ID: GLSHW-4.4.4 Other Health Issues (2014-2092) This section collects citations on historical aspects of a variety of additional topics, such as body image, fitness and exercise, occupational health hazards, prostitution and health, the ideology of motherhood, and the nineteenth century health reform movement. 2014 Alpern, S. "Eating Disorders Among Women: An Historical Review of the Literature from a Women's History Perspective." AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES 7, no.3/4 (Summer/Autumn 1990): 47-55. 2015 Antler, Joyce. "Medical Women and Social Reform -- A History of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children." WOMEN & HEALTH 1, no.4 (July/August 1976): 11-15. 2016 Apple, Rima. MOTHERS AND MEDICINE: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF INFANT FEEDING, 1890-1950. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. 2017 Arnup, Katherine, Levesque, Andree, and Pierson, Ruth Roach, eds. DELIVERING MOTHERHOOD: MATERNAL IDEOLOGIES AND PRACTICES IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES. New York: Routledge, 1990. 2018 Atkinson, Clarissa W. THE OLDEST VOCATION: CHRISTIAN MOTHERHOOD IN THE MIDDLE AGES. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991. Especially chapter 2: "Physiological Motherhood," which provides a summary of medical and scientific theories of maternity. 2019 Atwater, Edward C. "Of Grandes Dames, Surgeons, and Hospitals: Batavia, New York, 1900-1940." JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES 45 (July 1990): 414-451. 2020 Bale, Anthony. "Hope in Another Direction: Compensation for Work- Related Illness Among Women, 1900-1960." WOMEN & HEALTH 15 (1989): 99-115. 2021 Bale, Anthony. "Women's Toxic Experience." In WOMEN, HEALTH, AND MEDICINE IN AMERICA: A HISTORICAL HANDBOOK, ed. by Rima D. Apple, pp.411-439. New York: Garland, 1990. 2022 Banner, Lois W. AMERICAN BEAUTY. New York: Knopf, 1982. Examines health effects of beauty standards. 2023 Beardsley, Edward H. "Race as a Factor in Health." In WOMEN, HEALTH, AND MEDICINE IN AMERICA: A HISTORICAL HANDBOOK, ed. by Rima D. Apple, pp.121-140. New York: Garland, 1990. 2024 La Berge, Ann F. "Mothers and Infants, Nurses and Nursing: Alfred Donne and the Medicalization of Child-Care in Nineteenth-Century France." JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES 46 (January 1991): 20-43. 2025 Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. FASTING GIRLS: THE EMERGENCE OF ANOREXIA NERVOSA AS A MODERN DISEASE. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. 2026 Buckley, Suzanne, and McGinnis, Janice Dickin. "Venereal Disease and Public Health Reform in Canada." CANADIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 63 (September 1982): 337-354. 2027 Burnham, John C. "Medical Inspection of Prostitutes in America in the Nineteenth Century: The St. Louis Experiment and Its Sequel." BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 45, no.3 (1971): 203-218. 2028 Clark, Claudia. "Physicians, Reformers and Occupational Disease: The Discovery of Radium Poisoning." WOMEN & HEALTH 12, no.2 (1987): 147-167. 2029 Clift, Elayne. "Goodbye to White Male Privilege: Women Challenge Health Care Research." ON THE ISSUES 21 (Winter 1991): 7-9. 2030 Conner, Susan P. "Politics, Prostitution, and the Pox in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1799." WESTERN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY 14 (November 1986): 183+. 2031 Deacon, Desley. "Taylorism in the Home: The Medical Profession, the Infant Welfare Movement and the Deskilling of Women." AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY 21, no.2 (1985): 161-173. 2032 Duden, Barbara. "History Beneath the Skin." MICHIGAN QUARTERLY REVIEW 30 (Winter 1991): 174-190. 2033 Dye, Nancy Schrom, and Smith, Daniel Blake. "Mother Love and Infant Death, 1750-1920." JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY 73 (1986): 329-53. 2034 Ferguson, Earline Rae. "The Woman's Improvement Club of Indianapolis: Black Women Pioneers in Tuberculosis Work, 1903-1938." INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY 84, no.3 (1988): 237-261. 