific material, is fairly unique." * Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology *"Expert Interest in Albert Einstein's Brain" interview with Fred Lepore https://www.mdmag.com/peers-perspectives/einstein-brain/expert-interest-in-albert-einsteins-brain * MD Magazine *"Considerations Regarding the Study of Einstein's Brain" interview with Frederick Lepore https://www.mdmag.com/peers-perspectives/einstein-brain/considerations-regarding-the-study-of-einsteins-brain * MD Magazine *"Current Limitations in Neuroscience" interview with Frederick Lepore https://www.mdmag.com/peers-perspectives/einstein-brain/current-limitations-in-neuroscience * MD Magazine *"Imaging Albert Einstein's Brain" interview with Fred Lepore https://www.mdmag.com/peers-perspectives/einstein-brain/imaging-albert-einsteins-brain * MD Magazine *"Differentiating Between the Brain of a Genius" MD Magazine interview with Fred Lepore https://www.mdmag.com/peers-perspectives/einstein-brain/differentiating-between-the-brain-of-a-genius * MD Magazine *Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS A Neurologist Walks in Princeton April 18, 1955 What the Neuropathologist Knew … And Didn’t Know The Lost Decades (1955-1985), the Cider Box, and the Microscope The Exceptional Brain(s) of Albert Einstein How Does a Genius Think? The Pursuit of Genius Where Do We Go From Here? (And Where Have We Been?)

