Testing Baby
The Transformation of Newborn Screening, Parenting, and Policymaking
Testing Baby is the first book to draw on parents’ experiences with newborn screening in order to examine its far-reaching sociological consequences. Newborn screening occurs almost always without parents’ consent and often without their knowledge or understanding, yet it has the power to alter such things as family dynamics at the household level, the context of parenting, the way we manage disease identity, and how parents’ interests are understood and solicited in policy debates. Rachel Grob’s cautionary tale explores the powerful ways that parents’ narratives have shaped this emotionally charged policy arena.
Neurasthenic Nation
America's Search for Health, Happiness, and Comfort, 1869-1920
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 “modernity.” 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 “neurasthenic nation”—a place where people saw their personal health as inextricably tied to the pitfalls and possibilities of a changing world.
Patients as Policy Actors
Patients as Policy Actors
An Alternative History of Hyperactivity
Food Additives and the Feingold Diet
Fit to Be Tied
Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980
Medical Professionalism in the New Information Age
Medical Professionalism in the New Information Age
Health Issues in Latino Males
A Social and Structural Approach
Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence
Conundrums in Modern American Medicine
Practice Under Pressure
Primary Care Physicians and Their Medicine in the Twenty-first Century
Making Room in the Clinic
Nurse Practitioners and the Evolution of Modern Health Care
Cultivating Health
Los Angeles Women and Public Health Reform
Cultivating Health, an interdisciplinary chronicle, details women's impact on remaking health policy, despite the absence of government support. Combining primary source and municipal archival research with comfortable prose, Jennifer Lisa Koslow explores community nursing, housing reform, milk sanitation, childbirth, and the campaign against venereal disease in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Los Angeles. She demonstrates how women implemented health care reform and civic programs while laying the groundwork for a successful transition of responsibility back to government.
From Pink to Green
Disease Prevention and the Environmental Breast Cancer Movement
Medical Research for Hire
The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials
Under the Radar
Cancer and the Cold War
Doctors Serving People
Restoring Humanism to Medicine through Student Community Service
The Contested Boundaries of American Public Health
The Truth About Health Care
Why Reform is Not Working in America
Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion
A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles
Abel’s revealing account provides a critical lens through which to view both the contemporary debate about immigration and the U.S. response to the emergent global tuberculosis epidemic.