By Monica H. Green (NHC Fellow, 1996–97) In this collection of seven major essays (one of them published here for the first time), Monica Green argues that a history of women's healthcare in medieval western Europe has not yet been written because it cannot yet be written – the vast majority of texts relating to … Continued
By Peter Keating (NHC Fellow, 2000–01) Since the end of World War II, biology and medicine have merged in remarkably productive ways. In this book Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio analyze the transformation of medicine into biomedicine and its consequences, ranging from the recasting of hospital architecture to the redefinition of the human body, disease, … Continued
By Martin Summers (NHC Fellow, 2013–14) From the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Saint Elizabeths Hospital was one of the United States' most important institutions for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. Founded in 1855 to treat insane soldiers and sailors as well as civilian residents in the nation's capital, the institution … Continued
By Darlene Clark Hine (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) This pathbreaking study analyzes the impact of racism on the development of the nursing profession, particularly on black women in the profession, during the first half of this century. Hine uncovers shameful episodes in nursing history and probes the nature and extent of racial conflict and cooperation in … Continued
By Monica H. Green (NHC Fellow, 1996–97) Making Women's Medicine Masculine challenges the common belief that prior to the eighteenth century men were never involved in any aspect of women's healthcare in Europe. Using sources ranging from the writings of the famous twelfth-century female practitioner, Trota of Salerno, all the way to the great tomes of … Continued
By Gregg Mitman (NHC Fellow, 2004–05; 2020–21) Allergy is the sixth leading cause of chronic illness in the United States. More than fifty million Americans suffer from allergies, and they spend an estimated $18 billion coping with them. Yet despite advances in biomedicine and enormous investment in research over the past fifty years, the burden … Continued
By Margaret Humphreys (NHC Fellow, 2004–05) The Civil War was the greatest health disaster the United States has ever experienced, killing more than a million Americans and leaving many others invalided or grieving. Poorly prepared to care for wounded and sick soldiers as the war began, Union and Confederate governments scrambled to provide doctoring and … Continued
By Sherman Cochran (NHC Fellow, 2002–03) In this book, Sherman Cochran reconsiders the nature and role of consumer culture in the spread of cultural globalization. He moves beyond traditional debates over Western influence on non-Western cultures to examine the points where Chinese entrepreneurs and Chinese-owned businesses interacted with consumers. Focusing on the marketing of medicine, he shows … Continued
By Harmon L. Smith (NHC Fellow, 1982–83) This volume moves beyond ethics as problem-solving or ethics as etiquette to offer a look at ethics in primary care—as opposed to life-or-death—medical care. Professional Ethics and Primary Care Medicine deals with the ethics of routine, day-to-day encounters between doctors and patients. It probes beneath the hard decisions to look … Continued
By Helmut Müller-Sievers (NHC Fellow, 1994–95) The most extensive surviving text by Georg Büchner is the "Treatise on the Barbel's Nervous System" from 1836. Helmut Müller-Sievers places it at the center of his investigations into the connection between anatomy and poetry. We begin with reflections on the problem of orientation in the 18th and early 19th … Continued