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Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History
The letters, diaries, and journals piece together what it was like to experience tuberculosis, and eloquently reveal the tenacity and resolve with whi...
Bringing the Mentally Disabled Into the Community
"From 1975 to 1982, David and Sheila Rothman observed this remarkable chapter in American reform of mental disabilities care. Would the state live up ...
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Bringing Human Rights to Medicine
Addresses the issues at the heart of international medicine and social responsibility. During the last half-century many international declarations ha...
The Promise and Perils of Medical Enhancement
The Rothmans, both highly respected historians at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, show readers what the pursuit of biologica...
The Ethics of Procuring and Replacing Organs in Humans
In Replacement Parts, internationally recognized bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan and coeditors James J. McCartney and Daniel P. Reid assemble seminal wri...
A social historian reviews women's changing roles since the Civil War, discussing the shifting norms regarding sex, jobs, and childrearing and society...