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History of American Public Health and Medicine Samantha Muka Examiner: Beth Linker I.

Historiography - Huisman , Frank and John Harley Warner (eds). Locating Medical History: The Stories. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore and London, 2004. o o o o o o Huisman and Warner. Medical Histories Pp. 1-32 Fee, Elizabeth and Theodore M. Brown. Using Medical History to Shape a Profession: The Ideals of William Osler and Henry E. Sigerist Pp. 139 -166. Reverby, Susan M. and David Rosner. Beyond the Great Doctors Revisited: A Generation of the New Social History of Medicine. Pp. 167-193. Anderson, Warwick. Postcolonial Histories of Medicine. Pp. 285 -308. Cooter, Roger. Framing the End of the Social History of Medicine. Pp. 309 -337. Brandt, Allan M. From Analysis to Advocacy: Crossing Boundaries as a Historian of Health Policy. Pp. 460-484.

Leavitt, Judith Walzer and Ronald L. Numbers (eds). Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health (third edition). The University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, Wisconsin, 1978,1997. Porter, Roy. The Patients View: Doing Medical History from Below Theory and Society, Vol. 14 No. 2 (Mar., 1985), 175-198. o ______. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity. W.W. Norton and Company: New York and London, 1997.

Rosenberg, Charles E. and Janet Golden (eds.) Framing Disease: Studies in Cultural History. Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1992. o o o o Rosenberg, Charles E. Framing Disease: Illness, Society, and History. Pp. xiii xxvi. Hansen, Bert. American Physicians Discovery of Homosexuals, 1880-1900: A New Diagnosis in a Changing Society. Pp. 104-133. Aronowitz, Robert A. From Myalgic Encephalitis to Yuppie Flu: A History of Chronic Fatigue Syndromes. Pp. 155-184. Eyler, John M. The Sick Poor and the State: Arthur Newsholme on Poverty, Disease, and Responsibility. Pp. 275-296.

II. Health Care Policy and Occupational Health - Berliner, H.S. A System of Scientific Medicine: Philanthrophic Foundations and the Flexner Era (1985) - Brown, R.E. Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America (1979) - Clark, Claudia. Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform: 1910-1935. - Ettling, John. The Germ of Laziness: Rockefeller Philanthropy and Public Health in the New South (2000) - Fairchild, Amy. Science at the Borders: Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force (2003) - Gordon, C. Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America (2003). - Gordon, Linda. Pitied but not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare, 18901935. 1

History of American Public Health and Medicine Samantha Muka Examiner: Beth Linker Katz, Michael B. In the Shadow of the Poor House: A Social History of Welfare in America. Levenstein, Lisa. A Movement Without Marches: African American Women and Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia. Numbers, Ronald L. Almost Persuaded: American Physicians and Compulsory Health Insurance, 1912-1920 (1978). Porter, Dorothy. The History of Public Health and the Modern State (1994) Rosner, David and Gerald Markowitz (eds.) Dying for Work: Workers Safety and Health in Twentieth Century America. o Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the On-Going Struggle to Protect Workers Health New and Expanded Edition (2006) Sellers, Christopher C. Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science.

III. Disease and the New Public Health - Brandt, Allen. No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States (1985) - Craddock, Susan. City of Plagues: Disease Poverty and Deviance in San Francisco (2000) - Humphreys, Margaret. Yellow Fever and the South. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1992. - Jones, J.H. Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (1993) - Koslow, Jennifer Lisa. Cultivating Health: Los Angeles Women and Public Health Reform (2009) - Kraut, Alan M. Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the Immigrant Menace (1994) - Leavitt, Judith Walzer. Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Publics Health (1996) - Lederer, S.E. Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in American Before the Second World War. (1995) - Meckel, Richard A. Save the Babies: American Public Health Reform and the Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1850-1929. (1990) - Pernick, Martin. The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of Defective Babies. (1996) - Reverby, Susan. Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy. (2009) - Rogers, Naomi. Germs with Legs: Flies, Disease, and the New Public Health, Bull. Hist. Med. (1989) 63: 599- 617. - Rosenberg, Charles. The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849 and 1866 (1987) - Rothman, Sheila. Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History (The University of Johns Hopkins Press, 1995). Starr, Paul. The Social Transformation of American Medicine (1982) - Tomes, Nancy. The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life (1999) - Wailoo, Keith. Dying in the City of Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health. (2001) IV. Institutions and Professionalization - Buhler-Wilkerson, Karen. No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States. - Fairman, Julie. Making Room in the Clinic: Nurse Practitioners and the Evolution of 2

History of American Public Health and Medicine Samantha Muka Examiner: Beth Linker Modern Health Care. (2009) Fink, Leon and Brian Greenburg. Upheaval in the Quiet Zone: A History of Hospital Workers Union Local 1199 (1989) Gamble, V.N. Making a Place for Ourselves: the Black Hospital Movement: 1920-1945 (1995) Leavitt, Judith. Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950 (1986). Ludmerer, Kenneth. Learning to Heal: The Development of the American Medical Profession: The Role of Institutions. New York: Basic Books, 1986. Pernick, Martin. A Calculus of Suffering: Pain, Professionalism, and Anesthesia in Nineteenth-Century America (1985) Rosenberg, Charles. The Care of Strangers: The Rise of Americas Hospital System 2nd Edition (1995) Rothstein, William. American physicians in the nineteenth century: from sects to science. Baltimore: JHU Press, 1972. Stevens, Rosemary. In Sickness and in Wealth: American Hospitals in the Twentieth Century (1989) Weisz, George. Divide and Conquer: A Comparative History of Medical Specialization (2005)

V. Technology and Experimentation - Baker, Jeffrey Baker. The Machine in the Nursery: Incubator Technology and the Origins of Newborn Intensive Care. (1996) - Bynum, WF. Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994) - Feudtner, Chris. Bittersweet: Diabetes, Insulin, and the Transformation of Illness. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. - Fye, W.B. The Development of American Physiology: Scientific Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1987) - Greene, Jeremy. Prescribing by the Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease. (2006) - Howell, Joel. Technology in the Hospital: Transforming Patient Care in the Early Twentieth Century (1995) - Markes, H.M. The Progress of Experiment: Science and Therapeutic Reform in the United States, 1900-1990 (1997) - Rothman, David. Beginnings Count: The Technological Imperative in American Health Care (1997). - Sandelowski, Margaret. Devices and Desires: Gender, Technology and American Nursing (2000) - Tone, Andrea. Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America (2001) - Wailoo, K. Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth- Century America (1997) - Warner, John Harley. The Therapeutic Perspective: Medical Practice, Knowledge and Identity in America, 1820-1885. o Science in Medicine Osiris (1985) o "The History of Science and the Science of Medicine Osiris (1995) VI. Other Healers - DAntonio, Patricia. American Nursing: A History of Knowledge, Authority and the Meaning of Work. (2010) - Gevitz, Norman. Other healers : unorthodox medicine in America (1988). 3

History of American Public Health and Medicine Samantha Muka Examiner: Beth Linker Hine, Darlene Clark. Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950. Kirschmann, Anne Taylor. A vital force : women in American homeopathy (2004). Melosh, Barbara. The Physicians Hand: Work Culture and Conflict in American Nursing (1982) Morantz-Sanchez, Regina. Sympathy and science : women physicians in American medicine (1985). Reverby, Susan. Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850-1945. Smith, Susan L. Japanese American Midwives: Culture, Community, and Health Politics, 1880-1950. Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. A Midwives Tale: the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812. (1991)

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