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Book SynopsisMedical historian, medical researcher, and clinician Powel H. Kazanjian uses Novy’s archived letters, laboratory notebooks, lecture notes, and published works to examine medical research and educational activities at the University of Michigan and other key medical schools during a formative period in modern U.S. medical science. Trade Review"The 'hero narrative' of science that honours stars such as Isaac Newton and Marie Curie often obscures the multitudes who lay the foundations – that centuries-old chain of curious minds. In this biography, physician and historian Powel Kazanjian pulls one from that multitude into the light: microbiology pioneer Frederick Novy. Kazanjian's detailed and authoritative account reveals how Novy (1864-1957) did fundamental work that shaped the field's development, and introduced basic research into medical training." * Nature *"Novy has been unduly neglected by historians to date, and Kazanjian performs an important service in correcting this gap; Frederick Novy and the Development of Bacteriology in Medicine is a well-written and timely piece that alters our understanding of the rise of biomedical teaching and research in the United States." -- Scott H. Podolsky * Harvard Medical School and author of The Antibiotic Era *"Powel Kazanjian's Frederick Novy and the Development of Bacteriology in Medicine tells a critical, insightful, and overlooked story in the history of medicine and science. It is a triumph of scholarship and narrative." -- Howard Markel * author of An Anatomy of Addiction and When Germs Travel *"The great value of Kazanjian’s work is in providing a case study of how American medicine was made scientific in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *"Kazanjian has given us a much desired account of a very significant career. His main point, that Novy’s bacteriology differed from the application-focused William Welchian science of public health, expands our knowledge of American medical bacteriology. It is well founded and important. The book expands our scope of what the history of medical bacteriology is all about." * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Frederick Novy and the Origins of the Michigan Hygienic Laboratory 2 What Novy Did in His Medical School Laboratory 3 Making Medical Education Scientific 4 Defining Bacteriology as a Discipline in Its Early Years 5 Significance for American Culture: Arrowsmith 6 Making a Scientific Career in Medicine Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTells the shocking story of how the United States and its allies intentionally subjected thousands of their own servicemen to poison gas as part of their preparation for chemical warfare. In addition, it reveals the racialized dimension of these mustard gas experiments, as scientists tested whether the effects of toxic exposure might vary between Asian, Hispanic, black, and white Americans.Trade Review"Stunningly thorough scholarship … In 1997, the Chemical Weapons Convention came into force; it is currently signed by 192 countries. Yet it has already been violated many times. Warfare continues, as does military research on chemicals and drugs that could become agents of biowarfare. It is difficult to disagree with the plea that ends Toxic Exposures: public oversight and public debate on this process are needed now more than ever." * Nature *"[Toxic Exposures] is certainly a detailed, thorough examination of mustard gas, but it is also a tool for examining the long-term societal, environmental, and personal effects of war. There is a 'toxic legacy' to war, and Smith's book expertly addresses this issue... Recommended. All readers." * Choice *"Should appeal to readers who wish to gain insights into this murky world of chemical warfare." * Chemistry World *"Toxic Exposures is compelling and persuasive about the untoward outcomes of military testing. Smith’s work is sound and comprehensive, and her scholarship is impeccable.” -- Susan E. Lederer * University of Wisconsin-Madison *Canada supplied much of the mustard gas used in the U.S.-led test program as well as 1,000 bombs, DND records show. Canadian chemical warfare specialists from Suffield, Alta., helped design some of the tests and Canadian pilots took part in the bombing raids. Susan L. Smith, a University of Alberta historian, said Canada was a significant participant in the chemical weapons testing on San Jose Island. “This was an area where Canada indeed punched above its own weight,” said Smith, author of a new book called Toxic Exposures, which chronicles mustard-gas use during the Second World War. During her research, Smith found that scientists conducted racebased chemical warfare experiments on San Jose Island. Scientists monitored how mustard gas affected the skin of Puerto Ricans and Caucasians, during the tests. Other tests in the U.S. focused on blacks and Japanese. Smith noted that all individuals, no matter what their ethnicity, suffered extensively from the mustard-gas exposure. At one point, the U.S. considered using mustard gas as a method to kill Japanese troops hiding in bunkers and other fortresses on Pacific islands. Tests on San Jose Island were key in those preparations but the Americans decided not to proceed with using the weapons. It will take between six and eight weeks to dispose of the eight weapons, Panamanian officials have said. “Canada has a moral commitment to help clean up the mess it created,” Smith added. -- David Pugliese * National Post *"Many remember chemical warfare as something that disappeared along with WWI gas masks, but Smith recovers a more recent history of weaponized poisons developed during WWII. Supported by stunningly thorough research, Toxic Exposures will leave you gasping for air." -- Paul A. Lombardo * author of Three Generations, No Imbeciles *“A cautionary tale that should be widely read and discussed.” * Alberta Views *"[A] rich monograph [and] strong addition to the literature of chemical warfare." * Social History of Medicine *"Toxic Exposures provides a timely and well-researched contribution, adding additional documentation and context to this fascinating and troubling story." * American Historical Review *"Smith’s closing observation bears repeating: 'Surely, the history of the mustard gas experiments during World War II provides a powerful lesson in why such medical experimentation necessitates public scrutiny and public debate.' Toxic Exposures is a welcome reminder of that lesson." * Michigan War Studies *"An excellent book that will appeal to those interested in medical history and military history." * Journal of Military History *"Slim in size, but big in scope." * Canadian Journal of History *"This well-researched, thought-provoking, and timely study of mustard gas experiments during World War II and after is a welcome addition to the growing scholarly literature on chemical warfare and the health consequences of war. It is of benefit not only to historians of science and medicine, the military, and the environment but to a much wider readership of all who are concerned about the use and morality of chemical weapons." * Isis *"Toxic Exposures is an important contribution to the history of science, medicine, and warfare. Smith has drawn upon numerous primary sources, some not previously mined, and extensive secondary works in her research. This well-written and perceptive book also raises social and ethical issues related to human experimentation, racial bias, and environmental pollution....Smith has produced a readable and thoroughly documented, if brief, history of mustard gas in World War II, and the consequences of its use." * Journal of American History *"From Chemical Weapon to Chemotherapy, 1917–1946," by Carolyn Wilke * The Scientist *"Concise, engaging, and forthright, Smith’s work ultimately emphasizes the shared history of war and medicine – serving as a potent reminder for scholars working in both fields." * Canadian Bulletin of Medical History *"Susan Smith’s thorough and illuminating book digs deep into the archives to tell the story of the predominant gas in the U.S. arsenal, mustard gas. As she shows, even an unused weapon can have a fascinating history." * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *“Toxic Exposures calls attention to the close relationships between science, medicine, and the preparation for war. Smith’s carefully honed monograph also warns us that the secrecy of government research programs, while sometimes justified for security reasons, has also caused untold damage to human bodies and the environment. This highly readable book should be important reading for specialists in medical ethics, the history of medicine, and the scholarship on war and the environment.” * Environmental History *"If chemical weapons were largely absent from the Second World War, they have by no means disappeared in the seventy-five years since, thus making Smith’s work an important chapter in the overall narrative stretching from the First World War to the present." * Canadian Military History *"Stunningly thorough scholarship … In 1997, the Chemical Weapons Convention came into force; it is currently signed by 192 countries. Yet it has already been violated many times. Warfare continues, as does military research on chemicals and drugs that could become agents of biowarfare. It is difficult to disagree with the plea that ends Toxic Exposures: public oversight and public debate on this process are needed now more than ever." * Nature *"[Toxic Exposures] is certainly a detailed, thorough examination of mustard gas, but it is also a tool for examining the long-term societal, environmental, and personal effects of war. There is a 'toxic legacy' to war, and Smith's book expertly addresses this issue... Recommended. All readers." * Choice *"Should appeal to readers who wish to gain insights into this murky world of chemical warfare." * Chemistry World *"Toxic Exposures is compelling and persuasive about the untoward outcomes of military testing. Smith’s work is sound and comprehensive, and her scholarship is impeccable.” -- Susan E. Lederer * University of Wisconsin-Madison *Canada supplied much of the mustard gas used in the U.S.-led test program as well as 1,000 bombs, DND records show. Canadian chemical warfare specialists from Suffield, Alta., helped design some of the tests and Canadian pilots took part in the bombing raids. Susan L. Smith, a University of Alberta historian, said Canada was a significant participant in the chemical weapons testing on San Jose Island. “This was an area where Canada indeed punched above its own weight,” said Smith, author of a new book called Toxic Exposures, which chronicles mustard-gas use during the Second World War. During her research, Smith found that scientists conducted racebased chemical warfare experiments on San Jose Island. Scientists monitored how mustard gas affected the skin of Puerto Ricans and Caucasians, during the tests. Other tests in the U.S. focused on blacks and Japanese. Smith noted that all individuals, no matter what their ethnicity, suffered extensively from the mustard-gas exposure. At one point, the U.S. considered using mustard gas as a method to kill Japanese troops hiding in bunkers and other fortresses on Pacific islands. Tests on San Jose Island were key in those preparations but the Americans decided not to proceed with using the weapons. It will take between six and eight weeks to dispose of the eight weapons, Panamanian officials have said. “Canada has a moral commitment to help clean up the mess it created,” Smith added. -- David Pugliese * National Post *"Many remember chemical warfare as something that disappeared along with WWI gas masks, but Smith recovers a more recent history of weaponized poisons developed during WWII. Supported by stunningly thorough research, Toxic Exposures will leave you gasping for air." -- Paul A. Lombardo * author of Three Generations, No Imbeciles *“A cautionary tale that should be widely read and discussed.” * Alberta Views *"[A] rich monograph [and] strong addition to the literature of chemical warfare." * Social History of Medicine *"Toxic Exposures provides a timely and well-researched contribution, adding additional documentation and context to this fascinating and troubling story." * American Historical Review *"Smith’s closing observation bears repeating: 'Surely, the history of the mustard gas experiments during World War II provides a powerful lesson in why such medical experimentation necessitates public scrutiny and public debate.' Toxic Exposures is a welcome reminder of that lesson." * Michigan War Studies *"An excellent book that will appeal to those interested in medical history and military history." * Journal of Military History *"Slim in size, but big in scope." * Canadian Journal of History *"This well-researched, thought-provoking, and timely study of mustard gas experiments during World War II and after is a welcome addition to the growing scholarly literature on chemical warfare and the health consequences of war. It is of benefit not only to historians of science and medicine, the military, and the environment but to a much wider readership of all who are concerned about the use and morality of chemical weapons." * Isis *"From Chemical Weapon to Chemotherapy, 1917–1946," by Carolyn Wilke * The Scientist *"Toxic Exposures is an important contribution to the history of science, medicine, and warfare. Smith has drawn upon numerous primary sources, some not previously mined, and extensive secondary works in her research. This well-written and perceptive book also raises social and ethical issues related to human experimentation, racial bias, and environmental pollution....Smith has produced a readable and thoroughly documented, if brief, history of mustard gas in World War II, and the consequences of its use." * Journal of American History *"Concise, engaging, and forthright, Smith’s work ultimately emphasizes the shared history of war and medicine – serving as a potent reminder for scholars working in both fields." * Canadian Bulletin of Medical History *"Susan Smith’s thorough and illuminating book digs deep into the archives to tell the story of the predominant gas in the U.S. arsenal, mustard gas. As she shows, even an unused weapon can have a fascinating history." * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *“Toxic Exposures calls attention to the close relationships between science, medicine, and the preparation for war. Smith’s carefully honed monograph also warns us that the secrecy of government research programs, while sometimes justified for security reasons, has also caused untold damage to human bodies and the environment. This highly readable book should be important reading for specialists in medical ethics, the history of medicine, and the scholarship on war and the environment.” * Environmental History *"If chemical weapons were largely absent from the Second World War, they have by no means disappeared in the seventy-five years since, thus making Smith’s work an important chapter in the overall narrative stretching from the First World War to the present." * Canadian Military History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Health and War Beyond the Battlefield Part I: Preparation for Chemical Warfare 1. Wounding Men to Learn: Soldiers as Human Subjects 2. Race Studies and the Science of War Part II: Toxic Legacies of War 3. Mustard Gas in the Sea Around Us 4. A Wartime Story: Mustard Agents and Cancer Chemotherapy Conclusion: Veterans Making History NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisRest Uneasy investigates the processes by which SIDS became both a discrete medical enigma and a source of social anxiety construed differently over time and according to varying perspectives. Brittany Cowgill chronicles and assesses Americans’ fraught but consequential efforts to explain and conquer SIDS.Trade Review“Rest Uneasy is an exceptionally well-written, thoroughly researched account of the identification and labeling of a medical problem and the consequences of those labels.” -- Kathleen Jones * Virginia Tech *"Cowgill illuminates the fascinating and complex history of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in the twentieth century. Her careful and detailed analysis shows why this was more than a discrete medical problem or a private family tragedy and how its meaning and interpretation changed in light of both scientific studies and cultural changes." -- Janet Golden * author of Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought Americans into the Twentieth Century *"New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, June 8," by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"Book Nook: Rest Uneasy - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth-Century America" Q&A with Brittany Cowgill * Motherhood Moment *"Highly recommended." * Choice *“Rest Uneasy is an exceptionally well-written, thoroughly researched account of the identification and labeling of a medical problem and the consequences of those labels.” -- Kathleen Jones * Virginia Tech *"Cowgill illuminates the fascinating and complex history of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in the twentieth century. Her careful and detailed analysis shows why this was more than a discrete medical problem or a private family tragedy and how its meaning and interpretation changed in light of both scientific studies and cultural changes." -- Janet Golden * author of Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought Americans into the Twentieth Century *"New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, June 8," by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"Book Nook: Rest Uneasy - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth-Century America" QA with Brittany Cowgill * Motherhood Moment *"Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction “Deaths of Infants in Bed”: The Historical Origins of SIDS Cause of Death: SIDS The Theory of the Month Club: Conducting Research on SIDS Risky Babies Mobilization: SIDS Activism Cause for Alarm Sleep Like a Baby Conclusion: “The Disease of Theories”: Discovering SIDS Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisRest Uneasy investigates the processes by which SIDS became both a discrete medical enigma and a source of social anxiety construed differently over time and according to varying perspectives. Brittany Cowgill chronicles and assesses Americans’ fraught but consequential efforts to explain and conquer SIDS.Trade Review“Rest Uneasy is an exceptionally well-written, thoroughly researched account of the identification and labeling of a medical problem and the consequences of those labels.” -- Kathleen Jones * Virginia Tech *"Cowgill illuminates the fascinating and complex history of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in the twentieth century. Her careful and detailed analysis shows why this was more than a discrete medical problem or a private family tragedy and how its meaning and interpretation changed in light of both scientific studies and cultural changes." -- Janet Golden * author of Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought Americans into the Twentieth Century *"New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, June 8," by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"Book Nook: Rest Uneasy - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth-Century America" Q&A with Brittany Cowgill * Motherhood Moment *"Highly recommended." * Choice *“Rest Uneasy is an exceptionally well-written, thoroughly researched account of the identification and labeling of a medical problem and the consequences of those labels.” -- Kathleen Jones * Virginia Tech *"Cowgill illuminates the fascinating and complex history of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in the twentieth century. Her careful and detailed analysis shows why this was more than a discrete medical problem or a private family tragedy and how its meaning and interpretation changed in light of both scientific studies and cultural changes." -- Janet Golden * author of Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought Americans into the Twentieth Century *"New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, June 8," by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"Book Nook: Rest Uneasy - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth-Century America" QA with Brittany Cowgill * Motherhood Moment *"Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction “Deaths of Infants in Bed”: The Historical Origins of SIDS Cause of Death: SIDS The Theory of the Month Club: Conducting Research on SIDS Risky Babies Mobilization: SIDS Activism Cause for Alarm Sleep Like a Baby Conclusion: “The Disease of Theories”: Discovering SIDS Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisTells the story of a feminist experiment: the self-help movement. This movement arose out of women's frustration, anger, and fear for their health. Hannah Dudley-Shotwell engagingly showcases the creative ways women came together to do for themselves what the mainstream healthcare system refused to do.Trade Review“By bringing self-help to the center of a historical analysis of the women’s health movement, Revolutionizing Women’s Healthcare crucially expands our understandings of theoretical and political debates within the feminist movement around issues such as racism and “intersectional” marginalization, a narrow focus on reproductive health versus “holistic” approaches, and debates around the values of “infiltration” of mainstream medical care versus “radical” independent feminist healthcare delivery.” -- Jennifer Nelson * author of More Than Medicine: A History of the Feminist Women's Health Movement *“Revolutionizing Women’s Healthcare provides an important exploration of how women’s health feminists in the late twentieth-century seized upon the larger cultural turn toward self-help and adapted it for liberatory ends. Dudley-Shotwell shows how women’s health activists adopted and transformed ideas of self-help to better understand their bodies, protest medicine as usual, and address the holistic health needs of women of color and indigenous women.” -- Judith A. Houck * author of Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in the United States *"This approach brings a new and unique perspective to a well-studied topic and provides a companion resource to complement previously published texts. Recommended." * Choice *Hannah Dudley-Shotwell interview with 'With Good Reason' podcast from Virginia Humanities * With Good Reason podcast *"[An] important study...[a] welcome in the classroom and among historians of medicine, feminism, and social movements as well as other interested general readers." * American Historical Review *"Revolutionizing Women's Healthcare does its best work examining the divisions within the self-help movement [and] offers...a way of understanding some of the divisions, conflicts, and persistence activists encountered in their efforts to empower women. The book also reveals an ongoing dilemma that many of the women only slowly came to realize—that their efforts at self-help were necessary because society, and women themselves, put their needs last." * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Enacting Feminism: The Origins of Gynecological Self-help 2 Revolutionizing Gynecology: Self-help in Feminist Clinics 3 Reforming Women’s Healthcare: Self-help as Feminist Activism 4 Radicalizing Healthcare: Advanced Uses for Gynecological Self-help 5 Looking Beyond the Speculum: Holistic Self-help 6 Reintroducing Menstrual Extraction: Self-help Abortion after Roe Epilogue Acknowledgements Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTells the story of a feminist experiment: the self-help movement. This movement arose out of women's frustration, anger, and fear for their health. Hannah Dudley-Shotwell engagingly showcases the creative ways women came together to do for themselves what the mainstream healthcare system refused to do.Trade Review“By bringing self-help to the center of a historical analysis of the women’s health movement, Revolutionizing Women’s Healthcare crucially expands our understandings of theoretical and political debates within the feminist movement around issues such as racism and “intersectional” marginalization, a narrow focus on reproductive health versus “holistic” approaches, and debates around the values of “infiltration” of mainstream medical care versus “radical” independent feminist healthcare delivery.” -- Jennifer Nelson * author of More Than Medicine: A History of the Feminist Women's Health Movement *“Revolutionizing Women’s Healthcare provides an important exploration of how women’s health feminists in the late twentieth-century seized upon the larger cultural turn toward self-help and adapted it for liberatory ends. Dudley-Shotwell shows how women’s health activists adopted and transformed ideas of self-help to better understand their bodies, protest medicine as usual, and address the holistic health needs of women of color and indigenous women.” -- Judith A. Houck * author of Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in the United States *"This approach brings a new and unique perspective to a well-studied topic and provides a companion resource to complement previously published texts. Recommended." * Choice *Hannah Dudley-Shotwell interview with 'With Good Reason' podcast from Virginia Humanities * With Good Reason podcast *"[An] important study...[a] welcome in the classroom and among historians of medicine, feminism, and social movements as well as other interested general readers." * American Historical Review *"Revolutionizing Women's Healthcare does its best work examining the divisions within the self-help movement [and] offers...a way of understanding some of the divisions, conflicts, and persistence activists encountered in their efforts to empower women. The book also reveals an ongoing dilemma that many of the women only slowly came to realize—that their efforts at self-help were necessary because society, and women themselves, put their needs last." * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Enacting Feminism: The Origins of Gynecological Self-help 2 Revolutionizing Gynecology: Self-help in Feminist Clinics 3 Reforming Women’s Healthcare: Self-help as Feminist Activism 4 Radicalizing Healthcare: Advanced Uses for Gynecological Self-help 5 Looking Beyond the Speculum: Holistic Self-help 6 Reintroducing Menstrual Extraction: Self-help Abortion after Roe Epilogue Acknowledgements Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the 16th century close to 30 German dukes, landgraves, margraves and counts, plus one Holy Roman emperor, were known as mad - so mentally disordered that steps had to be taken to remove them from office or to obtain medical care for them. This book studies them as a group and in context.

