History of medicine Books

Book SynopsisIn this energetic new study, Wendy Mitchinson traces medical perspectives on the treatment of women in Canada in the first half of the twentieth century.Trade Review'Body Failure is an extensively researched and carefully argued book... It is an excellent contribution to the rich, intersecting field of body and medicine in Canada.' -- Jane Nicholas Acadiensis vol 44:02:2015 'This nuanced account of medical views of women in the first half of the twentieth century is sometimes depressing, but it is always fascinating, and tells a story which deserves to be more widely known.' -- Tracey Loughran Social History of Medicine vol 27:04:2014 'Body Failure's rich detail can be profitably mined for lectures, so it is a treat for professors, including the many fine young scholars Mitchinson has trained and mentored in her long career. It is a highly recommended addition and we look forward to her next.' -- Cheryl Krasnick Warsh Canadian Historical Review vol 95:03:2014 'Body Failure is a very valuable resource on medical views of women's health in Canada... This study reminds us that medicine was and still is, a profession engaged in constant debate, conjecture, and speculation about how gender shapes bodily differences.' -- Susan L. Smith Bulletin of Medical History vol 88:04:2014 'This solid albeit dispassionate book about how women were sometimes mutilated in the name of a male-dominated science is a must read for any woman who respects herself and her body.' -- Herizons, Winter 2015 "This book about how women were sometimes mutilated in the name of male-dominated science is a must read for any woman who respects herself or her body. " -- Maya Khankhoje Herizons Magazine (Winter, 2015) 'Meticulously researched, well organized and clearly written. Body Failure offers a complex and compelling understanding of the medicalization process through a gendered lens and as such, makes an important contribution to the literature on women's health, healthcare, and medicine.' -- Rebecca Kluchin Journal of Social History Fall 2015Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter One Woman's Place Chapter Two Growing Up and Facing Puberty Chapter Three "You can't be at your best when you're sitting in a swamp": Menstruation Chapter Four Understanding Sexuality Chapter Five Advice on Marriage and Motherhood Chapter Six "On the fringe of knowledge": Infertility Chapter Seven Controlling Fertility: Birth Control and Abortion Chapter Eight "The ... mischievous tendency of specialism": Gynaecology Chapter Nine The Womanly Body: A Cancer Threat Chapter Ten The Mind's Health Chapter Eleven Menopause: The End of Womanhood Conclusion Notes on Sources and Methodology

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Book SynopsisThe definitive collection on eighteenth-century generation and its many milieus, The Secrets of Generation will be an essential resource for studying this topic for years to come.Trade Review'Raymond Stephanson and Darren Wagner have persuaded an extraordinarily knowledgeable and interesting set of contributors to cover a huge range of topics concerning generation and reproduction of that period...The collection is full of gems.' -- Jenny Davidson Studies in English Literature vol 56:03:2016 'A sprawling and wonderful collection... Stephanson and Wagner's collection sets the standard for the next generation of reproductive scholarship.' -- Barry Reay Canadian Journal of History vol 51:03:2016 'This excellent new collection covers essays on how people in Europe (and North America) viewed the mysterious process of creating new life... The wide ranging essays in The Secrets of Generation answer questions you will not have even thought of.' -- Matthew Cobb Isis vol 107:04:2016 'This collection offers a compensating richness of suggestive connections between texts and topics not normally encountered together under the aegis of any one discipline.' -- Jan Golinski Eighteenth Century Fiction vol 29:03:2017Table of ContentsPreface Raymond Stephanson and Darren Wagner, "Introduction" PART I: Generation, Species, Breeding 1. Staffan Muller-Wille, "Reproducing Species" 2. Ivano Dal Prete, "Cultures and Politics of Preformism in Eighteenth-Century Italy" 3. Peter Bowler, "Theories of Generation and the History of Life" 4. John C. Waller, "Born to Virtue: Ideas of Generation and the Eighteenth-Century Elites" 5. Susanne Lettow, "Improving Reproduction: Articulations of Breeding and 'Race-Mixing' in French and German Discourse (1750-1800)" 6. Christine Lehleiter, "New Attention to Incest and Inbreeding as Ways of Reproduction around 1800: A Case Study of the Mignon Episode in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister" PART II: Fetus, Child, Mother 7. Sebastian Pranghofer, "Changing Views on Generation-Images of the Unborn" 8. Corinna Wagner, "The Problem of Maternal Violence: Anatomy, Forensic Medicine, and the Mind" 9. David M. Turner, "Birth Anomaly and Childhood Disability" 10. Heather Meek, "Motherhood, Hysteria, and the Eighteenth-Century Woman Writer" 11. Sonja Boon, "Mothers and Others: The Politics of Lactation in Medical Consultation Letters Addressed to Samuel-Auguste Tissot" 12. Jennifer Golightly, "Reproduction in British Women's Novels of the 1790s" PART III: Pathologies, Body Parts, Display 13. Sarah Toulalan, "'Unfit for Generation': Body Size and Reproduction" 14. Pam Lieske, "Deformity of the Maternal Pelvis in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain" 15. Sally Frampton, "The Debris of Life: Diseased Ovaries in Eighteenth-Century Medicine" 16. Lianne McTavish, "Intestinal Chaos: Tapeworms, Dead Flesh, and Reproduction during the Eighteenth Century" 17. Darren Wagner, "A Bit Exposed: Displays of Male Genitals" PART IV Attitudes, Tropes, Satire 18. Marcia D. Nichols, "The Aristotle Texts, Sex, and the American Woman" 19. Corrinne Harol and Jessica MacQueen, "Eve's Labours: Procreation, Reproduction, and the Politics of Generation in Paradise Lost" 20. Julie Peakman and Sarah Watkins, "Making Babies: Eighteenth-Century Attitudes Toward Conception, Reproduction and Childbirth" 21. Donald W. Nichol, "Making the Rounds in the Old & New Foundling Hospitals for Wit: (Mis)Conceptions about Conceiving" 22. George Rousseau, "Panspermist Jokes, Reproductive Technologies, and Virgin Births: Some Enlightenment Luciniades"

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Book SynopsisUsing the sole surviving admissions book for Toledo, Spain's Hospital de Santiago, Cristian Berco reconstructs the lives of men and women afflicted with the pox by tracing their experiences before, during, and after their hospitalization.Trade Review'Berco is to be commended for making such diligent and fruitful use of what are generally quite dry and often tedious records to scour... This book contributes an important perspective for both medical and social historians.' -- Kristy Wilson Bowers Canadian Journal of History vol 51:03:2016 'Berco's study provides an important contribution for any future comparative work. Scholars should benefit from and extend Berco's innovative use of sources.' -- Mona O'Brien H-Histsex, H-Net Reviews August 2016Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1. Getting Sick: Signs, Sin, and Social Worth Chapter 2. Encounters of the Third Kind: Medical Assumptions and Patients Chapter 3. Melting Pot: The Hospital de Santiago's Patients Chapter 4. Safeguarding Reputation: Gender, Hospitalization, and Textiles Chapter 5. Between Body and Soul: Treatment at the Hospital de Santiago Chapter 6. Getting Hitched: Pox, Sexuality and Marriage Chapter 7. Making Ends Meet: Disease, Work, and Family Chapter 8. Playing Nice with Others: Pox and Community Conclusion

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Book SynopsisOpening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theatres, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gomez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially-based knowledge about the human body and the natural world during the long seventeenth century.

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Book SynopsisOpening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theatres, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gomez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially-based knowledge about the human body and the natural world during the long seventeenth century.

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Book SynopsisExamines the creation and circulation of medical ideas about blackness in the Atlantic World during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Rana A. Hogarth shows how white physicians deployed blackness as a medically significant marker of difference and used medical knowledge to enhance control over black bodies during the era of slavery.

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Book SynopsisNearly two-thirds of the Civil War's approximately 750,000 fatalities were caused by disease--a staggering fact for which the American medical profession was profoundly unprepared. In the years before the war, training for physicians in the United States was mostly unregulated, and medical schools' access to cadavers for teaching purposes was highly restricted. Shauna Devine argues that in spite of these limitations, Union army physicians rose to the challenges of the war, undertaking methods of study and experimentation that would have a lasting influence on the scientific practice of medicine. Though the war's human toll was tragic, conducting postmortems on the dead and caring for the wounded gave physicians ample opportunity to study and develop new methods of treatment and analysis, from dissection and microscopy to new research into infectious disease processes. Examining the work of doctors who served in the Union Medical Department, Devine sheds new light on how their innovatioTrade Review[Devine] makes a convincing case that at least one good thing came from the horror of the Civil War, namely the advancement of medicine.-America's Civil WarRecommended to readers in the history of medicine or military medicine.-Library JournalTruly a seminal work. . . . Devine's work will undoubtedly become one of the most important illuminations of Civil War military medicine and a ground-breaker connecting that war on disease and injury to the rise of modern and scientific American medicine.-Journal of America's Military PastLearning from the Wounded presents a truly fresh thesis. This is a convincing book, well researched and written engagingly and enthusiastically.-Canadian Journal of HistoryThis important work is a major contribution to knowledge about the development of medical practice and research protocols. It deserves a wide readership among advanced students, researchers, and faculty.-ChoiceA bold new interpretation of the impact of the Civil War on the profession of medicine in nineteenth-century America.-Bulletin of the History of MedicineThere exists a massive bulk of raw data relating to the medicine and surgery of the Civil War era. Shauna Devine has diligently and tenaciously sifted out the salient parts to our eternal benefit.-On Point: The Journal of Army HistoryAn excellent book for anyone interested in Civil War medicine.-New York Journal of BooksA thoroughly researched and detailed analysis of the Civil War's powerful impact on American medicine.-Journal of American HistoryA segment of the real war has gotten into Learning from the Wounded.-Civil War Book Review

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Book SynopsisOffers the first history of fatigue, one that is scrupulously researched but also informed by Emily Abel's own experiences as a cancer survivor. With her engaging and informative style, Abel gives us a synthetic history of fatigue and outlines how it has been ignored or misunderstood by medical professionals and American society as a whole.

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Book SynopsisIn this history of racial thinking and slavery in American medical schools, the founders and early faculty of these schools emerge as singularly influential proponents of white supremacist racial science.

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Book SynopsisIn this history of racial thinking and slavery in American medical schools, the founders and early faculty of these schools emerge as singularly influential proponents of white supremacist racial science.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on archives of the US Sanitary Commission, the recollections of Civil War soldiers and medical workers, and testimonies from Black Americans who endured the wartime medical system, Leslie Schwalm exposes the racist ideas and practices that shaped the Union's Civil War health care.

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Book SynopsisExtinguishing a public health threat is difficult under any condition, let alone during a national revolution. In this first comprehensive study of tuberculosis in Cuba, Kelly Urban analyses the medical, social, and governmental responses to the highly contagious disease as the island was heading into and emerging from the Revolution of 1959.Trade ReviewWell-researched . . . This focus on Cuban public health policy and the interaction between the governments and citizens, and not just on tuberculosis, makes Radical Prescription of interest both to historians of medicine and generalists interested in Latin American history."—H-Sci-Med-Tech

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Book SynopsisAn inspiring account of how the Dell Medical School came into being at the University of Texas at Austin more than 125 years after the campus was established.

