2008 LEWIS, David Jr.; JORDAN, Ann T.
Creek Indian medicine ways. The enduring power of Muskoke religion.
"Called the Mvskoke in their language, the Creek Indians of Oklahoma continue to practice traditional medicine. In Creek Indian Medicine Ways, David Lewis, a full-blood Mvskoke and practicing medicine man, tells about…
GMN 12097 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14306
2009 HANSEN, Bert
Picturing medical progress from Pasteur to polio: A history of mass media images and popular attitudes in America.
GMN 7205 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9372
2009 EDMONSON, James M. (1951 – ); WARNER, John Harley (1953 – )
Dissection: Photographs of a rite of passage in American medicine 1880-1930.
GMN 7567 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9739
2009 BROWN, Julie K.
Health and medicine on display: International expositions in the United States, 1876-1904.
GMN 8617 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10794
2009 BROWN, Kathleen M.
Foul bodies: Cleanliness in early America.
GMN 11412 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13611
2010 RUTKOW, Ira Michael (1948 – 2026)
Seeking the cure: A history of medicine in America.
GMN 7584 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9756
2010 WARD, Thomas J. Jr.
Black physicians in the Jim Crow South.
GMN 8085 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10261
2010 SACKMAN, Douglas Cazaux (1968 – )
A companion to American environmental history. Edited by Douglas Cazaux Sackman.
GMN 9670 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11857
2010 D'ANTONIO, Patricia (1953 – )
American nursing: A history of knowledge, authority, and the meaning of work.
GMN 9931 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12119
2010 BURD-SHARPS, Sarah; LEWIS, Kristen
The measure of America, 2010-2011: Mapping risks and resilience.
"This fully illustrated report, with over 130 color images, is based on the groundbreaking American Human Development Index, which provides a single measure of the well-being for all Americans, disaggregated by state …
GMN 10225 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12415
2010 COOKE, Molly; IRBY, David N.; O'BRIEN, Bridget C.
Educating physicians: A call for reform of medical school and residency.
"The current blueprint for medical education in North America was drawn up in 1910 by Abraham Flexner in his report Medical Education in the United States and Canada. The basic features outlined by Flexner remain in p…
GMN 10973 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13169
2010 AGNEW, Jeremy
Medicine in the Old West: A history, 1850–1900.
GMN 12101 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14310
2011 MEYERS, Amy R. W.
Knowing nature: Art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840. Edited by Amy R. W. Meyers with the assistance of Lisa L. Ford.
Large format, finely produced with excellent color plates.
GMN 7805 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9977
2011 SILVA, Cristobal
Miraculous plagues: An epidemiology of early New England narrative.
GMN 10360 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12552
2012 SCHULTEN, Susan
Mapping the nation: History and cartography in nineteenth-century America.
Includes medical, statistical cartography.
GMN 7692 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9864
2012 WEINER, Marli F. (1953 – 2009); HOUGH, Mayzie
Sex, sickness, and slavery: Illness in the antebellum South.
GMN 8206 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10382
2012 RUTKOW, Eric
American canopy: Trees, forests and the making of a nation.
GMN 9971 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12160
2012 THOMAS, James G. Jr.; WILSON, Charles Reagan (1948 – )
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 22: Science and medicine. Edited by James G. Thomas, Jr. & Charles Reagan Wilson.
GMN 9977 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12166
2012 SCHROEDER-LEIN, Glenna R. (1951 – )
Lincoln and medicine.
GMN 10290 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12481
2012 SHEEHAN, Tanya (1976 – )
Doctored: The medicine of photography in nineteenth-century America.
GMN 10586 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12779
2013 MOHR, James C.
Licensed to practice: The Supreme Court defines the American medical profession.
History of the 1889 Supreme Court case that legalized the licensing of physicians in the U.S. and the impact of that decision on the subsequent development of this nation's unique medical system.
GMN 8001 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10177
2013 HALLER, John S. Jr. (1940 – )
The history of American homeopathy: From rational medicine to holistic health care.
GMN 9405 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11588
2013 CLARK, David (1953 – )
Transforming the culture of dying: The work of the Project on Death in America.
"Over a period of almost 10 years, the work of the Project on Death in America (PDIA) played a formative role in the advancement of end of life care in the United States. The project concerned itself with adults and c…
GMN 10062 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12251
2013 HUMPHREYS, Margaret Ellen
Marrow of tragedy: The health crisis of the American Civil War.
GMN 10801 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12997
2013 AGNEW, Jeremy
Alcohol and opium in the Old West: Use, abuse and influence.
GMN 12102 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14311
2014 HENDRICKSON, Brett
Border medicine: A transcultural history of Mexican American curanderismo.