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Book SynopsisOffers a moving account of what is at stake in ongoing debates over the legalization of medical marijuanaTrade Review"Offering nuance in the place of slogans, Dying to Get High tells an inspiring story of the tactics and philosophies of a little-understood health movement." -- Steven Epstein,author of Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research"Chapkis and Webb have done a masterful job in describing the intricacies of the drug debate and offer brilliant analysis on a complex and controversial subject. Both baby boomers and the current teenage population will find this book important and compelling reading." -- Terry Williams,author of Crackhouse: Notes from the End of the Line"Chapkis and Webb’s new book provides a human element to the history, pharmacology, psychology, and politics of medical marijuana in a way that no other work has. The book is as riveting as a detective novel, as informative as a textbook, and as moving as a romance. I loved reading it and sure wish I’d written it." -- Mitch Earleywine, Ph.D. ,Author of Understanding Marijuana"This is a beautifully written account from the front lines of a struggle between a federal drug war complex determined to keep demonizing marijuana and the growing movement of patients and doctors who have found marijuana to be a valuable medicine. Voters in California and many other states have strongly supported the patients. The moving stories in this book show why." -- Craig Reinarman,co-author of Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice"“An interesting and intelligent contribution to the contemporary history of drugs." -- Stephen Snelders,VU-University Medical Center, Amsterdam"Their book offers an important overview of a public policy matter that is certain to become more significant in the coming years." * SocietyBooks of Note *"“Criticizes the disconnect between public policy and practical knowledge of the lives of medical marijuana users." * The Chronicle Review *"A thought provoking portrait of a Santa Cruz cannabis collective." * The Chronicle of Higher Education *"Chapkis and Webb offer a well-written exposition of the polemics involved in the medical marijuana controversy. . . . Chapkis and Webb have skillfully intertwined abstract concepts with "real life" experiences that exemplify the costs and benefits of the medical marijuana drama." * Choice *"Offers a fascinating look at medi-pot, medi-pot patients, and the state of the nations drug laws, a must-read for every pot-law reformer." * Austin Chronicle *"Emphasis here is on the human experienceextensive interviews provide a unique look at the day-to-day issues faced by chronic and terminally ill patients who find relief through the marijuana that is grown and distributed to them at no cost. WAMM’s history, philosophies, and relationship with local officials are also examined." * Library Journal *"“The authors clarify many of the issues relating to medical marijuana and how it differs from recreational use." * Library Journal *"The authors offer a compelling take on the political and cultural debates that surround this issue." * Portland Phoenix *"Dying to Get High: Marijuana as Medicine is an important and accessible booknot heavy on academic jargon, but rather lively and engaging, like a true detective novelwith a broad appeal to those interested in the medical potential of cannabis, an end to the drug war and grass roots activism." * High Times *"“Addresses many important questions and contradictions in government policy, effectively rebutting official propaganda with common sense, scientific facts and the anecdotal evidence recorded by WAMM patients... the book is so well-written and researched that even the most hard-hearted will be persuaded that the Fed’s policies against the medicinal use of cannabis need to change now." * High Times *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Shamans and Snake Oil Salesmen 2 Set and Setting 3 Th e Greening of Modern Medicine 4 "Potheads Scamming the System" 5 Cannabis and Consciousness 6 Mother's Milk and the Muffin Man 7 Love Grows Here 8 Lessons in Endurance and Impermanence Notes Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisWhatever their street names at the moment, amphetamines have been an insistent force in American life since they were marketed as the original antidepressants in the 1930s. This is the story of their rise, their fall, and their surprising resurgence.Trade Review"On Speed, a fascinating history of the use and abuse of amphetamines, is full of hair-raising detail. . . . Even more compelling than the historical perspectivewhich allows for visits to Harlem Jazz clubs, the haunts of Greenwich Village beatniks and Andy Warhol’s Factoryis Mr. Rasmussen’s withering survey of the current scene, with speed, in the form of Ritalin and Adderall, prescribed to millions of American children who have been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder, and millions more using it recreationally. Add a dash of theorizing about the medicalization of social problems, and you have a book that is, well, addictive." -- Adam Begley (aka Begley the Bookie) * The New York Observer *"Rasmussen documents America’s eighty year love affair with amphetamine and its various permutations. Monumental in scope and research, the book traces the history of this seductive drugs uses for a myriad of illnesses when the true sickness may be inherent to our unique American society. Given our current extraordinary use of this drug, On Speed is an urgent and necessary read." -- Lawrence Diller, M.D.,author of Running on Ritalin"For historians of medicine, this book provides a new, empirically rich study of a major drug class and joins a growing body of recent work on pharmaceutical history; for historians more generally, it offers an excellent entrée to broader themes in twentieth century therapeutics; and for policy makers, industry insiders, and others, it is a lively yet insightfully critical text whose pages turn quickly even without benefit of the drug in question." * American Historical Review *"Fascinating and thoroughly researched. . . . The history of amphetamines over the past 70 years shows the iron fisted grasp the drug industry has had and continues to have over the medical industry." * British Medical Journal *"Rasmussen deserves applause for providing a well-considered history and critique of amphetamine’s development and role in contemporary medicine." * Nature Medicine *"Rasmussen blends science, medical history, and social history with fresh archival research. He fills the narrative with telling details and cultural insights. . . . This is a superb book." * Journal of American History *"It's hard to believe that amphetamine, a drug of questionable medical utility and extreme addiction hazard, was once considered among the 20th century's pharmaceutical triumphs, on a par with penicillin and insulin. How it attained and lost that status is the subject of this perceptive book." * Washington Post Book World *"Brilliant." * The Guardian *"Rasmussen . . . examines amphetamine as a case study on the place drugs occupy in our culture and our fantasies (of miracle cures and elixirs). . . . At the book's core is an outstanding chapter, Bootleggers, Beatniks and Benzedrine Benders, describing how Benzedrine inhalers, available without a prescription, could be cracked open for a totally new kind of amphetamine experience, exerting a potent influence on music and literature, from Charlie Parker to Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg." * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 The New Sensation2 Benzedrine: The Making of a Modern Medicine 3 Speed and Total War 4 Bootleggers, Beatniks, and Benzedrine Benders 5 A Bromide for the Atomic Age 6 Amphetamine and the Go-Go Years7 Amphetamine's Decline: From Mental Medicine to Social Disease8 Fast Forward: Still on Speed, 1971 to Today Conclusion: The Lessons of History Notes List of Archival Sources Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe state of medicine and public healthcare today is still a work in progress, but these founders played a significant role in beginning the conversation that shaped the contours of its development.Trade Review"Five case studies demonstrate the new nations state of medical practice, the founders bouts of illness and the republican ideal that individual and national health were connected-the roots, Abrams argues, of repeated attempts to rationalize our national health-care system." * American History *"In addition to the broad yet intensely personal health concerns Abrams describes, a key strength ofRevolutionary Medicineis the humanization of the Founders. For denizens of the twenty-first century, the Founders often seem frozen as portraits on currency or entombed forever as inanimate, superhuman monuments and statues. Abrams reminds us that they were flesh-and-blood souls navigating lives in many ways similar to ours." * North Carolina Historical Review *"One of the "Top Books for Docs" in 2013." * Medscape *"[Revolutionary Medicine] is a solid descriptive account of the medical world of our founding fathers." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"Using the prism of public health, Jeanne E. Abrams, in her book Revolutionary Medicine, examines how the health of the founding mothers and fathers affected both the individuals concerned and the nation as a whole. Looking at the lives of such luminaries as George and Martha Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John and Abigail Adams, James and Dolley Madison, and Thomas Jefferson, Abrams examines how illness impacted the lives of these individuals, and how their reaction to theses illnesses mirrored those of the nation as a whole. Most important, in this compelling work, Abrams shows how the personal experiences of these leading citizens encouraged them to advocate for a governmental role in the nation's developing healthcare systemA combination of medical and political history, Revolutionary Medicine provides a keen overview of the state of medical science during the revolutionary period. She writes in an engaging narrative style that makes this work accessible to both academics and lay readers with an interest in American history, or the history of medicine and public health in the 18th century." * History in Review *"Abrams paints a picture of an era in medical history that is at once humorous, horrific and fascinating." * Intermountain Jewish News *"Abrams tells the founders stories in a lucid and engaging narrative voice. She renders their pains and pleasures with sensitivity and insight. Its pages will hold few surprises for the specialist, but any reader interested in the revolutionary era or the lives of the American founders will surely learn a great deal from Abramss study." -- Simon Finger * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"Revolutionary Medicine fills a significant niche. Its subject is not entirely pristine, but Abrams adds much and synthesises masterfully. Her book deserves to be a source of reference and of reading pleasure for years to come." -- Paul Kopperman * Social History of Medicine *"Revolutionary Medicine is a 'must-read' for anyone interested in the birth of America. Upon closing Jeanne E. Abrams's wonderful book about the illnesses and health experiences of the nation's founders, you will never be able to look at Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and their peers the same way again." -- Howard Markel,author of An Anatomy of Addiction"As America enters a new era of health care, this timely volume recalls what medicine was like in the days of the Founding Fathers. Everything from Washington's dental woes to Jefferson's troublesome headaches and Dolley Madisons tragic encounter with yellow fever finds its way into this lively and well-researched book. In recounting battles over vaccinations, herbal remedies, the efficacy of blood-letting, and the appropriate role for government intervention in medical issues, Revolutionary Medicine reminds us that debates over health care are nothing new in America. They go back to our founders." -- Jonathan D. Sarna,author of When General Grant Expelled the Jews"Contemporary debates over medical research budgets and guaranteeing health insurance for all Americans echo conversations about the necessity of good health to the well-being and prosperity of the citizenry that began at the dawn of our national history. In lucid, accessible prose, historian Jeanne E. Abrams turns to the lives and experiences of George and Martha Washington, John and Abigail Adams, James and Dolly Madison, as well as Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin to illuminate conversations about health, public and private, in our republics early years. Abrams's fine volume is a tonic for the frequent neglect of health and disease in so many histories of the early republic." -- Alan M. Kraut,author of Goldberger’s War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader"A University of Denver professor takes an in-depth look at the American medical landscape during the 18th century, a pre-antibiotic time of the epidemics and infectious diseases when Americans were also dealing with little projects like fighting the British for independence and establishing the United States." * The Denver Post *"The strength of the book is Abramss compilation of fascinating, gruesome, and often-tragic details of the lives of these founders, which lends them a corporeal presence that is absent from most histories." * The Journal of American History *"Revolutionary Medicine...is a readable and eye-opening account. We know so much about the Founders, but we rarely pause to think just how difficult 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' can be when you lack a good doctor or science-based care." * The Wall Street Journal *"Written in an engaging style and largely based on the personal letters and papers of the founding families, Abrams sheds new light on how republican ideals were shaped by encounters with disease." * William and Mary Quarterly *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments viiIntroduction:Health and Medicine in the Era of America's Founders 11George and Martha Washington: Health, Illness, and the First Family 332Benjamin Franklin: A Founding Father of American Medicine 793Abigail and John Adams: Partners in Sickness and Health 1194Thomas Jefferson: Advocate forHealthy Living 1695Thomas Jefferson: The Healthof the Nation 199Epilogue:Evolutionary Medicine 231Notes 241Bibliography 277Index 289About the Author 306

