Elizabeth Fee
Medical and public health historian
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Elizabeth Fee's Degrees
- PhD History of Medicine Johns Hopkins University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Elizabeth Fee , also known as Liz Fee, was a historian of science, medicine and health. She was the Chief of the United States National Library of Medicine History of Medicine Division. Early life and education Fee was born in Belfast to Deirdre and John Fee, Methodist missionaries. From the age of five months, she began travelling with her parents to destinations including China, Malaysia, India, Egypt and throughout Europe. After contracting scarlet fever in China, Fee lost her hearing in one ear. In her teen years, the family returned to Northern Ireland where Fee attended school.
Elizabeth Fee's Published Works
Published Works
- Human resources for health: overcoming the crisis (2004) (1258)
- The World Health Organization and the transition from "international" to "global" public health. (2006) (550)
- Understanding AIDS: historical interpretations and the limits of biomedical individualism. (1993) (210)
- Richard A. Meckel, Save the babies: American public health reform and the prevention of infant mortality, 1850–1929 , Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990, 8vo, pp. xi, 302, illus., £30.50, $42.50. (1991) (196)
- Social Class: The Missing Link in U.S. Health Data (1994) (168)
- Man-Made Medicine and Women's Health: The Biopolitics of Sex/Gender and Race/Ethnicity (1994) (138)
- AIDS : the burdens of history (1990) (110)
- Disease and Discovery: A History of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1916-1939 (1987) (100)
- Measuring Social Inequalities in Health in the United States: A Historical Review, 1900–1950 (1996) (91)
- Rudolf Carl Virchow: medical scientist, social reformer, role model. (2006) (89)
- Nineteenth-century craniology: the study of the female skull. (1979) (76)
- Aids the Making of a Chronic Disease (1992) (75)
- A calculus of suffering. Pain, professionalism and anesthesia in nineteenth-century America (1986) (74)
- Save the babies: American public health reform and the prevention of infant mortality, 1850–1929 (1991) (61)
- World Health Organization (1956) (59)
- Women and Health Care: A Comparison of Theories (1975) (58)
- Preemptive biopreparedness: can we learn anything from history? (2001) (55)
- The influenza pandemic of 1918. (2001) (54)
- Jonathan Mann, HIV/AIDS, and Human Rights (2008) (50)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) and Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818-1865): preventing the transmission of puerperal fever. (2010) (49)
- Social movements in health. (2005) (47)
- Medicine in Society: Public health, preventive medicine and professionalization: England and America in the nineteenth century (1992) (45)
- The unfulfilled promise of public health: déjà vu all over again. (2002) (42)
- A transição de saúde pública 'internacional' para 'global' e a Organização Mundial da Saúde (2006) (41)
- Women and Health (1983) (38)
- A History of education in public health : health that mocks the doctors' rules (1993) (38)
- What Makes Women Sick: Gender and the Political Economy of Health (1995) (33)
- The Public Health Act of 1848. (2005) (31)
- Sin vs. science: venereal disease in Baltimore in the twentieth century. (1988) (30)
- Thinking and Rethinking Aids: Implications for Health Policy (1993) (28)
- Florence Nightingale and the Crimean War. (2010) (27)
- Walter Bradford Cannon: Pioneer Physiologist of Human Emotions (2002) (27)
- Salvador Allende: physician, socialist, populist, and president. (2003) (22)
- Disease and distinctiveness in the American South (1990) (22)
- The contemporary historiography of AIDS. (1989) (22)
