John Parascandola
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American historian
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John Parascandola's Degrees
- PhD History University of Maryland, College Park
- Masters History University of Maryland, College Park
- Bachelors History University of Maryland, College Park
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Parascandola is an American medical historian. He has written numerous books, including The Development of American Pharmacology: John J. Abel and the Shaping of a Discipline, and held the position of Public Health Service Historian.
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Published Works
- Dinitrophenol and bioenergetics: An historical perspective (1974) (84)
- The theoretical basis of Paul Ehrlich's chemotherapy. (1981) (57)
- Chaulmoogra oil and the treatment of leprosy. (2003) (38)
- Origins of the receptor theory of drug action. (1974) (36)
- Organismic and holistic concepts in the thought of L. J. Henderson (1971) (28)
- The Development of American Pharmacology: John J. Abel and the Shaping of a Discipline (1993) (27)
- Sex, Sin, and Science: A History of Syphilis in America (2008) (25)
- From mercury to miracle drugs: syphilis therapy over the centuries. (2009) (23)
- City Planning Begins Public Review on Rezoning of Coney Island New York City Department of City Planning (2014) (22)
- Origins of the receptor theory (1979) (19)
- Screening syphilis: Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet meets the Public Health Service. (1998) (19)
- Poison, Detection, and the Victorian Imagination (2007) (18)
- The controversy over structure activity relationships in the early twentieth century. (1974) (16)
- Presidential Address: Quarantining Women: Venereal Disease Rapid Treatment Centers in World War II America (2009) (15)
- Snake oil, hustlers and hambones: the American medicine show (2002) (15)
- The Public Health Service and Jamaica ginger paralysis in the 1930s. (1995) (15)
- Industrial research comes of age: the American pharmaceutical industry, 1920-1940. (1985) (14)
- Arthur Cushny, optical isomerism, and the mechanism of drug action (1975) (13)
- History of the Pneumatic Trough (1969) (13)
- From MCWA to CDC--origins of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (1996) (13)
- The King of Poisons: A History of Arsenic (2011) (11)
- The Surgeons General and smoking. (1997) (11)
- Preparing tomorrow's health care team. (1972) (11)
- Carl Voegtlin and the 'arsenic receptor' in chemotherapy. (1977) (10)
- From germs to genes: trends in drug therapy, 1852-2002. (2002) (10)
- American concern over marihuana in the 1930's. (1972) (10)
- John Mahoney and the introduction of penicillin to treat syphilis (2001) (9)
- Doctors at the gate. PHS at Ellis Island. (1998) (9)
- Abel, Takamine, and the isolation of epinephrine. (2010) (8)
- The Evolution of Stereochemical Concepts in Pharmacology (1975) (8)
- Reflections on the history of pharmacology. (1980) (7)
- John J. Abel and the early development of pharmacology at the Johns Hopkins University. (1982) (6)
- Miracle at Carville : The introduction of the sulfones for the treatment of leprosy (1998) (6)
- The Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center at Carville. (1994) (6)
- Structure-activity relationships--the early mirage. (1971) (6)
- Alkaloids to arsenicals: systematic drug discovery before the first world war. (1997) (6)
- The development of the Draize test for eye toxicity. (1991) (6)
- The Emergence and Early Fate of the Three Rs Concept (2019) (6)
- The History of antibiotics : a symposium sponsored by the Divisions of History of Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry, American Chemical Society Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 5, 1979 (1980) (5)
- Patent medicines and the public's health. (1999) (5)
- The pharmaceutical sciences in America, 1852-1902. (2000) (5)
- Patent medicines in nineteenth-century America. (1985) (5)
- Dragon bones and drugstores: the interaction of pharmacy and paleontology in the search for early man in China. (1981) (4)
- Trends and events in American pharmacy, 1852-2002. (2002) (4)
- The Public Health Service and the control of biologics. (1995) (4)
- AIDS and the public debate: historical and contemporary perspectives. (1995) (4)
- Book Review: The History of Alternative Test Methods in Toxicology (2018) (4)
- A brief history of ASPET on its centennial anniversary. (2007) (4)
