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Books

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J. Paul Kelleher, The Social Cost of Carbon: Ethics and the Limits of Climate Change Economics, (Oxford University Press, 2025)

The cover of Empire of Rubber has an airplane on the ground of an airport in Liberia with people watching.

Gregg Mitman, Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia, (The New Press, 2021)

The cover of The Gray Zones of Medicine has a drawing of a group of people waiting outside a medical facility.

Pablo Gomez and Diego Armus (Eds), The Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers and History in Latin America, (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021)

The cover of Cannabis has a black background with a multi-colored planet.

Lucas Richert and James Hl Mills (Eds), Cannabis: Global Histories, (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2021)

The cover of Strange Trips has a pill with one side colored blue and the other is clear with black scribbles on a tan background.

Lucas Richert, Strange Trips: Science, Culture, and the Regulation of Drugs (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019)

The cover of Future Remains has various art pieces displayed with a black background.

Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero, Robert Emmett (Eds), Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene (University of Chicago Press, 2018)

The cover of Model Behavior has a gloved hand holding a mouse with a white background.

Nicole C. Nelson, Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders (University of Chicago Press, 2018)

 

 

 

 

International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences: Cheiron Book Prize
Finalist

Forum for the History of Science in America: Philip J. Pauly Book Prize
Short Listed

Pablo F. Gómez, The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic (University of North Carolina Press, 2017)

Winner of the 2019 William H. Welch Prize for best book in all fields on the History of Medicine

Honorable mention for the 2018 Bolton-Johnson Prize for best book in all fields on Latin American History

Winner of the 2018 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for best book in all fields on Africana Religions

The cover of Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat has a green lunch box with a sandwich and vegetables in it on a chalkboard background. In the background, there is various fruits. nuts, and a water bottle.

Andrew R. Ruis, Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States (Rutgers University Press, 2017)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Documenting the World has tall room with pictures piled on the floor.

Gregg Mitman, Kelley Wilder (Eds), Documenting the World: Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record (University of Chicago Press, 2016)

The cover of Fatal Isolation has the backdrop of Paris with the Eiffel Tower centered and a yellow-orange tinged coloring.

Richard C. Keller, Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003 (University of Chicago Press, 2015)

The cover of Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science has an apple on a beige background.

Ronald L. Numbers, Kostas Kampourakis, eds., Newton’s Apple and Other Myths about Science (Harvard University Press, 2015)

The cover of Regenerative Medicine Ethnics is a blue colored background.

Linda F. Hogle (Ed.), Regenerative Medicine Ethics: Governing Research and Knowledge Practices (Springer, 2014)

The cover of Ellen Harmon White is a photo of a woman on a beige background.

Terrie Dopp Aamodt, Gary Land, and Ronald L. Numbers, eds., Ellen Harmon White: American Prophet (Oxford University Press, 2014)

The cover of Gods in America has images of a variety of religions.

Charles L. Cohen and Ronald L. Numbers, eds., Gods in America: Religious Pluralism in the United States (Oxford University Press, 2013)

The cover of Unconscious Dominions has an abstract drawing with a black and yellow background.

Warwick Anderson, Deborah Jenson, Richard C. Keller, Unconscious Dominions: Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, and Global Sovereignties (Duke University Press, 2011)

The cover of Wrestling with Nature has old Astronomy tools on a beige background

Peter Harrison, Ronald L. Numbers, and Michael H. Shank, Wrestling with Nature: From Omens to Science (University of Chicago Press, 2011)

The cover of Enregistrer les morts, identifier les surmortalités has a yellow background with a checker pattern

Richard C.Keller, Robert Dingwall, and Carine Vassy, eds., Enregistrer les morts, identifier les surmortalités Une comparaison Angleterre, États-Unis et France (Presses de l’EHESP, l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique, 2010)

The cover of A Heart for the Work has a stethoscope with a gray-white background.

Claire L. Wendland, A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School (University of Chicago Press, 2010)

The cover of Make Room For Daddy has drawings of men in business suits sitting and standing around a couch.

Judith Walzer Leavitt, Make Room for Daddy: The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room (University of North Carolina Press, 2009)

The cover of Galileo Goes To Jail has an 1852 painting from Friedrich Karl Hausmanm titled "Galileo Galilei before the Council".

Ronald L. Numbers (ed.), Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion (Harvard University Press, 2009)

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2009

The cover of Flesh and Blood has a plant on a black background

Susan E. Lederer, Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in 20th Century America (Oxford University Press, 2008)

The cover of Breathing Space has different colored shapes and lines with a black background.

