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Talking Therapy
Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing
By Kylie Smith
Rutgers University Press
Talking Therapy traces the rise of modern psychiatric nursing in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Through an analysis of the relationship between nurses and other mental health professions, with an emphasis on nursing scholarship, this book highlights the role of nurses in challenging, and complying with, modern approaches to psychiatry.
Pyrrhic Progress
The History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production
Rutgers University Press
Mass-introduced after 1945, antibiotics helped revolutionize post-war agriculture, but food producers soon became dependent on routine antibiotic use to sustain and increase production. Pyrrhic Progress analyses over half a century of antibiotic use, regulation, and resistance in US and British food production.
Healthcare and Human Dignity
Law Matters
Rutgers University Press
The biases that permeate the American healthcare system are nearly invisible; invisible to all but those they handicap. In Healthcare and Human Dignity, law professor Frank McClellan recounts the experiences of some such individuals and highlights the importance of establishing a healthcare system that prioritizes human dignity.
Medicine over Mind
Mental Health Practice in the Biomedical Era
Rutgers University Press
In an era in which the medicalization of mental health troubles and treatment has been settled for several decades, little is known about how this biomedical framework affects practitioners’ experiences. This book explores how practitioners make sense of a field that has shifted rapidly in just a few decades.
Toxic Exposures
Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States
Rutgers University Press
Toxic Exposures tells the shocking story of how the United States and its allies intentionally subjected thousands of their own servicemen to mustard gas as part of their preparation for chemical warfare. Drawing from once-classified government records, military reports, scientists’ papers, and veterans’ testimony, Susan L. Smith assesses the poisonous legacies of these experiments, including scientific racism and environmental degradation. In addition, she reveals their surprising impact on the origins of chemotherapy as cancer treatment and the development of veterans’ rights movements.
When the Air Became Important
A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries
Rutgers University Press
Janet Greenlees examines the working environments of the heartlands of the British and American cotton textile industries from the nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. She 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.
Lost
Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America
Rutgers University Press
In Lost, medical historian Shannon Withycombe weaves together women’s personal writings and doctors’ publications from the 1820s through the 1910s to investigate the transformative changes in how Americans conceptualized pregnancy, understood miscarriage, and interpreted fetal tissue over the course of the nineteenth century. What emerges from Withycombe’s work is unlike most medicalization narratives.
Prelude to Hospice
Florence Wald, Dying People, and their Families
Rutgers University Press
Award-winning medical historian Emily K. Abel provides insight into several important issues surrounding the growth of hospice care, including the relationships between doctors and patients at a time when a growing number of patients began to feel emboldened to challenge medical authority, demanding information about diagnosis and treatment and participation in decision-making.
Children and Drug Safety
Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America
Rutgers University Press
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.
Rest Uneasy
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth-Century America
Rutgers University Press
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. Brittany Cowgill chronicles and assesses Americans’ fraught but consequential efforts to explain and conquer SIDS.
Lady Lushes
Gender, Alcoholism, and Medicine in Modern America
Rutgers University Press
In Lady Lushes, 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—including medical literature, archival materials, popular media, and autobiographical writings of alcoholic women—to demonstrate the persistence of the belief that alcohol use is antithetical to an idealized feminine role.
Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat
The Origins of School Lunch in the United States
Rutgers University Press
Historian A. R. Ruis explores the origins of American school meal initiatives to explain why it has been so difficult to establish meal programs that satisfy the often competing interests of children, parents, schools, health authorities, politicians, and the food industry.
Frederick Novy and the Development of Bacteriology in Medicine
Rutgers University Press
Medical historian, medical researcher, and clinician Powel H. Kazanjian uses Novy’s archived letters, laboratory notebooks, lecture notes, and published works to examine medical research and educational activities at the University of Michigan and other key medical schools during a formative period in modern U.S. medical science.
Nursing with a Message
Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City
Rutgers University Press
Nursing with a Message transports readers to New York City in the 1920s and 1930s, charting the rise and fall of two community health centers. Patricia D’Antonio examines the day-to-day operations of these clinics, as well as the community outreach work done by nurses who visited schools, churches, and homes. Assessing both the successes and failures of these public health projects, she also traces their legacy in shaping both the best and worst elements of today’s primary care system.
Communities of Health Care Justice
Rutgers University Press
U.S. health care has often been conceived as a social good, and more specifically as a national good. Communities of Health Care Justice presents an alternate model, making a powerful ethical argument for why smaller communities—bound together by culture, religion, gender, race, and place—should be regarded as critical moral actors that play key roles in defining and upholding just health policy. Furthermore, it outlines the systemic, conceptual, and structural changes required to move toward this health care justice.
Selling Science
Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin
Rutgers University Press
In Selling Science, medical historian Stephen E. Mawdsley recounts the untold story of the first large clinical trial to control polio, using 55,000 healthy children. The value of the proposed experiment was questioned by many prominent health professionals, but as Mawdsley points out, compromise and coercion moved it forward. He shows that at a time when most Americans trusted scientists, their mutual encounter under the auspices of conquering disease was shaped by politics, marketing, and at times, deception.
Transplanting Care
Shifting Commitments in Health and Care in the United States
Rutgers University Press
Transplanting Care examines the daily lives of midwestern organ transplant patients and their caregivers, from pretransplant preparations through to the long posttransplant recovery. Drawing on scores of interviews with patients, relatives, and healthcare professionals, Laura L. Heinemann follows a variety of patients and loved ones as they undertake this difficult “transplant journey” while coping with a paucity of resources for caregiving.
Privacy and the Past
Research, Law, Archives, Ethics
Rutgers University Press
In Privacy and the Past, medical historian Susan C. Lawrence explores the impact of research ethics and increasing privacy concerns on the study of history, offering insight into what historians should do when they research, write about, and name real people in their work. Engagingly written and powerfully argued, this book is an important first step in preventing privacy regulations from affecting the historical record and the ways that historians help us understand ourselves.
American Catholic Hospitals
A Century of Changing Markets and Missions
Rutgers University Press
In American Catholic Hospitals, Barbra Mann Wall chronicles changes in Catholic hospitals during the twentieth century. Wall explores the Church's struggle to safeguard its religious values. As hospital leaders reacted to increased political, economic, and societal secularization, they extended their religious principles in the areas of universal health care and adherence to the Ethical and Religious Values in Catholic Hospitals, leading to tensions between the Church, government, and society. Wall undertakes unprecedented analyses of the gendered politics of post-Second Vatican Council Catholic hospitals, as well as the effect of social movements on the practice of medicine.
Smoking Privileges
Psychiatry, the Mentally Ill, and the Tobacco Industry in America
Rutgers University Press
The mentally ill may represent as much as half of the smokers in America. In a groundbreaking look at this little-known public health problem, Smoking Privileges offers an insightful historical account of the intersection of smoking and mental illness, placing this issue in the context of changes in psychiatry, in the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries, and in the experience of mental illness over the last century.
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