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Book SynopsisAlexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerrtwo scholars deeply embedded in the HIV responsepresent the history, present, and future of AIDS through thirteen short conversations.Trade Review“[Juhasz’s and Kerr’s] conversational model—by definition friendly, curious, and inviting, with an interest in accessibility and transparency—distinguishes [We Are Having This Conversation Now] from traditional academic writing and media criticism. Here, history-teaching and -learning is rooted in an oral history framework: that we learn what happened to communities from the people who constitute them.” -- Svetlana Kitto * Bomb *“We Are Having This Conversation Now carves a terrain of multimedia and citations. . . . [Juhasz and Kerr’s] push to talk about AIDS across temporalities is an effort to drag conversations around AIDS and AIDS cultural production into a public present and keep them there." -- Mackenzie Lukenbill * The Baffler *"We Are Having This Conversation Now is suffused with an awareness that the dominant narratives of AIDS in the United States have traditionally centered the lives of gay white men." -- Alex Valenti * The Body *Table of ContentsAbbreviations vii Acknowledgments ix The Time of AIDS. Timeline 1 xiii Introduction. We Are Starting This Conversation, Again 1 Section One. Trigger Trigger 1. What We See 19 Trigger 2. Seeing Tape in Time 30 Trigger 3. Being Triggered Together 49 Trigger 4. Being Triggered in Times 59 Trigger 5. Being Triggered by Absence 73 Trigger 6. How to Have an AIDS Memorial in an Epidemic 83 An AIDS Conversation Script to be Read Aloud. Timeline 2 95 Section Two. Silence 7. Silence + Object 101 8. Silence + Art 121 9. Silence + Video 139 10. Silence + Undetectability 159 11. Silence + Conversation 169 12. Silence + Interaction 183 13. Silence + Transformation 197 Conclusion. We Are Beginning This Conversation, Again 217 Sources and Influences. Timeline 3 227 Notes 251 Index 257

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Book SynopsisAlexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerrtwo scholars deeply embedded in the HIV responsepresent the history, present, and future of AIDS through thirteen short conversations.Trade Review“[Juhasz’s and Kerr’s] conversational model—by definition friendly, curious, and inviting, with an interest in accessibility and transparency—distinguishes [We Are Having This Conversation Now] from traditional academic writing and media criticism. Here, history-teaching and -learning is rooted in an oral history framework: that we learn what happened to communities from the people who constitute them.” -- Svetlana Kitto * Bomb *“We Are Having This Conversation Now carves a terrain of multimedia and citations. . . . [Juhasz and Kerr’s] push to talk about AIDS across temporalities is an effort to drag conversations around AIDS and AIDS cultural production into a public present and keep them there." -- Mackenzie Lukenbill * The Baffler *"We Are Having This Conversation Now is suffused with an awareness that the dominant narratives of AIDS in the United States have traditionally centered the lives of gay white men." -- Alex Valenti * The Body *Table of ContentsAbbreviations vii Acknowledgments ix The Time of AIDS. Timeline 1 xiii Introduction. We Are Starting This Conversation, Again 1 Section One. Trigger Trigger 1. What We See 19 Trigger 2. Seeing Tape in Time 30 Trigger 3. Being Triggered Together 49 Trigger 4. Being Triggered in Times 59 Trigger 5. Being Triggered by Absence 73 Trigger 6. How to Have an AIDS Memorial in an Epidemic 83 An AIDS Conversation Script to be Read Aloud. Timeline 2 95 Section Two. Silence 7. Silence + Object 101 8. Silence + Art 121 9. Silence + Video 139 10. Silence + Undetectability 159 11. Silence + Conversation 169 12. Silence + Interaction 183 13. Silence + Transformation 197 Conclusion. We Are Beginning This Conversation, Again 217 Sources and Influences. Timeline 3 227 Notes 251 Index 257

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Book SynopsisHealth in early America was generally good. The food was plentiful, the air and water were clean, and people tended to enjoy strong constitutions as a result of this environment. This book describes the evolution of public health crises and solutions.Trade Review"[Breslaw] provides a powerful and cautionary reminder that understanding those practices is impossible without close attention to power." -- Simon Finger * Journal of American History *"Many histories chronicle American medicine's transformation from its chaotic and disorganized beginnings into 'scientific medicine' in the late nineteenth and twentiethcenturies. By synthesizing secondary sources in a tightly packed two hundred pages, Elaine Breslaw resists retelling this triumphalist narrative and instead focuses much needed attention on medicine and health in America before the Civil War." * Journal of the History of Medicine *"This impressive synthesis of health care in early America ranges from the catastrophic disasters of initial contact to the nutrition and food ways of early settlers, from childbirth to therapeutic practices, from informal folk healers to a medical establishment, from the training of doctors to public health solutions. It is admirably comprehensive." -- Philip D. Morgan,Harry C. Black Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University"This is a wonderfully informative, though often unsettling, reminder that today's American medical practice, based on enlightened science, rigorous medical education, and sound public health policies, is a quite recent phenomenon. Until the late nineteenth century, the causes of diseases were largely unknown; even the most prestigious doctors applied an unfortunate array of remediesespecially opiates and blood-lettingthat usually did more harm than good. Elaine Breslaw's welcome narrative (I've long wanted just such a book) reveals how Americans from the early seventeenth century to the late nineteenth survived, or did not, the nation's helter-skelter medical practices, both popular and professional. She is as adept at describing the evolution of childbirth customs and treatment of the mentally ill as she is at explaining how major epidemics such as small pox, yellow fever, and cholera wreaked havoc on American communities and why 'surgeons' could neither treat the symptoms effectively nor prevent their spread. This is a thoughtful and engrossing synthesis of the best literature on American medical history." -- Alden T. Vaughan,Professor Emeritus, Columbia University""Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic is much more than a history of health in early America. It is a history of struggle, as natives and newcomers alike grappled with the obstacles imposed by biology, ecology, and fellow human beings. Breslaws fearless appraisal, supported by stories and anecdotes, entertains, provokes, and cajoles. In the end it calls for a frank reconsideration of the history of America, its health, and its doctors. " -- Elizabeth A. Fenn,author of Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82""Owing to a fateful overconfidence on the part of its theorists and practitioners, early American medicine was 'a mess,' writes Elaine Breslaw. In this learned and thoroughgoing history, she tidies up that mess, exploring just about every conceivable health issue, including sanitation, bleeding, fertility, abortions, and childbirth complications, mental illness, painkillers, hydropathy, quackery, legal questions, and treatment across the color line. Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic is well-informed, carefully contextualized, and written with great clarity. By putting the vocabulary and practice of early health professionals under a microscope, Breslaw provides an authoritative examination of her vulnerable patient: America. " -- Andrew Burstein,Charles P. Manship Professor of History, Louisiana State University"Breslaw offers a concise, masterful study of early American medical historical literature and charts the complicated record of early American health care, focusing on the decline of the physician in a newly democratic society." -- Bethany Johnson * The North Carolina Historical Review *"Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic: Health Care in Early Americaby Knoxville writer Elaine Breslaw, who taught at the University of Tennessee History Department for many years, has been hailed by critics as being of special interest to medical and professional historians." * The Knoxville News-Sentinel *"The practice of inoculation, along with other locally derived remedies, receives considerable attention in Elaine G. Breslaws Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic.Breslaw argues that American physicians and healers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were immersed in local knowledge systems and activities, often at the expense of new medical practice." * William and Mary Quarterly *"In Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic, Elaine Breslaw takes an intriguing backward look at the history of healthcare in early American and finds parallels between the current disillusionment with physicians and the former 'gloomy picture of the early state of health care and the medical profession' (p. 193). Breslaw offers an accessible synthesis of scholarly works on the history of medicine. Her overarching goal is to chart the longstanding tensions between doctors and the public." * Social History *"Breslaws book is an important compilation of authoritative research, giving the subject a longer reach and shedding light on a little-known and not-so-pretty subject." * Library Journal *"There is a nice balance between particular stories and wide overviews, and readers meet care-givers who have become famous over the decades, from long-time figures such as Cotton Mather and Benjamin Rush to newer but now indispensable actors such as the New Hampshire midwife Martha Ballard . . . . The book's breadth is valuable." * Journal of Social History *"By synthesizing secondary sources in a tightly packed two hundred pages, Elaine Breslaw resists retelling [a] triumphalist narrative and instead focuses much needed attention on medicine and health in America before the Civil War . . . . For those looking for an overview of this period in medical history, Breslaw's book and bibliographical essay provide a starting point." * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *"A highly readable and entertaining volume filled with anecdotes and gripping stories." * History in Review *"Deliciously titled, 'Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic' is an extremely well-written introduction to American health care." * Choice *Table of Contents1. Columbian Exchange2. Epidemics3. Tools of the Trade4. Abundance5. Wartime6. New Nation7. Giving Birth8. The Face of Madness9. Democratic Medicine10. Public Health

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Book SynopsisA history of Toxic Shock Syndrome In 1978, doctors in Denver, Colorado observed several healthy children who suddenly and mysteriously developed a serious, life-threatening illness with no visible source. Their condition, which doctors dubbed toxic shock syndrome' (TSS) was rare, but observed with increasing frequency over the next few years in young women, and was soon learned to be associated with a bacterium and the use of high-absorbency tampons that had only recently gone on the market. In 1980, the Centers for Disease Control identified Rely tampons, produced by Procter & Gamble, as having the greatest association with TSS over every other tampon, and the company withdrew them from the market. To this day, however, women are frequently warned about contracting TSS through tampon use, even though very few cases are diagnosed each year. Historian Sharra Vostral's Toxic Shock is the first and definitive history of TSS. Vostral shows how commercial interests negTrade ReviewDespite the corporate silence, Vostral has found a wealth of information: from medical reports and research, to legal papers and media coverage. Her assemblage of sources is never forced, but rather presents a Donna Haraway-esque combination of biology, technology, culture and gender... her book should be the standard text on TSS, rather than the corporate one-liner found in consumer goods. -- Social History of MedicineVostral provides a history of the societal and medical contexts, events, and investigations that eventually revealed tampons and bacteria as co-producers of illness and thus a women’s health problem… Vostral uses the social history of toxic shock syndrome as a cautionary tale about the potential for other illnesses that could emerge from biocatalytic activity, and about the limits of health activism to provoke actions to ensure consumer safety. -- ChoiceLays bare the devastating consequences of the broad cultural, legal, and corporate misunderstanding of tampons as an inert technology that could not produce a reaction within the body. Vostral explains the pathology of tampon-related toxic shock syndrome (TSS) in accessible language with clarity and authority that has often been unfortunately missing from contemporary discussions of TSS. The publication of this book is timely and welcome, as it provides a rich and scholarly counterpoint to recently reported cases of TSS in mainstream media (e.g., Vonberg & Ritschel, 2018). Vostral’s is a voice of reason in contrast to irresponsible and poorly researched journalistic articles, which have the potential to reignite the confusion and panic experienced by many women and healthcare professionals in the late 1970s and early 1980s when TSS first made the news. This detailed account of the complex co-factors that contributed to—and the failure to adequately solve—the 1980s TSS health crisis brings a much-needed understanding of the disease into the women’s reproductive health research community’s and the public’s consciousness -- Women's Reproductive HealthThis deft study of technology, disease, and consumer capitalism illuminates the centrality of shame in the history of U.S. women's health and health policy. The story of Toxic Shock Syndrome is as necessary as it is painfula harbinger, Vostral shows, of other medical injuries to come. -- Rebecca Herzig,Author of Plucked: A History of Hair RemovalVostrals excellent and accessible book is the first to address Toxic Shock Syndrome. She helpfully situates it within the history of the womens health movement, which challenged TSS through Our Bodies, Ourselves and other fora. Beautifully written, Toxic Shock melds feminist science and technology studies with careful attention to how 'health' works politically, culturally, and affectively. It is a superb addition to the womens health and biopolitics literature. -- Monica J. Casper,Co-editor of Critical Trauma StudiesVostral has found a wealth of information: from medical reports and research, to legal papers and media coverage. Her assemblage of sources is never forced, but rather presents a Donna Harawayesque combination of biology, technology, culture and gender... Vostral effectively dismantles another myth: menstrual history is not just about women but has in fact been dominated by men in corporate positions for around 100 years. Knowing the complicated history of TSS strengthens both the history of technology and menstruation, but, equally important, it also empowers consumers more than the small insert warning of potential death in each tampon box purchased today. * Social History of Medicine *