Gregg Mitman, Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes (Yale University Press, 2008)

Awarded the William H. Welch Medal by the American Association for the History of Medicine. Winner of a 2008 Outstanding Achievement Award, Wisconsin Library Association. Finalist for the 2007 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in the Environment category

The cover of Prophetess of Health has a black and white photo of Ellen G. White.

Ronald L. Numbers, Prophetess of Health: A Study of Ellen G. White (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008)

The cover of The Creationists has a portion of the 1483 Nuremberg Bible art piece.

Ronald L. Numbers, The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design (Expanded Edition) (Harvard University Press, 2008)

The cover of Colonial Madness has an 1837-1838 painting by Eugène Delacroix named Convulsionists of Tangiers. A group of people walking around.

Richard C. Keller, Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa (University of Chicago Press, 2007)

The cover of Thinking with Animals has a Mandrill monkey with an orange background.

Lorraine Daston and Gregg Mitman (eds.), Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism (Columbia University Press, 2005)

The cover of Landscapes of Exposure has a man standing in a field preparing a measuring device overlooking a zinc plant.

Gregg Mitman, Michelle Murphy, and Christopher Sellers (eds.), Landscapes of Exposure: Knowledge and Illness in Modern Environments (Osiris, Volume 19) (University of Chicago Press, 2004)

The cover of Moral Relativism and Reasons for Action has a blue background.

Robert Streiffer, Moral Relativism and Reasons for Action (Routledge, 2003)

Lynn K. Nyhart and Thomas Broman (eds.), Science and Civil Society (Osiris, Volume 17) (University of Chicago Press, 2002)

The cover of Recovering the Nation's Body has a 1920 Woodcut by Kathe Kollwitz titled "The Living to the Dead. In Memory of January 15, 1919." A group of people are gathered around a person who has died.

Linda F. Hogle, Recovering the Nation’s Body: Cultural Memory, Medicine, and the Politics of Redemption (Rutgers University Press, 1999)

The cover of Women and Health in America has a group of young women in formation.

Judith Walzer Leavitt, Women and Health in America (2nd Edition) (University of Wisconsin Press, 1999)

The cover of Reel Nature has a man with bear cubs climbing a tripod.

Gregg Mitman, Reel Nature: America’s Romance With Wildlife on Film (Harvard University Press, 1999)

Winner of the 2000 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize for the History of Science Society

The cover of Darwinism Comes to America has an ape with a background of stars and stripes colored as red, white, and blue.

Ronald L. Numbers, Darwinism Comes to America (Harvard University Press, 1998)

Winner of the 1999 Templeton Foundation Prize for Outstanding Book in Theology and the Natural Sciences

Ronald L. Numbers, Darwinism Comes to America (Harvard University Press, 1998)

Judith Walzer Leavitt, Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health (Beacon Press, 1997)

The cover of Sickness and Health in America has a woman laying in bed with a chair next to her. The background is blue.

Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald L. Numbers (eds.), Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health (third Edition, Revised) (University of Wisconsin Press, 1997)

The cover of The Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 1750-1820 has a large building with many windows and columns. The background over the cover is a green-blue.

Thomas H. Broman, The Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 1750-1820 (University of Chicago Press, 1996)

The cover of The Healthiest City has a black and white photo of a man and a girl.

Judith Walzer Leavitt, The Healthiest City: Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform (Wisconsin Edition) (University of Wisconsin Press, 1996)

The cover of Subjected to Science has a black and white photo of scientists overlooking a dissection table.

Susan E. Lederer, Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of The State of Nature has two red colored bees with a black and white background.

Gregg Mitman, The State of Nature: Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, 1900-1950 (University of Chicago Press, 1992)

Winner of the 1994 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities from the Council of Graduate Schools

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Childbearing in America 1750-1950 has a black and white photo of a woman holding a baby with a blue background.

Judith Walzer Leavitt, Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950 (Oxford University Press, 1986)

Film

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Gregg Mitman. The Land Beneath Our Feet. (60 min., 2016). Director/Producer, with Sarita Siegel. Available through Passion River http://thelandbeneathourfeet.com.

Gregg Mitman. In the Shadow of Ebola (23 min, 2015). Director/Producer, with Sarita Siegel. A co-production with Alchemy Films and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/in-the-shadow-of-ebola/

Journals

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“The Social Cost of Carbon from Theory to Trump,” in Ravi Kanbur and Henry Shue (eds.) Climate Justice: Integrating Economics and Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2019).

“Pure Time Preference in Intertemporal Welfare Economics,” Economics & Philosophy 33 (2017): 441–473.

