From: Merril D. Smith/
Douglas Smith <76061.1056@compuserve.com>
15 Aug 1997
Hi everyone:
I just wanted to thank everyone who responded to my query for books to teach a course, the Social History of Medicine. The suggestions for books and also ideas for teaching the course were very helpful. Here is a list I compiled of the books list members suggested (I think I may have missed a few -- sorry!) and some I found while looking around:
Barbara Bates, _Bargaining for Life: A Social History of
Tuberculosis, 1876-1938_ (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press, 1992)
Brandt, No Magic Bullet
James H.Cassady, Medicine in America: A Short History
Susan Cayleff, Wash and Be Healed
Ehrenreigh and English, _For Her own Good: 150 Years of
the Experts' Advice to Women_(Doubleday, 1978)
Marian Faux, Roe v. Wade
Foucault, Michelle _The Birth of the Clinic_
Suzanne Gordon, Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines
Joel Howell, Technology in the Hospital
Jewett, Sarah Orne _A Country Doctor_
Leavitt, Judith Walzer _Brought to Bed; Childbearing in America,
1750-1950_
______________, The Healthiest City
______________, Typhoid Mary
Leavitt, Judith _Women and Health in America_
Leavitt, Judith and Numbers, eds., _Sickness and Health in America_
Lynaugh, Joan E., ed. _Studies in Health, Illness and Caregiving
in America_ (series)
James Mohr, Doctors and the Law
Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Sympathy and Science
Susan Reverby, Ordered to Care
Naomi Rogers, Dirt and Disease
Charles Rosenberg, The Care of Strangers
_________________, The Cholera Years
David Rothman, The Discovery of the Asylum
Rothman, Sheila _Living in the Shadow of Death_
Sharp, Jane _The Midwives Book, or the Whole Art of Midwifery_
(1671) Printout can be ordered from Women Writer's Project at
http://www.wwp.brown.edu
Sanger, Margaret _My Fight for Birth Control_, 1931
Shilts, Randy _And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the
AIDS Epidemic_(Penguin, 1987)
Edward Shorter, From Paralysis to Fatigue
Susan Smith, Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired
Solinger _Wake Up Little Susie_
Sontag, Susan _Illness as a Metaphor_
Paul Starr, The Social Transformation of American Medicine
Ulrich, _A Midwife's Tale_
Other suggestions:
_Our Bodies, Ourselves_
Video of the Jane Project: info/brochures available from Joyce Follet, at Dept. of Liberal Studies, 630 Lowell Hall, 610 Langdon Street. Madison, WI 53703, or leave message at 608-262-1694. E-mail at Joyce.Folett@ccmail.adp.wisc.edu Best wishes to all and thanks again,