John Chynoweth Burnham
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- PhD History University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Chynoweth Burnham was an American historian who was a professor of history at Ohio State University from 1963 to 2002. He was an expert on the history of science, medicine, psychology, and psychiatry. He served as president of the American Association for the History of Medicine from 1990 to 1992, and as editor-in-chief of the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences from 1997 to 2000. He was a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Division 26 of the American Psychological Association.
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Published Works
- Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (1966) (544)
- The evolution of editorial peer review. (1990) (283)
- American medicine's golden age: what happened to it? (1982) (99)
- Electron Microscopic Observations on the Penetration of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus into Gram-negative Bacterial Hosts (1968) (91)
- Psychiatrist of America. The life of Harry Stack Sullivan (1983) (69)
- How Superstition Won and Science Lost: Popularizing Science and Health in the United States, John C. Burnham. 1987. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ. 369 pages. ISBN: 0-8135-1238-7. $35.00 (1988) (68)
- The Theory of Epidemiologic Transition: the Origins of a Citation Classic (2010) (67)
- The Decline of Abstinence. (Book Reviews: Bad Habits. Drinking, Smoking, Taking Drugs, Gambling, Sexual Misbehavior, and Swearing in American History.) (1992) (59)
- Accident Prone: A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age (2009) (57)
- Pure food: securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906 (1991) (53)
- The state and the mentally ill : a history of Worcester State Hospital in Massachusetts, 1830-1920 (1967) (52)
- Psychiatry and the Human Condition (1976) (49)
- Mirror of medicine: a history of the BMJ (1991) (48)
- New Perspectives on the Prohibition “Experiment” of the 1920's (1968) (47)
- Ultrastructure and Cell Division of a Facultatively Parasitic Strain of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus (1970) (46)
- The Progressive Era Revolution in American Attitudes toward Sex (1973) (42)
- Paths into American Culture: Psychology, Medicine, and Morals (1989) (41)
- After Freud left : a century of psychoanalysis in America (2012) (39)
- Psychoanalysis and American medicine: 1894-1918: medicine, science, and culture. (1967) (38)
- Minds in the making (1994) (36)
- Psychiatry, Psychology and the Progressive Movement (1960) (36)
- Psychology and evolutionary naturalism in American thought, 1890-1940. (1971) (31)
- How the idea of profession changed the writing of medical history. (2000) (31)
- No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought (1976) (30)
- The Death of the Sick Role (2012) (28)
- Trichinella spiralis: behavior, structure, and biochemistry of larvae following exposure to components of the host enteric environment. (1987) (28)
- On the origins of behaviorism (1968) (27)
- Why sociologists abandoned the sick role concept (2014) (25)
- Medicine without Doctors: Home Health Care in American History (1978) (25)
- The “New Freud Studies”: A Historiographical Shift (2006) (24)
- How the Concept of Profession Evolved in the Work of Historians of Medicine (1996) (21)
- Medical inspection of prostitutes in America in the nineteenth century: the St. Louis experiment and its sequel. (1971) (19)
- Health Care in America: A History (2015) (16)
- Jelliffe : American Psychoanalyst and Physician and His Correspondence With Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung (1983) (16)
- Why did the infants and toddlers die? Shifts in Americans' ideas of responsibility for accidents -- from blaming Mom to engineering. (1996) (16)
- Accident Proneness (Unfallneigung): A Classic Case of Simultaneous Discovery/Construction in Psychology (2008) (14)
- How Journal Editors came to Develop and Critique Peer Review Procedures (1992) (13)
- Thorndike's puzzle boxes. (1972) (13)
