The 1950s: Medicine and Health: Publications

THE 1950s: MEDICINE AND HEALTH: PUBLICATIONS

General

Hank Bloomgarden, Before We Sleep (New York: Putnam, 1958);

Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Viruses and Man (London & Baltimore: Penguin, 1953);

James Bordley, III, and A. McGehee Harvey, Two Centuries of American Medicine (Philadelphia: Saunders, 1976);

Charlotte Carter, Cancer, Smoking, Heart-Disease, Drinking —In Our Two World Systems Today (Toronto: Northern Book House, 1957);

"The Crisis in American Medicine," Harpers, 221 (October 1960): 121-168;

Michael M. Davis, Medical Care for Tomorrow (New York: Harper, 1955);

Agnes Wise Dooley, Promises to Keep (New York: New American Library, 1964);

Rene Dubos, Mirage of Health (New York: Harper,1959);

Leonard Engel, The Operation: A Minute-by-Minute Account of a Heart Operation —and the Story of Medicine and Surgery that Led Up to It (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958);

William Greer, Virus Hunters (New York: Knopf, 1959);

"The Half-Century Mark," eleven-part series in Today's Health, February 1950-December 1950;

Alfred Kinsey, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (Philadelphia: Saunders, 1953);

"Medicine: What's Happening, What to Expect," Changing Times, 13 (April 1959): 37-42;

Terry Morris, Doctor America: The Story of Tom Dooley (New York: Hawthorn, 1963);

National Health Forum, The Health of People Who Work, ed. Albert Q. Maisel (New York: National Health Council, 1960);

Monte M. Poen, Harry S Truman Versus the Medical Lobby: The Genesis of Medicare (Columbia & London: University of Missouri Press, 1979);

Fred Reinfeld, Miracle Drugs and the New Age of Medicine (New York: Sterling, 1957);

Dietrich C. Reitzes, Negroes and Medicine (Cambridge, Mass.: Commonwealth Fund / Harvard University Press, 1958);

"Should Doctors Tell All?," U.S. News & World Report, 41 (13 July 1956): 104-105;

Steven M. Spencer, Wonders of Modern Medicine (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953);

Consumer Reports Buying Guide, periodical.

Cancer

American Cancer Society annual report;

Horace Beard, A New Approach to the Conquest of Cancer, Rheumatic, and Heart Diseases (New York: Pageant, 1958);

Mark Boesch, The Long Search for the Truth About Cancer (New York: Putnam, 1960);

Charles S. Cameron, The Truth About Cancer (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1956);

Leonard M. Goldman, There Is an Answer to Cancer (New York: Harper, 1958);

Andre Voisin, Soil, Grass, and Cancer: Health of Animals and Men is Linked to the Mineral Balance of the Soil (New York: Philosophical Library, 1959).

Health Insurance

Odin W. Anderson, Family Medical Costs and Voluntary Health Insurance: A Nationwide Survey (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1956);

Oliver Donald Dickerson, Health Insurance (Homewood, 111.: Irwin, 1959);

Davis Weinert Gregg, ed., Life and Health Insurance Handbook (Homewood, 111.: Irwin, 1959);

Oscar N. Serbein, Paying for Medical Care in the United States (New York: Columbia University Press, 1953).

Heart Disease

Joyce Baldwin, To Heal the Heart of a Child (New York: Walker, 1992);

Joseph Eric Bittner, Prevention of Heart Disease and Cancer (Yakima, Wash.: Bittner Research Foundation, 1955);

Alton L. Blakeslee, Heart Disease: What You Should Know Aboutit (New York: Grosset &Dunlap, 1957);

Emil G. Conason, Eat Well and Live Longer: The Heart-Saver Cookbook (New York: Crown, 1958);

Walter Donald Close, Fundamentals of Heart Disease (Indianapolis, 1954);

Charles Frederick Terence East, The Story of Heart Disease (London: Dawson, 1958);

Emanuel Goldberger, Heart Disease, Its Diagnosis and Treatment (Philadelphia: Lea &Febiger, 1955);

William Hyatt Gordon, What is Heart Disease? (New York: Homecrafts, 1952);

Milton B. Plotz, Coronary Heart Disease (New York: Hoeber-Harper, 1957);

Paul Dudley White, Heart Disease (New York: Macmillan, 1951).

Medical Profession

Richard Carter, The Doctor Business (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1958);

"How Good Is Your Family Doctor?," Atlantic Monthly (August 1950): 43-47;

James Howard Means, Doctors, People and Government (Boston: Atlantic / Little Brown, 1953);

Walter E. and Jean K. Boek, Society and Health (New York: Putnam, 1956).

Mental Illness

Ivan Belknap, Human Problems of a State Mental Hospital (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1956);

William A. Caudill, The Psychiatric Hospital as a Small Society (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958);

Mike Gorman, Every Other Bed (Cleveland: World, 1956);

John Maurice Grimes, When Minds go Wrong: The Truth About our Mentally Ill and Their Care in Mental Hospitals (New York: Devin-Adair, 1954);

"Inside the Asylum," six-part series in Saturday Evening Post, 6 October 1956-10 November 1956;

Elliot S. Valenstein, Great and Desperate Cures (New York: Basic, 1986).

Physical Fitness

L. Jean Bogert, Nutrition and Physical Fitness (Philadelphia: Saunders, 1954);

"Is American Youth Physically Fit?," U.S. News & World Report, 43 (2 August 1957): 66-77.

Polio

Alton L. Blakeslee, Polio and the Salk Vaccine: What You Should Know About It (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1956);

Richard Carter, Breakthrough: The Saga of Jonas Salk (New York: Pocket Books, 1967);

Victor Cohn, Four Billion Dimes (Minneapolis, 1955);

Robert Coughlan, The Coming Victory Over Polio (New York: Simon St Schuster, 1954);

Marjorie Curson, Jonas Salk (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Silver Burdett, 1990);

John R. Paul, M.D., A History of Poliomyelitis (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1971);

John Rowland, The Polio Man: The Story of Dr. Jonas Salk (New York: Roy Publishers, 1961);

John Rowan Wilson, Margin of Safety: The Story of the Poliomyelitis Vaccine (London: Collins, 1963).

Periodicals

Annual Review of Medicine, begun in 1950;

Alton L. Blakeslee, "Health in the Headlines," monthly feature of Todays Health, 1950-1951;

Blakeslee, "Todays Health News," monthly feature of Today's Health, 1952-1960;

Journal of the American Medical Association', Medical History, begun in 1957;

"Medicine," weekly report in Newsweek, "Medicine," weekly report in Time ;

Science News Letter, annual report on medicine.