2035 Fildes, Valerie A. BREASTS, BOTTLES AND BABIES: A HISTORY OF INFANT FEEDING. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1986. 2036 Fildes, Valerie A. WET NURSING FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT. Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell, 1988. 2037 Forster, Elborg. "From the Patient's Point of View: Illness and Health in the Letters of Liselotte von der Pfalz (1652-1722)." BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 60 (1986): 297-320. 2038 Golden, Janet. "From Wet Nurse Directory to Milk Bank: The Delivery of Human Milk in Boston, 1909-1927." BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 62 (1988): 589-605. 2039 Golden, Janet. "`Trouble in the Nursery': Physicians, Families and Wet Nurses at the End of the Nineteenth Century." In TO TOIL THE LIVELONG DAY: AMERICAN WOMEN AT WORK, 1790-1980, ed. by Carol Groneman and Mary Beth Norton, pp.125-137. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987. 2040 Gordon, Bonnie. PHOSSY-JAW AND THE FRENCH MATCH WORKERS: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND WOMEN IN THE THIRD REPUBLIC. New York: Garland, 1989. 2041 Gorham, Deborah, and Andrews, Florence Kellner. "The La Leche League: A Feminist Perspective." In DELIVERING MOTHERHOOD: MATERNAL IDEOLOGIES AND PRACTICES IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES, ed. by Katherine Arnup, Andree Levesque, and Ruth Roach Pierson, pp.238-269. New York: Routledge, 1990. 2042 Gosling, F.G. "Dial Painters Project: Argonne National Laboratory's Documentation of Radium Hazards to Workers." LABOR'S HERITAGE 4, no.2 (Summer 1992): 64-77. Most of the workers were women and teenage girls. 2043 Harrison, Barbara. "`Some of Them Gets Lead Poisoned': Occupational Lead Exposure in Women, 1880-1914." SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE 2 (1989): 171-195. 2044 Heifetz, Ruth. "Women, Lead and Reproductive Hazards: Defining a New Risk." In DYING FOR WORK: WORKERS' SAFETY AND HEALTH IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA, ed. by David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, pp.160-176. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1987. 2045 Hoffer, Peter C., and Hull, N.E.H. MURDERING MOTHERS: INFANTICIDE IN ENGLAND AND NEW ENGLAND, 1558-1803. New York: New York University Press, 1981. 2046 Howe, H. "An Historical Review of Women, Smoking and Advertising." HEALTH EDUCATION 15, no.3 (May/June 1984): 3-9. 2047 Jalland, Pat, and Hooper, John, eds. WOMEN FROM BIRTH TO DEATH: THE FEMALE LIFE CYCLE IN BRITAIN, 1830-1914. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, 1986. 2048 Jones, Kathleen W. "Sentiment and Science: The Late Nineteenth Century Pediatrician as Mother's Advisor." JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY 17 (Fall 1983): 79-96. 2049 Kolata, Gina. "Wet-nursing Boom in England Explored (Research by Valerie Fildes)." SCIENCE 235 (February 1987): 745-747. 2050 Ladd-Taylor, Molly. RAISING A BABY THE GOVERNMENT WAY: MOTHERS' LETTERS TO THE CHILDREN'S BUREAU, 1915-1932. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1986. 2051 Ladd-Taylor, Molly. "Women's Health and Public Policy." In WOMEN, HEALTH, AND MEDICINE IN AMERICA: A HISTORICAL HANDBOOK, ed. by Rima D. Apple, pp.391-410. New York: Garland, 1990. 2052 Leavitt, Judith Walzer. "`Typhoid Mary' Strikes Back: Bacteriological Theory and Practice in Early Twentieth-Century Public Health." ISIS 83, no.4 (Dec. 1, 1992): 608-629. 2053 Leavitt, Judith Walzer, ed. WOMEN AND HEALTH IN AMERICA: HISTORICAL READINGS. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. Essays provide comprehensive overview of women as patients and practitioners. Very useful bibliography of secondary sources. 2054 Lewis, Jane. "`Motherhood Issues' in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries." In DELIVERING MOTHERHOOD: MATERNAL IDEOLOGIES AND PRACTICES IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES, ed. by Katherine Arnup, Andree Levesque, & Ruth Roach Pierson, pp.1-19. New York: Routledge, 1990. 