- Progressivism (2020) (13)
- The “True Professional Ideal” in America: A History, (1994) (12)
- From avant-garde to specialism: psychoanalysis in America. (1979) (12)
- Biomedical communication and the reaction to the Queensland childhood lead poisoning cases elsewhere in the world. (1999) (11)
- The syndrome of accident proneness (Unfallneigung): why psychiatrists did not adopt and medicalize it (2008) (11)
- Closing the Asylums: Causes and Consequences of the Deinstitutionalization Movement (2012) (10)
- A Brief History of Medical Practitioners and Professional Historians as Writers of Medical History (1999) (9)
- The struggle between physicians and paramedical personnel in American psychiatry, 1917-41. (1974) (9)
- American physicians and tobacco use: two Surgeons General, 1929 and 1964. (1989) (8)
- Transnational History of Medicine after 1950: Framing and Interrogation from Psychiatric Journals (2011) (8)
- One for the Road: Drunk Driving since 1900 (review) (2012) (8)
- What Is Medical History (2005) (8)
- Psychotic Delusions as a Key to Historical Cultures: Tasmania, 1830–1940 (1980) (8)
- The Royal Derwent Hospital in Tasmania: Historical Perspectives on the Meaning of Community Psychiatry* (1975) (7)
- A Clinical Alternative to the Public Health Approach to Mental Illness: a forgotten social experiment (2006) (7)
- How the Discovery of Accidental Childhood Poisoning Contributed to the Development of Environmentalism in the United States (1995) (7)
- Polar Lipids of Chromatium Strain D Grown at Different Light Intensities (1970) (7)
- VARIETAL SUSCEPTIBILITY OF POTATOES TO APHID INJURY (1942) (7)
- Science in America: Historical selections (1971) (6)
- Peer-Reviewed Grants in U.S. Trade Association Research (1987) (6)
- The medical origins and cultural use of Freud's instinctual drive theory. (1974) (5)
- Jack Pressman and the Future of the History of Psychiatry (2000) (5)
- Instinct theory and the German reaction to Weismannism (1972) (5)
- Disordered Minds: The First Century of Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia 1766-1866 (1972) (5)
- A perfectly staged ‘concerted action’ against psychoanalysis (2007) (4)
- Medical historians and the tobacco industry (2004) (4)
- Lester Frank Ward in American thought (1958) (4)
- The Reception of Psychoanalysis in Western Cultures: An Afterword on Its Comparative History (1982) (4)
- Some Introductory Observations (2003) (4)
- New Orleans' Charity Hospital: A Story of Physicians, Politics, and Poverty (1994) (3)
- The founding of the Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry; or, what was wrong with the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease? (1981) (3)
- A CONTRIBUTION TO A LIST OF THE APHIDIDAE OF THE MARITIME PROVINCES OF CANADA (1938) (3)
- Prison Work: A Tale of Thirty Years in the California Department of Corrections (2005) (3)
- FRANZ SAMELSON AS THE GENTLE AGENT SENT TO PUNISH THE SIN OF PRIDE. (2016) (2)
- Freud: Living and Dying. Max Schur (1977) (2)
- Where is medical history headed? (2005) (2)
- Gold fever : being a true account, both horrifying and hilarious, of the art of healing (so-called) during the California gold rush (1967) (2)
- Lester Frank Ward as Natural Scientist (1954) (2)
- The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic Control. By David F. Musto (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973. xiv plus 354 pp. $ 10.95) (1975) (2)
- Change in the popularization of health in the United States. (1984) (2)
- Total War: The Economic Theory of a War Economy (2012) (1)
- The past of the future of medicine. (1993) (1)
- Eugenics and the Progressives. By Donald K. Pickens. (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1968. xi + 260 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $7.95.) (1969) (1)
- A Guide to Manuscript Collections in the History of Psychology and Related Areas. Michael Sokal , Patrice Rafail (1983) (1)
- Patterns in Transmitting German Psychiatry to the United States: Smith Ely Jelliffe and the Impact of World War I (2012) (1)
- :Alcoholism in America: From Reconstruction to Prohibition (2006) (1)