GMN 7837 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10009
2014 SLOTTEN, Hugh Richard
The Oxford encyclopedia of the history of American science, medicine, and technology. Edited by Hugh Richard Slotten.
GMN 7889 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10061
2014 OWSLEY, Douglas W. (1951 – ); JANTZ, Richard L.
Kennewick man: The scientific investigation of an ancient American skeleton. Edited by Douglas W. Owsley and Richard L. Jantz.
" This volume resents the results of the most comprehensive scientific study of one of the most complete ancient human skeletons ever found in North America" (from the introduction). "Kennewick Man is the name general…
GMN 10087 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12276
2014 RODRIGUEZ, Sarah B.
Female circumcision and clitoridectomy in the United States: A history of a medical treatment.
"From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, American physicians treated women and girls for masturbation by removing the clitoris (clitoridectomy) or clitoral hood (female circumcision). Durin…
GMN 10542 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12735
2014 LYON, G. Marshall; MEHTA, Aneesh K.; VARKEY, Jay B.; ET AL
Clinical care of two patients with Ebola virus disease in the United States.
Report on Ebola virus disease management from the Emory University unit and its specialists detailing the diagnosis, management, complications and expectations of this illness for infectious disease physicians. The au…
GMN 10930 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13126
2015 KELTON, Paul
Cherokee medicine, colonial germs: An indigenous nation’s fight against smallpox, 1518–1824.
GMN 7504 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9676
2015 BURNHAM, John Chynoweth (1929 – 2017)
Health care in America: A history.
GMN 7854 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10026
2015 MELTZER, David J. (1955 – )
The great paleolithic war: How science forged an understanding of America's ice age past.
A masterful synthesis of the history of the study of human origins in North America with a comprehensive bibliography.
GMN 9829 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12017
2015 ELLIS, John H.
Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South.
"The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878--a disaster that caused 20,000 deaths and financial losses of nearly $200 mill…
GMN 9859 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12047
2015 KELTON, Paul; CAMERON, Catherine M.; SWEDLUND, Alan C.
Beyond germs: Native depopulation in North America. Edited by Catherine M. Cameron, Paul Kelton, and Alan C. Swedlund.
This book "challenges the “virgin soil” hypothesis that was used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous people of North America. This hypothesis argues that the massive depopulation of the New World w…
GMN 10341 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12533
2015 PEALE, Titian Ramsay (1799 – 1885)
The butterflies of North America: Titian Peale's lost manuscript. Foreward by Ellen V. Futter. Preface and scientific captions by David A. Grimaldi. Introduction by Kenneth Haltman.
GMN 10442 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12635
2016 TOMES, Nancy J. (1952 – )
Remaking the American patient: How Madison Avenue and modern medicine turned patients into consumers.
"In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explo…
GMN 9114 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11293
2016 CAYLEFF, Susan E. (1954 – )
Nature's path: A history of naturopathic healing in America.
GMN 10048 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12237
2016 BURST, Helen Varney; THOMPSON, Joyce E.
A history of midwifery in the United States: The midwife said fear not.
GMN 10419 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12612
2016 POWELL, Miles A.
Vanishing America: Species extinction racial peril, and the origins of conservation.
"Nineteenth-century citizens of European descent widely believed that Native Americans would eventually vanish from the continent. Indian society was thought to be tied to the wilderness, and the manifest destiny of U…
GMN 10421 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12614
2016 LAUGESEN, Miriam J.
Fixing medical prices: How physicians are paid.
GMN 10667 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12860
2016 MARSHALL, Thomas R.
Public opinion, public policy, and smoking: The transformation of American attitudes and cigarette use.
GMN 10669 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12862
2017 DIVISION OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY
Balm of America: Patent medicine collection.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/balm-of-america-patent-medicine-collection "The Smithsonian Institution began to collect objects related to health and medicine in 1881. It first obtained exampl…
GMN 8517 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10694
2017 OTTO, Mary
Teeth: The story of beauty, inequality, and the struggle for oral health in America.
GMN 9973 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12162
2017 MORE, Ellen S.
Beating the odds: The University of Massachusetts Medical School, a history, 1962–2012.
The University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA was founded as recently as 1962.
GMN 10272 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12463
2018 ALTSCHULER, Sari
The medical imagination: Literature and health in the early United States.
"... During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, doctors understood the imagination to be directly connected to health, intimately involved in healing, and central to medical discovery. In fact, for physicians and…
GMN 10525 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12718
2018 WOLF, Jacqueline H.
Cesarean section: An American history of risk, technology, and consequence.
A study of the sharp increase in cesarean births (up to 25%) in the U.S. during the 2nd half of the 20th century, as a result of technologization of medicine and, consequently, obstreticians' weakened skills, the malp…
GMN 10622 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12815