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Book SynopsisMexicanAmerican folk and religious healing, often referred to as curanderismo, has been a vital part of life in the Mexico-U.S.border region for centuries. A hybrid tradition made up primarily of indigenousand Iberian Catholic pharmacopeias, rituals, and notions of the self, curanderismo treats the sick person witha variety of healing modalities including herbal remedies, intercessory prayer,body massage, and energy manipulation. Curanderos,healers, embrace a holistic understanding of the patient, including body,soul, and community.Border Medicine examines the ongoingevolution of Mexican American religious healing from the end of the nineteenthcentury to the present. Illuminating the ways in which curanderismo has had an impact not only on the health and cultureof the borderlands but also far beyond, the book tracks its expansion from MexicanAmerican communities to Anglo and multiethnic contextTrade ReviewA powerful and beautifully written ethno-historical study of curanderismo in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Brett Hendrickson deftly refuses to romanticize curanderos, their healing practices, or the men and women who go to them for help and guidance. He situates the complex religious and cultural realities of the historic and contemporary American Southwest, and shows how Mexican American lived borderlands religion fits within American religious history. Hendricksons portrayal of the rich and complex hybrid practice of Mexican American religious healing sets the new standard for how we will view healing, religious exchange, and hybridization among the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and beyond. -- Kristy Nabhan-Warren,author of The Virgin of El Barrio: Marian Apparitions, Catholic Evangelizing, and Mexican AmericaProvides an important approach to the study of religions and healing, offering a history of Mexican American healing in conversation with some Anglo `new age religious healing. Difficult, yes, but splendidly handled by this author. Hendrickson advances discussions of religions, medicines, and healing, looking at these topics with new eyes; the book itself a conversation starter that I highly recommend. -- Stephanie Mitchem,University of South CarolinaOverall, Hendrickson offers a good general introduction geared to readers completely unfamiliar with this topic. * Oral History Review *The bookpresents substantial historiographical analysis and epistemic reasoning on Mexican American curanderismo (traditional healing) and is particularly attractive for readers since the key arguments draw heavily from the authors first-hand knowledge. * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsContents Preface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 Part I. Contact and Combination 1. Hybrid Healing in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region 19 2. American Metaphysical Religion and the West 37 Part II. Saints and Spirits 3. Curanderismo in the United States 61 4. Channels of Healing 86 Part III. New Directions in Curanderismo 5. Mexican American Healing and the American 113 Spiritual Marketplace 6. Reclaiming the Past and Redefining the Present 140 7. Curanderismo as Transcultural Religious Healing Tradition: 172 Problems and Possibilities Conclusion 195 Glossary 199 Notes 203 Bibliography 217 Index 229 About the Author 233

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Book SynopsisMexicanAmerican folk and religious healing, often referred to as curanderismo, has been a vital part of life in the Mexico-U.S.border region for centuries. A hybrid tradition made up primarily of indigenousand Iberian Catholic pharmacopeias, rituals, and notions of the self, curanderismo treats the sick person witha variety of healing modalities including herbal remedies, intercessory prayer,body massage, and energy manipulation. Curanderos,healers, embrace a holistic understanding of the patient, including body,soul, and community.Border Medicine examines the ongoingevolution of Mexican American religious healing from the end of the nineteenthcentury to the present. Illuminating the ways in which curanderismo has had an impact not only on the health and cultureof the borderlands but also far beyond, the book tracks its expansion from MexicanAmerican communities to Anglo and multiethnic contextTrade ReviewA powerful and beautifully written ethno-historical study of curanderismo in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Brett Hendrickson deftly refuses to romanticize curanderos, their healing practices, or the men and women who go to them for help and guidance. He situates the complex religious and cultural realities of the historic and contemporary American Southwest, and shows how Mexican American lived borderlands religion fits within American religious history. Hendricksons portrayal of the rich and complex hybrid practice of Mexican American religious healing sets the new standard for how we will view healing, religious exchange, and hybridization among the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and beyond. -- Kristy Nabhan-Warren,author of The Virgin of El Barrio: Marian Apparitions, Catholic Evangelizing, and Mexican AmericaProvides an important approach to the study of religions and healing, offering a history of Mexican American healing in conversation with some Anglo `new age religious healing. Difficult, yes, but splendidly handled by this author. Hendrickson advances discussions of religions, medicines, and healing, looking at these topics with new eyes; the book itself a conversation starter that I highly recommend. -- Stephanie Mitchem,University of South CarolinaOverall, Hendrickson offers a good general introduction geared to readers completely unfamiliar with this topic. * Oral History Review *The bookpresents substantial historiographical analysis and epistemic reasoning on Mexican American curanderismo (traditional healing) and is particularly attractive for readers since the key arguments draw heavily from the authors first-hand knowledge. * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsContents Preface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 Part I. Contact and Combination 1. Hybrid Healing in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region 19 2. American Metaphysical Religion and the West 37 Part II. Saints and Spirits 3. Curanderismo in the United States 61 4. Channels of Healing 86 Part III. New Directions in Curanderismo 5. Mexican American Healing and the American 113 Spiritual Marketplace 6. Reclaiming the Past and Redefining the Present 140 7. Curanderismo as Transcultural Religious Healing Tradition: 172 Problems and Possibilities Conclusion 195 Glossary 199 Notes 203 Bibliography 217 Index 229 About the Author 233

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Book SynopsisTrade 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 SynopsisHenry Daniel's Liber Uricrisiarum (finished in 1379) is one of the earliest and most elaborate expositions in English of the ancient medical art of uroscopy, diagnosis by examination of urine, presented in the context of contemporary medical theory.Trade Review"This stellar edition […] is a careful and highly readable reproduction that makes the entirety of the three books of Daniel’s Liber Uricrisiarum available to modern scholars for the first time." -- Lori Jones, University of Ottawa and Carleton University * Journal of British Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Sigils of Witnesses Introduction 1. Liber Uricrisiarum in the Uroscopic Tradition 2. Henry Daniel and the Liber Uricrisiarum 3. Daniel’s Circle and Audience 4. The Manuscripts 5. A Reading Edition 6. Editorial Practice Text Appendices Appendix 1: Prologue (Latin Original) Appendix 2: Regule Isaac (Latin Original) Appendix 3: Epilogue (English Translation) Appendix 4: Astronomical Measurements in Bk. 2.6 Appendix 5: The Language of the Royal 17 D.i Scribe Explanatory Notes Glossary Index of Proper Nouns Works Cited

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Book SynopsisFrom the Napoleonic Wars to the invention of the railway to the shell shock of World War I, writers tried to give voice to the suffering that war and industrial technology had wrought all around them. Yet they, like the doctors who treated these victims, repeatedly ran up against the incapacity of language to describe such anguish; those who suffered trauma, those who tried to heal it, and those who represented it were all unable to find the appropriate words. In The Language of Trauma, John Zilcosky uncovers the reactions of three major central European writers E.T.A. Hoffmann, Sigmund Freud, and Franz Kafka to the birth of modern trauma in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Zilcosky makes the case that Hoffmann, Freud, and Kafka managed to find the language of trauma precisely by not attempting to name the trauma conclusively and instead allowing their writing to mimic the experience itself. Just as the victims’ symptoms seemed not to corrTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: Literature, Trauma, and the Sign of Illness 1. Hoffmann at the Battle of Dresden: “The Sandman” and the Napoleonic Wars 2. Freud and World War I: The Uncanny Trauma of Contagion 3. Inexplicable Tears: Trains, Wars, and Kafka’s Aesthetic of Indeterminacy Conclusion: The Poetics of Trauma: Simulation, Causality, and the Crisis of Insurance Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWe tend to think of sleep as a private concern, a night-time retreat from the physical world into the realm of the subconscious. Yet sleep also has a public side; it has been the focal point of religious ritual, philosophic speculation, political debate, psychological research, and more recently, neuroscientific investigation and medical practice.In this first ever history of sleep research, Kenton Kroker draws on a wide range of material to present the story of how an investigative field – at one time dominated by the study of dreams – slowly morphed into a laboratory-based discipline. The result of this transformation, Kroker argues, has changed the very meaning of sleep from its earlier conception to an issue for public health and biomedical intervention.Examining a vast historical period of 2500 years, Kroker separates the problems associated with the history of dreaming from those associated with sleep itself and charts sleep-related diseases suTrade Review'Anyone wanting to understand the development of the science and medicine of sleep will need to read Kenton Kroker's The Sleep of Others ... An exemplary case study of the development of a new field of medicine, and one that should be of broad interest in the history of medicine.' -- Mathew Thomson Social History of Medicine 'Unique and enlightening ... Kroker shows how sleep has moved from the domain of religion to dogma to being the subject of scientific study.' -- Jim Horne New Scientist 'This book should be of intense interest to those who are interested in gaining insight and reflecting on how our individual specialty fields have evolved.' -- Mark W. Mahowald The New England Journal of Medicine 'A magisterial study which exposes once again the myth that sleep is ever solely or simply a 'private' matter or a non-event.' -- Simon J. Williams Sociology of Health and Illness 'It is a testament to the quality of this book that it can spark such fundamental issues for the history of science/medicine while providing the first authoritative account of the history of human understanding of sleep.' -- Tiago Moreira Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

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Book SynopsisIn Doctors of Empire, Hoi-eun Kim recounts the story of the almost 1,200 Japanese medical students who rushed to German universities to learn cutting-edge knowledge from the world leaders in medicine, and of the dozen German physicians who were invited to Japan to transform the country's medical institutions and education.Trade Review'An engaging account of intellectual exchange and occasional friction set in the universities, hospitals, boarding houses, and beer halls of two ambitious empires. This tightly structured book covers the origins, evolution, and implications of this intellectual exchange... Outstanding work.' -- Adam T. Roesnbaum German Studies Review vol 39:02:2016 'This excellent book deserves careful attention from modern historians of both countries as well as scholars in the history of medicine.' -- James R. Bartholomew Journal of Japanese Studies vol 42:02:2016 'Doctors of Empire is an illuminating work that shows how imperial relations of power shaped the medical profession in Germany, Japan, and East Asia.' -- Susan L. Burns Medical History vol 59:03:2015 'Hoi-eun-Kim's Doctors of Empire provides a new and welcome addition to the growing literature on Meiji Japan. Scholars have long acknowledged the Meiji fascination with German scientific models of practice; Kim is one of the first to investigate this relationship in detail.' -- John DiMoia Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Cultural Review June 2015Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Names Introduction: Weaving Germany and Japan together with the Thread of Medical Science 1. Same Bed, Different Dreams 2. Borrowed Hands: German Physicians' Medical Education in Meiji Japan 3. Socialized Intellect: Intellectual and Communal Journeys of Japanese Doctors in Germany 4. Bedazzled and Bewildered: Cultural Journeys of Japanese Students in Germany 5. Japan through Stethoscope: German Physicians as Anthropologists of Meiji Japan 6. Promises and Perils of Encounters: Influences of German Medicine in Japan Epilogue: Fatal Affinities? The Long-term Legacies of German-Japanese Medical Relations Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWhile the statistics for obesity have been alarming in the twenty-first century, concern about fatness has a history. In Fighting Fat, Wendy Mitchinson discusses the history of obesity and fatness from 1920 to 1980 in Canada. Through the context of body, medicine, weight measurement, food studies, fat studies, and the identity of those who were fat, Mitchinson examines the attitudes and practices of medical practitioners, nutritionists, educators, and those who see themselves as fat. Fighting Fat analyzes a number of sources to expose our culture’s obsession with body image. Mitchinson looks at medical journals, both their articles and the advertisements for drugs for obesity, as well as magazine articles and advertisements, including popular before and after weight loss stories. Promotional advertisements reveal how the media encourages negative attitudes towards body fat. The book also includes over 30 interviews with Canadians who defined themselvTrade Review"Fighting Fat is a pithy, readable text that is deeply researched and clearly argued. For Canadian historians, the book connects weight and dieting to other social histories of class, gender, moral regulation, and health. For international scholars, the book provides an interpretive framework for understanding the medical history of "obesity." Mitchinson categorizes and classifies weight in new ways. She names and then deconstructs gaps in medical logic, ambiguities, and failures in clear and explicit terms that can be applied in other national and disciplinary contexts." -- Jenny Ellison * Fat Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Nutrition Policy: "Dietetic Missionaries" 2. About Obesity 3. Causes of Obesity 4. Treatment: "Stubbornly resistant to treatment" 5. "Dietary drug land" and Surgery 6. Infant, Child, and Teen Obesity 7. Body Image 8. Narratives of Fat Canadians Epilogue Notes on Sources