“Beneficence, Justice, and Health Care,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 24(1) (2014): 27-49.

Media Appearances

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Dr. Gretchen Schwarze spoke on the Palliatively Speaking podcast

https://www.palliativelyspeaking.com/episodes/debra-lotstein-jeeps-4ptdd

A Public Affair, WORT Radio, “https://www.wortfm.org/”

Tone Madison, “There will be no “climate haven”

Wisconsin Public Radio, “How delta-8 is shaping the marijuana debate in Wisconsin,”

Vanessa Kjeldsen for WMTV-News, “Delta-8 remains largely unregulated in Wisconsin,”

UW-Madison for Spectrum News’ “In Focus,”

Wisconsin Public Radio, “New medical marijuana proposal,”

Nautilus Magazine, “The long history of psychedelic theft,”

CBS 58 – Milwaukee CBS Interview, “Discovered Documents Reveal More About Milwaukee County Insane Asylum”

PBS’s To the Best of Our Knowledge, “Luminous – can psychedelics be decolonized?”

The Badger-Herald, “Wisconsin Democrats introduce bill to legalize recreational marijuana”

BBC Radio4, The Digital Human (2022) Radio/Podcast Interview. Episode: “Implant”, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dws4

Badger Herald (2022) Student Newspaper Interview. “COVID-19 Ripple Effect”. Available at
https://badgerherald.com/news/2022/02/10/covid-19-ripple-effect-how-resource-shortages-impactindividuals-
with-other-life-threatening-conditions/

Banfield (2022) TV Interview. “Hackable Humans: Will Neural Chips Become the New Normal?”.
Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9QI3Vtn4ys

Daily Beast (2022) Newspaper Interview. “Experts Are Ringing Alarm Bells About Elon Musk’s Brain
Implants”, https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-neuralink-inches-closer-to-human-trials-andexperts-
are-ringing-alarms

Alumni

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The cover of Lost has an unborn fetus in a cocoon with a light blue background.

Shannon Withycombe, Lost: Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America (Rutgers University Press, 2018)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Canned has hands with red nails holding a canned food open while peeling of the label on the can.

Anna Zeide, Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry (University of California Press, 2018)

2019 James Beard Award Winner
(Reference, History, and Scholarship Category)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat has a green lunch box with a sandwich and vegetables in it on a chalkboard background. In the background, there is various fruits. nuts, and a water bottle.

Andrew R. Ruis, Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States (Rutgers University Press, 2017)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Birds of Empire, Birds of Nation has beige squares over a white background. In the squares are multi-colored birds.

Camilo Quintero Toro, Birds of Empire, Birds of Nation. A History of Science, Economy, and Conservation in United States-Colombia Relations (Universidad de los Andes, 2012)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of An Empire of Ice has three men standing in snow.

Edward J. Larson, An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science (Yale University Press, 2011)

Awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2011 National Outdoor Book Awards. Shortlisted for the 2012 Hessell-Tiltman prize.

The cover of Looking for a Few Good Males has a drawing of the anatomy of a male and female bird with a blue background.

Erika Lorraine Milam, Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Lessons Amid the Rubble has a steel structure of a building standing surrounded by construction equipment and fallen building pieces. Tis image is the aftermath of the destruction of the World Trade Center days after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.

Sarah K. A. Pfatteicher, Lessons amid the Rubble: An Introduction to Post-Disaster Engineering and Ethics (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Death Investigation in America has a drawing of bodies laying on dissection tables. Their clothes are hung from hooks on the wall.

Jeffrey M. Jentzen, Death Investigation in America: Coroners, Medical Examiners, and the Pursuit of Medical Certainty (Harvard University Press, 2009)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of When Prayer Fails has a wooden baby crib in front of a window.

Shawn Francis Peters, When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law (Oxford University Press, 2008)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Thomas Hardy's Novel Universe is a red berry color with the title in a brown box.

Pamela Gossin, Thomas Hardy’s Novel Universe (Ashgate, 2007)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Science Talk has a drawing of a human head with the parts of the brain labeled, a UFO, and a chart of human evolution.

Daniel Patrick Thurs, Science Talk: Changing Notions of Science in American Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2007)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Hot and Bothered has a white background with red, purple, and blue boxes that house the title.

Judith A. Houck, Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America (Harvard University Press, 2006)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of The Coldest Crucible has a large sailing ship with an iceberg in the background. In the foreground, there are people on row boats.