- Drugs and Narcotics in History: The drug habit: the association of the word ‘drug’ with abuse in American history (1995) (4)
- Form and function: early efforts to relate chemical structure and pharmacological activity. (1988) (3)
- The Cadet Nurse Corps, l943-48. (1994) (3)
- A. J. Clark: quantitative pharmacology and the receptor theory (1982) (3)
- Chemistry, Medicine, and Crime: Mateu J. B. Orfila (1787-1851) and His Times (review) (2007) (3)
- Development of Pharmacology in American Schools of Pharmacy. (1983) (3)
- Edward Mellanby and the antirachitic factor. (1977) (3)
- AIDS and the public debate (1995) (3)
- Amusing the Million (2014) (3)
- An exile in my own country: the confinement of leprosy patients at the United States National Leprosarium. (1998) (3)
- Physiology, propaganda, and pound animals: medical research and animal welfare in mid-twentieth century America. (2007) (3)
- Alice Evans, an early woman scientist at NIH. (1998) (3)
- A Coney Island Reader: Through Dizzy Gates of Illusion (2014) (3)
- VD at the movies: PHS films of the 1930s and 1940s. (1996) (3)
- Pharmacology and public health: the Jamaica ginger paralysis episode of the 1930s. (1994) (3)
- An Active Contributor: Dr. Lindberg and NLM's Historical Programs and Services. (2022) (3)
- Privies and the Public Health Service. (1997) (2)
- Amy L. Fairchild. Science at the Borders: Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force (2004) (2)
- History of Salvarsan (Arsphenamine) (2001) (2)
- Chemistry and modern society : historical essays in honor of Aaron J. Ihde (1984) (2)
- The fall and rise of syphilis in America since World War II. (2010) (2)
- Book Review:Pioneer in Modern Medicine: David Linn Edsall of Harvard Joseph C. Aub, Ruth K. Hapgood (1972) (2)
- Alice Catherine Evans (1881–1975) (2001) (2)
- Charles Holmes Herty: And the Effort to Establish an Institute for Drug Research in Post World War I America (1984) (2)
- TO BOND OR NOT TO BOND: CHEMICAL VERSUS PHYSICAL THEORIES OF DRUG ACTION (2003) (2)
- The beginnings of pharmacology in the federal government. (1988) (2)
- Designs for Life: Molecular Biology after World War II (review) (2003) (1)
- Sources in the history of American pharmacology (1983) (1)
- IMAGES OF HOSPITAL PHARMACY IN AMERICA (1992) (1)
- The emergence of pharmaceutical science. (1995) (1)
- Chemistry and commerce: F.B. Power and the Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories. (2005) (1)
- Drug therapy in colonial and revolutionary America. (1976) (1)
- Toxic Exposures: Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States (2021) (1)
- Chemistry and medicine: the NIH division of chemistry, 1905-1947. (2004) (1)
- Pharmacology and Folklore: The Arsenic Eaters of Styria. (2015) (1)
- The development of the adiabatic calorimeter (1971) (1)
- Human need of Coney Island (2014) (1)
- Alkoxide-Initiated Eliminations on Substrates Bearing Poor Leaving Groups. I. Diglyme as Substrate in Potassium t-Butoxide Initiated Elimination (1966) (1)
- Background to Robert Koch’s Lecture at the International Congress in Berlin, 1890 (1989) (1)
- Is Arsenic an Aphrodisiac? The Sociochemistry of an Element (review) (2009) (1)
- Notes on source materials: The L. J. Henderson papers at Harvard (1971) (1)
- Into the Night Life (2014) (1)
- Diet and Die with Excess Alpha Dinitrophenol (1977) (1)
- Marvelous Coney Island (2014) (1)
- The first edition of 'The Ship's Medicine Chest' (1881). (1995) (1)
- From marine hospital to public health service. (1999) (1)
- Studies in the History of Modern Pharmacology and Drug Therapy (2012) (1)
- The Tingling, Tangling Tango as ’Tis Tripped at Coney Isle (2014) (1)
- Poison, Detection, and the Victorian Imagination (review) (2008) (0)
- Ann Anderson, Snake oil, hustlers and hambones: the American medicine show , Jefferson, NC, McFarland & Co., 2000, pp. 190, illus., £30.40 (hardback 0-7864-0800-6). Distributed in the UK by Shelwing Ltd, 4 Pleydell Gardens, Folkestone, Kent CT20 2DN. (2002) (0)
- L. J. Henderson and the theory of buffer action. (1971) (0)
- From cards to computers: the National Library of Medicine and the transmission of medical knowledge. (2002) (0)
- Comments on the Revised Draft Scope of Analysis for Coney Island Rezoning Project Municipal Art Society (2014) (0)
- City Planning Begins Public Review on Rezoning of Coney Island (2014) (0)
- Gayle Davis, ‘The Cruel Madness of Love’: Sex, Syphilis and Psychiatry in Scotland, 1880–1930 (2010) (0)
- History of Biochemistry (1975) (0)
- A panel discussion: the historical literature of American pharmacy (1992) (0)