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Book SynopsisThis collection of original essays introduces readers to the work of Henry Daniel, exploring his many contributions from medical, historical, and literary perspectives.Table of ContentsPreface Sigils of Witnesses Introduction: Reading Henry Daniel Sarah Star Part One: Contexts 1. Latin Traditions of Uroscopy Faith Wallis 2. Translation, Comparison, and Adaptation: Latin Verse Herbals in the Aaron Danielis Winston Black 3. Henry Daniel and His Medical Contemporaries in England Peter Murray Jones Part Two: Texts and Legacy 4. Textual Layers in the Liber Uricrisiarum E. Ruth Harvey 5. The Heirs of Henry Daniel: The Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Legacy of the Liber Uricrisiarum M. Teresa Tavormina 6. “Her ovn self seid me”: The Function of Anecdote in Henry Daniel’s Liber Uricrisiarum Hannah Bower 7. The “almost-Latin” Medical Language of Late Medieval England Sarah Star Appendix: Liber Uricrisiarum Content Guide Manuscript Index Works Cited List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisExamining how German women physicians gained a foothold in the medical profession during the Weimar and Nazi periods, Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany reveals the continuity in rhetoric, strategy, and tactics of female doctors who worked under both regimes. Melissa Kravetz explains how and why women occupied particular fields within the medical profession, how they presented themselves in their professional writing, and how they reconciled their medical perspectives with their views of the Weimar and later the Nazi state. Focusing primarily on those women who were members of the Bund Deutscher Ärztinnen (League of German Female Physicians or BDÄ), this study shows that female physicians used maternalist and, to a lesser extent, eugenic arguments to make a case for their presence in particular medical spaces. They emphasized gender difference to claim that they were better suited than male practitioners to care for women and children in a range of new medical spTrade Review“Kravetz’s book marks a very significant, fresh intervention into scholarly debates over continuity and realignment in public health discourse from Weimar to National Socialism and over women’s complicity in the Nazi dictatorship, respectively. It is highly relevant to the comparative study of feminism, medicine, and the welfare state, and it deserves a wide readership. Kravetz’s clear and engaging style and her thoughtful presentation of intriguing archival materials make the book eminently suitable for the purposes of undergraduate and graduate instruction.” -- Julia Roos, Indiana University Bloomington * American Historical Review *"Apart from bringing to light the history of women doctors in Germany in this period through the vivid portrayal of a number of key individuals, the book’s main strength is Kravetz’s exhaustive use of archival sources, making German-language material accessible for English-speaking readers. This book will be of interest to those working at the university level in the history of medicine, and especially in connection with women physicians and their role in the field of public health, as well as in the history of gender, women, the family and education in early twentieth century Germany." -- C. Elizabeth Koester, University of Toronto * Scientia Canadensis *"Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany is an original and thoughtful study that analyses the experience of women doctors to ask fundamental questions about the opportunities and limits of women’s careers and agency in two very different political systems. In doing so, she looks at the ways in which the activities of women doctors both were shaped by and transformed important aspects of German biopolitics, which Kravetz understands as the processes of controlling both individual bodies and the collective body for the purposes of the state." -- Michael Hau, Monash University * Review in German History *"Inspires the reader to consider what these women were willing to compromise in order to continue doing what they loved, felt called to do, and thought necessary for their patients and themselves. This volume deserves to be widely read and cited; it could be assigned to both upper-level undergraduate and graduate students." -- Kristen Ann Ehrenberger, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center * Central European History *“Although women came late to the study of medicine in Germany in the early twentieth century, there followed a massive influx of women into the medical profession in the inter-war period. Melissa Kravetz considers this wider process by focusing on women in paediatrics and infant welfare, one of the specialisms which was more open to women.” -- Paul Weindling * English Historical Review *“Kravetz has created a well-researched narrative of female medical practitioners in Weimar and Nazi Germany, which is sure to spark more interest in the gendered experience of National Socialism in medicine. This text provides vivid and rich examples of female physicians’ roles in Weimar and Nazi Germany, while also contributing to the broader debate about medicine from democracy to autocracy. It is sure to inspire more historians to weigh in on this issue, on both sides of the change and continuity debate.” -- Samantha L. Clarke * Canadian Bulletin of Medical History *“Tracing an important story of middle-class women’s agency, Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany serves to further complicate our historical narratives about gender, class, and the relationships between public health and eugenics.” -- Joanne Woiak * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Promoting Marriage, Motherhood, Eugenics, and Comprehensive Healthcare in Marriage Counselling Centres 2. Preparing Girls for Motherhood: School Doctors, Youth Welfare, and the Reform of Girls’ Physical Education 3. Fighting the Vices That Threatened Women and Children: Sex, Alcohol, and Disease 4. Building the Volksgemeinschaft and Supporting Racial Hygiene in the Bund Deutscher Mädel and Reichsmütterdienst 5. Advocating Healthy Infant Nutrition Practices through Breast Milk Collection: Maternal Guardians on the Home Front Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis Late nineteenth-century Mexico was a country rife with health problems. In 1876, one out of every nineteen people died prematurely in Mexico City, a staggeringly high rate when compared to other major Western world capitals at the time, which saw more modest premature death rates of one out of fifty-two (London), one out of forty-four (Paris), and one out of thirty-five (Madrid). It is not an exaggeration to maintain that each day dozens of bodies could be found scattered throughout the streets of Mexico City, making the capital city one of the most unsanitary places in the Western Hemisphere. In light of such startling scenes, in Death Is All around Us Jonathan M. Weber examines how Mexican state officials, including President Porfirio Díaz, tried to resolve the public health dilemmas facing the city. By reducing the high mortality rate, state officials believed that Mexico City would be seen as a more modern and viable capital in North America. To thTrade Review"As we toil with the many ways in which life overwhelms us—climate change, COVID-19, and global inequality—Death Is All around Us helps us to consider the deep challenge facing any society hoping to bring the forces of nature to heel simply through the power of technology."—John Mckiernan-Gonzalez, New Mexico Historical Review"Death Is All around Us draws on and contributes to foundational scholarship on Porfirian public health by Claudia Agostoni, Ana María Carrillo, Pablo Piccatto, Katherine Bliss, and others. It is also inspired by the conceptual frameworks set out by Michel Foucault, James Scott, Bruno Latour, and Nayan Shah, and situates itself neatly within the historiography of science and technology studies. Weber succeeds in showcasing Porfirian Mexico’s unique history of corpse management, and the work will be a useful resource for historians of public health and sanitation in other regions, too. The themes at hand—trust in authority (or lack thereof), autonomy of the people, moral economies of life and death, and the disposal of the dead—are all too relevant in light of the public health crisis that currently rages in the Americas."—Elizabeth O'Brien, H-LatAm"With memorable examples and clear prose, Death Is All Around Us persuasively makes the case for the relative failure of the Porfirian state of this important realm of popular life (and death)."—Nora E. Jaffary, Bulletin of the History of Medicine“Weber goes beyond monolithic studies of an oppressive dictatorship. Rather, he creatively assembles narratives culled from multiple archival sources demonstrating how burial practices, cemetery construction, cremation, coffin design, and embalming advanced goals to create a modern, cosmopolitan, and hygienic citizen. An important contribution to our understanding of Mexico City and the Porfiriato, Weber’s book furthers understandings about the history of medicine, public health, technology, and modernity.”—Heather McCrea, author of Diseased Relations: Epidemics, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847–1924“Fascinating. . . . Readers will be delighted at the stories that Weber has brought to light through a thorough combing of underutilized archives even as they will be reminded of the ubiquity of death and corpses in late nineteenth-century Mexico.”—Andrae Marak, professor of history and political science at Governors State University“A highly innovative contribution to the histories of death, public health, and mortuary science.”—Kathryn A. Sloan, author of Death in the City: Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico“Morbidity and decomposing bodies fill the pages of Weber’s engagingly written account of how officials tried to control death as a way of controlling life in Mexico City. Weber adeptly explores how death became modernized through science, medicine, and technology.”—Anna Rose Alexander, assistant professor of history at California State University, East Bay“Death Is All around Us addresses the often troublesome, always gruesome subject of dead bodies as practical problems of sanitary disposal, objects of scientific study, and powerful symbols of human mortality in a cultural milieu obsessed with ‘order and progress.’”—Robert M. Buffington, author of A Sentimental Education for the Working Man: The Mexico City Penny Press, 1900–1910Table of Contents Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Moving into the Modern Era: Transporting the Dead in Mexico City 2. “An Extraordinary Tool”: Building a Modern Public Health System through Anatomical Dissection 3. Wet or Dry Remains: Funerary Technology and Protecting Public Health 4. Undermining Progress: Workers, Citizens, and the Moral Economy of Death Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe dead of Paris, before the French Revolution, were most often consigned to mass graveyards that contemporaries described as terrible and terrifying, emitting "putrid miasmas" that were a threat to both health and dignity. In a book that is at once wonderfully macabre and exceptionally informative, Erin-Marie Legacey explores how a new burial...Trade ReviewMaking Space for the Dead,[is] a book that will make a deep and long-lasting impact on the cultural history of the French Revolution. * Leonardo Reviews *Legacey advances a focused and unusually powerful argument about the changes in Parisian cemetery culture during the Revolution and in its lingering aftermath. [Her] book draws attention to a fascinating aspect of French history, and,,, it holds its place among recent works on material culture in nineteenth-century Paris. * H-France *The book is written beautifully and with a light touch, in spite of its somber subject... Legacey is to be congratulated for making a significant contribution to our understanding of how Parisians struggled to reimagine their social and moral worlds after the Revolution. * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Revolution of the Dead 1. The Problem of the Dead: In which the French Revolution interrupts and intervenes in Paris's preexisting burial crisis. 2. The Solution of the Dead: In which a range of experts and amateurs imagine a new burial culture for Paris after the Terror. 3. The City of the Dead: In which Parisians visit and respond to their city's new burial space, Père Lachaise Cemetery. 4. The Empire of the Dead: In which thousands of visitors descend ninety feet below the city to tour the newly opened Paris Catacombs. 5. The Museum of the Dead: In which the artist and administrator Alexandre Lenoir displays the dead as history in the Museumof French Monuments. Conclusion: The Historian of the Dead: In which the Romantic historian Jules Michelet resurrects the history of France in Parisian spaces for the dead. Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Victorian Skin, Pamela K. Gilbert uses literary, philosophical, medical, and scientific discourses about skin to trace the development of a broader discussion of what it meant to be human in the nineteenth century. Where is subjectivity located? How do we communicate with and understand each other''s feelings? How does our surface, which contains us and presents us to others, function and what does it signify? As Gilbert shows, for Victorians, the skin was a text to be read. Nineteenth-century scientific and philosophical perspectives had reconfigured the purpose and meaning of this organ as more than a wrapping and instead a membrane integral to the generation of the self. Victorian writers embraced this complex perspective on skin even as sanitary writings focused on the surface of the body as a dangerous point of contact between self and others. Drawing on novels and stories by Dickens, Collins, Hardy, and Wilde, among others, along with their French conteTrade ReviewGilbert offers abundant information in a framework that moves in and out of philosophical positions on identity, history, and understandings of what being human meant in the 19th century. * Choice *An invaluable contribution to research that emphatically shows the skin's central role in shaping nineteenth-century debates on the locus of subjectivity, the readability of surfaces, and the relation between the individual body and larger historical narratives. * Nineteenth-Century Contexts *Victorian Skin draws upon a wealth of literary, scientific and philosophical texts from across the nineteenth century to pursue a richly rewarding discussion on how shifting attitudes towards the body's surface relate to fundamental questions about the boundaries of the self, the inscription of identity and the unfolding of history.... It is interdisciplinary work in literary studies at its best: endlessly curious about the tangled relationship between literature and its contexts, and equally alert to the particularities of both the material bodies and the literary texts it examines. * Review of English Studies *Drawing from scientific, literary, medical, and political sources, Gilbert shows how skin and its various functions were interpreted over the course of the British nineteenth century.... Besides the richness of her scholarship, Gilbert's analysis of the history and representation of the skin in relation to realism ultimately gives way to texts that treat skin as a detachable signifier. Gilbert juxtaposes original literary readings with medical theory, cultural history, and many accounts that defy categorization. * Review 19 *This is a book about skin, its discursive side and potential to express interiority in Victorian culture. It is also a tale about the way skin transformed from a text that articulated a so-called surface identity, to a more complex, submerged one.... The volume is largely informed by literary theory... but equally rooted in the most influential historical work on the skin. * Social History of Medicine *Victorian Skin stands not only as testimony to skin's capacity to organize, if not always to envelop, a vast range of social, cultural, aesthetic, and political functions, but also as an exemplification of the kind of Victorianist historicism for which the field has become best known over the past several decades. * Nineteenth-Century Literature *An important and unique study of the manifold significances of the skin in Victorian thought... a book of extraordinary intellectual capaciousness.... Gilbert contributes notably to conversations in literature and science and the medical humanities, while also (more briefly) providing new material for scholars of race, empire and (post)colonialism. Victorian Skin is an especially absorbing contribution to the rapidly developing scholarship around the nineteenth century's species politics. * Journal of Victorian Culture *This book is a great addition to the field, a thought-provoking, wonderfully erudite, and seminal text. I foresee it engendering a plethora of PhD research, studies, articles, and conferences. * British Association for Victorian Studies *Pamela Gilbert's Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History is a learned and imaginative work of cultural history and literary criticism... Readers will benefit from this deeply embedded, while also defamiliarized, assessment of the nineteenth century. There is little here that escapes Gilbert's generous and thoughtful attention. * Journal of British Studies *Victorian Skin focuses our attention compellingly on an aspect of nineteenth-century culture that has long been simultaneously right before our eyes and yet remained largely invisible. Exploring the connections between the cutaneous self and narratives of the historical trajectory helps us see the richly complex significations skin carried throughout the period. * Dickens Quarterly *Gilbert interweaves literature, Scottish common sense and German idealist philosophy, and physiology's intersection with cognition in her brilliant Victorian Skin. * Victorian Poetry *Victorian Skin draws upon a wealth of literary, scientific and philosophical texts from across the nineteenth century to pursue a richly rewarding discussion on how shifting attitudes towards the body's surface relate to fundamental questions about the boundaries of the self, the inscription of identity and the unfolding of history. It will be of interest not only to literary scholars of the Victorian period, but also to those engaged more broadly with work on the senses, the emotions, and the medical humanities. * Review of English Studies *[...]fascinating—and fascinatingly inventive—new book[...] * Victorians Institute Journal *

