Published November, 2016
By Edward C. Atwater
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
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An invaluable reference work chronicling the lives of over 200 women who received medical degrees in the United States before the Civil War.

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Published November, 2016
By Thuy Linh Nguyen
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
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Explores the complex interactions between French medicine and Vietnamese childbirth traditions, documenting the emergence of a plural system of maternity services that incorporated both biomedical knowledge and local birthing traditions.

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Published October, 2016
By Dennis A. Doyle, Dennis A Dennis A. Doyle and Dennis A Dennis A. Doyle, PhD
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
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Reveals the history of the individuals who worked to make psychiatry more available to Harlem's black community in the early Civil Rights Era.

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Published August, 2016
By Nancy Bolger and Nancy W. Bolger
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
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The life and influential career of neurologist Robert J. Joynt, MD, PhD., who in 1996 became the first chair of the Department of Neurology at the University of Rochester.

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Published June, 2016
By James G. Hanley
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
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Argues that the legacies of Victorian public health in England and Wales were not just better health and cleaner cities but also new ideas of property, liability, and community.

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Published December, 2015
By Karen L. Walloch and Karen Karen Walloch
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
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Explores the history of vaccine development and the rise of antivaccination societies in late-nineteenth-century America.

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Published October, 2015
By Graham Mooney
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
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Examines the advent, during the mid-nineteenth century in Britain, of techniques of infectious disease surveillance, now one of the most powerful sets of tools in modern public health.

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Published April, 2015
By Mical Raz
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
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Drawing from original correspondence penned by lobotomy patients and their families as well as from the professional papers of lobotomy pioneer and neurologist Walter Freeman, The Lobotomy Letters gives an account of the widespread acceptance of this controversial procedure.

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Published April, 2015
By Xiaoping Fang
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
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The first study in English that examines barefoot doctors in China from the perspective of the social history of medicine.

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Published March, 2015
By Richard A Meckel and Richard Alan Meckel
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
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A new release, with a new preface, of Richard A. Meckel's classic history of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American campaign to reduce infant mortality.

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