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing the medical clinic after neoliberalism.Trade Review"Rebirth of the Clinic contributes significantly and meaningfully to critical, interdisciplinary research on the clinic, on interactions between medical professionals and patients, and on the complex processes of translation through which policies are put into practice and vice versa." —Samantha King, Queens UniversityTable of ContentsContents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Foucault after Neoliberalsim, or, The Clinic Here and Now Cindy Patton 1. Clinic or Spa? Facial Surgery in the Context of AIDS-Related Facial Wasting John Liesch and Cindy Patton 2. Implications of an Epistemological Vision: Knowing What to Do in Home Health Care Christine Ceci and Mary Ellen Purkis 3. Where is Community Health?: Racism, the Clinic, and the Biopolitical State Jenna Loyd 4. Repetition and Rupture: The Gender of Agency in Methadone Maintenance Treatment Suzanne Fraser 5. Freedom or Socks: Market Promises vs. Supportive Care in Diabetes Treatment Annemarie Mol 6. Clinic Without the Clinic Cindy Patton 7. Practices of Doctoring: Enacting Medical Experience Lisa Diedrich Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Measuring Manhood is the book we’ve been hoping for. For two generations, historians have talked about the ways that race, class, and gender are interlocking and co-operational. Carefully and thoughtfully, Melissa N. Stein gathers these plots and lays out a story of intersecting interests and ideologies: a story of knowledge gone mad that is deeply resonant in our time."—Matthew Pratt Guterl, Brown University"Smartly conceptualized and engagingly written."—Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences"Measuring Manhood is well-written and complexly argued. It will be a useful text for courses in the history of medicine, gender, and sexuality studies; American history and science and technology studies. It provides an example of how to do inter-sectional analysis."—Men & Masculinities"A masterful work on the way racial theory, gender and science came together in the long nineteenth century."—Social History of Medicine"A noble effort to reveal the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality in the history of American science."—American Historical Review"Smartly conceptualized and engagingly written."—Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences"A well-written narrative, Measuring Manhood is a welcome contribution to the histories of science and medicine, race, and sex and sexuality as well to the interdisciplinary fields of American studies and gender studies."—Journal of American History"Anyone interested in how American science used studies of masculinity to aggravate social fears about race would do well to start with Measuring Manhood."—Journal of the History of Sexuality"Melissa Stein offers a meticulously researched history of biological essentialism. Her explicitly intersectional approach is a timely contribution to our understanding of how race and gender together informed the emerging sciences of ethnology, biology, and medicine from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century."—African American Review"Measuring Manhood is a sobering reflection on the fallacies of “objective” research and the role science has played in shaping social and political life. In this present era of advanced genetic research and considerable sociopolitical turmoil, this is a cautionary tale."—New Genetics and Society"Measuring Manhood is an excellent study of the development of the science of masculinity and its roots in race science in the United States during the long nineteenth century."—Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Making Race, Marking Difference1. "Races of Men”: Ethnology in Antebellum America2. An “Equal Beard” for “Equal Voting”: Gender and Citizenship in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Redemption3. Inverts, Perverts, and Primitives: Racial Thought and the American School of Sexology4. Unsexing the Race: Lynching, Castration, and Racial Science5. Walter White, Scientific Racism, and the NAACP Antilynching CampaignEpilogueAcknowledgmentsAppendix. Charting Racial Science: Data and MethodologyNotesIndex