- Methods and madness (1997) (1)
- The Societization of Medicine or the Medicalization of Society? (2009) (1)
- Anthropologist A. L. Kroeber’s Career as a Psychoanalyst: New Evidence and Lessons from a Significant Case History (2012) (1)
- The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau. Psychiatry and Law in the Gilded Age. Charles E. Rosenberg. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 1968. xviii + 289 pp., illus. $5.95 (1968) (1)
- The British Medical Journal in America (2019) (1)
- Development of the male genitalia of Trichinella spiralis during the enteral phase of infection in the mouse: an SEM study. (1984) (1)
- Eloge: June Zimmerman Fullmer, 12 December 1920-31 January 2000 (2000) (1)
- Assessing historical research in the behavioral and social sciences: A symposium. Introduction. (1999) (1)
- Unraveling the Mystery of Why There Was No Childhood Lead Poisoning (2005) (1)
- Medical historians and the tobacco industry. Author's reply (2004) (1)
- The encounter of Christian theology with deterministic psychology and psychoanalysis. (1985) (1)
- Disease in the Popular American Press: The Case of Diphtheria (1989) (1)
- ‘Taking the plunge’ (2019) (1)
- The Mind-Body Problem in the Early Twentieth Century (2015) (1)
- Introduction to Part II A Shift in Perspective (2012) (1)
- Erika Dyck.Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus. xiii + 199 pp., illus., bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. $35 (cloth). (2009) (1)
- Bypassing Accident Proneness with Engineering (2009) (0)
- Review of Shrink: A cultural history of psychoanalysis in America. (2016) (0)
- The Home as Environment: Changing Understandings from the History of Childhood Lead Poisoning (2008) (0)
- Governing Morals: A Social History of Moral Regulation (review) (2001) (0)
- Books Received (1995) (0)
- The Western Medical Tradition, 18002000. By W. F. Bynum, Anne Hardy, Stephen Jacyna, Christopher Lawrence, and E. M. Tansey (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006) 614 pp. $90.00 cloth $29.99 paper (2008) (0)
- The Marihuana Conviction: A History of Marihuana Prohibition in the United States. By Richard J. Bonnie and Charles H. Whitebread, II. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1974. xiv + 368 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $12.50.) (1975) (0)
- James Harvey Young, Pure food: securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906 , Princeton University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xiii, 312, $29.95. (1991) (0)
- CLIFFORD W. BEERS: ADVOCATE FOR THE INSANE—by Norman Dam; University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 1980, 392 pages, $19.95 (1981) (0)
- Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World (review) (2002) (0)
- Eugene S. Mills. George Trumbull Ladd, pioneer American psychologist. Cleveland: The Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1969, xvi & 299 pp. $8.95 (1971) (0)
- The medical profession and social reform, 1885-1945 (1975) (0)
- Book Review:R. I. Watson's Selected Papers on the History of Psychology Josef Brozek, Rand B. Evans (1979) (0)
- Ernest Becker. The Structure of Evil, An Essay on the Unification of the Science of Man. New York: George Braziller, 1968, pp. xviii + 430. $8.50 (1969) (0)
- Approaches to the Public Policies of Sin (1997) (0)
- American Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century (review) (2010) (0)
- Michael Woodiwiss, Crime, Crusades and Corruption: Prohibition in the United States, 1900-1987. Barnes and Noble: Savage, MD, 1988. Pp. x + 260. $33.50. (1990) (0)
- Sigmund Freud and William C. Bullitt, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Twenty‐Eighth President of the United States, A Psychological Study. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967, Pp. xxii + 307. $6.00 (1968) (0)
- A Study of Intellectual Change: Freud and the Americans . The Beginnings of Psychoanalysis in the United States, 1876-1917. Nathan G. Hale, Jr. Oxford University Press, New York, 1971. xvi, 574 pp. $15. Freud in America, vol. 1. (1972) (0)