- A Note on the text (2014) (0)
- Memorandum from John Parascandola to Donald A. B. Lindberg (1991) (0)
- Mayor Blasts Ta Brass on Coney Island Debacle (2014) (0)
- Comments on the Revised Draft Scope of analysis for Coney Island Rezoning Project (2014) (0)
- Pharmaceutical history for the pharmacy student. (1982) (0)
- Why is Coney (2014) (0)
- The Two-Headed Boy and Other Medical Marvels (review) (2001) (0)
- Drug therapy and the random patient. (1996) (0)
- Coney Island’s Failing Days (2014) (0)
- Appendix: Historical Publications of Aaron J. Ihde (1984) (0)
- The Battle against Bacteria: A Fresh Look. Peter Baldry (1977) (0)
- Confessions of a Coney Island Sideshow Performer (2014) (0)
- [Clam-Bake at Coney Island] (2014) (0)
- Progress report on a biobibliographic project in the history of pharmacology. (1978) (0)
- Letters to the editor: A course in the history of science. (1973) (0)
- Book Review:Pharmaceutical Innovation: Revolutionizing Human Health Ralph Landau, Basil Achilladelis, Alexander Scriabine (2001) (0)
- Human Nature with the Brakes Off—Or: Why the Schoolma’Am Walked into the sea (2014) (0)
- Reviews and Notes: HIV Medicine: AIDS and the Public Debate: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (1996) (0)
- Letters to the Editor (1973) (0)
- Attachment to Letter to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia (2014) (0)
- The Greater Coney (2014) (0)
- My Son the Murderer (2014) (0)
- To Heaven by Subway (2014) (0)
- Children and Drug Safety: Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America (2019) (0)
- José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez and Augustí Nieto-Galan, eds. Chemistry, Medicine, and Crime: Mateu J. B. Orfila (1787–1851) and His Times. Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts, Science History Publications, 2006. xxv, 306 pp., illus. $52 (2007) (0)
- The Early Development of Pharmacology in America. (1976) (0)
- Ruins Help Draw 350,000 to Coney (2014) (0)
- The pharmacist and VD control in World War II America. (2005) (0)
- The Coney Island Excursion (2014) (0)
- The Master Showman of Coney Island (2014) (0)
- The Way of the Girl (2014) (0)
- Arkansas medicine: historical gleanings from the National Library of Medicine collections. (1987) (0)
- Ann Anderson, Snake oil, hustlers and hambones: the American medicine show: the American medicine show (2002) (0)
- Selected chronology of coney island (2014) (0)
- The founding of the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy. (1996) (0)
- Coney Island 1969 (2014) (0)
- Background material for RMP videotape interview with Wilson (1991) (0)
- Von Behring, Emil Adolf (1854–1917) (2007) (0)
- Next Gen: (2019) (0)
- Book reviews (2004) (0)
- Kwan’s Coney Island (2014) (0)
- To Coney Island (2014) (0)
- Ehrlilch, Paul (1854–1915) (2007) (0)
- Coney Island in November (2014) (0)
- Pharmacology and Folklore: The Arsenic Eaters of Styria (2015) (0)
- An active contributor: Dr. Lindberg and NLM’s historical programs and services (2022) (0)
- Peter Temin, Taking Your Medicine. Drug Regulation in the United States. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1980, VII, 274 pp., cloth, U.S. $18.50. (1982) (0)
- The contributions of David L. Cowen. (2001) (0)
- Sulfones and the miracle at Carville. (1996) (0)
- Book Review:An Historical Account of Pharmacology to the Twentieth Century Chauncey Leake (1977) (0)
- Reviews of Books:The Story of Taxol: Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-Cancer Drug Jordan Goodman, Vivien Walsh (2002) (0)
- The other pharmacists in the American Civil War. (2000) (0)
- Chemistry and pharmacology in Britain 1840-1916. (1976) (0)
- Brian B. Hoffman.Adrenaline. 298 pp., illus., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2013. $24.95 (cloth). (2014) (0)
- Possible program [for] RMP [History] conference (1991) (0)
- Science at the Borders: Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force (review) (2004) (0)
- Reminscences of Glenn Sonnedecker (2017) (0)
- Stranger At Coney Island (2014) (0)
- Book Review:The Enchanted Ring: The Untold Story of Penicillin John C. Sheehan (1983) (0)
- Background material for RMP videotape interview with DuVal (1991) (0)
- Images of hospital pharmacy in America. A pictorial essay in conjunction with an exhibit at the National Library of Medicine, May 28-July 28, 1992, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists. (1992) (0)
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