- The Bandoeng Conference of 1937: a milestone in health and development. (2008) (21)
- Hospital smoking bans and their impact. (2004) (20)
- Jaundice in the Hippocratic Corpus (2007) (20)
- The origins of public health nursing: the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service. (2010) (20)
- Struggles for national health reform in the United States. (2003) (19)
- 100 years of the Pan American Health Organization. (2002) (17)
- How Well Can Editors Predict Reader Interest in News? (2000) (17)
- At the Roots of The World Health Organization's Challenges: Politics and Regionalization. (2016) (17)
- Halfdan Mahler: Architect and Defender of the World Health Organization "Health for All by 2000" Declaration of 1978. (2016) (16)
- WHO at 60: Snapshots from its first six decades. (2008) (16)
- The Lourdes Medical Cures Revisited (2013) (16)
- Michael S. Gottlieb and the Identification of AIDS (2006) (16)
- Alfred C. Kinsey: a pioneer of sex research. (2003) (16)
- The Rockefeller Foundation and the international health agenda (2013) (15)
- The past and future of public health practice. (2000) (15)
- Sex and Status: Hierarchies in the Health Workforce (1985) (15)
- Why history? (1997) (15)
- The invention of Braille. (2011) (14)
- Models of public health education: choices for the future? (2007) (14)
- VOICES FROM THE PAST (2010) (14)
- Freeing the insane. (2006) (14)
- Florence Nightingale (1820-1910): feminism and hospital reform. 2010. (2010) (13)
- The AIDS memorial quilt. (2006) (13)
- More in Sorrow Than in Anger: The British Nurses' Strike of 1988 (1992) (13)
- Howard A. Rusk (1901-1989) from military medicine to comprehensive rehabilitation. (2008) (13)
- The disasters of war. (2019) (13)
- Jonathan Mann: founder of the health and human rights movement. (2006) (12)
- Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine (2008) (12)
- The Ghosts of Epidemics Past, Present, and Future@@@AIDS: The Making of a Chronic Disease@@@Perspectives on AIDS: Ethical and Social Issues@@@AIDS in the Industrialized Democracies: Passions, Politics, and Policies (1993) (12)
- Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature (2002) (12)
- [The transition from 'international' to 'global' public health and the World Health Organization]. (2006) (11)
- Andrija Stampar: charismatic leader of social medicine and international health. (2006) (11)
- One size does not fit all in the transgender community. (2003) (11)
- The History of Health Equity: Concept and Vision (2017) (10)
- Sidney Kark and John Cassel: social medicine pioneers and South African emigrés. (2002) (10)
- Divórcio entre teoria e prática:o sistema de treinamento em saúde pública nos Estados Unidos (2008) (9)
- Science and Social Reform: Women in Public Health (1989) (9)
- The emerging histories of AIDS: three successive paradigms. (1993) (9)
- Psychology, sexuality, social control in Victorian England. (1978) (8)
- The first American medical school: the formative years (2015) (8)
- A role for public health history. (2004) (8)
- Spinning for India's independence. (2008) (7)
- Exploring acupuncture: ancient ideas, modern techniques. (2002) (7)
- "Palliatives will no longer do": the deep roots and continuing dynamic of community-oriented primary care. (2002) (7)
- Sex Education in Cuba: An Interview with Dr. Celestino Alvarez Lajonchere (1988) (7)
- Milton I. Roemer advocate of social medicine, international health, and national health insurance. (2008) (7)
- John B. Grant international statesman of public health. (2008) (7)
- Whither WHO? Our Global Health Leadership. (2016) (7)
- Critical shortcomings at Walter Reed Army Medical Center create doubt. (2008) (7)
- Domestic violence-medieval and modern. (2002) (7)
- The stigma of HIV. (2013) (6)
- Cognitive Dissonance in the Early Thirties: The League of Nations Health Organization Confronts the Worldwide Economic Depression. (2015) (6)
