Mammography is a routine health screening performed forty million times each year in the United States, yet it remains one of the most deeply contested topics in medicine, with …
The slow violence being inflicted on our environment—through everything from carbon emissions to plastic pollution—also represents an impending public health catastrophe. Yet …
Embodied Politics illuminates the influential force of public health promotion in indigenous migrant communities by examining the Indigenous Health Project (IHP), a culturally and …
In the early twentieth century, public health reformers approached the task of ameliorating unsanitary conditions and preventing epidemic diseases with optimism. Using exhibits, …
Dr. James Burt believed women’s bodies were broken, and only he could fix them. In the 1950s, this Ohio OB-GYN developed what he called “love surgery,” a unique procedure he …
First place in the 2020 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award in History and Public Policy?Winner of the 2020 Lavinia L. Dock Award from the American Association for …
Winner of the 2021 Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize from the British Agricultural History Society?2020 Choice? Outstanding Academic Title?Winner of the 2020 Turriano Prize from …
The individual and structural biases that affect the American healthcare system have serious emotional and physical consequences that all too often go unseen. These biases are …
We live in an era in which medicalization—the process of conceptualizing and treating a wide range of human experiences as medical problems in need of medical treatment—of mental …
In When the Air Became Important, medical historian Janet Greenlees examines the working environments of the heartlands of the British and American cotton textile industries from …
