Richard A Meckel
Biographic Data
| ID | 682176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard A Meckel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard A |
| FAMILY NAME | Meckel |
| SIGNATURE | MECKEL R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner. Lead Wars
Convinced that the introduction of lead into the human ecology resulted in a tragic and ongoing environmental and public health disaster, the activist historians Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner have devoted a considerable part of their joint scholarship to exploring and analyzing the economic, social, political, and scientific processes through and by which that disaster has unfolded and continues to unfold. In their 2002 Deceit and Denial: The…
Naomi Rogers. Polio Wars
If you asked most Americans to tell the story of the nation's experience with poliomyelitis, they would relate the same familiar narrative. First emerging in epidemic form during the years around World War I, the disease scourged the nation with increasing regularity over the middle third of the century before being brought under control and subsequently banished by vaccines developed by two pioneering American male physician-medical researchers:…
S. Weir Mitchell, 1829-1914
Journal Article S. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914: Philadelphia's Literary Physician Get access S. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914: Philadelphia's Literary Physician. By Nancy Cervetti. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012. xiv, 295 pp. $79.95.) Richard A. Meckel Richard A. Meckel Brown UniversityProvidence, Rhode Island [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American…
Kinship by Design
Reviewed by: Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United States Richard A. Meckel Ellen Herman. Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xii + 381 pp. Ill. $70.00, £41.00 (ISBN-10: 0-226-32759-0, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32759-4), $25.00, £14.50 (ISBN-10: 0-226-32760-4, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32760-0). The body of scholarship on the history of adoption in the United …
City of Plagues
City of Plagues is another of the ever-expanding brood of books sired by Michel Foucault's influential if promiscuous contention that the signifying processes inherent in medical discourses serve disciplinary functions by reinforcing the association of the powerless and marginalized with deviance and danger. The discourses it examines are those inspired among late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century San Franciscan health officials and physici…
Childhood's Deadly Scourge
Contagion and Confinement
Journal Article Contagion and Confinement: Controlling Tuberculosis along the Skid Road. By Barron H. Lerner. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xviii, 243 pp. $42.50, ISBN 0-8018-5898-4.) Get access Richard A. Meckel Richard A. Meckel Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 294–295, https://…
Dirt and Disease
Journal Article Dirt and Disease: Folio before FDR. By Naomi Rogers. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992. xii, 258 pp. Cloth, $39.90, ISBN 0-8135-1785-0. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-81351786-9.) Get access Richard A. Meckel Richard A. Meckel Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1120–1121, https:…
Save the Babies
Save the Babies
Journal Article Save the Babies: American Public Health Reform and the Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1850–1929. By Richard A. Meckel. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. xii + 302 pp. $42.50.) Get access Virginia A. Metaxas Quiroga Virginia A. Metaxas Quiroga Southern Connecticut State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pag…
Save the Babies
Delivering Motherhood
Henrietta Russell
A Reconsideration
Journal Article A Reconsideration: The Not So Fundamental Sociology of Garibaldi Marto Lapolla Get access Richard A. Meckel Richard A. Meckel Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 14, Issue 3-4, Fall-Winter 1987, Pages 127–139, https://doi.org/10.2307/467406 Published: 01 December 1987
United States
Protecting the Innocents
It is argued that the interposition of the state between family and child, institutionalized during the Progressive Era, had its roots in an age-segregated welfare policy shaped in the latter half of the nineteenth century. In addition, the way the social control theory has been applied to the history of child welfare reform is questioned. Granting that social control impulses were influential in shaping such reform, it is argued that those impul…
Of Saints and Sinners
Immigration, Mortality, and Population Growth in Boston, 1840-1880
Mortality rates and trends in Boston Massachusetts are examined for the period 1840 to 1880 using data from two official registers of the city. The author attempts to evaluate the relative impact on mortality of population growth immigration and urban environmental change. Particular attention is paid to the influence of geographical growth and decentralization. (ANNOTATION)
Demographic Dimensions of the New Republic
This book provides the first comprehensive and consistent analysis of vital statistics and migration patterns for the United States between the Revolution and the Civil War. It is anchored in the one available source for nationwide estimates the decennial censuses. It attempts to provide for black and white populations a consistent set of estimates of birth and death rates rates of natural increase and net international and interregional flows. F…
Educating a Ministry of Mothers
City of Plagues
