The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930
Known as the ''deadly scourge of childhood,'' diphtheria was a highly feared disease in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States. In New York City alone, thousands of cases were reported each year, with large numbers of deaths. Physicians and public health experts viewed diphtheria as one of the most difficult to treat and ......
An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence
Between 1965 and 1987, the cesarean section rate in the United States rose precipitously'from 4.5 percent to 25 percent of births. By 2009, one in three births was by cesarean, a far higher number than the 5-10% rate that the World Health Organization suggests is optimal. While physicians largely avoided cesareans through the mid-twentieth ......
An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence
Between 1965 and 1987, the cesarean section rate in the United States rose precipitously'from 4.5 percent to 25 percent of births. By 2009, one in three births was by cesarean, a far higher number than the 5GÇô10% rate that the World Health Organization suggests is optimal. While physicians largely avoided cesareans through the mid-twentieth ......
''Mr. Gilman's work is the most convincing account of how Freud's anxiety about being Jewish is reflected in his work. After reading Mr. Gilman's exhaustive treatment, one cannot help seeing Freud as struggling to formulate a response to the Viennese notions of Jewishness in which he was inescapably steeped.''--New York Times.''Gilman [is] one of ......
This widely acclaimed history traces every facet of the hospital's social and professional transformations. Many of today's obsessions with technology, rigid bureaucracy, and uncontrolled cost can be found in hospitals more than half a century ago. Illustrated.
Provides direction and tools for conducting historical research. This title describes types of research including biographic and oral histories. It covers frameworks used to study historical events, such as social, political, feminist, intellectual, and cultural.
It will be of interest to biomedical professionals-especially in oncology, hepatology, and infectious disease-in addition to historians of science and anyone interested in cancer research.
This collection of essays explores efforts to control and prevent cancer in North America and Europe. On both sides of the Atlantic, control programs emerged in the early twentieth century, and most were focused on early detection and treatment. Yet, these initiatives took very different forms indifferent countries. Experts disagreed on how to ......
Drawing readers into a critical debate about the level of responsibility America bears for wounded service members, Burdens of War is a unique and moving case study.
