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The editors of the Rochester Studies in Medical History series seek to bring to our readers publications that will advance an understanding of health, illness, and healing in a broad historical context. The series seeks to support projects especially that promise to elucidate the history of public health and health policy, the history of clinical and investigative medicine, and the history of the biomedical sciences and their application to practice, as well as works that deepen our historical appreciation of the cultural and social significance of medicine and disease.

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37 results in Rochester Studies in Medical History

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Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic
  • Sarah E. Naramore
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 January 2024
    Print publication:
    20 June 2023
  • A close look at the medical and social theories of prominent Philadelphia physician Benjamin Rush and how they influenced American medicine in the years following the Revolutionary War.

Reimagining Psychiatric Epidemiology in a Global Frame
  • Toward a Social and Conceptual History
  • Edited by Anne M. Lovell, Gerald M. Oppenheimer
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    15 February 2024
    Print publication:
    03 June 2022
  • Examines psychiatric epidemiology's unique evolution, conceptually and socially, within and between diverse regions and cultures, underscoring its growing influence on the biopolitics of nations and worldwide health campaigns.

The Filth Disease
  • Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England
  • Jacob Steere-Williams
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    18 January 2023
    Print publication:
    15 November 2020
  • Shows how the investigation of local outbreaks of typhoid fever in Victorian Britain led to the emergence of the modern discipline of epidemiology as the leading science of public health.

Sickness in the Workhouse
  • Poor Law Medical Care in Provincial England, 1834–1914
  • Volume 48
  • Alistair Ritch
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 March 2020
    Print publication:
    01 November 2019
  • Sickness in the Workhouse illuminates the role of workhouse medicine in caring for England's poor, bringing sick paupers from the margins of society and placing them centre stage.

Surgical Repair of the Arteries in War and Peace, 1880–1960
  • Justin Barr
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    29 March 2020
    Print publication:
    01 November 2019
  • Examining the history of arterial repair, Of Life and Limb investigates the process of surgical innovation by exploring the social, technological, institutional, and martial dynamics shaping the introduction and adoption of a new operation.

The Hidden Affliction
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections and Infertility in History
  • Edited by Simon Szreter
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 March 2020
    Print publication:
    01 October 2019
  • Multidisciplinary collection of essays on the relationship of infertility and the historic" STIS--gonorrhea chlamydia and syphilis--producing surprising new insights in studies from across the globe and spanning millennia."

China and the Globalization of Biomedicine

Explorations in Baltic Medical History, 1850–2015

Fit to Practice
  • Empire, Race, Gender, and the Making of British Medicine, 1850–1980
  • Douglas M. Haynes
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 May 2021
    Print publication:
    01 November 2017
  • Traces the history of the British General Medical Council to reveal the persistence of hierarchies of gender, national identity, and race in determining who was fit to practice British medicine.

Reasoning against Madness
  • Psychiatry and the State in Rio de Janeiro, 1830–1944
  • Manuella Meyer
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 June 2021
    Print publication:
    20 June 2017
  • Examines the emergence of Brazilian psychiatry during a period of national regeneration, demonstrating how sociopolitical negotiations can shape psychiatric professionalization.

The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences
  • Technique, Technology, Therapy
  • Edited by Stephen T. Casper, Delia Gavrus
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 May 2021
    Print publication:
    01 June 2017
  • How did epidemics, zoos, German exiles, methamphetamine, disgruntled technicians, modern bureaucracy, museums, and whipping cream shape the emergence of modern neuroscience?

Technological Change in Modern Surgery
  • Historical Perspectives on Innovation
  • Edited by Thomas Schlich, Christopher Crenner
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 June 2021
    Print publication:
    15 May 2017
  • Examining the complex dynamics of medical treatment options and the variable character of surgical technologies, this volume broadens and transcends the notion of technological innovation.