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Book SynopsisIn The Medieval Economy of Salvation, Adam J. Davis shows how the burgeoning commercial economy of western Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, alongside an emerging culture of Christian charity, led to the establishment of hundreds of hospitals and leper houses. Focusing on the county of Champagne, he looks at the ways in which charitable organizations and individualstownspeople, merchants, aristocrats, and ecclesiasticssaw in these new institutions a means of infusing charitable giving and service with new social significance and heightened expectations of spiritual rewards.In tracing the rise of the medieval hospital during a period of intense urbanization and the transition from a gift economy to a commercial one, Davis makes clear how embedded this charitable institution was in the wider social, cultural, religious, and economic fabric of medieval life.Open Access edition funded by the National Endowment for the HumanitiesTrade ReviewA meticulously researched study of an important area of medieval life. Adam J. Davis, an expert historian of medieval religion, locates his work in the context of various scholarly debates and draws on an exhaustive range of English and French sources. The Medieval Economy of Salvation provides a scholarly insight into medieval hospitals and their relationships with the wider society. Davis teases out the twisted strands of complex realities with a marvelously expert hand. The reward for the reader is not just to understand more about the medieval mindset and hospitals, but to appreciate how much there is to know. * Health and History *The Medieval Economy of Salvation is a pleasurable read suited to both the scholar and enthusiast alike. Adam J. Davis brings to light the importance of the medieval hospital and its link to social, religious and economic changes in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. * Social History of Medicine *The Medieval Economy of Salvation is a welcome addition to the scholarship on the role and place of hospitals in medieval European society. The richness of Davies's sources means that he has been able to provide a detailed account of life inside and outside the hospital embedded in developments and ideas to be found in French society more widely. * JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES *The book offers a precise and detailed casuistry of the figures taken in the hospital's area of influence, drawing a glimpse of daily life in medieval Champagne. Davis focuses on treatises and sermons about helping the poorest, casting new light on the close relationship between economic growth and welfare practices. * Comitatus *This richly researched book opens up fresh perspectives on charity, hospitals, and experiences of illness in Europe before the Black Death. By challenging our thinking about the boundaries between institutional and noninstitutional care, between wealth and poverty, and between devotional and mercantile pursuits, it encourages further research on provision for the needy in medieval society. * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations A Note on Monies and Measures Introduction: A Charitable Revolution in an Age of Commerce 1. Medieval Understandings of Charity: From Penance to Commerce 2. The Creation of a Charitable Landscape 3. Hospital Patrons and Social Networks 4. Managing a Hospital's Property 5. "In Service of the Poor": Hospital Personnel in Pursuit of Security 6. The Sick Poor and the Economy of Care Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisInstitutionalizing Gender analyzes the relationship between class, gender, and psychiatry in France from 1789 to 1900, an era noteworthy for the creation of the psychiatric profession, the development of a national asylum system, and the spread of bourgeois gender values.Asylum doctors in nineteenth-century France promoted the notion that manliness was synonymous with rationality, using this fact to pathologize non-normative behaviors and confine people who did not embody mainstream gender expectations to asylums. And yet, this gendering of rationality also had the power to upset prevailing dynamics between men and women. Jessie Hewitt argues that the ways that doctors used dominant gender values to find cures for madness inadvertently undermined both medical and masculine powerin large part because the performance of gender, as a pathway to health, had to be taught; it was not inherent. Institutionalizing Gender examines a series of controversies and clinical cTrade ReviewInstitutionalizing Gender invites the reader to rethink ideas about gender within the asylum setting, while revealing as much about the nature of the family in France during this period as it does about French psychiatry. Institutionalizing Gender is highly readable. * H-Net *Hewitt's remarkable new book traces how French asylum doctors deployed changing concepts of gender, family, and class to diagnose and treat mental illness and shore up their own professional authority. Meticulously researched, Institutionalizing Gender is sure to become required reading for historians of France, gender, and psychiatry. * Choice *This interdisciplinarity emerges as one of the primary strengths of Hewitt's work, bringing fresh eyes to stories told and retold in the field. Hewitt is to be commended for producing an eloquent work that also opens new avenues for further study—by historians of France and gender, as well as those of psychiatry. * Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Gender and the Founding "Fathers" of French Psychiatry 2. Medical Controversy and Honor among (Mad)Men 3. Domesticating Madness in the Family Asylum 4. Scandalous Asylum Commitments and Patriarchal Power 5. Rehabilitating a Profession under Siege 6. Reforming the Asylum and Reimagining the Family Conclusion: The "Mad" Woman in a Man's World

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewActs of Care forces historians to reconsider what is understood as premodern medicine, to unthink in biomedical terms, and to avoid projecting our understanding of medical science onto the premodern past. Instead of looking at authoritative discourses, Ritchey explores other narratives recounting acts and practices. * Comitatus *Her fresh and nuanced reading of sources like hagiographies and psalters is a tremendous methodological contribution that will be influential for scholars working on topics beyond the scope of Ritchey's subject matter. For all these reasons, Ritchey's book deserves a wide readership among those interested in the history of medicine, religious women and gender. * Social History of Medicine *I hope to have suggested how resourceful and persuasive [Acts of Care is] in joining fragments to make a whole, in recovering lost worlds of women's caregiving. [This book demonstrates] once again that in medieval Europe, women's agency was much more considerable than has long been assumed or asserted. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *By examining sources more often viewed spiritually as part of—and, indeed, central to—the medical archive, Ritchey offers a nuanced and innovative study of women's caregiving work in the Middle Ages. A necessary intervention into the premodern medical humanities, the history of religion, and gender studies, this book provides a clearly written, skillfully researched, and captivating study of medieval women's health care practices. * Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: To Heed the Trace Part I: Therapeutic Narratives 1. Translating Care: The Circulation of Healing Stories 2. Bedside Comforts: The Social Organization of Care Part II: Therapeutic Knowledge 3. Empirical Bodies: Competing Theories of Therapeutic Authority Part III: Therapeutic Practice 4. Rhythmic Medicine: The Psalter as a Therapeutic Technology in Beguine Communities 5. Salutary Words: Saints' Lives as Efficacious Texts in Cistercian Women's Abbeys Afterword

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Book SynopsisIn The Medieval Economy of Salvation, Adam J. Davis shows how the burgeoning commercial economy of western Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, alongside an emerging culture of Christian charity, led to the establishment of hundreds of hospitals and leper houses. Focusing on the county of Champagne, he looks at the ways in which charitable organizations and individualstownspeople, merchants, aristocrats, and ecclesiasticssaw in these new institutions a means of infusing charitable giving and service with new social significance and heightened expectations of spiritual rewards.In tracing the rise of the medieval hospital during a period of intense urbanization and the transition from a gift economy to a commercial one, Davis makes clear how embedded this charitable institution was in the wider social, cultural, religious, and economic fabric of medieval life.Open Access edition funded by the National Endowment for the HumanitiesTrade ReviewA meticulously researched study of an important area of medieval life. Adam J. Davis, an expert historian of medieval religion, locates his work in the context of various scholarly debates and draws on an exhaustive range of English and French sources. The Medieval Economy of Salvation provides a scholarly insight into medieval hospitals and their relationships with the wider society. Davis teases out the twisted strands of complex realities with a marvelously expert hand. The reward for the reader is not just to understand more about the medieval mindset and hospitals, but to appreciate how much there is to know. * Health and History *The Medieval Economy of Salvation is a pleasurable read suited to both the scholar and enthusiast alike. Adam J. Davis brings to light the importance of the medieval hospital and its link to social, religious and economic changes in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. * Social History of Medicine *The Medieval Economy of Salvation is a welcome addition to the scholarship on the role and place of hospitals in medieval European society. The richness of Davies's sources means that he has been able to provide a detailed account of life inside and outside the hospital embedded in developments and ideas to be found in French society more widely. * JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES *The book offers a precise and detailed casuistry of the figures taken in the hospital's area of influence, drawing a glimpse of daily life in medieval Champagne. Davis focuses on treatises and sermons about helping the poorest, casting new light on the close relationship between economic growth and welfare practices. * Comitatus *This richly researched book opens up fresh perspectives on charity, hospitals, and experiences of illness in Europe before the Black Death. By challenging our thinking about the boundaries between institutional and noninstitutional care, between wealth and poverty, and between devotional and mercantile pursuits, it encourages further research on provision for the needy in medieval society. * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations A Note on Monies and Measures Introduction: A Charitable Revolution in an Age of Commerce 1. Medieval Understandings of Charity: From Penance to Commerce 2. The Creation of a Charitable Landscape 3. Hospital Patrons and Social Networks 4. Managing a Hospital's Property 5. "In Service of the Poor": Hospital Personnel in Pursuit of Security 6. The Sick Poor and the Economy of Care Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 Hagley Prize in Business HistoryFinalist of the 2023 International Convention for Asian Scholars Book Prize in the Social SciencesIn A Medicated Empire, Timothy M. Yang explores the history of Japan''s pharmaceutical industry in the early twentieth century through a close account of Hoshi Pharmaceuticals, one of East Asia''s most influential drug companies from the late 1910s through the early 1950s. Focusing on Hoshi''s connections to Japan''s emerging nation-state and empire, and on the ways in which it embraced an ideology of modern medicine as a humanitarian endeavor for greater social good, Yang shows how the industry promoted a hygienic, middle-class culture that was part of Japan''s national development and imperial expansion. Yang makes clear that the company''s fortunes had less to do with scientific breakthroughs and medical innovations than with Japan''s web of social, political, and economic relations. HeTrade ReviewDrawing from the archives of Hoshi Pharmaceuticals, Yang has written a thought-provoking history of the pharmaceutical industry in Japan. This important and readable book provides insights into the history of not only Japan but the modern world. * Choice *A Medicated Empire provides an important addition to our knowledge of the so-called self-made men of the Meiji period. * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: THE DRUG INDUSTRY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND THE STATE 1. A Strategic Industry 2. The Supposed Self-Made Man and His Company Part II: MARKETING MEDICINES AND MEDICINAL INFRASTRUCTURES 3. Marketing a Culture of Self-Medication 4. Medicinal Infrastructures and Medical Missionaries Part III: THE OPIUM EMPIRE 5. The Scandal of Opium (and the Colonial Exception) 6. Things Fall Apart Part 1V: SCIENCE, SELF-SUFFICIENCY, AND WARTIME MOBILIZATION 7. Selling the Science of Quinine Self-Sufficiency 8. War and Drugs Epilogue