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Book Synopsis Jennifer S. Singh sets out to discover how autism emerged as a genetic disorder and how this affects those who study autism and those who live with it. This is the first sustained analysis of the practices, politics, and meaning of autism genetics from a scientific, cultural, and social perspective.Trade Review"Jennifer Singh brilliantly elaborates the complex story of how autism science has evolved to give preference to genetic explanations and is driven by advances in microarray technologies. Her analysis is informed by a multidimensional perspective, drawing from her own expert understanding of the scientific research and extensive interviewing with scientists, activists, parents, and people with autism. Multiple Autisms is pathbreaking scholarship that raises urgently important questions about how the research community and other constituencies narrow our understandings of autism as a human condition."—Kristin Bumiller, Amherst College"Scholars of medical sociology, rhetoric, and broader medical humanities alike would benefit greatly from Singh’s text. Now, as biological sciences advance in areas of genomics–and as the popularity of genetic and genomic databases among researchers surely grows–Multiple Autisms will prove to provide important early insights into how these changes matter for those perennially on the receiving end of these multiplying and complex diagnoses."—Medical Humanities"Multiple Autisms is an important contribution to the autism literature and deserves to be read, not least by those conducting and funding genomics research. It is a well-written and accessible book that showcases the utility and ongoing relevance of thought styles in understanding modern science and medicine."—Social History of Medicine"Multiple Autisms offers a compelling examination of the biosocial world of autism genetics and genomics, introducing readers to the array of social actors, organizations, technologies and materials that are involved in the constitution of the category of autism today."—Canadian Journal of Sociology"Singh’s Multiple Autisms is an important contribution to understanding the making of genetic models of thought in autism research and beyond."—Oral History Review"This ambitious work serves as a strong example of sociological research with interdisciplinary implications. It would be a timely addition to courses in medical sociology, the sociology of science and knowledge, and social movement studies."—American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsPrefaceIntroduction: Multiple Ways of Viewing Autism1. Defining, Counting, Contesting: Changes in Diagnosis, Prevalence, and Advocacy2. Parent Advocacy and the Rise of Autism Genetics Research3. No Single Gene for Autism: The Emergence of Genomic Styles of Thought4. Simplex Families, Complex Exchanges: Why Parents Participate in an Autism Genomic Database5. Living with Autism: Perspectives of Adults on the SpectrumConclusion: A Spectrum of Knowledge ProductionAcknowledgmentsAppendix: MethodsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Testing Fate illustrates how diseases become racialized, how racializing them supports political projects, and how the medical profession has been instrumental in racial formation."—Dorothy Roberts, author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century"Shelley Z. Reuter offers a thoughtful, thorough, and sophisticated analysis of themes of modern biocitizenship and belonging refracted through a historical case study of Tay-Sachs disease."—Jonathan Kahn, Hamline University"As she tells the fascinating and important story of Tay-Sachs disease, Shelley Reuter skillfully reminds us of the tight links connecting our concepts of disease to visions of belonging and otherness, selfhood and social responsibility."—Steven Epstein, author of Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research"An engaging and carefully documented piece of scholarship. "—Disability Studies Quarterly"A thoughtful, rigorous contribution."—Journal of the History of Medicine"A sound contribution to anthropological debates surrounding the expression of biocitizenship, and, more specifically, how the decisions surrounding genetic screening are constrained by the continuous inculcation of normative ideas of what constitutes a responsible body and biocitizen."—Medical Anthropology Quarterly"This well-written and fascinating account of the history of a racialised disease should be read by both health care providers and scholars in a wide range of fields interested in the history of race and medicine."—Medical History "I suspect this book and the issues raised will nonetheless lend themselves to vibrant discussions in graduate seminars."—American Journal of Sociology"Reuter offers a necessary critical, comprehensive, and sociological examination of the history of Tay-Sachs and its construction as a disease concept."—New Genetics and Society"Testing Fate is a readable and inspiring book that has the great advantage of remaining accessible throughout. It would likely appeal to scholar and intelligent layman alike."—IsisTable of ContentsContents Introduction: A Critical Historical Sociology of Disease Part I. Pathologizing the Other 1. Diagnosing the Genuine “Jewish Type”: Medical Racialism and Anti-Immigration Legislation in the United States 2. Governing Disease: Cultivating the Will to Health in Jewish Immigrants to the United Kingdom Part II. Imag(in)ing Difference 3. “Plainer Than Words Can Describe”: Medical Portraiture and the Visualization of a Jewish Disease 4. The Unethics of Looking at Disease–Disability: Online Representations of Tay-Sachs Part III. Paradoxical Biocitizenship 5. The Right to Be Responsible: Agency and Contemporary Carrier Screening Conclusion: Freedom, Exclusion, and Genetic Decision Making Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHistorians of medicine and social historians will welcome the translation and republication of a popular and important 16th-century French medical treatise on pregnancy, conception, sexual practices, infertility, childbirth, lying-in, and breast-feeding. Despite its popularity, as evidenced in its 19 editions, including Latin and Italian translations, Joubert's Erreurs Populaires has received little attention from modern historians. This edition now places the work within the easy reach of those who formerly had to look at it in rare-book libraries. - Journal of the History of Medicine ""Orthodox medicine in pre-modern times seems to have had all too little to offer other than a bedside manner and thumping doses of purgatives. The point emerges clearly from Gregory de Rocher's translation of Laurent Joubert's Popular Errors, of 1578, a 'frantic effort,' writes de Rocher, 'at parrying the fierce blows to the power and prestige of physicians dealt by practical medicine.'"" - London Review of Books ""Joubert's criticism is grounded in... opposition to such practitioners of empirical knowledge as barber-surgeons, apothecaries, midwives, and laymen who were would-be physicians or charlatans.... A complete index of proper names, medicaments, and pathological terms makes the work accessible to readers in many fields."" - Medical Book News

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Trade ReviewLaurent Joubert was one of the most important medical humanists of the later 16th century, serving as counselor and physician to successive French kings as chancellor of the medical faculty of the University of Montpelier. His Erreurs Populaires [Popular Errors] went through many editions and reprinting, and the book was cited and imitated throughout Europe. Gregory David de Rocher published the first part of Popular Errors in 1989 [and] in this second volume, Joubert treats a wide range of topics. Food and drink, evacuations and bloodletting, heat and cold, are among the main areas covered [and] there are additional essays on the attitude of patients towards physicians, as well as a large collection of popular sayings. Also appended are important essays on poisons, supposedly miraculous abstinence from food, the language of the deaf, the health of princes. Taken together with the earlier volume, this is an invaluable edition of an important work. - Social History of Medicine ""De Rocher has made available in a clear, well annotated translation an important source of 15th-century medical belief and practice, which is a fine companion to his first volume of the Popular Errors."" - Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

