...Deborah E. Harkness Copyright © 1999 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1999 Beyond Midwives: Teaching Gender, Science, and Medicine from Antiquity to the Present Deborah E. Harkness Scientific illiteracy, we are told...

...Philippa Levine Copyright © 1999 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1999 The Culture of Medicine and the Culture of the Academy Philippa Levine When I began to consider teaching in the history of medicine...

...Katherine Sherwood 2006 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2006 TEACHING RADICAL HISTORY Art, Medicine, and Disability Katherine Sherwood I first became acquainted with the field of disability studies in 2000, when I was invited to join the board...

...Elizabeth Fee 1984 The Social History of the Hospital: From Charity Care to the Management of Medicine: A Review Essay Elizabeth Fee Morris J. Vogel, The Invention of the Modern...

...Naomi Rogers 2001 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2001 02-RHR 80 Rogers.btw 5/15/01 5:20 PM Page 5 “Caution: The AMA May Be Dangerous to Your Health”: The Student Health Organizations (SHO) and American Medicine...

...Alejandra Bronfman This essay will use the documentation surrounding the objects displayed in Cuba's Museum of Legal Medicine (among them, an “ aero buey fantastico ” made out of bread crumbs by inmates at Havana's Hospital for the Demented) to examine the logics that bound ethnography, medicine...

...Suman Seth It was once not uncommon for histories of colonial science and medicine to draw on postcolonial theory. Today one finds many fewer such histories, despite the growing popularity of postcolonial science studies. This essay seeks to understand why and to make the case for expanding...

...: the police museum. Alejandra Bronfman, Lila Caimari, and Robert Buffington, specialists in Cuba, Argentina, and Mexico, respectively, guide us through a selection of five police museums: one in Havana that played a crucial role in legal medicine and developing ideas about race during Cuba's Republican period...

... Medicine and funded by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company. Mitman reveals how Harvard's ethnographic film footage, which constitutes some of the only surviving visual media of early twentieth-century inland Liberians, raises complex questions about film's relationship to national memory and local...

... of medicine have generally been associated with medical schools and, by and large, they have been trained as physicians first and historians second. As often as not, the lone medical historian has taken up the field after receiving his medical degree or, at times, after retiring from the practice...

... asked towards the end of a meeting of my seminar on the history of medicine. I was partly prepared to encounter this attitude. I put a great deal of emphasis on patients’ experiences of medicine, and on the social factors that influence getting sick, paths to treatment, and the nature...

... a black man might fear the police and that is why Rodney King felt he could not stop,” a white student observed in class on 28 April 1992-the day after the Simi Valley verdicts had been announced. His comment came in a class, “Race, American Medicine, and Public Health,” which I usually teach...

... of medicine is an important component of radical history, revealing the struggles over power to define and control human bodies. Courses in medical history should offer insight into these strug- gles, as do those discussed in this issue of ”Teaching Radical History One of the most compelling reasons...

..., 1930–50. Claudia Marie Calhoon currently serves as program officer for the Medicine as a Profession Program at the Open Society Institute in New York City. In 2000, she completed her M.P.H. in the Program in the History of Medicine and Public Health...

... Science. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993. $15.95 (paper). Susan Lederer, Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America Before the Second World War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. $32.95 (cloth). Lisa Cartwright, Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine’s Visual...

.... Moreover, the assistants struggled, ultimately unsuccessfully, to develop a synthetic approach to their work with Zulu people that combined a belief in the power and efficacy of West- ern medicine with an understanding of the need to adapt it to the local context...

...' Organization, Inc. 2011 food, medicine, and the state Nutritional Governmentality Food and the Politics of Health in Late Imperial and Republican China Mark Swislocki The idea of a historical transformation from a condition of premodern food scar- city to one of potential plenty remains...

... with sponsorship from Firestone. The date is July 21, 1926. Max Theiler, who would go on to win the 1951 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine for pioneering work on the development of a yellow-fever vaccine, holds the pricked ear of a Kru boy Mitman and Erickson | Latex...

...-such that the term came to include first medicine and law, and then nearly everyone-is a recapitulation of the history of work in Western c~untries.~The word “profession” is not a mere reflection of this history, but an integral and active part of it. The term is a reminder of the way in which each succeed...

... for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in Medicine and Associate Professor of the History of Medicine and Family Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. She is currently writing a book on the history of black women physicians. Paul Halliday is Assistant Professor of History at Union...