- The first mental hospital in China. (2008) (6)
- The effects of the corset. (2002) (6)
- A century of progress in public health? (1999) (6)
- Ludwik Rajchman (1881-1965): world leader in social medicine and director of the League of Nations Health Organization. (2014) (6)
- Friedrich Engels: businessman and revolutionary. (2003) (6)
- Divorce between theory and practice: the system of public health training in the United States. (2008) (6)
- Information on a global scale: the National Library of Medicine (2014) (5)
- The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America??s Hospital System (1989) (5)
- Ludwig Teleky (1872-1957): a leader in social and occupational medicine. (2012) (5)
- The Journal of the National Medical Association: a voice for civil rights and social justice. (2010) (5)
- The polio epidemic in Israel in the 1950s. (2007) (5)
- The wages of sin (1999) (5)
- Henry E. Sigerist: medical historian and social visionary. (2003) (5)
- FEE AND BROWN RESPOND (2001) (5)
- Women’s Health, Politics, and Power: Essays on Sex/Gender, Medicine, and Public Health (2020) (4)
- Depression-era malaria control in the South. (2004) (4)
- Garbage! The History and Politics of Trash in New York City (1994) (4)
- Birth of the American Journal of Public Health. (2010) (4)
- Lavinia Dock (1858-1956): picketing, parading, and protesting. (2015) (4)
- Images of health. Smallpox: the first vaccine. (2011) (4)
- Alice Hamilton: settlement physician, occupational health pioneer. (2001) (4)
- The Sanitarians. A History of American Public Health. John Duffy. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1990. x, 331 pp. $32.50. (1990) (4)
- William Edward Burghardt DuBois: historian, social critic, activist. (2003) (4)
- Anthrax and the wool trade. 1902. (2002) (4)
- A return to the social justice spirit of Alma-Ata. (2015) (4)
- The history and politics of birth control: a review essay. (1979) (4)
- Sir James Crichton-Browne: Victorian psychiatrist and public health reformer. (2004) (4)
- Professor Natan Goldblum: the pioneer producer of the inactivated poliomyelitis vaccine in Israel. (2010) (3)
- Book Review The Private Science of Louis Pasteur By Gerald L. Geison. 378 pp., illustrated. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1995. $29.95. 0-691-03442-7 (1995) (3)
- Communicating with pictures: the vision of Chinese anti-malaria posters. (2010) (3)
- Signing the US Medicare Act: a long political struggle (2015) (3)
- Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science: The History of Attitudes to Sexuality. (1996) (3)
- John Harvey Kellogg, MD: health reformer and antismoking crusader. (2002) (3)
- The Mind is Not the Heart: Recollections of a Woman Physician (1989) (3)
- Women health workers: past and present. (1992) (3)
- The Indian club exercise. (2003) (3)
- Contrary to stereotypes, a nursing home resident radiates dignity and joy. (2006) (3)
- Florence Kelley: a factory inspector campaigns against sweatshop labor. (2005) (3)
- CHILDHOOD LEAD POISONING PREVENTION. AUTHORS' REPLY (1999) (2)
- Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871-1958): journalist and muckraker. (2010) (2)
- The microbial menace, then and now. (2000) (2)
- FEE ET AL. RESPOND (2004) (2)
- Bicycling for pleasure and power. (2003) (2)
- "A doctors' war": expert witnesses in late 19th-century America. (2005) (2)
- Competition for the first school of hygiene and public health. (1983) (2)
- William Augustus Evans (1865-1948): public health leader at a critical time. (2010) (2)
- The social history of the hospital: from charity care to the management of medicine: a review essay. (1984) (2)
- The relevance of public health history. (2015) (2)
- John Henry Bell: Occupational Anthrax Pioneer (2002) (2)
- Factory injuries and progressive reform. (2004) (2)