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Book SynopsisIn Morbid Undercurrents, Sean M. Quinlan follows how medical ideas, stemming from the so-called birth of the clinic, zigzagged across the intellectual landscape of the French Revolution and its aftermath. It was a remarkable hotspot in the historical timeline, when doctors and scientists pioneered a staggering number of fieldsfrom forensic investigation to evolutionary biologyand their innovations captivated the public imagination. During the 1790s and beyond, medicine left the somber halls of universities, hospitals, and learned societies and became profoundly politicized, inspiring a whole panoply of differentoften bizarre and shockingsubcultures. Quinlan reconstructs the ethos of the time and its labyrinthine underworld, traversing the intersection between medicine and pornography in the works of the Marquis de Sade, efforts to create a natural history of women, the proliferation of sex manuals and books on family hygiene, anatomical projects toTable of ContentsIntroduction: Morbid Undercurrents— Medicine and Culture after the Revolution 1. Settings: The Cultural World of Medical Practice, ca. 1750–1800 2. Medicine in the Boudoir: The Marquis de Sade and Medical Understandingafter the Reign of Terror 3. Writing Sexual Difference: The Natural History of Women and Gendered Visions, ca. 1800 4. Seeing and Knowing: Readers and Physiognomic Science 5. Sex and the Citizen: Reproductive Manuals and Fashionable Readers under the Napoleonic State 6. Sculpting Ideal Bodies: Medicine, Aesthetics, and Desire in the Artist's Studio 7. The Mesmerist Renaissance: Medical Undercurrents and Testing the Limits of Scientific Authority 8. Physiology as Literary Genre: Passions, Taste, and Social Agendas under the Restoration and July Monarchy Epilogue: Medicine, Writing, and Subculture after the Revolution

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies Book AwardEnriched by color reproductions of tobacco advertisements, packs, and anti-smoking propaganda, Cigarettes and Soviets provides a comprehensive study of the Soviet tobacco habit. Tricia Starks examines how the Soviets maintained the first mass smoking society in the world while simultaneously fighting it. The book is at once a study of Soviet tobacco deeply enmeshed in its social, political, and cultural context and an exploration of the global experience of the tobacco epidemic. Starks examines the Soviet antipathy to tobacco yet capitulation to market; the development of innovative cessation techniques and clinics and the late entry into global anti-tobacco work; the seeming lack of cultural stimuli alongside massive use; and the expansion of smoking without the conventional prompts of capitalist markets. She tells the story of Philip Morris''s Mission to Moscow campaign for the Trade ReviewEnlightening and thought-provoking. * Toward Freedom *Cigarettes and Soviets makes two important and original contributions to the existing public health literature: it recounts an episode of the history of tobacco different from the much more studied one in the West, and it is the liveliest history I know of the evolution of public health in the USSR. The illustrations are esthetically compelling, and Starks excels in describing their content, hidden meaning, and even taste and feel for the smoker. * American Journal of Public Health *Cigarettes and Soviets makes important contributions to recent work on the global history of tobacco use, along with adding to our understanding of socialist consumption and everyday life. Most delightfully, Starks's book demonstrates a keen understanding of Soviet visual culture in all its unex- pected and paradoxical dimensions, and her beautiful prose evokes the sights and smells of ordinary places in the USSR. * Russian Review *Tricia Starks tells the story of tobacco and smoking during the Soviet period. But perhaps it is more accurate to say that she tells part of the history of the Soviet Union through the prism of smoking * Moscow Times *a beautifully written and jargon free account. * New Books Network *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: The Revolutionary Soviet Smoker 1. ATTACKED: Commissar Semashko and Tobacco Prohibition 2. RESURRECTED: Nationalized Factories and Revitalized Industry 3. SOLD: Revolutionary Advertising and Communist Consumption 4. TREATED: Individual Will and Collective Therapy 5. UNFULFILLED: Commissar Mikoian and Stalinized Production 6. MOBILIZED: Frontline Provision and Factory Evacuations 7. RECOVERED: Women's Kingdoms and Manly Habits 8. PARTNERED: Space Cigarettes and Soviet Marlboros 9. PRESSURED: Demographic Crisis and Popular Discontent 10. OVERWHELMED: The Post-Soviet Smoker

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Book SynopsisIn eighteenth-century Mexico, outbreaks of typhus and smallpox brought ordinary residents together with administrators, priests, and doctors to restore stability and improve the population's health. This book traces the monumental shifts in preventive medicine and public health measures that ensued. Reconstructing the cultural, ritual, and political background of Mexico's early experiments with childhood vaccines, Paul Ramírez steps back to consider how the design of public health programs was thoroughly enmeshed with religion and the church, the spread of Enlightenment ideas about medicine and the body, and the customs and healing practices of indigenous villages. Ramírez argues that it was not only educated urban elites—doctors and men of science—whose response to outbreaks of disease mattered. Rather, the cast of protagonists crossed ethnic, gender, and class lines: local officials who decided if and how to execute plans that came from Mexico City, rural priests who influenced local practices, peasants and artisans who reckoned with the consequences of quarantine, and parents who decided if they would allow their children to be handed over to vaccinators. By following the multiethnic and multiregional production of medical knowledge in colonial Mexico, Enlightened Immunity explores fundamental questions about trust, uncertainty, and the role of religion in a moment of discovery and innovation.Trade Review"Enlightened Immunity is the sort of book that should shape our field: a deeply researched, wholly original, and well-executed study with something important to say. Ramírez deftly illuminates multiple contexts that shaped responses to epidemic disease in New Spain, including Atlantic communities of learning, political networks, and local knowledge."—Karen Melvin, Bates College"In rich and imaginative prose, Enlightened Immunity immerses readers in the highly mediated world of preventive health in late colonial Mexico, with its smells of candle wax in processions, the sound of trumpets heralding the arrival of vaccine, the cookies and coins given the poor to entice their cooperation, the rumors and political rituals, indigenous vaccinators, barbers and clerics. This is a tour de force—a great read with great insight into the history of inoculation and vaccination, the immense complexities of suffering in late colonial Mexico, and the confusion and contradictions of the ordinary and extraordinary attempts to prevent it."—Steven Palmer, University of Windsor"[An] original and meticulous examination of the problems of disease, medical practice, scientific developments, health care, and natural remedies during late eighteenth and early nineteenth century in New Spain.Enlightened Immunity is a provocative, richly documented, and innovative contribution to the social history of medicine, public health, science, and technology in Latin America."––Claudia Agostoni, H-LatAm"Enlightened Immunity is a stellar addition to the history of medicine in Mexico and Latin America....The author uses the notes to elucidate the text, and the secondary research is outstanding. Ramírez uses an erudite prose and a 'thick' analysis that will make this book essential reading on the history of medicine in Latin America for years to come."—David Sowell, The American Historical Review"Paul Ramírez presents a novel picture of the inoculation campaign in New Spain....The story he tells, chronologically broader and socially denser than many histories of the vaccination campaign, challenges some of the more entrenched binaries—expert knowledge versus vernacular knowledge, science versus religion, rationality versus superstition—that have framed the historiography of colonial Spanish science."—Miruna Achim, Hispanic American Historical Review"Enlightened Immunity is an impressively researched work that weaves together the history of medicine, intellectual history, and religious history... Ramírez tells a story that rings as true today as it did at the turn of the nineteenth century."—Liana DeMarco, Journal of the History of Medicine"What makes Ramírez's account of preventative medicine and public health in colonial-era Mexico so incisive is its deliberate problematizing of any clear distinctions between urban and rural, secular and religious, and elite and vernacular toward a thick history of how 'heterogeneous voices shaped debate'."—Travis Chi Wing Lau, Eighteenth-Century Fiction"Enlightened Immunityreveals the inadequacy of medical histories that focus only on the perceptions and intentions of scientific and political authorities, and overlook how preventative treatments and cures are applied (or misapplied, or not applied) among flesh-and-blood communities."—Peter B. Villella, Latin American Research ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Minerva's Children 1. Devotions of Affliction: The Dramaturgy of Colonial Epidemics 2. Periodically Healthy: The Nature of Medicine and the Fashion of Science 3. "Massacre of the Innocents": Preventing Smallpox, 1796–1798 4. The Gift of Immunity: Domesticating Techniques 5. Republics of Vaccinators: Everyday Expertise through the Insurgency 6. Medicine's Malcontents: An Oral History Conclusion

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Book SynopsisHospital City, Health Care Nation recasts the story of the U.S. health care system by emphasizing its economic, social, and medical importance in American communities. Focusing on urban hospitals and academic medical centers, the book argues that the country’s high level of health care spending has allowed such institutions to become vital, if often problematic, economic anchors for communities. Yet that spending has also constrained possibilities for comprehensive health care reform over many decades, even after the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010. At the same time, the role of hospitals in urban renewal, in community health provision, and as employers of low-wage workers has contributed directly to racial health disparities. Guian A. McKee explores these issues through a detailed historical case study of Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital while also tracing their connections across governmental scales—local, state, and federal. He shows that health care spending and its consequences, rather than insurance coverage alone, are core issues in the decades-long struggle over the American health care system. In particular, Hospital City, Health Care Nation points to the increased role of financial capital after the 1960s in shaping not only hospital growth but also the underlying character of these vital institutions. The book shows how hospitals’ quest for capital has interacted with structural racism and inequality to shape and constrain the U.S. health care system. Building on this reassessment of the hospital system, its politics, and its financing, Hospital City, Health Care Nation offers ideas for the next steps in health care reform.Trade Review"McKee provides many important services in Hospital City, Health Care Nation. The most important is delivering an exquisite accumulation of detail that explains not only how the swallowing-up of small hospitals like CHWC has become inevitable, but also why it matters." * Washington Monthly *"Guian McKee’s encyclopedic analysis of the range of special interests that would be harmed by health care cost reduction calls for antacid. Hospital City, Health Care Nation shows us why reformers have been unable to overcome powerful hospital and other healthcare lobbyists to enact meaningful system-wide reforms...[A]n exceptionally thorough treatise on the history and current state of dissonance in U.S. health care." * New York Journal of Books *"Highly recommended...[T]his panoramic and carefully structured political and socioeconomic study investigates and analyzes the complex dynamics of health care reform that arose in a racially and economically segregated metropolis across the last five tumultuous decades of the 20th century...McKee takes care to name each one of the multitude of individuals depicted—local, state, and national—along with their varying roles and agendas, making what might have been a ponderous academic work a meticulously researched, clearly written, and highly accessible narrative." * Choice *"Hospital City, Health Care Nation deftly connects two tragic and persistent crises: that of the modern American city and that of the American health care system. In this timely and important account, we see the profound inequities and inefficiencies of our patchwork public-private health care system unfold at ascending scales, from Baltimore’s neighborhoods to City Hall, to the Maryland statehouse, to the halls of Congress. The consequence, as Guian A. McKee underscores, is not just the notorious combination of steep costs and shallow security in American health care, but the persistent racial inequity of a health system shaped by residential segregation, occupational segregation, market deference, and thin public commitments." * Colin Gordon, University of Iowa *"In Hospital City, Health Care Nation, Guian A. McKee fuses three stories that have inextricably shaped each other: the inequities of the metropolis, the incursion of the market into ever more sectors of life, and the metastasizing of health care into an ever growing and ever expensive chunk of the American political economy. A must read for scholars, policymakers, and activists wrestling with the health care system’s mounting contradictions." * Merlin Chowkwanyun, Columbia University *"McKee brilliantly argues that hospitals in the United States have shaped not just health care, but the structure of the postwar city. Hospitals’ increasing access to capital financing and government subsidies led to unchecked growth, which created jobs for city residents but also destroyed housing and sent health care costs soaring. In showing how medical center expansion transformed economies and neighborhoods, Hospital City, Health Care Nation is an essential text for understanding the role of the urban health care sector in creating and maintaining structural inequality." * Beatrix Hoffman, Northern Illinois University *

