Fall 2008 - The Johns Hopkins University Press

Making Cancer HistoryDisease and Discovery at the Universityof Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer CenterJames S. OlsonThe history of the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center vividlyreveals how cancer treatment in America—and our attitudestoward the disease—have changed since the middle of thetwentieth century.One of the preeminent cancer centers in the world, M. D.Anderson is also one of the first medical institutions devotedexclusively to caring for people with cancer and researchingtreatments and cures for the disease. Historian James S.Olson’s narrative relates the story of the center’s foundingand of the surgeons, radiologists, radiotherapists, nurses,medical oncologists, scientists, administrators, and patientswho built M. D. Anderson into the world-class institutionit is today.Olson brings to life the struggle to understand and treat cancerin America through interviews with M. D. Anderson’sleaders and patients. A cancer survivor who has himself beentreated at the center, Olson imbues this history with humor,passion, and humanity.James S. Olson is the Texas State University System RegentsProfessor of History at Sam Houston State University. Hehas written and edited dozens of books, including Bathsheba’sBreast: Women, Cancer, and History, also published by JohnsHopkins.Women Physiciansand the Cultures of Medicineedited by Ellen S. More, Elizabeth Fee, and Manon ParryThis volume examines the wide-ranging careers and diverselives of American women physicians, shedding light on theirstruggles for equality, professional accomplishment, and personalhappiness over the past 150 years.Leading scholars in the history of medicine chronicle thetrials and triumphs of such extraordinary women as MarieZakrzewska, one of the first female medical graduates in theUnited States and founder of the New England Hospital forWomen and Children; Mary S. Calderone, the courageousand controversial medical director of Planned Parenthoodin the mid-twentieth century; and Esther Pohl Lovejoy, whorisked her life to bring medical aid and supplies to countriesexperiencing war, famine, and other catastrophes.Illuminating the ethnic, political, and personal diversity ofwomen physicians, the book reveals them as dedicated professionalswho grapple with obstacles and embrace challenges,even as they negotiate with their own health, sexuality, andbody images, the needs of their patients, and the rise of thewomen’s health movement.Encompassing the most recent work in the history of womenin American medicine, Women Physicians and the Cultures ofMedicine will interest students and scholars in history, women’sstudies, and the history of medicine.Ellen S. mORE is head of the Office of Medical History andArchives at the Lamar Soutter Library and professor of psychiatryat the University of Massachusetts Medical School.She is the author of the award-winning book, Restoringthe Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine,1850–1995. Elizabeth Fee is chief of the History of MedicineDivision at the National Library of Medicine and professorof history of medicine at the Johns Hopkins School ofMedicine. Manon S. Parry is co-curator, with Ellen More, ofthe exhibition Changing the Face of Medicine: CelebratingAmerica’s Women Physicians, held at the National Libraryof Medicine 2004–2006.The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, © Nima KasraieJanuary 368 pages 6 x 9 19 halftones, 7 line drawingsJanuary 416 pages 6 x 9 32 halftones978-0-8018-9056-7 0-8018-9056-X $35.00(s) / £19.00 hcHistory of Medicine978-0-8018-9037-6 0-8018-9037-3 $60.00(s) / £32.00 hc978-0-8018-9038-3 0-8018-9038-1 $25.00(s) / £14.00 pbHistory of Medicine / Gender StudiesTHE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS 1-800-537-5487 35