Great Books in Medical History
Courtesy of BRDGT:- Laurel Ulrich, A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812.
- John Harley Warner, The Therapeutic Perspective: Medical Practice, Knowledge, and Identity in America, 1820-1885
- Charles E. Rosenberg, The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America’s Hospital System
- Steven M. Stowe, Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
- Ronald L. Numbers, Prophetess of Health: A Study of Ellen G. White (New York: Harper and Row, 1976).
- James H. Jones, Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life
- Judith Walzer Leavitt, Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750 to 1950
- Judith Leavitt, Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health (Boston: Beacon Press, 1996).
- Nancy Tomes, The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life
- Robert A. Orsi, Thank You, St. Jude: Women’s Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes
- Leslie J. Reagan, When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973
- Keith Wailoo, Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health
- David M. Oshinsky, Polio: An American Story
- Barron H. Lerner, The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America
- Gregg Mitman, Breathing Space : An Ecological History of Allergy in America
- Allan M. Brandt, The Cigarette Century: The Rise and Fall of the Drug That Defined America
posted by Nathanael @ 2:38 PM
3 Comments:
My personal favorites are Ulrich, Tomes, and Orsi (out of the ones I've read, I'll give a full report in December ;)
I should probably read one or two of these, just to get some sense of the field. BTW, I found an article via Project Muse by Leavitt on the presence of men in the birthing room. Thanks for the tip!
Ah yes, her new "baby." I've been fetching episodes of the Dick Van Dyke Show and I Love Lucy for her!
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