- So Far Disordered in Mind, Insanity in California, 1870–1930. By Richard W. Fox (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. xvi + 204 pp. $10.00) (1980) (0)
- DISCOVERY OF AN AUTUMN HOST PLANT OF MYZUS PERSICAE SULZER (1937) (0)
- The State and the Mentally Ill: A History of Worcester State Hospital in Massachusetts, 1830–1920. By Gerald N. Grob. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1966. xv + 399 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $7.50.) (1967) (0)
- Changing metaphors in History of the Human Sciences (2000) (0)
- New in paperback (1998) (0)
- Eclipse of the Idea Among Experts (2009) (0)
- Will medical history join the American mainstream? (1978) (0)
- Issue Information ‐ TOC (2021) (0)
- Following the trend into medical history. (1993) (0)
- American Exceptionalism in a Perhaps Unexpected Arena (2013) (0)
- The transit of medical ideas: Changes in citation of European publications in USA biomedical journals (1994) (0)
- Harry Milton Marks 1947–2011 (2011) (0)
- Health Care in America (2015) (0)
- The medical profession and cultural change. (1976) (0)
- A Study of Intellectual Change. (Book Reviews: Freud and the Americans. The Beginnings of Psychoanalysis in the United States, 1876-1917) (1972) (0)
- Book Review: The Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American Culture, by John C. Burnham (1989) (0)
- Preparing the Way: Transport Operators (2009) (0)
- A History of European Women's Work: 1700 to the Present (review) (2001) (0)
- Consolidation and Development, 1930s-World War II (2009) (0)
- Book Review:American Psychology in Historical Perspective: Addresses of the Presidents of the American Psychological Association, 1892-1977 Ernest R. Hilgard (1980) (0)
- Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884–1920. By Joseph F. Spillane (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. x plus 214 pp. $39.95) (2001) (0)
- Frank Miller Turner. Between science and religion: The reaction to scientific naturalism in late Victorian England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974. Pp. xii + 273. $12.50 (1975) (0)
- Childhood, Marriage, and Reform: Henry Clarke Wright, 1797–1870. By Lewis Perry. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. xiv + 359 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $20.00.) (1980) (0)
- Before Accident Proneness (2009) (0)
- Obituary (1979) (0)
- Bruce Mazlish, ed. Psychoanalysis and History. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice Hall, Inc. 1963. 183 pp. $2.25 (1965) (0)
- The Western Medical Tradition, 1800–2000 (review) (2007) (0)
- Did mental health workers shape american culture (1995) (0)
- How Psychiatrists Did Not Adopt and Medicalize Accident Proneness (2009) (0)
- Apostle of human progress: Lester Frank Ward and american political thought, 1841–1913 (2005) (0)
- Pathfinder: historical views of medicine and American culture. (1989) (0)
- From Mesmer to Medical Psychology (1971) (0)
- The Lobotomy Letters: The Making of American Psychosurgery by Mical Raz (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2013; 178 pp; $85.00.); reviewed by John C. Burnham (2014) (0)
- The Mid-Twentieth-Century High Point (2009) (0)
- Richard Noll.American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox. 395 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2011. $45 (cloth). (2012) (0)
- Norman Kiell (Ed.). Psychological Studies of Famous Americans, The Civil War Era. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1964. Pp. 302 (1967) (0)
- Book Review:The Occult in America: New Historical Perspectives Howard Kerr, Charles L. Crow (1984) (0)
- Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884-1920 (review) (2001) (0)
- Human Obstacles Facing Editors (1970) (0)
- Drug decriminalization. (1989) (0)
- Saul Jarcho as a translator and editor (1998) (0)
- Preservation of Historical Materials. (1959) (0)
- Introduction to Part I Transnationalizing (2012) (0)
- The last of the lunatics (2001) (0)
- Helen Swick Perry, Psychiatrist of America. The life of Harry Stack Sullivan . Cambridge, Mass., and London, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. viii, 462, illus., £14.00. (1983) (0)
