Johns Hopkins University Press Books in the History of Medicine

History of Medicine 2017 A Time of Scandal Charles R. Forbes, Warren G. Harding, and the Making of the Veterans Bureau Rosemary Stevens

Was the founding director of the US Veterans Bureau a criminal — or a scapegoat?

2016 408 pp., 19 halftones 978-1-4214-2130-8 $34.95 hc / eb

Murder and the Making of English CSI Ian Burney and Neil Pemberton

The engrossing account of how science-based forensics transformed the investigation of twentieth-century murders and in the process invented CSI. 2016 248 pp., 37 halftones 978-1-4214-2040-0 $24.95 hc / eb

Living in Death’s Shadow

Science and Religion

A History of Global Health

A Short History of Medicine

Family Experiences of Terminal Care and Irreplaceable Loss

A Historical Introduction

Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples

revised and expanded edition

Emily K. Abel

second edition edited by Gary B. Ferngren

Challenging assumptions about caregiving for those dying of chronic illness.

An essential examination of the historical relationship between science and religion.

Explores why people living in resource-poor areas lack access to basic health care after billions of dollars have been invested in international-health assistance.

foreword and concluding essay by Charles E. Rosenberg

2016 184 pp.

978-1-4214-2184-1

2017 496 pp.

978-1-4214-2172-8

2016 432 pp., 15 halftones 978-1-4214-2033-2 $35.00 pb / eb

$39.95 hc / eb

$32.95 pb / eb

Erwin H. Ackerknecht

bibliographic essay by Lisa Haushofer A bestselling history of medicine, enriched with a new foreword, concluding essay, and bibliographic essay.

2016 272 pp.

22 halftones, 1 line drawing 978-1-4214-1954-1 $29.95 pb / e-book

Life Histories of Genetic Disease

Mad-Doctors in the Dock

Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics

Defending the Diagnosis, 1760–1913

Andrew J. Hogan

Joel Peter Eigen

A history of genetic testing warns that such tests may tell us more than we want to know.

2016 280 pp., 24 halftones 978-1-4214-2074-5 $40.00 hc / eb

A captivating history of the defense of the insanity plea in England.

2016 224 pp., 3 line drawings 978-1-4214-2048-6 $40.00 hc / eb

Nature’s Path

Disease and Discovery

Health and Humanity

Health Care in America

A History of Naturopathic Healing in America

A History of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1916–1939

A History of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 1935–1985

A History

Susan E. Cayleff

The first comprehensive book to examine the complex history and culture of American naturopathy.

2016 408 pp.

4 halftones, 7 line drawings 978-1-4214-1903-9 $39.95 hc / eb

Elizabeth Fee

Karen Kruse Thomas

The story of the founding and early years of the nation’s first dedicated school of public health has been reissued to coincide with the school’s centennial celebration.

The mid-twentieth-century evolution of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

2016 304 pp., 30 b&w photos 978-1-4214-2110-0 $35.00 hc / eb

2016 544 pp., 36 b&w photos 978-1-4214-2108-7 $45.00 hc / eb

John C. Burnham

A comprehensive history of sickness, health, and medicine in America from Colonial times to the present.

2015 616 pp.

99 halftones, 43 line drawings 978-1-4214-1608-3 $34.95 pb / eb

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The Inevitable Hour

Generic

A History of Caring for Dying Patients in America

The Unbranding of Modern Medicine

Emily K. Abel

Jeremy A. Greene

“Abel’s book is a strong and welcome addition to the historiography of death and dying.”—Journal of American History 2013 240 pp., 3 b&w illus.

978-1-4214-2276-3

$24.95 pb / eb

Marrow of Tragedy

“An immensely readable synthesis of what [Humphreys] terms ‘the greatest health disaster that this country has ever experienced.’”—The News & Observer 978-1-4214-2277-0

978-1-4214-2164-3

$24.95 pb / eb

Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity

Margaret Humphreys

2013 400 pp., 19 halftones

“An enlightening and passionately written work, Generic opens the ‘black box’ of the pharmaceutical world.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer 2014 376 pp., 8 halftones, 9 line drawings

The Health Crisis of the American Civil War

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Gary B. Ferngren

“A succinct, thoughtful, well-written, and carefully argued assessment of Christian involvement with medical matters in the first five centuries of the common era.”— JAMA 2009 264 pp.

978-1-4214-2006-6

$29.95 pb / eb

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