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Mammography Wars
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 …
Healthcare and Human Dignity
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 …
Dying Green
The slow violence being inflicted on our environment—through everything from carbon emissions to plastic pollution—also represents an impending public health catastrophe. Yet …
Prelude to Hospice
Hospices have played a critical role in transforming ideas about death and dying. Viewing death as a natural event, hospices seek to enable people approaching mortality to live as …
The Love Surgeon
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 …
Medicine over Mind
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 …
Exhibiting Health
In the early twentieth century, public health reformers approached the task of ameliorating unsanitary conditions and preventing epidemic diseases with optimism. Using exhibits, …
When the Air Became Important
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 …
Talking Therapy
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 …
Pyrrhic Progress
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 …
Embodied Politics
Embodied Politics illuminates the influential force of public health promotion in indigenous migrant communities by examining the Indigenous Health Project (IHP), a culturally and …