Crosspost: 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...
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 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 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 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 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 ArticleBeyond the Golden Age: Rethinking the History of the Anti-Vaccination...
[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 ArticleVaccines: 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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