- Acupuncture: Archaic or biologic? Authors' reply (2003) (2)
- Mervyn Susser (1921-2014): Fighter for Social Justice and Pioneer in Epidemiology. (2015) (2)
- Popularizing the toothbrush. (2004) (2)
- Book Review:The Hosken Report: Genital and Sexual Mutilation of Females Fran P. Hosken (1980) (2)
- Early modern childbirth. (2003) (2)
- The march on Washington, 1963. (2002) (2)
- Dangerous Illusions: Cautionary Tales In The History Of Medicine (2005) (2)
- Charles V. Roman: physician, writer, educator, historian (1864-1934). (2010) (2)
- Nothing to work with but cleanliness: the training of African American traditional midwives in the South. (2010) (2)
- The pleasures and perils of prophetic advocacy: Henry E. Sigerist and the politics of medical reform. (1996) (2)
- Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of the American Journal of Public Health. (2010) (2)
- The AIDS Pandemic: Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations (review) (2005) (1)
- Leona Baumgartner (1902-1991): leader in domestic and international public health. (2011) (1)
- The Gender Gap In Wages And Health (1991) (1)
- Rural health centers in the Americas. (2002) (1)
- The United Nations and global health. (2010) (1)
- Separation and Survival: A Women's Hospital@@@Hospital with a Heart: Women Doctors and the Paradox of Separatism at the New England Hospital, 1862-1969. (1984) (1)
- Disease and discovery continued. (1987) (1)
- The St John Eye Hospital: a bridge for peace. (2009) (1)
- Buried in mud, digging for gold. (2003) (1)
- Food hygiene and global health. (2008) (1)
- Vamps Virgins and Victims: How Can Women Fight AIDS? (1996) (1)
- Medical education for women, 1870. (2002) (1)
- Family planning and economic development in China. (2012) (1)
- The Air We Breathe. (2015) (1)
- Quentin Young (1923-2016): Advocate, Activist, and "Rebel Without a Pause". (2016) (1)
- Editor's Comments: Plurality of Views (1994) (1)
- Blum et al. Respond (2011) (1)
- The Response to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic (2019) (1)
- Health, Politics and Power (1994) (1)
- A well baby clinic in Indianapolis. (2003) (1)
- Isaac Williams Brewer (1867-1928): an unsung hero. (2010) (1)
- Henry E. Sigerist (1891- 1957): Medical Historian, Advocate of "Socialized" Medicine, and Admirer of the Soviet Health System. (2017) (0)
- Book Review:Plagues and Politics. The Story of the United States Public Health Service. Fitzhugh Mullan (1990) (0)
- Book Review:In the Patient's Best Interest: Women and the Politics of Medical Decisions Sue Fisher (1987) (0)
- John H. Landis (1860-1918): Devoted Health Officer of Cincinnati. (2015) (0)
- Thomas M. Daniel. Wade Hampton Frost, Pioneer Epidemiologist 1880-1938: Up to the Mountain (2006) (0)
- The Birth of the World Health Organization, 1945–1948 (2019) (0)
- Man-Made Medicine and Women’s Health: The Biopolitics of Sex/Gender and Race/Ethnicity (2020) (0)
- IMAGES OF HEALTH (2004) (0)
- Introduction: The World Health Organization and the Dilemmas of the Cold War and the Post–Cold War Periods (2019) (0)
- George Washington Goler: the biggest crank and the best health officer in the United States. (2010) (0)
- Baxter Street then. (2002) (0)
- On cultural competence and scientific rigor in transgender treatment. Authors' reply (2004) (0)
- Book Review:Readings in the History of Anthropology Regna Darnell (1976) (0)
- Young men of 50 and 60 years behave like kids after having read the new work by M. Flourens. (2002) (0)
- The smoke nuisance. (2002) (0)
- Abortion: The Politics of Necessity and Choice (1986) (0)
- Louis I. Harris (1882-1939): a bold but now little known early twentieth century public health leader. (2011) (0)
- Book Review:Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and the Philosophy of Science Sandra Harding, Merrill Hintikka (1985) (0)