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Book SynopsisRejecting the "colonial encounter" paradigm pervasive in current studies, this title weaves together stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation, to reveal how concerns about strange new objects and procedures fashioned the hybrid social world of colonialism and its aftermath in Mobutu's Zaire.Trade Review“ ‘Birth’ is more than the begetting of children and Nancy Rose Hunt’s ‘colonial lexicon’ is much more than a history of medicalized childbearing in the formerly Belgian Congo in colonial and post-colonial times. . . . With erudition and wit Hunt challenges conventional models—be they feminist, obstetric, colonial, missionary, or health-bureaucratic—about what it means to medicalize childbearing.”—Barbara Duden, Universität Hannover“A highly original study. This book links medical work with maternity work in the context of arguments about gender relations and about feminist perspectives on writing history.”—Gillian Feeley-Harnik, author of A Green Estate: Restoring Independence in MadagascarTable of ContentsIllustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Crocodiles and Wealth 2 Doctors and Airplanes 3 Dining and Surgery 4 Nurses and Bicycles 5 Babies and Forceps 6 Colonial Maternities 7 Debris Departures Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisInvestigates how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Featuring stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation, this title reveals how concerns about strange objects and procedures fashioned the hybrid social world of colonialism and its aftermath in Mobutu's Zaire.Trade Review“ ‘Birth’ is more than the begetting of children and Nancy Rose Hunt’s ‘colonial lexicon’ is much more than a history of medicalized childbearing in the formerly Belgian Congo in colonial and post-colonial times. . . . With erudition and wit Hunt challenges conventional models—be they feminist, obstetric, colonial, missionary, or health-bureaucratic—about what it means to medicalize childbearing.”—Barbara Duden, Universität Hannover“A highly original study. This book links medical work with maternity work in the context of arguments about gender relations and about feminist perspectives on writing history.”—Gillian Feeley-Harnik, author of A Green Estate: Restoring Independence in MadagascarTable of ContentsIllustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Crocodiles and Wealth 2 Doctors and Airplanes 3 Dining and Surgery 4 Nurses and Bicycles 5 Babies and Forceps 6 Colonial Maternities 7 Debris Departures Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisShowing how imported models of tropical medicine - constructed by colonial nations - downplayed the connection between socioeconomic factors and tropical disorders, this study of a neglected episode in Latin American history will interest Brazilianists, as well as scholars of Latin American, medical, and scientific history.Trade Review“Race, Place, and Medicine makes an important contribution to a number of fields by using medical history as a portal to a broader discussion of Brazilian national identity.”— Jeffrey Lesser, author of Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil“A very impressive and original study that is a welcome addition to what is currently a rather slim literature on the history of medicine and public health in Latin America.”— Barbara Weinstein, author of For Social Peace in Brazil

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Book SynopsisAnalyses how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrialising England's relationship to the material world. Drawing on medicine, literature, political economy, sociology, anthropology, and popular advertising, the author explores the industrial logic of disease.Trade Review“Raw Material adds much to the existing literature on the Victorians. With its enlightening case studies and its author’s solid understanding of the state of medical art in the latter half of the nineteenth century, this is a first-rate piece of work.”—Sander L. Gilman, author of Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery“Industry makes it possible to understand the Victorian body, according to Erin O'Connor, as so much raw material. O'Connor's mind is a pleasure to watch at work and Raw Material will make a significant contribution to Victorian studies, to work on the body, and to cultural studies.”—Mary Ann O'Farrell, author of Telling Complexions: The Nineteenth-Century English Novel and the Blush“The body in distress and deformation—black from cholera, excrescent from breast cancer, monstrous, and repaired through prosthesis—offers a prism through which O’Connor refracts the crisis of the self in the world’s first industrial society. This is a complex, empirically rich, reflective and vigorously argued book that will be welcomed by literary critics, by historians of the body and of the nineteenth century, and by anyone engaged with cultural theory.”—Thomas Laqueur, author of Making Sex : Body and Gender from the Greeks to FreudTable of ContentsList of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 ONE/ Asiatic Cholera and the Raw Material of Race 21 TWO/ Breast Reductions 60 THREE/ Fractions of Men: Engendering Amputation 102 FOUR/ Monsters. Materials, Methods 148 AFTERWORD/ The Promises of Monsters, or, A Manifesto for Academic Futures 209 Notes 219 Works Cited 251 Index 267

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Book SynopsisChallenging traditional approaches to medical history, this work advances understandings of disease as a social and cultural construction in Latin America. It provides a look at the research in the history of medicine through essays about how disease was experienced and managed in different Latin American countries and regions, at different times.Trade Review“This book is an extraordinary contribution that brings together the very best scholars of Latin American public health and social history. Its emphasis on the social conditions that lead to epidemic disease as well as the political and social forces that shape practice is a welcome corrective to a literature still too often dominated by positivist traditions.”—David Rosner, director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, Columbia University”I was fascinated by all the essays in Disease in the History of Modern Latin America. They are theoretically aware and sophisticated while they remain accessible and oriented to the complexity of historical experience. This collection is a powerful argument for the richness of an interdisciplinary approach to cultural history.”—Daniel James, author of Doña Maria's Story: Life History, Memory, and Political IdentityTable of ContentsPreface vii Disease in the Historiography of Modern Latin America / Diego Armus 1 “The Only Serious Terror in These Regions”: Malaria Control in the Brazilian Amazon / Nancy Leys Stepan 25 An Imaginary Plague in Turn-of-the-Century Buenos Aires: Hysteria, Discipline, and Languages of the Body / Gabriella Nouzeilles 51 Tropical Medicine in Brazil: The Case of Chagas’ Disease / Marilia Coutinho 76 Tango, Gender, and Tuberculosis in Buenos Aires, 1900–1940 / Diego Armus 101 The State, Physicians. and Leprosy in Modern Colombia / Diana Obregón 130 Revolution, the Scatological Way: The Rockefeller Foundation’s Hookworm Campaign in 1920s Mexico / Anne-Emanuelle Birn 158 Between Risk and Confession: State and Popular Perspectives of Syphilis Infection in Revolutionary Mexico / Katherine Elaine Bliss 183 Dying of Sadness: Hospitalism and Child Welfare in Mexico City, 1920-1940 / Ann S. Blum 209 Mental Illness and Democracy in Bolivia: The Manicomio Pacheco, 1935–1950 / Ann Zulawski 237 Stigma and Blame during an Epidemic: Cholera in Peru, 1991 / Marcus Cueto 268 Nation, Science, and Sex: AIDS and the New Brazilian Sexuality / Patrick Larvie 290 Contributors 315 Index 317