- The social evil ordinance--a social experiment in nineteenth century St. Louis. (1971) (0)
- The Papers of Joseph Henry, Vol. 2: November 1832-December 1835: The Princeton Years (1976) (0)
- Summer Seminars for College Teachers (1975): Conference Proceeding 05 (1975) (0)
- Book reviews (2009) (0)
- The Streams Come Together in the Late 1920s and Early 1930s (2009) (0)
- Covering American Science (1985) (0)
- Book Reviewers (1998) (0)
- Book Review:Science and Patterns of Child Care Elizabeth M. R. Lomax, Jerome Kagan, Barbara G. Rosenkrantz (1979) (0)
- Forum : "The Unbearable Heaviness of Lead": Comment (2004) (0)
- Book Reviews (1998) (0)
- The American Myth of Success: From Horatio Alger to Norman Vincent Peale. By Richard Weiss. (New York: Basic Books, 1969. 276 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $6.95.) (1970) (0)
- Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus: Outside the Walls of the Asylum: The History of Care in the Community, 1750-2000 by Peter Bartlett and David Wright, eds. (2002) (0)
- Review Symposium (2008) (0)
- Book Review:Invisible Armies: The Impact of Disease on American History Howard N. Simpson (1981) (0)
- Hippocratic Oaths: Medicine and Its Discontents (2006) (0)
- Science in America (0)
- Eloge: Emanuel David Rudolph, 9 September 1927-22 June 1992 (1996) (0)
- Hints for young editors from the work of Saul Jarcho on Transactions & Studies. (1996) (0)
- Accidents in History: Injuries, Fatalities and Social Relations. Edited by Roger Cooter and Bill Luckin (Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi B. V., 1997. x plus 273pp.) (1998) (0)
- Contributors (1995) (0)
- P. W. J. Bartrip, Mirror of medicine: a history of the BMJ, London, British Medical Journal and Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1990, 8vo, pp. xiv, 338, illus., £35.00. (1991) (0)
- Aron Krich (ed.) The Sexual Revolution. Volume 1: Pioneer Writings on Sex: Krafft‐Ebing, Ellis, Freud. Volume 2: Seminal Studies into 20th Century American Sexual Behavior. New York: Dell. 1964–1965. pp. 352, xxviii + 225. $1.95 each (1968) (0)
- Book Review:The Origins of Behaviorism: American Psychology, 1870-1920 John M. O'Donnell (1986) (0)
- E. Victor Wolfenstein. The Revolutionary Personality: Lenin, Trotsky, Gandhi. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967. Pp. xi + 330. $7.50 (1969) (0)
- Book Review: Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and its Alternatives in Progressive America (1982) (0)
- Deinstitutionalisation and the Great Sociocultural Shift to Consumer Culture (2016) (0)
- Medicating Schizophrenia: A History. Sheldon Gelman (2001) (0)
- The acceptance of psychoanalysis in Western cultures: an afterword on its comparative history. (1982) (0)
- Crime and Reason: The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau . Psychiatry and Law in the Gilded Age. Charles E. Rosenberg. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 1968. xviii + 289 pp., illus. $5.95. (1968) (0)
- Dr. Kinsey and the Institute for Sex Research. Wardell B. Pomeroy. New York: Harper & Row, 1972. Pp. xii + 479. $10.00 (1975) (0)
- Enter the Physician: The Transformation of Domestic Medicine, 1760–1860: Murphy, Lamar Riley: Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press 312 pp., Publication Date: 1991 (1992) (0)
- Erratum (1936) (0)
- FORUM: "The Unbearable Heaviness of Lead" (2004) (0)
- Joseph Jones, M.D.: Scientist of the Old South: Breeden, James 0.: Lexington, Ky.: The University Press of Kentucky 293 pp., Publication Date: May 31, 1975 (1975) (0)
- Medicine at Harvard: The First Three Hundred Years. By Henry K. Beecher and Mark D. Altschule. (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1977. xiv + 587 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $27.50.) (1978) (0)
- Sarah W. Tracy.Alcoholism in America: From Reconstruction to Prohibition. xxiii + 357 pp., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. $48 (cloth). (2006) (0)
- Books Received (2005) (0)
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