- Book Review:Princes and Peasants: Smallpox in History Donald R. Hopkins (1984) (0)
- Baltimore by Bus: Steering a New Course through the City's History (1984) (0)
- Understanding History to Shape the Future—The New Editors' Vision (1991) (0)
- Book Review:Social Darwinism and English Thought: The Interaction between Biological and Social Theory Greta Jones (1982) (0)
- A dedicated public health nurse. (2002) (0)
- Book Review:Sir Arthur Newsholme and State Medicine, 1885-1935 John M. Eyler (1998) (0)
- An enlightenment view of school health. (2006) (0)
- Organization Against Disease: The Sanitarians . A History of American Public Health. John Duffy. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1990. x, 331 pp. $32.50. (1990) (0)
- The Sungari River flood and the Jewish community in Harbin, China. (2008) (0)
- ATWOOD ET AL. RESPOND (2003) (0)
- AIDS: Reason for Optimism?-Reply (1993) (0)
- Medicine, Disease and the State in Ireland, 1650-1940 (review) (2001) (0)
- Todd L. Savitt and James Harvey Young, (eds.), Disease and distinctiveness in the American South , Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xvii, 211, illus., $24.95. (1990) (0)
- The tooth puller [L'arracheur de dents]. (2002) (0)
- Book Review:Illustrated Catalogue of the Slide Archive of Historical Medical Photographs at Stony Brook Center for Photographic Images of Medicine and Health Care, Rima D. Apple (1985) (0)
- Book Review:Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood Cynthia Eagle Russett (1990) (0)
- Erratum: Leona Baumgartner (1902-1991): Leader in domestic and international public health (American Journal of Public Health (2011) 101:8 (1409) DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2010.300015) (2011) (0)
- Erratum: Chief In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat (Thunder-Traveling-Overthe-Mountains) : A reluctant warrior (American Journal of Public Health (2010) 100:6 (1007) DOI 10.2105/AJPH.2009.184697) (2010) (0)
- Paul B. Cornely (1906-2002): Civil rights leader and public health pioneer. (2011) (0)
- Courage and dignity. (2003) (0)
- Public Health International Global (2006) (0)
- In appreciation: Abram S. 'Bud' Benenson, MD (2000) (0)
- Milton Terris (1915-2002): outspoken advocate for progressive public health policy. (2011) (0)
- Shame on you, uncle! (2003) (0)
- Dispelling the specter of nuclear holocaust. (2004) (0)
- Introduction to a Reprint of Emilia Lombardi's "Enhancing Transgender Health Care". (2017) (0)
- AIDS : REASON FOR OPTIMISM ?. AUTHOR'S REPLIES (1993) (0)
- Peace and feminism. (2004) (0)
- Capitalist Health Care (1984) (0)
- Foreword: The Life and Work of Henry E. Sigerist (2018) (0)
- Public health service dentist examines an Alaska native child, 1951. (2002) (0)
- Overcoming the Warming of the Cold War: Smallpox Eradication (2019) (0)
- Lawrence O. Gostin. The AIDS Pandemic: Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations (2005) (0)
- Walt Whitman: "a feather in my wings". (2011) (0)
- Stephen Smith (1823-1922): founder of the American Public Health Association. (2011) (0)
- C. Arden Miller: advocate for children's health. (2011) (0)
- Reviews of Books:Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States Margaret Humphreys (2003) (0)
- Anemia in Puerto Rico at the turn of the twentieth century. (2015) (0)
- George Huntington Williams (1892-1992): Baltimore's Commissioner of Health. (2011) (0)
- A soldier's hero: Edith Cavell (1865-1915). (2010) (0)
- Immigrant mother and child: Chicago, 1910. (2001) (0)
- Chicago's War on Syphilis, 1937–1940: The Times, the Trib, and the Clap Doctor By Suzanne Poirier. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. x, 271 pp. $42.50, ISBN 0-252-02147-9.) (1997) (0)
- George E. Bolling (1876-1945): founder of an early public health laboratory. (2010) (0)
