BOOKS & SELECTED ARTICLES
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Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009)
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White Market Drugs: Addictive Pharmaceuticals and American Drug Policy (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2020)
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Scott Podolsky, David Herzberg, and Jeremy Greene, “Preying on Prescribers (and Their Patients): Pharmaceutical Marketing, Iatrogenic Epidemics, and the Sackler Legacy,” New England Journal of Medicine, April 10, 2019, 1-3 link
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“Entitled to Addiction? Race and pharmaceuticals in America’s first drug war,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 91 (Fall 2017), 586-623- winner J. Worth Estes Prize 2018 link
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with Nancy D. Campbell, "Gender and Critical Drug Studies: An Introduction and an Invitation," Contemporary Drug Problems 44(4), November 16, 2017 and Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 31, 2017 link
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with Honoria Guarino, Pedro Mateu-Gelabert, and Alex S. Bennett, "Recurring Epidemics of Pharmaceutical Drug Abuse in America: Time for an All-Drug Strategy," American Journal of Public Health, March 2016: 408-10 link
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"Pills" in Rethinking Therapeutic Culture, eds. Timothy Aubrey and Trysh Travis (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
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"Busted for Blockbusters: 'Scrip Mills' and Prescribing Power in the 1970s," in Jeremy Greene and Elizabeth Segal Watkins, eds., Prescribed: Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the Prescription in Modern America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012).
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"Blockbusters and Controlled Substances: Miltown, Quaalude, and Consumer Demand for Drugs in Postwar America," Cambridge Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological Sciences 42(4), December 2011: 415-26.
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with Jeremy Greene, "Hidden in Plain Sight: The Popular Promotion of Prescription Drugs in the 20th Century," American Journal of Public Health (May 2010): 793-803- winner article of year AJPH 2011 link
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"'Will Wonder Drugs Never Cease!': A Prehistory of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising," Pharmacy in History 51(2), 2009, p. 47-56
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"'The Pill You Love Can Turn On You': Feminism, Tranquilizers, and the Valium Panic of the 1970s." American Quarterly (March 2006): 79-103.
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"Thinking Through War: The Social Thought of Richard T. Ely, John R. Commons, and Edward A. Ross during the First World War." Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 37 (Spring 2001): 123-41.
SELECTED REVIEWS AND REFERENCE WORKS
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review of Keith Wailoo, Pain: A Political History and Joanna Bourke, The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers; Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 71:2 (2016): 242-6
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review of Nassir Ghaemi, Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World; Bulletin of the History of Medicine 89:3 (Fall 2015), 628-9
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review of Alan Horwitz, Anxiety: A Brief History; Social History of Medicine 27:4 (2014): 839-40.
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review of Gaudilliere and Hess, eds., Ways of Regulating Drugs in the 19th and 20th Centuries; Bulletin of the History of Medicine 88:2 (2014): 390-2.
REVIEWS/REFERENCE, cont.
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"Medical advertising," in Hugh Slotten, ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology in America (2014).
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"Consumer Culture [anchor essay]," in Joan Shelley Rubin and Scott Casper, eds., Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History (2013) and Melvyn Dubofsky, ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History (2013)
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review of Howard Padwa, Social Poison: The Cultures and Politics of Opiate Control in Britain and France, 1821-1926; Medical History 57:4 (2013): 602-4.
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review of Dominique Tobbell, Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War American and Its Consequences; American Historical Review 117 (2012): 1621-2
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review of Laura Hirshbein, American Melancholy, Social History of Medicine, April 2011, p. 183-185.
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review of James Colgrove, State of Immunity, Historian, Fall 2008, p. 530-531
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review of Jonathan Engel, Poor People's Medicine, Reviews in American History, March 2007, p. 140-145
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review essay of Jonathan Metzl, Prozac on the Couch and Curtis Marez, Drug Wars; American Quarterly, December 2005, p. 1231-1241
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review of William White, Slaying the Dragon, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Summer 2002: 411-12
PUBLIC HISTORY
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"The company that makes OxyContin would become a 'public trust'--what would that mean? The Conversation, December 4, 2019; link
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with Matthew Pembleton, "While government cracked down on illegal drugs, Big Pharma hooked millions on opioids," Washington Post, October 30, 2017
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"Setting today's opioid epidemic in historical context," Process: A Blog for American History (OAH), March 27, 2017
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“Drug war dissents: Robinson v. California,” Points: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drug History Society, June 7, 2016
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"100 words on the Harrison Act at 100," Points: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drug History Society, December 17, 2015
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"Shadow Journals: The Story of Medical Advertising," 3-part blog post for the New York Academy of Medicine, October 15, 17, 19, 2013
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Researcher and co-producer of "This Doesn't Happen Here" (2013), a documentary film on racial segregation and its challengers in Buffalo, NY. Filmed by Brian Milbrand and made in collaboration with Grace Andriette of Neighborhood Legal Services and the Erie County Fair Housing Partnership.
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"Quaalude: The one that didn't get away?" Points: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drug History Society, February 18, 2011. Re-posted as "Quaalude Nostalgia: A Retro Drug That Everyone Remembers Fondly," The Atlantic Monthly Online, February 21, 2012.
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"Forgotten Drugs of Abuse: T's and Blues," Points: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drug History Society, November 21, 2011. Re-posted as "The Forgotten Drug of Abuse: How Junkies Grew Addicted to Talwin," The Atlantic Monthly Online, January 10, 2012.
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"Researcher finds pain and relief in the Archives Center," Smithsonian Collections Blog, January 4, 2012.