Vaccines: Good For What Ails You? [1]
Elena Conis, Vaccine Nation: America’s Changing Relationship with Immunization (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015), 353 pages. Review by Andrew J. Forney Many people probably purchased...
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[Note: This following was presented on April 18, 2015 at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in St. Louis. As a note of appreciation to S-USIH for sponsoring my panel, I am...
View ArticleAnxious Constructions: Depictions of Mental Illness in Popular Culture [2]
Last week I talked about the value of exploring and explaining historical developments where ideas are not quite as powerful as is commonly assumed. Lest this make anyone nervous – this is the...
View ArticleThe Taxonomy Fetish: Another View on Intellectual History in the History of...
The following is a guest post by Merlin Chowkwanyun. I admire greatly Daniel Goldberg’s critical writings on common assumptions in contemporary medical and public health practices. His most recent blog...
View ArticleDiagnosis: Intellectual Historian (Guest Post by Daniel Goldberg) [4]
[The following is a guest post by Daniel Goldberg.] Thanks much to LD Burnett and the entire gang here at USIH Blog for permitting me to wade on in and muck things up for everybody again. I promise to...
View ArticleHistory of Medicine and Intellectual History [14]
The following is a guest post by Daniel Goldberg. As I was contemplating my guest post for USIH Blog, I have been following the vibrant blog debates on “the usable past” with considerable interest, in...
View ArticleMedicine, Medical Education, and the Medical Humanities at USIH
Last week I promised a review of Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s American Nietzsche. I made some real progress on that project over the past week, but it is not ready for posting. As such I am going to...
View ArticleCrosspost: A Two-For-One Review On The Attractions Of Eugenics [2]
After teaching a semester of the history of medicine in the U.S., I keep my ear to the ground for news in that field that intersects with intellectual history (including the history of ideas). With...
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