- Chief in-mut-too-yah-lat-lat (Thunder-Traveling-Over-the-Mountains): a reluctant warrior. (2010) (0)
- Wade Hampton Frost, Pioneer Epidemiologist 1880-1938: Up to the Mountain (review) (2006) (0)
- Nathan Allen: social reformer and health advocate. (2003) (0)
- Public Health Leader and Life Insurance Executive (2011) (0)
- Mary Steichen Calderone (1904-1998): Advocate for Sex Education. (2015) (0)
- The Time of AIDS: Social Analysis, Theory, and Method.@@@AIDS: The Making of a Chronic Disease. (1994) (0)
- General - Women in Science . By H. J. Mozans. Facsimile of 1913 edition. Introduction by Mildred Dressenhaus. Cambridge, Mass., and London: M.I.T. Press, 1974. Pp. xvii + 452. £2.50. (1977) (0)
- Lester Breslow: More Than A Half-Century In Public Health (2005) (0)
- Book Review:How the Idea of Profession Changed the Writing of Medical History John C. Burnham (2000) (0)
- Preventing high blood pressure and promoting longevity. (2010) (0)
- Justina Siegemund and the art of midwifery. (2010) (0)
- Introduction (2020) (0)
- Images of health. Unite to fight malaria! (2010) (0)
- Understanding AIDS: Historical Interpretations and the Limits of Biomedical Individualism (2020) (0)
- Jules Schevitz (1897-1922): boy wonder from Brooklyn. (2010) (0)
- The Vicissitudes of Primary Health Care (2019) (0)
- Charles E. Terry (1878-1945): early campaigner against drug addiction. (2011) (0)
- Where Are We Going In Global Health? Some Passionate Forebodings (2001) (0)
- Disease and Discovery (2016) (0)
- "An eventful epoch in the history of your lives". (2004) (0)
- Carl E. Taylor, (1916-2010): a beloved pioneer in international health. (2011) (0)
- Review: Changing Disciplines: Lectures on the History, Method, and Motives of Social Pathology (1995) (0)
- AIDS and the Public Debate: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (review) (1996) (0)
- Erratum: Alfred C. Kinsey: A Pioneer of Sex Research (American Journal of Public Health (2003) 93 (896-897)) (2003) (0)
- Erratum: Florence nightingale and the crimean war (American Journal of Public Health (2010) 100 (1591) DOI 10.2105/AJPH.2009.188607) (2011) (0)
- Public Health Books for the Bedside Table (2005) (0)
- Martin S. Pernick, A calculus of suffering. Pain, professionalism and anesthesia in nineteenth-century America , New York, Columbia University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xv, 421, illus., $45.50. (1986) (0)
- Books Received (1990) (0)
- Get well and go back to work! (2011) (0)
- Public health in Central America. (2003) (0)
- How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS (review) (2000) (0)
- A Leader in Social and Occupational Medicine (2012) (0)
- Although this volume offers historians of the field little that is new or surpris - ing, it may well serve students of epidemiology as an accessible introduction to the man and his work. (2006) (0)
- Woman, the anthropologist, meets man, the hunter. [Review of Reiter RR, ed. Toward an anthropology of women. Review Press, 1975]. (1977) (0)
- Isaac Max Rubinow: advocate for social insurance. (1997) (0)
- An Autobiography That Is Also a History of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2018) (0)
- Playing It Safe (1994) (0)
- Abel Wolman (1892-1989): sanitary engineer of the world. 2003. (2011) (0)
- A plan for measuring the effect of consumer education in the purchase of a certified household fabric (2015) (0)
- Old Bear: Mandan medicine man. (2011) (0)
- CHILDHOOD LEAD POISONING PREVENTION: The Editors Comment (1999) (0)
- Erratum: (American Journal of Public Health (1999) 89 (1647-1648)) (2000) (0)
- Good Science = Feminist Science (1986) (0)
- The Newer Nightingales (1998) (0)
- David Bodian. (2006) (0)
- Lead Debate: Protecting America’s Children (2013) (0)
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