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Book SynopsisA collection exploring public health policies and implementation in Chinese regions of East Asia from the late nineteenth century to the present; many of the contributors are based in Taiwan.Trade Review“This volume, edited by Angela Ki Che Leung and Charlotte Furth, exemplifies the diverse social science approaches at work in the study of medical/health history. The book offers a fascinating investigation of the health and hygiene developments in twentieth-century Chinese East Asia, with insightful findings.” - Liping Bu, Social History of Medicine“[T]his book provides many solid case studies to examine the intersections between governments, culture and science. Anyone interested in the history of Chinese medicine, colonial medicine and public health in East Asia will find it helpful.” - Wen-Ching Sung, The China Review“This volume skillfully highlights the importance of a holistic view of medicine and an understanding of the ‘web of biological relationships’ between humans and the environment in managing and understanding disease and health (271).” - Tina Phillips Johnson, Journal of Interdisciplinary History“This timely and diverse volume brings together exemplary scholarship on the history of colonial medicine and public health in China and Taiwan from the late nineteenth century to the present. . . . [T]his invaluable volume commands not only the attention of East Asianists, but all scholars interested in the global circulations of scientific knowledge, medical technologies, and practices of governance.” - Leon Antonio Rocha, Journal of Asian Studies“This book should be of interest to scholars who want to see a more cosmopolitan approach to the history of medicine. . . . This book departs from earlier scholarship on public health in East Asia in two important aspects. First is the shift in focus to geographical regions that are far from the center of state power, such as Manchuria and the Pearl River delta, as well as the focus on the countryside rather than urban centers. Second, studying the embedded local practices and traditions and their interactions with international and transnational influences allow the authors to break out of the narrative based on imperialism or nation-building as the shaper of public health.” - Yüan-ling Chao, Bulletin of the History of Medicine“This collection of essays brings together in one volume cutting-edge scholarship on the history of hygiene and public health in East Asia, from the tenth century to the twenty-first. It willed be welcomed not only by researchers on the history of medicine but also by those interested in topics as diverse as imperialism, demography, diet, and gender studies.”—Carol Benedict, author of Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China“This imaginatively conceived volume sets the agenda for an entirely new history of public health. Moving deftly between the local and the global, Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia demonstrates that public health is best understood as a series of relationships rather than as a closed project in nation- or empire-building. As the contributors to this fine book show, there was more than one ‘China’ and certainly more than one ‘public health.’”—Mark Harrison, University of Oxford“[T]his book provides many solid case studies to examine the intersections between governments, culture and science. Anyone interested in the history of Chinese medicine, colonial medicine and public health in East Asia will find it helpful.” -- Wen-Ching Sung * China Review *“This book should be of interest to scholars who want to see a more cosmopolitan approach to the history of medicine. . . . This book departs from earlier scholarship on public health in East Asia in two important aspects. First is the shift in focus to geographical regions that are far from the center of state power, such as Manchuria and the Pearl River delta, as well as the focus on the countryside rather than urban centers. Second, studying the embedded local practices and traditions and their interactions with international and transnational influences allow the authors to break out of the narrative based on imperialism or nation-building as the shaper of public health.” -- Yüan-ling Chao * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *“This timely and diverse volume brings together exemplary scholarship on the history of colonial medicine and public health in China and Taiwan from the late nineteenth century to the present. . . . [T]his invaluable volume commands not only the attention of East Asianists, but all scholars interested in the global circulations of scientific knowledge, medical technologies, and practices of governance.” -- Leon Antonio Rocha * Journal of Asian Studies *“This volume skillfully highlights the importance of a holistic view of medicine and an understanding of the ‘web of biological relationships’ between humans and the environment in managing and understanding disease and health (271).” -- Tina Phillips * Johnson Journal of Interdisciplinary History *“This volume, edited by Angela Ki Che Leung and Charlotte Furth, exemplifies the diverse social science approaches at work in the study of medical/health history. The book offers a fascinating investigation of the health and hygiene developments in twentieth-century Chinese East Asia, with insightful findings.” -- Liping Bu * Social History of Medicine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Hygienic Modernity in Chinese East Asia / Charlotte Furth 1 Part I. Tradition and Transition The Evolution of the Idea of Chuanran Contagion in Imperial China / Angela Ki Che Leung 25 The Treatment of Night Soil and Waste in Modern China / Yu Zinzhong 51 Sovereignty and the Microscope: Constituting Notifiable Infectious Disease and Containing the Manchurian Plague (1910–11) / Sean Hsiang-lin Lei 73 Part II. Colonial Health and Hygiene Eating Well in China: Diet and Hygiene in Nineteenth-Century Treaty Ports / Shang-Jen Li 109 Vampires in Plagueland: The Multiple Meanings of Weisheng in Manchuria / Ruth Rogaski 132 Have Someone Cut the Umbilical Cord: Women's Birthing Networks, Knowledge, and Skills in Colonial Taiwan / Wu Chia-Ling 160 Part III. Campaigns for Epidemic Control A Forgotten War: Malaria Eradication in Taiwan, 1905–65 / Lin Yi-ping and Liu Shiyung 183 The Elimination of Schistosomiasis in Jiaxing and Haining Counties, 1948–58: Public Health as Political Movement / Li Yushang 204 Conceptual Blind Spots, Media Blindfolds: The Case of SARS and Traditional Chines Medicine / Marta E. Hanson 228 Governing Germs from Outside and Within Borders: Controlling 2003 SARS Risk in Taiwan / Tseng Yen-fen and Wu Chia-Ling 255 Afterword: Biomedicine in Chinese East Asia: From Semicolonial to Postcolonial? / Warwick Anderson 273 Timeline 279 Glossary 283 Bibliography 287 Contributors 323 Index 327

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Book SynopsisCurative Powers combines post-colonial theory with ethnographic research to reconstruct how the Soviet government used medicine and public health policy to transform the society, politics, and culture of its outlying regions, specifically Kazakhstan. Winner of the 2003 Heldt Prize from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies.Trade Review“Takes an important step in examining the breadth of modern imperial ideology across the european continent and in the colonized world.”—Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History |“Contributes to the history of a country that still remains enigmatic for the English-speaking audience.”—Journal of the History of Medicine|“Far ahead of the rest of the field.”--Canadian Journal of History

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Book SynopsisGeorge Dehner examines the wide disparity in national and international responses to influenza pandemics, from the Russian flu of 1889 to the swine flu outbreak in 2009. He chronicles the technological and institutional progress made along the way and shows how these developments can shape an effective future policy.

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Book SynopsisReframes vaccine hesitancy as a crisis of public trust rather than a war on science.

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2022 Edward Kremers AwardCompound Remedies examines the equipment, books, and remedies of colonial Mexico City’s Herrera pharmacy—natural substances with known healing powers that formed part of the basis for modern-day healing traditions and home remedies in Mexico.

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Book SynopsisIn this provocative collection of essays, François Delaporte shows how every epistemological concern demands its own mode of engagement. Through six seemingly disparate cases, Figures of Medicine reanimates the methodological and intellectual stakes at the core of the history of science and medicine.Trade Review"As always with Delaporte the scholarship is impressive, innovative and impeccable, and the analyses acute." -- -Camille Limoges Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST-UQAM) Montreal "Lucid, focused, and rigorous ... An outstanding book that makes important contributions to intellectual history, the history of medicine, and their methodologies." -- -Jonathan Strauss Miami University