2055 Long, Diana E. "Moving Reprints: A Historian Looks at Sex Research Publications of the 1930s." JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES 45 (1990): 452-468. 2056 Loudon, Irvine. "On Maternal and Infant Mortality 1900-1960." SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE 4 (1991): 29-73. 2057 Lynaugh, Joan E. "Institutionalizing Women's Health Care in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America." In WOMEN, HEALTH, AND MEDICINE IN AMERICA: A HISTORICAL HANDBOOK, ed. by Rima D. Apple, pp.247-269. New York: Garland, 1990. 2058 Marieskind, Helen. "The Women's Health Movement." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH SERVICES 5 (1975): 217-223. 2059 Marks, Lara. "`Dear Old Mother Levy's': The Jewish Maternity Home and Sick Room Help Society 1895-1939." SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE 3 (April 1990): 61-88. See also reply by Enid Fox in SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE 4, pp.117-122. 2060 Mitchell, Barbara J. "When the Wheels Began to Turn (Women and Cycling)." WOMEN'S SPORT & FITNESS 9 (March 1987): 14+ 2061 Morantz, Regina Markell. "Making Women Modern: Middle-Class Women and Health Reform in 19th-Century America." JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY 10 (1977): 490-507. Repr. in WOMEN AND HEALTH IN AMERICA: HISTORICAL READINGS, pp.346-358. Ed. by Judith Walzer Leavitt. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. 2062 Morantz, Regina Markell. "Nineteenth Century Health Reform and Women: A Program of Self-Help." In MEDICINE WITHOUT DOCTORS: HOME HEALTH CARE IN AMERICAN HISTORY, ed. by Guenter B. Risse, Ronald L. Numbers, and Judith Walzer Leavitt, pp.73-93. New York: Science History Publications/USA, 1977. 2063 Nugent, Angela. "The Power to Define a New Disease: Epidemiological Politics and Radium Poisoning." In DYING FOR WORK: WORKERS' SAFETY AND HEALTH IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA, ed. by David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, pp.177-191. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1987. 2064 Numbers, Ronald L. PROPHETESS OF HEALTH: ELLEN G. WHITE AND THE ORIGIN OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST HEALTH REFORM. 1992. White was a founder of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church and a health reformer interested in vegetarianism, hydropathy, and the building of sanitariums. This is a revised and enlarged edition of PROPHETESS OF HEALTH: A STUDY OF ELLEN G. WHITE (1976), with a new psychological profile co-authored by Janet S. Numbers, and an introduction by Jonathan M Butler. 2065 Olasky, Marvin N. THE PRESS AND ABORTION, 1838-1988. Hillsdale, NJ: L. Erlbaum, 1988. 2066 Oudshoorn, Nelly. "On Measuring Sex Hormones: The Role of Biological Assays in Sexualizing Chemical Substances." BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 64 (1990): 243-261. How endocrinologists during the 1920s and 1930s defined substances as male or female. 2067 Pauly, Philip J. "The Struggle for Ignorance About Alcohol: American Physiologists, Wilbur Olin Atwater, and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union." BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 64 (1990): 366-392. 2068 Peterson, David. "Wife Beating: An American Tradition." JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY 23 (1992): 97-118. 2069 Punnett, Laura. "Women-Controlled Medicine -- Theory and Practice in Nineteenth Century Boston." WOMEN & HEALTH 1, no.4 (July/August 1976): 3-11. 2070 Retherford, Robert D. CHANGING SEX DIFFERENTIAL IN MORTALITY. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1975. 2071 Ruzek, Sheryl Burt. THE WOMEN'S HEALTH MOVEMENT: FEMINIST ALTERNATIVES TO MEDICAL CONTROL. New York: Praeger, 1978. 2072 Schwartz, Hillel. NEVER SATISFIED: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF DIETS, FANTASY, AND FAT. New York: Free Press, 1986. 2073 Seid, Roberta Pollack. NEVER TOO THIN: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN'S OBSESSION WITH WEIGHT LOSS. New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1988. 2074 Sharpe, William D. "The New Jersey Radium Dial Painters: A Classic Case in Occupational Carcinogenesis." BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 52 (1978): 560-70. 