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The Author’s Corner with Sarah Naramore

Rachel Petroziello   |  June 22, 2023

Sarah Naramore is Assistant Professor of History at Northwest Missouri State University. This interview is based on her new book, Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic (University of Rochester Press, 2023). JF: What led...

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The Author’s Corner with Kevin McQueeney

Rachel Petroziello   |  May 30, 2023

Kevin McQueeney is Assistant Professor of History at Nicholls State University. This interview is based on his new book, A City without Care: 300 Years of Racism, Health Disparities, and Health Care Activism in New Orleans (University of North Carolina...

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The Author’s Corner with Leslie A. Schwalm

Rachel Petroziello   |  March 27, 2023

Leslie A. Schwalm is Professor Emeritus of History and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa. This interview is based on her new book, Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America (University of North Carolina...

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The Author’s Corner with Susan Brandt

Rachel Petroziello   |  June 23, 2022

Susan Brandt is a lecturer in history at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. This interview is based on her new book, Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). JF: What led you...

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Vaccination mandates have a long history. Backlash to vaccination mandates have a long history.

John Fea   |  September 29, 2021

Good to see Andrew Wehrman cited in Maggie Astor’s New York Times piece. A taste: Professor Wehrman this week tweeted an example of what, in an interview, he said was a “ubiquitous” phenomenon: The health board in Urbana, Ohio, Jordan’s hometown, enacted...

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The long history of medical misinformation

John Fea   |  September 29, 2021

Historian Nicole Hemmer writes, “the deliberate spread of demonstrably untrue claims for politics or profit has been a feature of life in the US throughout the nation’s history. From patent medicine to fluoride conspiracies to false claims about the health...

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