Piemonte examines the preoccupation in medicine with cure over care, arguing that the traditional focus on biological intervention keeps medicine from addressing the complex realities of patient suffering...

Carlin critically engages Beauchamp and Childress by revisiting the role of religion in bioethics and argues that pastoral theologians can enrich moral imagination in bioethics by cultivating an aesthetic sensibility...

Webel tells a history of colonial interventions among three communities of the Great Lakes region of East Africa...

Buer explores the gendered inequalities that situate women’s encounters with substance abuse treatment as well as additional state interventions targeted at women who use drugs in one of the most impoverished regions in the US....

This book sits right at the intersection of all three of these subfields and contributes to our understanding of the lived experience of religion, the lived experience of gender, ideas about ‘nature,’ and, of course, the history of medicine...

Among the tens of thousands of Americans who volunteered their services during the Civil War was Mary Walker, a daring young woman who was one of the handful of female doctors in the nation at that time...

Bachynski examines American football from its origins from the perspective of a public health specialist and an historian...

Sáenz follows the trajectory of physicians in their quest for the professionalization of medicine in Mexico...

Messac challenges the inevitability of inadequate social services in twentieth-century Africa, focusing on the political history of Malawi...

The facts surrounding how male-centric medicine impacts women's health every day are chilling...

Of the many medical specializations to transform themselves during the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received relatively little attention from historians...

Weiner argues that joy in medicine requires more than idealistic aspirations―it demands a capacity to see past the "otherness" that separates the well from the sick,...

Bian offers a beautiful cultural history of pharmacy in early modern China..

Kimball argues that, despite stigma and continued legal prohibitions, practices and attitudes surrounding abortion have changed in urban Bolivia since the 1950s..

Johnson and Quinlan investigates the storied history of mothering advice in the media...

Perelman examines the consequences of Japan’s decision not to tackle the tuberculosis epidemic that ravaged the country during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth....

In 1883, a young woman named Anandi Joshi set out from her native India to the United States to study medicine..,

Gelber examines several athletes through the prism of the “Cobra Effect, ”a phenomenon that occurs when an attempted solution to a problem results in an unintended consequence...

Dolmage links anti-immigration rhetoric to eugenics—the flawed “science” of controlling human population based on racist and ableist ideas about bodily values...

Schwartz details the decade she spend taking Adderall to help her pay attention (or so she thought)...

An interview with Martin Edwards

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Stevens uses the 1833 Cholera epidemic that devastated independent Mexico as his his point of departure, this is not primarily a medical history...

Though his advice has saved the lives of millions of people, the name Ignaz Semmelweis is not one commonly known today...