Setting Nutritional Standards
  • Theory, Policies, Practices
  • Edited by Elizabeth Neswald, David F. Smith, Ulrike Thoms, Elizabth Neswald, Ulrike Thomas
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    18 April 2018
    Print publication:
    28 February 2017
  • Suzanne Junod's essay "Proscribing Deception": The Gould Net Weight Amendment and the Origins of Mandatory Nutrition Labeling" is the winner of the 2017 Charles Thomson Prize of the Society for the History of the Federal Government. In the second half of the nineteenth century, ways of thinking about food changed as chemists and physiologists identified nutrients and bodily needs and as urbanization, industrialization, and colonial encounters challenged traditional dietary customs and assumptions. Emerging as a reaction to concerns about industrial and military power, social welfare, and public health, the science of nutrition sought to define the norms and needs of variable human bodies, setting standards for bodies and foods that would enable physicians and politicians to develop nutritional recommendations and food policies for individuals and populations. Setting Nutritional Standards brings together authors from a variety of disciplines to explore perspectives on the theory, practices, and policies of modern nutrition science from the 1860s to the 1960s. The essays place the new science of nutrition within the changing social landscapes of Western Europe and the United States at the intersection of medicine, policy, social reform agendas, and public health initiatives. CONTRIBUTORS: Nick Cullather, Suzanne Junod, Deborah Neill, Elizabeth Neswald, David F. Smith, Ulrike Thoms, Corinna Treitel, Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska Elizabeth Neswald is associate professor for the history of science and technology at Brock University, Canada. David F. Smith is Honorary Senior Lecturer in the history of medicine at the University of Aberdeen. Ulrike Thoms is a historian of science and researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem, 1936–1968
  • Volume 36
  • Dennis A. Doyle
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    13 July 2019
    Print publication:
    20 October 2016
  • Reveals the history of the individuals who worked to make psychiatry more available to Harlem's black community in the early Civil Rights Era.

Healthy Boundaries
  • Property, Law, and Public Health in England and Wales, 1815–1872
  • James G. Hanley
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    07 May 2022
    Print publication:
    01 June 2016
  • Argues that the legacies of Victorian public health in England and Wales were not just better health and cleaner cities but also new ideas of property, liability, and community.

The Antivaccine Heresy
  • Jacobson v. Massachusetts and the Troubled History of Compulsory Vaccination in the United States
  • Karen L. Walloch
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 May 2021
    Print publication:
    15 December 2015
  • Most people today celebrate vaccination as a great achievement, yet many nineteenth-century Americans opposed it, so much in fact that states had to make vaccination compulsory. In response, antivaccination societies formed all over the United States, lobbying state legislatures and bringing lawsuits to abolish these laws. One such lawsuit ultimately arrived at the United States Supreme Court, which upheld the laws in a landmark decision, Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905). In this study, Karen Walloch examines the history of vaccine development in the United States, the laws put in place enjoining the practice, and the popular reaction against them. Walloch finds that at the end of the nineteenth century Americans had good reason to fear vaccination. Vaccines simply did not live upto claims made for their safety and effectiveness. They induced pain, disability, and grim or even fatal infections. In this critical history of the antivaccine movement and of Jacobson v. Massachusetts in particular, Walloch locates the beginnings of a legacy of doubt about vaccination -- one that affected legislation in all fifty states and is still very much alive today.

    Karen Walloch is a historian who teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Intrusive Interventions
  • Public Health, Domestic Space, and Infectious Disease Surveillance in England, 1840-1914
  • Graham Mooney
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    14 March 2018
    Print publication:
    15 October 2015
  • The politics of public health in modern democracies concerns the balance between rights and responsibilities. This equilibrium of citizenship is under perpetual negotiation, but it was particularly intense in mid-nineteenth-century Britain when public health became deeply embedded as a state practice. Using extensive archival research, Intrusive Interventions examines the contested realm ofVictorian liberal subjectivity through an interconnected group of policies: infectious disease reporting, domestic quarantine, mandatory removal to isolation hospital, contact tracing, and the disinfection of homes and belongings. These techniques of infectious disease surveillance eventually became one of the most powerful and controversial set of tools in modern public health.

    One of the crucial questions for liberal democracies has been how the state relates to the private family in shaping duties, responsibilities, rights, and needs. Intrusive Interventions argues that thegaze of public health was retrained onto everyday behaviors and demonstrates that infectious disease surveillance attempted to govern through the agency of family and through the concept of domesticity. This fresh interpretation of public health practice during the Victorian and Edwardian periods complements studies that have examined domestic visiting, the infant welfare movement, child protection, and school welfare.

    Graham Mooney is an assistant professor at the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.