2075 Shorter, Edward. "The First Great Increase in Anorexia Nervosa." JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY 21, no.1 (1987): 69-96. Reportage increased throughout the 19th century and peaked around 1900. 2076 Silverstein, Brett. "Daughters of Ambition: High Incidence of Eating Disorders in Great Women of History." PSYCHOLOGY TODAY 25 (March/April 1992): 11. 2077 Smart, Carol, ed. REGULATING WOMANHOOD: HISTORICAL ESSAYS ON MARRIAGE, MOTHERHOOD AND SEXUALITY. New York: Routledge, 1992. 2078 Steen, M. "Historical Perspectives on Women and Mental Illness and Prevention of Depression in Women, Using a Feminist Framework." ISSUES IN MENTAL HEALTH NURSING 12, no.4 (October-December 1991): 359-374. 2079 Stovall, Mary E. "`To Be, to Do, and to Suffer': Responses to Illness and Death in the Nineteenth-Century Central South." JOURNAL OF MISSISSIPPI HISTORY 52 (May 1990): 95-110. 2080 Treckel, Paula A. "Breastfeeding and Maternal Sexuality in Colonial America." JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY 29 (1989): 25-52. 2081 Van Horn, Susan Householder. WOMEN, WORK, AND FERTILITY, 1900-1986. New York: New York University Press, 1988. 2082 Verbrugge, Lois M. "Pathways of Health and Death." In WOMEN, HEALTH, AND MEDICINE IN AMERICA: A HISTORICAL HANDBOOK, ed. by Rima D. Apple, pp.41-79. New York: Garland, 1990. 2083 Verbrugge, Martha H. ABLE-BODIED WOMANHOOD: PERSONAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Case study of health reform in Boston between 1830 and 1900. Examines three institutions that popularized physiology and exercise among middle-class women: The Ladies' Physiological Institute, Wellesley College, and the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics. 2084 Verbrugge, Martha H. "Knowledge and Power: Health and Physical Education for Women in America." In WOMEN, HEALTH, AND MEDICINE IN AMERICA: A HISTORICAL HANDBOOK, ed. by Rima D. Apple, pp.369-390. New York: Garland, 1990. 2085 Verbrugge, Martha H. "The Social Meaning of Personal Health: The Ladies' Physiological Institute of Boston and Vicinity in the 1850's." In HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA: ESSAYS IN SOCIAL HISTORY, ed. by Susan Reverby and David Rosner, pp.45-66. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1979. Covers 19th-century popular self-education in physiology and hygiene. 2086 Vertinsky, Patricia A. THE ETERNALLY WOUNDED WOMAN: WOMEN, DOCTORS, AND EXERCISE IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Manchester, UK; New York: Manchester University Press; distr. St. Martin's Press, 1990. 2087 Vertinsky, Patricia A. "Feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Pursuit of Health and Physical Fitness as a Strategy for Emancipation." JOURNAL OF SPORT HISTORY 16, no.1 (1989): 5-26. 2088 Vertinsky, Patricia A. "God, Science and the Market Place: The Bases for Exercise Prescriptions for Females in Nineteenth Century North America." CANADIAN JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SPORT 17, no.1 (1986): 38-44. 2089 Vertinsky, Patricia A. "Of No Use Without Health: Late Nineteenth Century Medical Prescriptions for Female Exercise Through the Life Span." WOMEN & HEALTH 14, no.1 (1988): 89-115. 2090 Webster, Charles, ed. BIOLOGY, MEDICINE, AND SOCIETY, 1840-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. See Brian Harrison's "Women's Health and the Women's Movement in Britain 1840-1940," Carol Dyhouse's "Working-class Mothers and Infant Mortality in England 1895-1940," and other papers. 2091 Weiss, Nancy Pottishman. "The Mother-Child Dyad Revisited: Perceptions of Mothers and Children in the Twentieth Century Child-Rearing Manuals." JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES 34, no.2 (Spring 1978): 29-45. 2092 Williams, Perry. "The Laws of Health: Women, Medicine and Sanitary Reform, 1850-1890." In SCIENCE AND SENSIBILITY: GENDER AND SCIENTIFIC ENQUIRY, 1780-1945, ed. by Marina Benjamin, pp.60-88. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1991.
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