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Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health …

WEBJudith A. Houck. Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement. University of Chicago Press, 2024. Highlights local history to tell a national …

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Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of …

WEBJudith W. Leavitt (Co-editor). Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health. Vol. Third Edition, Revised, University of Wisconsin Press, …

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Judith Houck Publishes New Book: Looking Through the Speculum

WEBThe University of Chicago Press has published Professor Judith Houck’s new book, Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement. …

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The Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers and History in Latin America

WEBPablo F. Gómez (Editor), and Diego Armus (Editor). The Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers and History in Latin America. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Health practitioners …

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The Healthiest City: Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform

WEBJudith W. Leavitt. The Healthiest City: Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform. Vol. Wisconsin Edition, University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. Between 1850 and 1900, …

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History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

WEBThe UW-Madison Department of the History of Science is one of the largest and oldest academic programs of its kind in the United States. It offers an undergraduate major and …

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HEALTH MEDICINE and HEALING in AFRICA

WEBWeek 3 (2/11): Healers, Healing, and Community Reading Kwasi Konadu, Our Own Way in this Part of the World: Biography of an African Community ** Reminder: Please attend …

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Keller, Richard C. – Department of History – UW–Madison

[email protected]. 608.263.7378. Office: 1423 Medical Science Center. Curriculum Vitae (pdf) Joint Appointment: Medical History & Bioethics.

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Raising the Living Dead: Rehabilitative

WEBAlberto Ortiz. Raising the Living Dead: Rehabilitative Corrections in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. The University of Chicago Press, 2023. An eye-opening look at how …

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Prophetess of Health: A Study of Ellen G. White

WEBRonald Numbers. Prophetess of Health: A Study of Ellen G. White. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008. Respected historian of science Ronald Numbers here …

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Lederer, Susan E. – Department of History – UW–Madison

WEB“Dark Victory: Cancer and Popular Hollywood Film,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 81 (2007), 94-115. “Experimentation on Human Beings,” Organization of American …

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New Faculty Member in Medical History and Bioethics

WEBProfessor Dana Landress has joined the Department of History as an Assistant Professor of Medical History and Bioethics. She is a historian of 19th and 20th …

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Gómez, Pablo F. – Department of History – UW–Madison

WEBPablo F. Gómez, “[Un] Muffled Histories: Translating Bodily Practices in the Early Modern Caribbean.” Osiris 37, no. 1 (2022): 233-250. “Domingo de la Ascensión and the Criollo …

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History 861: The History of Health and Healing in Africa

WEB7 G.W. Hartwig and K.D. Patterson (eds.), Disease in African History Nancy Hunt, A Colonial Lexicon of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo John Illife, …

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Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health

WEBJudith W. Leavitt. Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health. Beacon Press, 1996. She was an Irish immigrant cook. Between 1900 and 1907, she infected twenty-two New …

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NOVA documentary on Typhoid Mary

WEBOn Oct. 12, 2004, PBS aired a NOVA documentary based on Professor Judith Leavitt’s book, Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health. This documentary, “ The Most …

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Department of Medical History and Bioethics University of …

WEB4 4 "Joseph B. DeLee and the Practice of Preventive Obstetrics," American Journal of Public Health, 78 (1988): 1353-59. “The Medicalization of Health and Disease,” Health …

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Tuberculosis Race, Class, & Health

WEBKraut, Alan. Goldberger’s War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader (2003) New York: Hill & Wang Military Health, Polio, & Venereal Disease Crosby, Alfred W. …

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