Michael F. Robinson, The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2006)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of British Naturalists in Qing Chine has a drawing of boats on water next to a mountain scape. There are various plants in the drawing. The main image on the cover is a bird.

Fa-ti Fan, British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter (Harvard University Press, 2004)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Evolution has three butterflies with their wings spread open.

Edward J. Larson, Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory (Modern Library, 2004)

The cover of A Philosophical Path for Paracelsian Medicine has an older man holding object.

Jole R. Shackelford, Philosophical Path for Paracelsian Medicine: The Ideas, Intellectual Context, and Influence of Petrus Severinus (1540-1602) (Museum Tusculanum Press, 2004)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots has a woman in a dress with a young child. This is a portrait of Louise-Elisabeth of France with her son.

Louise E. Robbins, Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Christian Science on Trial has a person laying in a bed with a woman sitting in a chair next to the bed.

Rennie B. Schoepflin, Christian Science on Trial: Religious Healing in America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of How to Write the History of the New World has an astrology zodiac wheel with a sun and moon inside it.

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Stanford University Press, 2001)

Winner of the 2001 John E. Fagg Prize in Spanish and Latin American History and the 2001 Atlantic History Prize, both from the American Historical Association.

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Summer for the Gods has men sitting in a court room with officers walking up to one of the men.

Edward J. Larson, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (Basic Books, 1997)

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in History

The cover of To Make a Spotless Orange has a field of orange trees with hills in the background.

Richard C. Sawyer, To Make a Spotless Orange: Biological Control in California (Iowa State Press, 1996)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Catching Babies has a red background with black text.

Charlotte G. Borst, Catching Babies: The Professionalization of Childbirth, 1870-1920 (Harvard University Press, 1995)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Sex, Race, and Science has a group of people working in a field.

Edward J. Larson, Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995)

The cover of Subjected to Science has a black and white photo of scientists overlooking a dissection table.

Susan E. Lederer, Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Between Copernicus and Galileo has a measuring device with a pink and gray background.

James M. Lattis, Between Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic Cosmology (University of Chicago Press, 1994)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Nature, the Exotic, and the Science of French Colonialism has a red and beige background with a ribbon design on the top.

Michael A. Osborne, Nature, the Exotic, and the Science of French Colonialism (Indiana University Press, 1994)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science has a man in a suit coat with a top hat.

Hugh Richard Slotten, Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science: Alexander Dallas Bache and the U. S. Coast Survey (Cambridge University Press, 1994)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Simon Baruch has a black and white photo of a man with dark hair in a uniform.

Patricia Spain Ward, Simon Baruch: Rebel in the Ranks of Medicine, 1840-1921 (University of Alabama Press, 1994)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Science, Medicine, and the State in Germany has a building with several windows and arched doorways.

Arleen Marcia Tuchman, Science, Medicine, and the State in Germany: The Case of Baden, 1815-1871 (Oxford University Press, 1993)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Men Among the Mammoths has a hand axe, a prehistoric stone tool.

A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Men among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory (University of Chicago Press, 1993)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of The Botanizers has a drawing of a man with a briefcase and a walking stick. The man is wearing a suit and a hat.

Elizabeth B. Keeney, The Botanizers: Amateur Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press, 1992)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of The State of Nature has two red colored bees with a black and white

Gregg Mitman, The State of Nature: Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, 1900-1950 (University of Chicago Press, 1992)

Winner of the 1994 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities from the Council of Graduate Schools

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Founders of Humanistic Psychology has a green background.

Roy Jose DeCarvalho, The Founders of Humanistic Psychology (Praeger Publishers, 1991)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Academic Scientists and the Pharmaceutical Industry has a man and a woman working in a laboratory.

John Patrick Swann, Academic Scientists and the Pharmaceutical Industry: Cooperative Research in Twentieth-Century America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Unrolling Time has a black and yellow background.

Joella G.Yoder, Unrolling Time: Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematization of Nature (Cambridge University Press, 1988)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Mothers and Medicine has a woman holding a baby wrapped in a blanket with a man in a suit talking to the woman.

Rima D. Apple, Mothers and Medicine: A Social History of Infant Feeding, 1890-1950 (University of Wisconsin Press, 1987)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Trial and Error has a black and gray patterned background.

Edward J. Larson, Trial and Error: The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution (Oxford University Press, 1985)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)

The cover of Victorian Social Medicine has a black and white photo of people laying in beds and on the floor of a large room. There is an older woman sitting on a chair holding a child.

John M. Eyler, Victorian Social Medicine: The Ideas and Methods of William Farr (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979)

(Revised from a UW dissertation)