History of Public Health in America

History of Public Health in America Prelim List 2007 Bridget Collins History of Science Exam taken January 2008 Supervised by Judith Walzer Leavitt Advised by Judith Walzer Leavitt

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History of Public Health in America Smallpox: 1. Elizabeth A. Fenn, Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 (New York: Hill & Wang, 2001). Tuberculosis: 2. Barbara Bates, Bargaining for Life: A Social History of Tuberculosis, 1876-1938 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992). 3. Georgina D. Feldberg, Disease and Class: Tuberculosis and the Shaping of Modern North American Society (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995). 4. Barron H. Lerner, Contagion and Confinement: Controlling Tuberculosis along the Skid Road (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998). 5. Sheila M. Rothman, Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995). Yellow Fever: 6. John H. Ellis, Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). 7. J. Worth Estes and Billy G. Smith, editors, A Melancholy Scene of Devastation: The Public Response to the 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic (Canton, MA: Science History Publications/USA, 1997). 8. Margaret Humphreys, Yellow Fever and the South (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992). Venereal Disease: 9. Allan M. Brandt, No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States since 1880 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985). 10. James H. Jones, Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (New York: Free Press, 1981). Polio: 11. David M. Oshinsky, Polio: An American Story (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005). 12. Naomi Rogers, Dirt and Disease: Polio before FDR (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992). Pellagra: 13. Elizabeth W. Etheridge, The Butterfly Caste A Social History of Pellagra in the South (Westport, CT: Greenwood Pub. Co., 1972). 14. Daphne A. Roe, A Plague of Corn: The Social History of Pellagra (Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press (1973). Plague: 15. Susan Craddock, City of Plagues: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000). 16. Nayan Shah, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001). -2-

History of Public Health in America Pandemics/Epidemics: 17. Alfred W. Crosby, America’s Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989). 18. David Rosner, Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in New York City (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995). Sanitation: 19. Nelson Manfred Blake, Water for the Cities: A History of the Urban Water Supply Problem in the United States (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1956). 20. Martin Melosi, Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment, 1880-1890 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1981). 21. Martin Melosi, The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). Biographies: 22. James H. Cassedy, Charles V. Chapin and the Public Health Movement (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962). 23. Alan M. Kraut, Goldberger’s War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader (New York: Hill and Wang, 2003). New York: 24. John Duffy, A History of Public Health in New York City, 1625-1866 (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1968). 25. John Duffy, A History of Public Health in New York City, 1866-1966 (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1974). 26. Charles E. Rosenberg, The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1962). Other Cities: 27. Stuart Galishoff, Newark, the Nation’s Unhealthiest City, 1832-1895 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988). 28. Judith Walzer Leavitt, The Healthiest City: Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982). The South: 29. John Ettling, The Germ of Laziness: Rockefeller Philanthropy and Public Health in the New South (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991). 30. Margaret Humphreys, Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). Children’s Health: 31. Evelynn Maxine Hammonds, Childhood’s Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999). 32. Richard A. Meckel, Save the Babies: American Public Health Reform and the Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1850-1929, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990). -3-

History of Public Health in America State and Federal Policy: 33. Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz, Public Health and the State: Changing Views in Massachusetts, 1842-1936 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972). 34. Philip J. Hilts, Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003). 35. Elizabeth W. Etheridge, Sentinel for Health: A History of the Centers for Disease Control (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992). 36. Manfred Wasserman, "Quest for a National Health Department in the Progressive Era," Bulletin of the History of Medicine (1975) 49, 353-380. Occupational Health: 37. Claudia Clark, Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997). 38. David Rosner and Gerald E. Markowitz, Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991). 39. David Rosner and Gerald E. Markowitz, Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002). Nursing: 40. Karen Buhler-Wilkerson, False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Public Health Nursing, 1900-1930 (New York: Garland Publications, 1989). 41. Barbara Melosh, The Physician’s Hand: Work Culture and Conflict in American Nursing (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982). The Home: 42. Suellen M. Hoy, Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995). 43. Nancy Tomes, The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998). Immigration: 44. Alan M. Kraut, Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the “Immigrant Menace” (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995). 45. Judith Walzer Leavitt, Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health (Boston: Beacon Press, 1996). 46. Howard Markel, Quarantine!: East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997). 47. Howard Markel, When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics that have Invaded America since 1900 and the Fears they have Unleashed (New York: Pantheon Books, 2004). Race: 48. David McBride, From TB to AIDS: Epidemics and Urban Blacks since 1900 (Albany: Sate University of New York Press, 1991). 49. Susan Lynn Smith, Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women’s Health Activism in America, 1890-1950 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995). -4-

History of Public Health in America 50. Keith Wailoo, Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001).

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