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Book SynopsisThe experience of illness (both mental and physical) figures prominently in the critical thought and activism of the 1960s and 1970s, though it is largely overshadowed by practices of sexuality. Lisa Diedrich explores how and why illness was indeed so significant to the social, political, and institutional transformation beginning in the 1960s through the emergence of AIDS in the United States. A rich intervention—both theoretical and methodological, political and therapeutic—Indirect Action illuminates the intersection of illness, thought, and politics.Not merely a revision of the history of this time period, Indirect Action expands the historiographical boundaries through which illness and health activism in the United States have been viewed. Diedrich explores the multiplicity illness–thought–politics through an array of subjects: queering the origin story of AIDS activism by recalling its feminist history; exploring health activism and the medical experience; analyzing psychiatry and self-help movements; thinking ecologically about counterpractices of generalism in science and medicine; and considering the experience and event of epilepsy and the witnessing of schizophrenia. Indirect Action places illness in the leading role in the production of thought during the emergence of AIDS, ultimately showing the critical interconnectedness of illness and political and critical thought.Trade Review"Complex yet disarmingly candid, Indirect Action queers the process of history itself, offering a politics of indirectness that is still action, of remembering that doesn't overshadow. Lisa Diedrich is skilled at presenting a turn of thought or analytic term with extraordinary precision and historical weight."—Catherine Belling, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine"Moving through several sites that link illness, thought, and political action, Indirect Action is an engaged, vital, and generative critical practice. Lisa Diedrich demonstrates that when we take a longer view of complex phenomena, we discover the occluded origins and overlooked factors leading to their emergence."—Susan M. Squier, Pennsylvania State University"Beautifully crafted, Indirect Action helps us to see how present activism, specifically health activism, might be done differently. Lisa Diedrich’s gift is her ability to capture the transversal view without losing sight of this important argument: There is enormous power in indirect action."—Lisa Cartwright, University of California, San Diego"Diedrich offers crucial new methodological resources and a rich and compelling counterarchive of theory, activism, and cultural practice that has the potential to unsettle and reorient our approach to understanding health and illness as both historical and urgently ongoing sites of political struggle."—Disability Studies QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents Introduction: Illness-Thought-Activism 1. Doing Queer Love, circa 1985 Snapshot 1: Gregg Bordowitz’s “The Order of Image Production,” 2003 and “Queer Structures of Feeling,” 1993 2. Que(e)rying the Clinic, circa 1970 Snapshot 2: Félix Guattari’s “David Wojnarowicz,” 1989 3. Enacting Clinical Experience, circa 1963 Snapshot 3: Samuel R. Delany’s Happening, 1959 4. Thinking Ecologically, circa 1962 and 1971 Snapshot 4: Frantz Fanon’s “Colonial War and Mental Disorders,” 1961 and Isaac Julien’s “Fanon,” 1996 5. Drawing Epilepsy Snapshot 5: Disability Law Center’s Investigation of Bridgewater State Hospital, 2014, and Frederick Wiseman’s Titicut Follies, 1967 6. Witnessing Schizophrenia Afterimage: ACT-UP’s “Drugs into Bodies,” the Near Present Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe experience of illness (both mental and physical) figures prominently in the critical thought and activism of the 1960s and 1970s, though it is largely overshadowed by practices of sexuality. Lisa Diedrich explores how and why illness was indeed so significant to the social, political, and institutional transformation beginning in the 1960s through the emergence of AIDS in the United States. A rich intervention—both theoretical and methodological, political and therapeutic—Indirect Action illuminates the intersection of illness, thought, and politics.Not merely a revision of the history of this time period, Indirect Action expands the historiographical boundaries through which illness and health activism in the United States have been viewed. Diedrich explores the multiplicity illness–thought–politics through an array of subjects: queering the origin story of AIDS activism by recalling its feminist history; exploring health activism and the medical experience; analyzing psychiatry and self-help movements; thinking ecologically about counterpractices of generalism in science and medicine; and considering the experience and event of epilepsy and the witnessing of schizophrenia. Indirect Action places illness in the leading role in the production of thought during the emergence of AIDS, ultimately showing the critical interconnectedness of illness and political and critical thought.Trade Review"Complex yet disarmingly candid, Indirect Action queers the process of history itself, offering a politics of indirectness that is still action, of remembering that doesn't overshadow. Lisa Diedrich is skilled at presenting a turn of thought or analytic term with extraordinary precision and historical weight."—Catherine Belling, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine"Moving through several sites that link illness, thought, and political action, Indirect Action is an engaged, vital, and generative critical practice. Lisa Diedrich demonstrates that when we take a longer view of complex phenomena, we discover the occluded origins and overlooked factors leading to their emergence."—Susan M. Squier, Pennsylvania State University"Beautifully crafted, Indirect Action helps us to see how present activism, specifically health activism, might be done differently. Lisa Diedrich’s gift is her ability to capture the transversal view without losing sight of this important argument: There is enormous power in indirect action."—Lisa Cartwright, University of California, San Diego"Diedrich offers crucial new methodological resources and a rich and compelling counterarchive of theory, activism, and cultural practice that has the potential to unsettle and reorient our approach to understanding health and illness as both historical and urgently ongoing sites of political struggle."—Disability Studies QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents Introduction: Illness-Thought-Activism 1. Doing Queer Love, circa 1985 Snapshot 1: Gregg Bordowitz’s “The Order of Image Production,” 2003 and “Queer Structures of Feeling,” 1993 2. Que(e)rying the Clinic, circa 1970 Snapshot 2: Félix Guattari’s “David Wojnarowicz,” 1989 3. Enacting Clinical Experience, circa 1963 Snapshot 3: Samuel R. Delany’s Happening, 1959 4. Thinking Ecologically, circa 1962 and 1971 Snapshot 4: Frantz Fanon’s “Colonial War and Mental Disorders,” 1961 and Isaac Julien’s “Fanon,” 1996 5. Drawing Epilepsy Snapshot 5: Disability Law Center’s Investigation of Bridgewater State Hospital, 2014, and Frederick Wiseman’s Titicut Follies, 1967 6. Witnessing Schizophrenia Afterimage: ACT-UP’s “Drugs into Bodies,” the Near Present Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the representational culture of Alzheimer’s disease and how media technologies shape our ideas of cognition and aging With no known cause or cure despite a century of research, Alzheimer’s disease is a true medical mystery. In Mediating Alzheimer’s, Scott Selberg examines the nature of this enduring national health crisis by looking at the disease’s relationship to media and representation. He shows how collective investments in different kinds of media have historically shaped how we understand, treat, and live with this disease. Selberg demonstrates how the cognitive abilities that Alzheimer’s threatens—memory, for example—are integrated into the operations of representational technologies, from Polaroid photographs to Post-its to digital artificial intelligence. Focusing on a wide variety of media technologies, such as neuroimaging, art therapy, virtual reality, and social media, he shows how these cognitively oriented media ultimately help define personhood for people with Alzheimer’s. Media have changed the practices of successful aging in the United States, and Selberg takes us deep into how technologies like digital brain-training and online care networks shape ideas of cognition and healthy aging.Packed with startlingly fresh insights, Mediating Alzheimer’s contributes to debates around bioethics, the labor of caregiving, and a national economy increasingly invested in communication and digital media. Probing the very technologies that promise to save and understand our brains, it gives us new ways of understanding Alzheimer’s disease and aging in America.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Alzheimer’s and Media1. Origin Myths: History, Histology, and Representational Value2. New Media Pioneers: Neuroimaging a National Crisis3. Use It or Lose It: Affirming the Self, Defining the Person4. PET Scans and Polaroids: Anachronizing Personhood5. Dementia in the Museum: Modern Art as Public Care6. Dementia on the Canvas: Art, Therapy, and Creativity’s Values7. Loved Ones: The Capacity for Representation, Recognition, and CareEpilogue: “How to Not Forget”AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the representational culture of Alzheimer’s disease and how media technologies shape our ideas of cognition and aging With no known cause or cure despite a century of research, Alzheimer’s disease is a true medical mystery. In Mediating Alzheimer’s, Scott Selberg examines the nature of this enduring national health crisis by looking at the disease’s relationship to media and representation. He shows how collective investments in different kinds of media have historically shaped how we understand, treat, and live with this disease. Selberg demonstrates how the cognitive abilities that Alzheimer’s threatens—memory, for example—are integrated into the operations of representational technologies, from Polaroid photographs to Post-its to digital artificial intelligence. Focusing on a wide variety of media technologies, such as neuroimaging, art therapy, virtual reality, and social media, he shows how these cognitively oriented media ultimately help define personhood for people with Alzheimer’s. Media have changed the practices of successful aging in the United States, and Selberg takes us deep into how technologies like digital brain-training and online care networks shape ideas of cognition and healthy aging.Packed with startlingly fresh insights, Mediating Alzheimer’s contributes to debates around bioethics, the labor of caregiving, and a national economy increasingly invested in communication and digital media. Probing the very technologies that promise to save and understand our brains, it gives us new ways of understanding Alzheimer’s disease and aging in America.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Alzheimer’s and Media1. Origin Myths: History, Histology, and Representational Value2. New Media Pioneers: Neuroimaging a National Crisis3. Use It or Lose It: Affirming the Self, Defining the Person4. PET Scans and Polaroids: Anachronizing Personhood5. Dementia in the Museum: Modern Art as Public Care6. Dementia on the Canvas: Art, Therapy, and Creativity’s Values7. Loved Ones: The Capacity for Representation, Recognition, and CareEpilogue: “How to Not Forget”AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children With transgender rights front and center in American politics, media, and culture, the pervasive myth still exists that today’s transgender children are a brand new generation—pioneers in a field of new obstacles and hurdles. Histories of the Transgender Child shatters this myth, uncovering a previously unknown twentieth-century history when transgender children not only existed but preexisted the term transgender and its predecessors, playing a central role in the medicalization of trans people, and all sex and gender.Beginning with the early 1900s when children with “ambiguous” sex first sought medical attention, to the 1930s when transgender people began to seek out doctors involved in altering children’s sex, to the invention of the category gender, and finally the 1960s and ’70s when, as the field institutionalized, transgender children began to take hormones, change their names, and even access gender confirmation, Julian Gill-Peterson reconstructs the medicalization and racialization of children’s bodies. Throughout, they foreground the racial history of medicine that excludes black and trans of color children through the concept of gender’s plasticity, placing race at the center of their analysis and at the center of transgender studies.Until now, little has been known about early transgender history and life and its relevance to children. Using a wealth of archival research from hospitals and clinics, including incredible personal letters from children to doctors, as well as scientific and medical literature, this book reaches back to the first half of the twentieth century—a time when the category transgender was not available but surely existed, in the lives of children and parents.Trade Review"Histories of the Transgender Child is a tour de force contribution to transgender studies, tracing little-noticed pathways from the past toward convergences that increasingly take center stage in the next field. An elegant combination of sophisticated theorization with equally sophisticated attention to archival and historical materials, this is one of the best books in trans studies in recent years."—Susan Stryker, University of Arizona"Jules Gill-Peterson excavates the history of medicine, introducing readers to a century’s worth of gender nonconforming youth. This remarkable book is not merely a backward glance; it offers an urgent call to reimagine trans as a form of self-knowledge children can hold and for an ethics of care that focuses on affirmation."—Tey Meadow, author of Trans Kids"Meticulously researched and compellingly argued, this book is a welcome addition to a number of fields, including trans of color critique, childhood studies, and queer and trans history."—C. Riley Snorton, author of Black on Both Sides"This work fills a gap in queer history; older trans, intersex, and nonbinary people who work through the dense, theoretical prose may find their experiences reflected in Gill-Peterson’s history, and younger ones may discover that their “uncovering of a century of untold stories” provides a tether to an underexplored legacy."—Publishers Weekly "You have to start somewhere. Indeed, few things begin in a vacuum: you need an idea, then experiments and practice to create a masterpiece. Nothing magically just appears. And in the new book “Histories of the Transgender Child” by Jules Gill-Peterson,you’ll see that that’s true, too, about knowledge and change." —South Florida Gay News "For children’s literature scholars who work on gender and sexuality, this book is essential reading for its insights that transgender children are not new and that binary sex and gender are extremely recent and fragile ideas reliant on a dehumanizing, racially coded conceptualization of the child as plasticity." —The Lion and the UnicornTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Toward a Trans-of-Color Critique of Medicine1. The Racial Plasticity of Gender and the Child2. Before Transsexuality: The Transgender Child from the 1900s to the 1930s3. Sex in Crisis: Intersex Children in the 1950s and the Invention of Gender4. From Johns Hopkins to the Midwest: Transgender Childhood in the 1960s5. Transgender Boyhood, Race, and Puberty in the 1970sConclusion: How to Bring Your Kids Up TransAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA vivid analysis of the history and revival of clinical psychedelic science Psychedelic drugs are making a comeback. In the mid-twentieth century, scientists actively studied the potential of drugs like LSD and psilocybin for treating mental health problems. After a decades-long hiatus, researchers are once again testing how effective these drugs are in relieving symptoms for a wide variety of psychiatric conditions, from depression and obsessive–compulsive disorder to posttraumatic stress disorder and substance addiction. In Acid Revival, Danielle Giffort examines how this new generation of researchers and their allies are working to rehabilitate psychedelic drugs and to usher in a new era of psychedelic medicine. As this team of researchers and mental health professionals revive the field of psychedelic science, they are haunted by the past and by one person in particular: psychedelic evangelist Timothy Leary. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with people working on scientific psychedelia, Giffort shows how today’s researchers tell stories about Leary as an “impure” scientist and perform his antithesis to address a series of lingering dilemmas that threaten to rupture their budding legitimacy. Acid Revival presents new information about the so-called psychedelic renaissance and highlights the cultural work involved with the reassembly of dormant areas of medical science. This colorful and accessible history of the rise, fall, and reemergence of psychedelic medicine is infused with intriguing narratives and personalities—a story for popular science aficionados as well as for scholars of the history of science and medicine.Trade Review"How does science plow forward in the face of stigma and skepticism? In this captivating account brimming with fascinating episodes, Danielle Giffort shows how a new generation of mental health researchers seeks to bring psychedelic drugs out of the shadows as respectable therapies—and how they ward off the specters of the countercultural past."—Steven Epstein, author of Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge"Psychedelic medicine has the potential to transform psychiatry, but its advancement is threatened by unique social and legal challenges. Acid Revival provides an inside look at how the researchers conducting this controversial work present themselves as legitimate scientists. In a series of colorful stories, Danielle Giffort explains the role that cultural narrative and performance play in the production of expertise. Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding which drugs are deemed medically useful and why."—Joanna Kempner, author of Not Tonight: Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health"Acid Revival will appeal to those interested in psychedelic research past and present. The candid interviews the book offers makes it a unique source."—Psymposia "The book will make informative and accessible reading in undergraduate and graduate courses on the field of mental health and the sociology of science."—Oxford Academic "Acid Revival will no doubt become a reference point for those interested in psychiatry’s varied attempts to reinvent itself as it has sought to conquer what Whooley (2019) has called its stubborn ‘ignorance.’"—Social Forces "A thorough case study relevant to the history of science."—Isis Journal "Acid Revival is an engaging and accessible read for anyone interested in scientific expertise or psychedelic science and its history. Giffort’s timely focus on psychedelic expertise provides a useful framework that science studies scholars can build on."—Journal of Behavioral SciencesTable of ContentsContentsPreface: The Politics of EcstasyIntroduction: Set and Setting1. Playing the Science Game: Psychedelic Therapy Meets the Scientific Method2. Take LSD and See: Acid-Dropping Scientists and the Credibility of Firsthand Experience3. The Chemical Key: Unlocking the Black Box of the Psychedelic Experience4. Who Controls Your Cortex? Moral Panic and the Politicization of Psychedelic Drugs5. Turn On, Tune In, and Go to the Bake Sale: Tensions between Mainstream Science and the Psychedelic Counterculture Conclusion: Why? Why Not? Some Final Words on the Ghost of Timothy Leary in the Psychedelic RenaissanceAcknowledgmentsAppendix: MethodsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA vivid analysis of the history and revival of clinical psychedelic science Psychedelic drugs are making a comeback. In the mid-twentieth century, scientists actively studied the potential of drugs like LSD and psilocybin for treating mental health problems. After a decades-long hiatus, researchers are once again testing how effective these drugs are in relieving symptoms for a wide variety of psychiatric conditions, from depression and obsessive–compulsive disorder to posttraumatic stress disorder and substance addiction. In Acid Revival, Danielle Giffort examines how this new generation of researchers and their allies are working to rehabilitate psychedelic drugs and to usher in a new era of psychedelic medicine. As this team of researchers and mental health professionals revive the field of psychedelic science, they are haunted by the past and by one person in particular: psychedelic evangelist Timothy Leary. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with people working on scientific psychedelia, Giffort shows how today’s researchers tell stories about Leary as an “impure” scientist and perform his antithesis to address a series of lingering dilemmas that threaten to rupture their budding legitimacy. Acid Revival presents new information about the so-called psychedelic renaissance and highlights the cultural work involved with the reassembly of dormant areas of medical science. This colorful and accessible history of the rise, fall, and reemergence of psychedelic medicine is infused with intriguing narratives and personalities—a story for popular science aficionados as well as for scholars of the history of science and medicine.Trade Review"How does science plow forward in the face of stigma and skepticism? In this captivating account brimming with fascinating episodes, Danielle Giffort shows how a new generation of mental health researchers seeks to bring psychedelic drugs out of the shadows as respectable therapies—and how they ward off the specters of the countercultural past."—Steven Epstein, author of Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge"Psychedelic medicine has the potential to transform psychiatry, but its advancement is threatened by unique social and legal challenges. Acid Revival provides an inside look at how the researchers conducting this controversial work present themselves as legitimate scientists. In a series of colorful stories, Danielle Giffort explains the role that cultural narrative and performance play in the production of expertise. Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding which drugs are deemed medically useful and why."—Joanna Kempner, author of Not Tonight: Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health"Acid Revival will appeal to those interested in psychedelic research past and present. The candid interviews the book offers makes it a unique source."—Psymposia "The book will make informative and accessible reading in undergraduate and graduate courses on the field of mental health and the sociology of science."—Oxford Academic "Acid Revival will no doubt become a reference point for those interested in psychiatry’s varied attempts to reinvent itself as it has sought to conquer what Whooley (2019) has called its stubborn ‘ignorance.’"—Social Forces "A thorough case study relevant to the history of science."—Isis Journal "Acid Revival is an engaging and accessible read for anyone interested in scientific expertise or psychedelic science and its history. Giffort’s timely focus on psychedelic expertise provides a useful framework that science studies scholars can build on."—Journal of Behavioral SciencesTable of ContentsContentsPreface: The Politics of EcstasyIntroduction: Set and Setting1. Playing the Science Game: Psychedelic Therapy Meets the Scientific Method2. Take LSD and See: Acid-Dropping Scientists and the Credibility of Firsthand Experience3. The Chemical Key: Unlocking the Black Box of the Psychedelic Experience4. Who Controls Your Cortex? Moral Panic and the Politicization of Psychedelic Drugs5. Turn On, Tune In, and Go to the Bake Sale: Tensions between Mainstream Science and the Psychedelic Counterculture Conclusion: Why? Why Not? Some Final Words on the Ghost of Timothy Leary in the Psychedelic RenaissanceAcknowledgmentsAppendix: MethodsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA personal account of the aging body and advanced technologies by a preeminent philosopher of technologyMedical Technics is a rigorous examination of how medical progress has modified our worlds and contributed to a virtual revolution in longevity. Don Ihde offers a unique autobiographical tour of medical events experienced in a decade, beginning in his 70s. Ihde offers experiential and postphenomenological analyses of technologies such as sonography and microsurgery, and ultimately asks what it means to increasingly become a cyborg. Forerunners: Ideas FirstShort books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead

