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  Home > Faculty > Susan Reverby Contact Information sreverby@wellesley.edu Telephone: 781.283.2535 NEWS:   Susan M. Reverby’s research on an immoral government medical study in Guatemala between 1946-48 where men and women were given syphilis led to a U.S. government response from the Secretaries of the Departments of State and Health and Human Services and an apology from President Obama to President Colom of Guatemala. The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, at President Obama's request, is exploring the historical context of the research in Guatemala and current human subject protections. The article was published in the Journal of Policy History in January 2011. Reverby, “’Normal Exposure,’” pdf Current Courses 120 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies 220 American Healthcare History in Gender, Race, and Class Perspective 230 Female or Feminist: Women's Movements in U.S. History 222 Women in Contemporary American Society 324 History, Memory, and Women's Lives Biography Susan M. Reverby is the Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College and an historian of American women, medicine and nursing. The first hire at Wellesley in Women's Studies in 1982, she has taught at the college for nearly three decades. She is the co-editor of America's Working Women: a Documentary History (1976); Health Care in America: Essays in Social History (1979); and Gendered Domains: Beyond the Public and Private in Women's History (1992). She was the editor of The History of American Nursing: a 32 Volume Reprint Series (1982-83). Her prize-winning book, Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing (New York: Cambridge University Press, l987) is still considered one of the major overview histories of American nursing. She has completed two books on what is referred to as the.
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The history of medicine in the United States focuses on the work of trained professionals from colonial days to the present. Contents 1 Colonial era 1.1 Disease environment 1.2 Medical organization 2 Women 2.1 Doctors 2.2 Nursing 3 Infant mortality 4 Civil War 5 Modern medicine 6 World War II 6.1 Nursing 7 See also 8 Notes 9 Bibliography 9.1 Surveys 9.2 To 1910 9.3 Civil War era 9.4 Since 1910 9.5 Primary sources 9.6 Major research collections 10 See also Colonial era[edit] Disease environment[edit] Main article: Disease in colonial America Mortality was very high for new arrivals, and high for children in the colonial era.[1][2] Malaria was deadly to many new arrivals, especially in the Southern colonies. The disease environment was very hostile to European settlers, especially in all the Southern colonies. Malaria was endemic in the South, with very high mortality rates for new arrivals. Children born in the new world had some immunity—they suffered mild recurrent forms of malaria but survived. For an example of newly arrived able-bodied young men, over one-fourth of the Anglican missionaries died within five years of their arrival in the Carolinas.[3] Mortality was high for infants and small children, especially from diphtheria, yellow fever, and malaria. Most sick people turn to local healers, and used folk remedies. Others relied upon the minister-physicians, barber-surgeons, apothecaries, midwives, and ministers; a few used colonial physicians trained either in Britain, or an apprenticeship in the colonies. There was little government control, regulation of medical care, or attention to public health. By the 18th century, Colonial physicians, following the models in England and Scotland, introduced modern medicine to the cities in the 18th century, and made some advances in vaccination, pathology, anatomy and pharmacology.[4] There was a fundamental difference.
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