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he first state-level medical history society to have a website.  Our goal is to promote interest, research, and writing in medical history, and we are dedicated to the discussion and enjoyment of the history of medicine and allied fields.

  

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The Medical History Society of New Jersey thanks the MagMutual Insurance Company, successor to the MDAdvantage Insurance Company, for granting its permission to republish selected medical history articles from MDAdvisoron our website, and wishes to specifically acknowledge the following individuals:

Patricia Costante, FACHE, Chairman and CEO, MDAdvantage Insurance Company

Paul J. Hirsch, MD, Editor-in-ChiefMDAdvisor

Catherine E. Williams, Senior Vice President, MDAdvantage Insurance company; Executive, Business Development, MagMutual Insurance Company

INDEX

Steve Adubato, PhD — The Legacy of Karen Ann Quinlan - 40 Years Later — Spring 2016

Dennis Cornfield, MD Frederick Douglas Memorial Hospital and Training School: A Historical Perspective — Spring 2017

Dennis Cornfield, MD The Hospital at Bush Hill: Philadelphia’s Response to the 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic — Summer 2020
Dennis Cornfield, MD — Ladies First: The West Philadelphia Hospital for Women — Fall 2022

Julie Fairman, PhD — A Historian’s Look at the 2012 IOM Report on The Future of Nursing — Fall 2012
Janet Golden, PhD — A Cultural History of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome — Winter 2010
Gerald N. Grob, PhD — A Cautionary Tale: Tonsillectomy in Modern America — Winter 2008
Gerald N. Grob, PhD — 
The Evolution of Fibromyalgia In Modern America — Fall 2014

Bert Hansen, PhD — Rabies Shots, the Newark Boys and the American Origins of the Modern Medical Breakthrough — Winter 2012

Commissioner Heather Howard — Pandemic Influenza Planning Is Shared Responsibility — Fall 2008

Margaret Humphreys Climate Change and Mosquito-Borne Disease: A Historical Perspective —Spring 2009

John Zen Jackson, Esq & Henry H. Sherk, MD — James Still: “The Black Doctor of the Pines” — Fall 2012

John Zen Jackson, Esq. — In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan After 40 Years: Some Personal Remembrances from the Sidelines of History — Winter 2016

John Zen Jackson, Esq. — From South Jersey Roots: The Many Facets of Dr. John S. Rock — Winter 2016

John Zen Jackson, Esq. — Walt Whitman’s Healing Presence — Winter 2022
John Zen Jackson, 
Esq. Dedicated Volunteer Nurse and Devoted Wife During the Civil War — Spring 2022

John Zen Jackson, Esq. — Sir William Osler and His Eccentric New Jersey Patient — Spring 2023

Robert M. Klein, MD — The Legacies of Dr. Jokichi Takamine — Fall 2008

Alan M. Kraut, PhD — Guardians of the Gate: The Ellis Island Hospitals and Immigrant Patients in the late 19th and Early 20th Centuries — Spring 2013
Alan J. Lippman, MD — Protest by Arson: The Burning of the “Quarantine” — Winter 2021
Sandra Moss, MD, MA — Infantile Paralysis: The Newark Polio Epidemic of 1916 — Winter 2017
Sandra Moss, MD, MA 
Joseph William Stickler: Scarlatina and the Wrath of the Anti-Vivisectionists — Fall 2018

J. Alexander Navarro, PhD, Alexandra Minna Stern, PhD, & Howard Markel, MD, PhD — The 1918 Influenza Epidemic Hits Princeton University — Winter 2009

John Parascondola — The Fall and Rise of Syphilis in America Since World War II — Spring 2010

Henry H. Sherk, MD — Professor Roentgen and His Ray: The Evolution of Technology in Medicine — Spring 2008

Henry H. Sherk, MD — Edward J. Ill: His Life, Times and the Award in His Honor — Winter 2008

Arleen Marcia Tuchman, PhD — History of Diabetes — Winter 2013
James C. Whorton, 
PhD Disease and Civilization: Constipation & Health Since the Industrial Revolution — Summer 2013

Leah Z. Ziskin, MD, MS — How Margaret Sanger and John Rock Changed the World — Fall 2010


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