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Medical Professionalism in the New Information Age
With computerized health information receiving unprecedented government support, a group of health policy scholars analyze the intricate legal, social, and professional …
The Vulnerable Empowered Woman
Winner of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender 2013 Outstanding Book Award ? Winner of the 2013 Bonnie Ritter Book Award from the Feminist and …
An Alternative History of Hyperactivity
In 1973, San Francisco allergist Ben Feingold created an uproar by claiming that synthetic food additives triggered hyperactivity, then the most commonly diagnosed childhood …
Broadcasting Birth Control
Traditionally, the history of the birth control movement has been told through the accounts of the leaders, organizations, and legislation that shaped the campaign. Recently, …
The Morning After
Since 2006, when the “morning-after pill” Plan B was first sold over the counter, sales of emergency contraceptives have soared, becoming an $80-million industry in the United …
Comrades in Health
Since the early twentieth century, politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have worked in solidarity with progressive movements around the world. Often …
An Organ of Murder
Finalist for the 2022 Cheiron Book Prize?An Organ of Murder explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the nineteenth-century United States, focusing …
Structural Intimacies
One of the most relevant social problems in contemporary American life is the continuing HIV epidemic in the Black population. With vivid ethnographic detail, this book brings …
Toxic Exposures
Mustard gas is typically associated with the horrors of World War I battlefields and trenches, where chemical weapons were responsible for tens of thousands of deaths. Few realize, …
American Melancholy
As American Melancholy reveals, if you read about depression anywhere today—medical journal, popular magazine, National Institute of Mental Health pamphlet, or pharmaceutical …
Rest Uneasy
Tracing the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) diagnosis from its mid-century origins through the late 1900s, Rest Uneasy investigates the processes by which SIDS became both a …
From Residency to Retirement
From Residency to Retirement tells the stories of twenty American doctors over the last half century, which saw a period of continuous, turbulent, and transformative changes to the …