Now on display at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library are highlights on medical controversies and conspiracies, available in print and electronic format.
Controversy and medicine have been near-constant companions throughout human history. From vaccines conspiracies including autism links, safety considerations, and hesitancy. To quackery and conspiracies, offering miracle cures or unsafe practices, this display highlights a variety of examples from current day to recent history. From attempts at racial purity, or experimentation on prisoners and marginalized communities, hysteria and history of women’s health in a male dominated world, this collection highlights misleading and often dangerous or unethical practices.
The books in this exhibit highlight the deeply intertwined relationship between the healing arts and wider social and cultural phenomena, the impact of which continues to be felt in the current era.
Highlighted titles from this collection include:
eBooks
- Bryant, K. Hysteria: A memoir of illness, strength and women’s stories throughout history. NewSouth, 2020.
- Roberts, Dorothy E.. Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race In the Twenty-First Century. New Press, 2011.
- Goldenberg, Maya J. Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021.
Hardcopy
- Deer, Brian. The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Science, Deception, and the War On Vaccines. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. RA638 .D383 2020
- Ordering the Human: the Global Spread of Racial Science. Columbia University Press, 2024. Q172.5.S35 O73 2024
- Arnaud, Sabine. On Hysteria: the Invention of a Medical Category Between 1670 and 1820. The University of Chicago Press, 2015. RC532 .A7613 2015
- Brooks McNamara. Step right up. NY: Doubleday, 1976 Tye Qv 711 M271976 T
- Mnookin, Seth. The Panic Virus: the True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy. Simon & Schuster, 2012. WA 115 M675 2012
Learn more about the display at the collection’s webpage Medical Controversies and Conspiracies and visit the WHSC Library to check out the print materials in this collection.
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