Infections, Chronic Disease, and the Epidemiological Transition
  • A New Perspective
  • Alexander Mercer
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    14 March 2018
    Print publication:
    30 December 2014
  • This volume examines the ongoing, worldwide epidemiological transition in which acute infectious diseases are being superseded by chronic diseases as the predominant causes of morbidity and mortality; age at death has shifted from childhood to older adult ages; and life expectancy, population, and the proportion of older people are increasing. This transition constitutes a fundamental change in the human condition, and an understanding of the historical process behind it is thus of major importance. This study is the first to document the transition in a single country, drawing on records of cause-specific mortality since the eighteenth century in England, with comparative data from other Western countries. Alexander Mercer discusses possible causes of specific disease trends, reassessing the relative importance of "health interventions" and "standard of living" as determinants of increased life expectancy, and presents a new theory of how chronic diseases have developed. As specific microorganisms have been established as causal agents in chronic diseases that account for a significant proportion of "premature" deaths, the study suggests that a new conceptualization of the epidemiological transition is required, one that takes into account interrelationships between infectious diseases, between infections and chronic diseases, and between disorders underlying different chronic diseases. Alexander Mercer is an independent researcher and the author of Disease, Mortality and Population in Transition: Epidemiological-Demographic Change in England Since the EighteenthCentury as Part of a Global Phenomenon.

The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919
  • Perspectives from the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas
  • With contributions by María-Isabel Porras-Gallo , Ryan A. Davi , Mercedes Pascual Artiaga , Catherine Belling , Josep Bernabeu-Mestre , Esteban Domingo , Magda Fahrni , Hernán Feldman , Pilar León-Sanz , Maria Luísa Lima , Maria deFátima Nunes , Anny Jackeline Torres Silveira , José Manuel Sobral , Paulo Silveira e Sousa and Christiane Maria Cruz de Souza
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    14 March 2018
    Print publication:
    15 November 2014
  • The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 sheds new light on what the World Health Organization described as "the single most devastating infectious disease outbreak ever recorded" by situating the Iberian Peninsula as the key point of connection, both epidemiologically and discursively, between Europe and the Americas. The essays in this volume elucidate specific aspects of the pandemic that have received minimal attention until now, including social control, gender, class, religion, national identity, and military medicine's reactions to the pandemic and its relationship with civilian medicine, all in the context of World War I. As the authors point out, however, the experiences of 1918-19 remain persistently relevant to contemporary life, particularly in view of events such as the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic. Contributors: Mercedes Pascual Artiaga, Catherine Belling, Josep Bernabeu-Mestre, Ryan A, Davis, Esteban Domingo, Magda Fahrni, Hernán Feldman, Pilar León-Sanz, Maria Luísa Lima, Maria deFátima Nunes, María-Isabel Porras-Gallo, Anny Jackeline Torres Silveira, José Manuel Sobral, Paulo Silveira e Sousa, Christiane Maria Cruz de Souza. María-Isabel Porras-Gallo is Professor of History of Science in the Medical Faculty of Ciudad Real at the University of Castile-La Mancha (Spain). She is the author of Un reto para la sociedad madrileña: la epidemia de gripe de 1918-1919 and co-editor of El drama de la polio. Un problema social y familiar en la España franquista. Ryan A. Davis is Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Illinois State University. He is the author of The Spanish Flu: Narrative and Cultural Identity in Spain, 1918.

Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States
  • A History of a Medical Treatment
  • Sarah B. Rodriguez
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    14 March 2018
    Print publication:
    15 October 2014
  • In the nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, American physicians treated women and girls for masturbation by removing the clitoris (clitoridectomy) or clitoral hood (female circumcision). During this same time, and continuing to today, physicians also performed female circumcision to enable women to reach orgasm. While the opposite purposes of these clitoral surgeries (to either contain a perceived excessive sexuality or to remedy a perceived lack of sexual responsiveness) may seem paradoxical, their use reflects a consistent medical conception of the clitoris as a sexual organ. In recent years both the popular media and academics have commented on the rising popularity in the United States of female genital cosmetic surgeries, including female circumcision, yet these discussions often assume such surgeries are new. In Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States: A History of a Medical Treatment, Sarah Rodriguez presents an engaging and surprising history of surgeries on the clitoris, revealing what the therapeutic use of clitoridectomy and female circumcision tells us about changing (and not so changing) medical ideas concerning the female body and female sexuality. Sarah B. Rodriguez teaches at Northwestern University in the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program and in the Global Health Studies Program.

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