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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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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.

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.

Public Health and the Risk Factor
  • A History of an Uneven Medical Revolution
  • William G. Rothstein
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    22 March 2023
    Print publication:
    01 May 2003
  • A look at how the concept of 'risk factor' has influenced public health and preventive medicine, with an emphasis upon the study of heart disease.

The Mechanization of the Heart
  • Harvey and Descartes
  • Thomas Fuchs
  • Translated by Marjorie Grene
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 March 2023
    Print publication:
    01 November 2001
  • In Mechanization of the Heart: Harvey and Descartes Thomas Fuchs discusses the similarities and differences of the views of the two seventeenth-century scholars William Harvey and Rene Descartes on the beat and circulation of the blood; Fuchs traces the reception of the two views in the medical literature of the time and the influence both views had.

Rockefeller Money, the Laboratory and Medicine in Edinburgh 1919-1930
  • New Science in an Old Country
  • Christopher Lawrence
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 March 2023
    Print publication:
    24 August 2005
  • This book examines the Rockefeller Foundation's attempts to introduce the laboratory sciences, particularly biochemistry, into the Edinburgh medical world of the 1920s.

Venereal Disease, Hospitals and the Urban Poor
  • London's 'Foul Wards,' 1600-1800
  • Kevin P. Siena
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 March 2023
    Print publication:
    28 February 2004
  • A re-examination of the role of charity and treating venereal disease in public hospitals in early modern London.

Marriage of Convenience
  • Rockefeller International Health and Revolutionary Mexico
  • Anne-Emanuelle Birn
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 March 2023
    Print publication:
    15 August 2006
  • Offers a nuanced analysis of the interaction between the Rockefeller Foundation's International Health Division and Mexico's Departamento de Salubridad Pública as they jointly promoted public health through campaigns against yellow fever and hookworm disease, organized cooperative rural health units, and educated public health professionals in North American universities and Mexican training stations.

Charles Nicolle, Pasteur's Imperial Missionary
  • Typhus and Tunisia
  • Kim Pelis
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 March 2023
    Print publication:
    20 April 2006
  • Kim Pelis uses a wide range of French and Tunisian archival materials and a close reading of Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist Charles Nicolle's scientific papers and philosophical treatises to explore the relationship of science and medicine to society and culture in the first third of the twentieth century.

The Origins of Organ Transplantation
  • Surgery and Laboratory Science, 1880-1930
  • Thomas Schlich
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 February 2023
    Print publication:
    01 December 2010
  • A history of the little-known or forgotten academic origins of modern organ transplant surgery.

Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China
  • Xiaoping Fang
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    14 February 2023
    Print publication:
    01 December 2012
  • The first study in English that examines barefoot doctors in China from the perspective of the social history of medicine.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Explorations in Baltic Medical History, 1850–2015

China and the Globalization of Biomedicine

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.

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