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Book SynopsisAn engrossing history of the century that transformed our knowledge of the body’s inner senses The years between 1833 and 1945 fundamentally transformed science’s understanding of the body’s inner senses, revolutionizing fields like philosophy, the social sciences, and cognitive science. In How We Became Sensorimotor, Mark Paterson provides a systematic account of this transformative period, while also demonstrating its substantial implications for current explorations into phenomenology, embodied consciousness, the extended mind, and theories of the sensorimotor, the body, and embodiment.Each chapter of How We Became Sensorimotor takes a particular sense and historicizes its formation by means of recent scientific studies, case studies, or coverage in the media. Ranging among a diverse array of sensations, including balance, fatigue, pain, the “muscle sense,” and what Maurice Merleau-Ponty termed “motricity,” Paterson’s analysis moves outward from the familiar confines of the laboratory to those of the industrial world and even to wild animals and their habitats. He uncovers important stories, such as how forgotten pain-measurement schemes transformed criminology, or how Penfield’s outmoded concepts of the sensory and motor homunculi of the brain still mar psychology textbooks.Complete with original archival research featuring illustrations and correspondence, How We Became Sensorimotor shows how the shifting and sometimes contested historical background to our understandings of the senses are being extended even today.Trade Review"Opening a new chapter in the archaeology of knowledge and the body, How We Became Sensorimotor charts how the inchoate mass of sensations within the bodily interior became the focus of increasingly intensive scientific inquiry from the mid-1800s onwards. To read this deeply touching book is to come to know one’s innermost self from a rigorously empirical and objective yet intimately familiar angle."—David Howes, author of The Sensory Studies Manifesto"Through rigorous archival research and fieldwork, Mark Paterson meticulously documents the historical practices that made the ‘sensorimotor’ body a thinkable concept. Crisscrossing neurology, experimental physiology, phenomenology, and chronophotography, How We Become Sensorimotor tells the fascinating story of the academic disciplines and artistic worlds that lodged internal sensations at the core of what it means to be a body."—Erica Fretwell, author of Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of FeelingTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: From Nineteenth-Century Physiology to Twenty-First-Century Neuroprosthesis1. The “Muscle Sense” and the Motor Cortex: A Cartography of Bodily Interiority2. On Pain as a Distinct Sensation: Weber, Fechner, and the Instruments of Measure3. The Oculomotor: Labyrinths, Vestibules, and Chambers4. “The Neuro-motor Unconscious”: Étienne-Jules Marey, Eadweard Muybridge, and Motion Capture5. Fatigue: Jules Amar, Angelo Mosso, and Physiological Observations of Industrial Labor, 1891–19476. Motricity: Merleau-Ponty and the Neurophysiology of MovementAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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