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Web Bibliography

This page contains a list of links to related sites followed by a bibliography of suggested print resources.

Global Health Odyssey
http://www.cdc.gov/global

DeWitt Stetten, Jr. Museum of Medical Research, National Institutes of Health
http://www.nih.gov/od/museum

Smithsonian Institution
http://www.si.edu

Medical History Department, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
http://www.usuhs.mil/meh/meh.html

National Museum of Health & Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
http://www.nmhm.washingtondc.museum

National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior
http://www.nps.gov

Social Security History Page
http://www.ssa.gov/history

U.S. Army Center of Military History
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg

American Association for the History of Medicine
http://www.histmed.org

American Historical Association
http://www.theaha.org

American Institute of the History of Pharmacy
http://www.pharmacy.wisc.edu/aihp

Commissioned Officers Association of the USPHS, Inc.
http://www.coausphs.org

History of Science Society
http://www.hssonline.org

Humanities & Social Sciences On-Line Network
http://www.h-net.msu.edu

National Council on Public History
http://www.ncph.org

Oral History Association
http://www.dickinson.edu/oha

Organization of American Historians
http://www.oah.org

Society for History in the Federal Government
http://shfg.org

The Public Health Service, Its Affiliated Institutions and Its Crusaders:

Joycelyn Elders and David Charnoff, Joycelyn Elders, MD: From Sharecropper's Daughter to Surgeon General of the United States, (Morrow).

Elizabeth Etheridge, Sentinel for Health: A History of the Centers for Disease Control, (University of California Press).

Beth Furman, A Profile of the United States Public Health Service, 1798-1948, (Government Printing Office).

Victoria Harden, Inventing the NIH: Federal Biomedical Research Policy, 1887-1937, (Johns Hopkins University Press).

Philip J. Hilts, Protecting America's Health: The FDA, Business and One Hundred Years of Regulation, (Knopf).

C. Everett Koop, Koop: The Memoirs of America's Family Doctor, (Random House).

Alan Kraut, Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader, (Hill and Wang).

Fitzhugh Mullan, Plagues and Politics: The Story of the United States Public Health Service, (Basic Books).

Thelma Robinson, Cadet Nurse Stories: The Call for and Response of Women During World War II, (Center Nursing Press).

Ralph Williams, The United States Public Health Service, 1798-1959, (Commissioned Officers Association).

James Harvey Young, Pure Food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906, (Princeton University Press).

The History of Medicine and Public Health:

James H. Cassedy, Medicine in America: A Short History, (Johns Hopkins University Press).

John Duffy, From Humors to Medical Science: A History of American Medicine, (University of Illinois Press).

John Duffy, The Sanitarians: A History of American Public Health, (University of Illinois Press)

Michael Grey, New Deal Medicine: The Rural Health Programs of the Farm Security Administration, (Johns Hopkins University Press).

Howard Markel, When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America Since 1800 and the Fears They Have Unleashed (Pantheon).

George Rosen, A History of Public Health, (Johns Hopkins University Press).

Paul Starr, The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry, (Basic Books).

Nancy Tomes, The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women and the Microbe in American Life, (Harvard University Press).

Medical Research and Experimentation:

James H. Jones, Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, (The Free Press).

Susan Lederer, Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America Before the Second World War, (Johns Hopkins University Press).

Susan Reverby, Tuskegee's Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).

Diseases From AIDS to Tuberculosis:

Alan Brandt, No Magic Bullet : A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States since 1880, (Oxford University Press)

Marilyn Chase, The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco, (Random House).

Alfred Crosby, America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918, (Cambridge University Press)

Elizabeth Fee, and Daniel M. Fox, Ed. AIDS: The Burdens of History, (University of California Press).

Margaret Humphreys, Yellow Fever and the South, (Rutgers University Press).

Margaret Humphreys, Malaria : Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States, (Johns Hopkins University Press).

Naomi Rogers, Dirt and Disease: Polio Before FDR, (Rutgers University Press).

Charles Rosenberg, The Cholera Years; the United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866, (University of Chicago Press).

Sheila Rothman, Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History, (Basic Books).

Industrial Health and Environmentalism:

Alan Derickson, Black Lung: Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster (Cornell University Press).

David Rosner and Gerald E. Markowitz, Ed. Dying for Work: Workers' Safety and Health in Twentieth-Century America, (Indiana University Press).

Christopher Sellers, Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science, (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).

Ethnic Populations and Health:

Vanessa Northington Gamble, Germs Have No Color Line: Blacks and American Medicine, 1900-1940, (Garland Publishers).

Alan M Kraut, Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant Menace," (Johns Hopkins University Press)

Todd Lee Savitt, Medicine and Slavery : The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia, (University of Illinois Press).

Nyen Shah, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown, (University of California Press).



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