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Book SynopsisIn 1850, Hermann von Helmholtz conducted path breaking experiments on the propagation speed of the nervous impulse. This book reconstructs the cultural history of these experiments by focusing on Helmholtz’s use of the “graphic method” and the subsequent use of his term “lost time” by Marcel Proust.Trade Review"Grounded in archival sources, Schmidgen's book is a must-read for any historian of science interested in nineteenth-century physiology." -Isis Review "The distinguished German scientist, Hermann von Helmholtz, and the superb French writer, Marcel Proust, never met. However, Henning Schmidgen's fascinating study of nineteenth century graphic machines, tracings, and early photography reveals how their shared preoccupation with the physiology and mechanics of muscles and nerves, however disparate, led them to remarkably similar discoveries about the arbitrary and unpredictable modern experience of time." -- -Anson Rabinbach Princeton University, author of The Human Motor "Henning Schmidgen's exciting book is about laboratory practices and reaction time measurements, but it is as much a beautifully written map of visual culture of scientific experiments, the measured body, and the emergence of a modern sense of time. Schmidgen offers us an excellent piece of scholarship on scientific and technological culture that also demonstrates the importance of a Deleuzian history of science for the history of media." -- -Jussi Parikka University of Southampton, author of What is Media Archaeology? "The Helmholtz Curves presents an archival discovery of the greatest importance not just to historians of science but to every scientist who studies the nervous system." -- -Laura Otis Emory University "This is a remarkable book. Starting from two images of graphic curves taken by Hermann von Helmholtz in 1851 in Konigsberg and preserved in the archives of the Academie des Sciences in Paris, Henning Schmidgen unfolds the universe of physiological time measurement as it took shape around the middle of the 19th century, reaching deep into the 20th century with its reverberations. Like in a burning glass, the book aligns the components of a new laboratory regime and their entanglement with the dawning age of energy conversion and of - electromagnetic - communication and social control. The central figure holding the story together is a little 'gap': the fraction of a second in which, between stimulus and response, nothing appears to happen - a time lost and yet of tremendous cultural brisance." -- -Hans-Jorg Rheinberger Director at the Max Planck-Institute for the History of ScienceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. Curves Regained 2. Semiotic Things 3. A Research Machine 4. Networks of Time, Networks of Knowledge 5. Time to Publish 6. Messages from the Big Toe 7. The Return of the Line Conclusion Chronology Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRealizing the Witch follows the unfolding of Benjamin Christensen’s visual narrative in his 1922 film, Häxan (The Witch). Through a close reading of Häxan, Baxstrom and Meyers examine the study of witchcraft from historical and anthropological perspectives, as well as the intersection of popular culture, artistic expression and scientific ideas.Trade Review"Benjamin Christensen's 1922 film Haxan is well known for some of the wrong reasons. Realizing the Witch rescues Haxan from the sensationalist prurience of the entertainment market, and subjects it to careful historical scrutiny and a lively close reading that exploits the resources of film history and theory. The authors explore Christensen's use of his contemporaries' research into witchcraft, psychology, and anthropology and refract their analysis through up-to-date scholarship on these topics. They conclude that Christensen hoped to 'materialize' the figure of the Witch, setting a trap that would 'possess' the audience. The implications of this interdisciplinary study will be of interest to researchers and teachers in all these fields, not least the history of witchcraft studies." -- -Walter Stephens Johns Hopkins University "Baxstrom and Meyers have a keen eye for the wondrous otherness of Christensen's work, never missing an opportunity to theorize the film's struggles with the ontological slipperiness of the witch, cinema as absent presence, and questions of recording, witnessing, and irrationality in twenty-first century science and culture." -- -Alison Griffiths City University of New York "Baxstrom and Meyers' book is more than a meticulous analysis of Benjamin Christensen's masterpiece Haxan, more than a model monograph. It finds and charts undiscovered tracks in the field of film studies, tracks that the authors invest with methods of analysis inspired by Warburgian iconology. In the light of their work, the film becomes a privileged way of accessing the history of discourses and representations." -- Philippe-Alain Michaud Director and Film Curator, Musee national d'art moderne--Centre Georges Pompidou "This is a powerful and highly original work that makes significant contributions to a number of areas of contemporary scholarship, including visual anthropology, the anthropology of witchcraft, cinema studies and science studies. At the same time it succeeds impressively in communicating the authors' own admiration and enthusiasm for an often negelcted masterpiece of silent cinema. The professed aim of Christensen's Haxen was to show that witchcraft was a misidentified nervous disease and thus to illustrate the incompatibility of superstition and religious fanaticism with modernity and science. In fact, as the authors point out, the film exceeds such a scientific enframing of its subject-matter, its effect being rather to "give the witch life." Their analysis shows how both Christensen and they themselves as spectators are, in Jeanne Favret-Saada's phrase, "caught" by the phenomenon of witchcraft in such a way that it can no longer be held at a safe analytic distance as an instance of the (misguided) beliefs of others. Instead, they suggest, Christensen's film complicates its own status as a 'truthful' representation. In doing so it opens up intellectual and imaginative possibilities beyond any straightforward opposition between 'documentary' and 'fiction' and raises important and unsettling questions not only about witchcraft, modernity and cinematic representation but also about the past, present and future of anthropology." -- -Stuart McLean University of Minnesota "Realizing the Witch is a highly original, exciting, and important book. With this work, Richard Baxstrom and Todd Meyers establish themselves as pioneering scholars in the emerging field between media studies and the history of science." -- -Henning Schmidgen Professor of Media Studies at the Bauhaus University Weimar, GermanyTable of ContentsIntroduction: What Is Haxan? Part I: The Realization of the Witch The Witch in the Human Sciences and the Mastery of Nonsense 1. Evidence, First Movement. Words and Things 2. Evidence, Second Movement. Tableaux and Faces 3. The Viral Character of the Witch 4. Demonology Part II: A Mobile Force in the Modern Age 1922 5. Sex, Touch, and Materiality 6. Possession and Ecstasy 7. Hysterias Postscript--It is very hard to believe ... Benjamin Christensen's Cited Source Material Films Cited Bibliography Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisRealizing the Witch follows the unfolding of Benjamin Christensen’s visual narrative in his 1922 film, Häxan (The Witch). Through a close reading of Häxan, Baxstrom and Meyers examine the study of witchcraft from historical and anthropological perspectives, as well as the intersection of popular culture, artistic expression and scientific ideas.Trade Review"Benjamin Christensen's 1922 film Haxan is well known for some of the wrong reasons. Realizing the Witch rescues Haxan from the sensationalist prurience of the entertainment market, and subjects it to careful historical scrutiny and a lively close reading that exploits the resources of film history and theory. The authors explore Christensen's use of his contemporaries' research into witchcraft, psychology, and anthropology and refract their analysis through up-to-date scholarship on these topics. They conclude that Christensen hoped to 'materialize' the figure of the Witch, setting a trap that would 'possess' the audience. The implications of this interdisciplinary study will be of interest to researchers and teachers in all these fields, not least the history of witchcraft studies." -- -Walter Stephens Johns Hopkins University "Baxstrom and Meyers have a keen eye for the wondrous otherness of Christensen's work, never missing an opportunity to theorize the film's struggles with the ontological slipperiness of the witch, cinema as absent presence, and questions of recording, witnessing, and irrationality in twenty-first century science and culture." -- -Alison Griffiths City University of New York "Baxstrom and Meyers' book is more than a meticulous analysis of Benjamin Christensen's masterpiece Haxan, more than a model monograph. It finds and charts undiscovered tracks in the field of film studies, tracks that the authors invest with methods of analysis inspired by Warburgian iconology. In the light of their work, the film becomes a privileged way of accessing the history of discourses and representations." -- Philippe-Alain Michaud Director and Film Curator, Musee national d'art moderne--Centre Georges Pompidou "This is a powerful and highly original work that makes significant contributions to a number of areas of contemporary scholarship, including visual anthropology, the anthropology of witchcraft, cinema studies and science studies. At the same time it succeeds impressively in communicating the authors' own admiration and enthusiasm for an often negelcted masterpiece of silent cinema. The professed aim of Christensen's Haxen was to show that witchcraft was a misidentified nervous disease and thus to illustrate the incompatibility of superstition and religious fanaticism with modernity and science. In fact, as the authors point out, the film exceeds such a scientific enframing of its subject-matter, its effect being rather to "give the witch life." Their analysis shows how both Christensen and they themselves as spectators are, in Jeanne Favret-Saada's phrase, "caught" by the phenomenon of witchcraft in such a way that it can no longer be held at a safe analytic distance as an instance of the (misguided) beliefs of others. Instead, they suggest, Christensen's film complicates its own status as a 'truthful' representation. In doing so it opens up intellectual and imaginative possibilities beyond any straightforward opposition between 'documentary' and 'fiction' and raises important and unsettling questions not only about witchcraft, modernity and cinematic representation but also about the past, present and future of anthropology." -- -Stuart McLean University of Minnesota "Realizing the Witch is a highly original, exciting, and important book. With this work, Richard Baxstrom and Todd Meyers establish themselves as pioneering scholars in the emerging field between media studies and the history of science." -- -Henning Schmidgen Professor of Media Studies at the Bauhaus University Weimar, GermanyTable of ContentsIntroduction: What Is Haxan? Part I: The Realization of the Witch The Witch in the Human Sciences and the Mastery of Nonsense 1. Evidence, First Movement. Words and Things 2. Evidence, Second Movement. Tableaux and Faces 3. The Viral Character of the Witch 4. Demonology Part II: A Mobile Force in the Modern Age 1922 5. Sex, Touch, and Materiality 6. Possession and Ecstasy 7. Hysterias Postscript--It is very hard to believe ... Benjamin Christensen's Cited Source Material Films Cited Bibliography Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays by Mirko D. Grmek, providing a portrait of his career as a historian of science and an engaged intellectual figure. Uniting some important strands of his published work, it covers deep epistemological changes in disease concepts and major advances in the life sciences and their historiography.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Editor and Translator’s Note Foreword by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) Introduction: Mirko Grmek’s Investigative Pathway by Pierre-Olivier Méthot (Université Laval, Québec) Pathocenosis: Diseases in History 1. Preliminaries to the Historical Study of Diseases 2. The Concept of Emerging Disease 3. Some Unorthodox Views and a Selection Hypothesis on the Origin of the AIDS Viruses Experiments and Concepts in Life Sciences 4. First Steps in Claude Bernard’s Discovery of the Glycogenic Function of the Liver 5. The Causes and the Nature of Ageing 6. A Survey of the Mechanical Interpretations of Life from the Greek Atomists to the Followers of Descartes History of Science: the Laboratory of Epistemology 7. A Plea for freeing the History of Scientific Discoveries from Myth Memoricide: War and the Eradication of Cultural Memory 8. A Memoricide 9. Dubrovnik: The Slavic Athens Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays by Mirko D. Grmek, providing a portrait of his career as a historian of science and an engaged intellectual figure. Uniting some important strands of his published work, it covers deep epistemological changes in disease concepts and major advances in the life sciences and their historiography.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Editor and Translator’s Note Foreword by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) Introduction: Mirko Grmek’s Investigative Pathway by Pierre-Olivier Méthot (Université Laval, Québec) Pathocenosis: Diseases in History 1. Preliminaries to the Historical Study of Diseases 2. The Concept of Emerging Disease 3. Some Unorthodox Views and a Selection Hypothesis on the Origin of the AIDS Viruses Experiments and Concepts in Life Sciences 4. First Steps in Claude Bernard’s Discovery of the Glycogenic Function of the Liver 5. The Causes and the Nature of Ageing 6. A Survey of the Mechanical Interpretations of Life from the Greek Atomists to the Followers of Descartes History of Science: the Laboratory of Epistemology 7. A Plea for freeing the History of Scientific Discoveries from Myth Memoricide: War and the Eradication of Cultural Memory 8. A Memoricide 9. Dubrovnik: The Slavic Athens Bibliography Index

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