Papers by Heather Munro Prescott
Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 2008
Anorexia Nervosa
The Cambridge World History of Food
The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 2010
Technology's Stories, 2016
Medical History, 1989
Book Reviews phrases on the back cover, it seems to hark back to a stereotype of Catholicism whic... more Book Reviews phrases on the back cover, it seems to hark back to a stereotype of Catholicism which is, to all appearances, far less complex and contradictory than what Camporesi himself demonstrates here.
Chapter 10 Gender and the “New” Puberty
Pink and Blue, 2021
The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 2020
The suffrage and birth control movements are often treated separately in historical scholarship. ... more The suffrage and birth control movements are often treated separately in historical scholarship. This essay brings together new research to demonstrate their close connections. Many suffragists became active in the birth control movement just before and after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The roots of suffrage arguments were deeply embedded in the same ideas that were foundational to the birth control movement: bodily freedom and notions of what constituted full and participatory citizenship. Beginning in the 1840s, women's rights reformers directly connected the vote to a broad range of economic and political issues, including the concept of self-ownership. Wide-ranging debates about individual autonomy remained present in women's rights rhetoric and were then repeated in the earliest arguments for legalizing birth control. The twentieth-century birth control movement, like the suffrage movement before it (which had largely focused only on achieving the v...
The Morning After
The Morning After, 2019
Heather Munro Prescott - Children's Health in Historical Perspective (review) - Journal of Social History 40:4
The Pill at Fifty: Scientific Commemoration and the Politics of American Memory
Technology and Culture, 2013
This article uses coverage of the fiftieth anniversary of the Pill as an example of what Richard ... more This article uses coverage of the fiftieth anniversary of the Pill as an example of what Richard Hirsh describes as the “real world” role of historians of technology. It explores how the presentation of historical topics on the world wide web has complicated how the history of technology is conveyed to the public. The article shows that that the Pill is especially suited to demonstrating the public role of historians of technology because, as the most popular form of reversible birth control, it has touched the lives of millions of Americans. Thus, an exploration of how the Pill’s fiftieth anniversary was covered illustrates how historians can use their expertise to provide a nuanced interpretation of a controversial topic in the history of technology.
The Disability Pendulum: The First Decade of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Social History of Medicine, 2006
... This work benefitted from the research assistance of Christopher Geidner and Matthew Kear. An ... more ... This work benefitted from the research assistance of Christopher Geidner and Matthew Kear. An earlier version of chapter 5 was coauthored with Professor Adam Milani and appeared at 53 Alabama Law Review 1075 (2002). Research xi Page 13. ...
BOOK REVIEW: Alice Domurant Dreger. HERMAPHRODITES AND THE MEDICAL INVENTION OF SEX. and Regina Morantz-Sanchez. CONDUCT UNBECOMING A WOMAN: MEDICINE ON TRIAL IN TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY BROOKLYN
NWSA Journal, 2000
Using the Student Body: College and University Students as Research Subjects in the United States during the Twentieth Century
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2002
Fortunately, Wan's case is rare: thousands of students volunteer for human experiments every... more Fortunately, Wan's case is rare: thousands of students volunteer for human experiments every year without suffering permanent injury. Indeed, had Wan survived the procedure, her story would have attracted little if any notice. The use of students as research subjects [End Page 3] ...
Children's Health in Historical Perspective. Cheryl Krasnick Warsh and Veronica Strong-Boag, eds. (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005. xi plus 554 pp. $39.95)
Journal of Social History, 2007
Our authors left a few loose ends. Safley overstates the singularity of Augsburg’s concern for Na... more Our authors left a few loose ends. Safley overstates the singularity of Augsburg’s concern for Nahrung (Terpstra’s Bologna refects a similar concern as do orphanages elsewhere: Lyon, Amsterdam, Seville and Turin, for example). Terpstra suggests Florence and Bologna served as a model to other European cities through the network of social welfare bureaucracies they created, but does not elaborate. A large comparative issue to be probed further is the matter of mortality: early modern orphanages have incurred the charge that they conveniently snuffed out an unwanted demographic surplus. Both authors argue that their institutions, with the exception of some especially devastating episodes, did not deviate greatly from general levels of child mortality, while attempting to rescue many children who arrived at their door in a desperately debilitated condition. More remains to be done, but these two profoundly researched works contribute significantly to an understanding of that broader picture of orphanages and foundling homes in early modern Europe that Brian Pullan adumbrated in one of his seminal essays of synthesis.
Asceticism in Contemporary Culture
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1996
Wolters Kluwer Health may email you for journal alerts and information, but is committed to maint... more Wolters Kluwer Health may email you for journal alerts and information, but is committed to maintaining your privacy and will not share your personal information without your express consent. For more information, please refer to our Privacy Policy. ... An abstract is unavailable. This article is ...
Journal of American College Health, 2011
This article examines how the field of college health has evolved over time to address the needs ... more This article examines how the field of college health has evolved over time to address the needs of an increasingly diverse student population. The central argument is that college and university health programs developed in conjunction with shifting standards of medical care and public health practices in the United States. The author reviews the role of college health programs as public health agencies for campus communities, and describes contemporary public health challenges facing college campuses. She shows how the history of college health is intertwined with the history of diversity in higher education. In particular, the author outlines how the growth of health services made higher education accessible to women, racial minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities.
Journal of Adolescent Health, 1996
There are few people who so singlehandedly have focused the attention of the medical profession o... more There are few people who so singlehandedly have focused the attention of the medical profession on the special needs of those in a particular stage of growth and development, or who can claim such exclusive credit for creating a major area of medical concern" (1). Dr. Gallagher was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1903. He was nurtured in a distinguished family devoted to public affairs and the welfare of others. His paternal grandfather, who served as lieutenant governor of Connecticut, was interested in labor legislation. His father, an attorney, was an advocate for worker benefits. It is interesting that Dr. Gallagher developed pulmonary tuberculosis at age 15 and had to leave high school (2). Perhaps this experience gave him empathy for those teenagers whose illnesses isolate them from peers. He was tutored at home where he told the authors during a 1993 interview (2) that he enjoyed talking with his tutor about the Red Sox more than learning history or algebra. Nevertheless, he was an excellent student, and graduated from Yale College (1925) and Yale Medical School (1929).
Book Review:Women, Health, and Medicine in America: A Historical Handbook Rima D. Apple
Isis, 1993
Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2000
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