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At the dawn of the Progressive Era, when America was experiencing an industrial boom, many working families often ate contaminated food and had little access to medical care. In a city that demanded change, Los Angeles women, rather than city officials, championed the call to action. This book details women's impact on remaking health policy.

In the first decade of the AIDS epidemic, New York City was struck badly. This book presents a social history of New York's AIDS community, and focuses on the ways that these disparate groups formed networks of people and organizations that supported persons with AIDS, reduced transmission, funded research, and gave a face to this epidemic.

Shows how various aspects of our understanding and discussion of cancer bears the imprint of its Cold War entanglement.

Provides a critical lens through which to view both the contemporary debate about immigration and the US response to the emergent global tuberculosis epidemic. This book shows how the association of the disease with ""tramps"" during the 1880s and 1890s and Dust Bowl refugees during the 1930s provoked exclusionary measures against both groups.

Shows how historical perspectives can help policymakers avoid the pitfalls of partisan, as well as how knowledge of previous systems can offer alternatives when policy directions seem unclear. This book uncovers the unstated assumptions that shape the way we think about technology, the role of government, and contemporary medicine.

Brings together a group of professionals and activists whose lives have been dedicated to health internationalism. By presenting a combination of historical accounts and first-hand reflections, this collection of essays draws attention to the longstanding international activities of the American health left and the lessons they brought home.

Through ninety-five interviews with primary care physicians (PCPs) working in different settings, as well as medical students and residents, this book provides insight into the everyday lives of generalist physicians in the early twenty-first century - their work, stresses, hopes, expectations, and values.

Employing historical and contemporary data and case studies, this title examines tonsillectomy, cancer, heart disease, anxiety, and depression, and identify differences between rhetoric and reality and the weaknesses in diagnosis and treatment.

Brings together a group of professionals and activists whose lives have been dedicated to health internationalism. By presenting a combination of historical accounts and first-hand reflections, this collection of essays draws attention to the longstanding international activities of the American health left and the lessons they brought home.

Traces the growth of depression as an object of medical study and as a consumer commodity. This book addresses gender issues in the construction of depression, explores key questions of how its diagnosis was developed, how it has been used, and how we should question its application in American society.

The first book to utilize women's own writings about miscarriage to explore the individual understandings of pregnancy loss and the multiple social and medical forces that helped to shape those perceptions. What emerges from Shannon Withycombe's work is unlike most medicalization narratives.

Traces how an ever-changing coalition of mental health experts, patients' rights activists, and politicians envisioned the community-based system of psychiatric services. This work shows how policies shifted emphasis from radical reform to incremental change.

Viewing death as a natural event, hospices seek to enable people to live as fully and painlessly as possible. Award-winning medical historian Emily Abel provides insight into several important issues surrounding the growth of hospice care. Using a unique set of records, this book expands our understanding of the history of US hospices.

Analyses over half a century of antibiotic use, regulation, and resistance in US and British food production. Kirchhelle's comprehensive analysis of evolving non-human antibiotic use and the historical complexities of antibiotic stewardship provides important insights for current debates on the global burden of antimicrobial resistance.

Medical historian Michelle L. McClellan traces the story of the female alcoholic from the late-nineteenth through the twentieth century. She draws on a range of sources to demonstrate the persistence of the belief that alcohol use is antithetical to an idealized feminine role, particularly one that glorifies motherhood.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Frederick Novy was the leader among a new breed of full-time bacteriologists at American medical schools. Powel H. Kazanjian uses Novy's archived letters, laboratory notebooks, lecture notes, and published works to examine medical research and educational activities during a formative period in modern medical science.

Public health demonstration projects have been touted as an innovative solution to the US's health care crisis. Yet, such projects actually have a long but little-known history, dating back to the 1920s. This new book reveals the key role that these local health programs had in influencing how Americans perceived their personal health choices and the well-being of their communities.

Makes a powerful ethical argument for treating communities as critical moral actors that play key roles in defining and upholding just health policy. Drawing together the key community dimensions of health care, and demonstrating their neglect in most prominent theories of health care justice, Charlene Galarneau postulates the ethical norms of community justice.

The sudden call, the race to the hospital, the high-stakes operation - the drama of transplant surgery is well known. But what happens before and after the surgery? In Transplanting Care, Laura L. Heinemann examines the daily lives of midwestern organ transplant patients and those who care for them, from pretransplant preparations through to the long posttransplant recovery.

Chronicles changes in Catholic hospitals during the twentieth century, many of which are emblematic of trends in the US healthcare system. It explores the Church's struggle to safeguard its religious values, examines the power of women, and the gender disparity in these institutions. These critical transformations are situated within the context of changing Church policy during the 1960s.

Current public health literature suggests that the mentally ill may represent as much as half of the smokers in America. In Smoking Privileges, Laura D. Hirshbein highlights the complex problem of mentally ill smokers, placing it in the context of changes in psychiatry, in the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries, and in the experience of mental illness over the last century.

Fighting around the globe, American soldiers were at high risk for contracting malaria, yet quinine - a natural cure - became harder to acquire. This historical study shows the roots and branches of an enormous drug development project during World War II.

Offers an analysis of public health and family welfare through the lens of the tuberculosis preventorium. This book explains how the child-saving themes embedded in the preventorium movement continue to shape children's health care delivery and family policy in the United States.