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The 1960s revolutionized American contraceptive practice. Diaphragms, jellies, and condoms with high failure rates gave way to newer choices of the Pill, IUD, and sterilization. This book provides a history of sterilization and what would prove to become, at once, socially divisive and a popular form of birth control.

From the early 1980s, the US environmental breast cancer movement has championed the goal of eradicating the disease by emphasizing the importance of reducing - even eliminating - exposure to chemicals and toxins. This work chronicles the movement's disease prevention philosophy from the beginning.

This is at once a history of United States dentistry and a study of a billion-dollar industry. Alyssa Picard chronicles the forces that limited Americans' access to dental care in the early twentieth century and the ways dentists worked to expand that access - and improve the public image of their profession.

Neurasthenic Nation investigates how the concept of neurasthenia, the ill effects of modern civilization such as insomnia or impotence, helped doctors and patients, men and women, and advertisers and consumers negotiate changes commonly associated with ï¿¿modernity.ï¿¿ Combining a survey of medical and popular literature on neurasthenia with original research into rare archives of personal letters, patient records, and corporate files, David Schuster charts the emergence of a ï¿¿neurasthenic nationï¿¿â€"a place where people saw their personal health as inextricably tied to the pitfalls and possibilities of a changing world.

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.

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.

Using interviews with forty-three practitioners in the New York City area, this book offers insight into how the medical model maintains its dominant role in mental health treatment. Smith explores how practitioners grapple with available treatment models, and make sense of a field that has shifted rapidly in just a few decades.

Examines the working environments of the heartlands of the British and American cotton textile industries from the nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. Janet Greenlees contends that the air quality within these pioneering workplaces was a key contributor to the health of the wider communities of which they were a part.

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 discrete medical enigma and a source of social anxiety construed differently over time and according to varying perspectives.

This book traces the development, use, and marketing of drugs for children in the twentieth century. It illuminates the historical dimension of a clinical and policy issue with great contemporary significance--many of the drugs administered to children today have never been tested for safety and efficacy in the pediatric population.

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.

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.

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.

The ability to obtain health care is fundamental to the security, stability, and well-being of poor families. Drawing upon statistical data and interviews with over five hundred families in Oregon, this work assesses the ways in which welfare reform affects the well-being of adults and children who leave the program for work.

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.