Ph.D., Columbia University, 1961
M.A., Columbia University, 1957
B.A., University of Wisconsin, 1956
The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849 and 1866. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1962. (Reprinted in paperback, University of Chicago, Phoenix Books, 1968; second ed. with new afterword, 1987.)
The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System (New York: Basic Books, 1987).
With Janet Golden, Pictures of Health, A Photographic History of Health Care in Philadelphia, 1860 1945(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991).
With Janet Golden, Framing Disease, Studies in Cultural History (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992), author of "Framing Disease: Illness, Society, and History," pp. xiii xxvi and individual headnotes.
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Right Living: An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003), editor and author of “Preface” and “Health in the Home. A Tradition of Print and Practice,” pp. 1-20.
Editor, with Rosemary Stevens and Lawton R. Burns, History and Health Policy in the United States. Putting the Past Back in. (New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 2006) and author of Chapter One: “Anticipated Consequences: Historians, History, and Health Policy,” pp. 13-31.