City of Plagues is another of the ever-expanding brood of books sired by Michel Foucault's influential if promiscuous contention that the signifying processes inherent in medical discourses serve disciplinary functions by reinforcing the association of the powerless and marginalized with deviance and danger. The discourses it examines are those inspired among late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century San Franciscan health officials and physici…
Dirt and Disease
Journal Article Dirt and Disease: Folio before FDR. By Naomi Rogers. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992. xii, 258 pp. Cloth, $39.90, ISBN 0-8135-1785-0. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-81351786-9.) Get access Richard A. Meckel Richard A. Meckel Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1120–1121, https:…
Immigration, Mortality, and Population Growth in Boston, 1840-1880
Mortality rates and trends in Boston Massachusetts are examined for the period 1840 to 1880 using data from two official registers of the city. The author attempts to evaluate the relative impact on mortality of population growth immigration and urban environmental change. Particular attention is paid to the influence of geographical growth and decentralization. (ANNOTATION)
Save the Babies
Save the Babies
Journal Article Save the Babies: American Public Health Reform and the Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1850–1929. By Richard A. Meckel. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. xii + 302 pp. $42.50.) Get access Virginia A. Metaxas Quiroga Virginia A. Metaxas Quiroga Southern Connecticut State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pag…
Demographic Dimensions of the New Republic
This book provides the first comprehensive and consistent analysis of vital statistics and migration patterns for the United States between the Revolution and the Civil War. It is anchored in the one available source for nationwide estimates the decennial censuses. It attempts to provide for black and white populations a consistent set of estimates of birth and death rates rates of natural increase and net international and interregional flows. F…
Contagion and Confinement
Journal Article Contagion and Confinement: Controlling Tuberculosis along the Skid Road. By Barron H. Lerner. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xviii, 243 pp. $42.50, ISBN 0-8018-5898-4.) Get access Richard A. Meckel Richard A. Meckel Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 294–295, https://…
Delivering Motherhood
United States
Educating a Ministry of Mothers
Educating a Ministry of Mothers
Demographic Dimensions of the New Republic
This book provides the first comprehensive and consistent analysis of vital statistics and migration patterns for the United States between the Revolution and the Civil War. It is anchored in the one available source for nationwide estimates the decennial censuses. It attempts to provide for black and white populations a consistent set of estimates of birth and death rates rates of natural increase and net international and interregional flows. F…
Protecting the Innocents
It is argued that the interposition of the state between family and child, institutionalized during the Progressive Era, had its roots in an age-segregated welfare policy shaped in the latter half of the nineteenth century. In addition, the way the social control theory has been applied to the history of child welfare reform is questioned. Granting that social control impulses were influential in shaping such reform, it is argued that those impul…
Of Saints and Sinners
Immigration, Mortality, and Population Growth in Boston, 1840-1880
Mortality rates and trends in Boston Massachusetts are examined for the period 1840 to 1880 using data from two official registers of the city. The author attempts to evaluate the relative impact on mortality of population growth immigration and urban environmental change. Particular attention is paid to the influence of geographical growth and decentralization. (ANNOTATION)
United States
A Reconsideration
Journal Article A Reconsideration: The Not So Fundamental Sociology of Garibaldi Marto Lapolla Get access Richard A. Meckel Richard A. Meckel Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 14, Issue 3-4, Fall-Winter 1987, Pages 127–139, https://doi.org/10.2307/467406 Published: 01 December 1987
Henrietta Russell
Save the Babies
Journal Article Save the Babies: American Public Health Reform and the Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1850–1929. By Richard A. Meckel. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. xii + 302 pp. $42.50.) Get access Virginia A. Metaxas Quiroga Virginia A. Metaxas Quiroga Southern Connecticut State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pag…
Save the Babies
Delivering Motherhood
Save the Babies
Dirt and Disease
Journal Article Dirt and Disease: Folio before FDR. By Naomi Rogers. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992. xii, 258 pp. Cloth, $39.90, ISBN 0-8135-1785-0. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-81351786-9.) Get access Richard A. Meckel Richard A. Meckel Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1120–1121, https:…
Childhood's Deadly Scourge
Contagion and Confinement
Journal Article Contagion and Confinement: Controlling Tuberculosis along the Skid Road. By Barron H. Lerner. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xviii, 243 pp. $42.50, ISBN 0-8018-5898-4.) Get access Richard A. Meckel Richard A. Meckel Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 294–295, https://…
City of Plagues
City of Plagues is another of the ever-expanding brood of books sired by Michel Foucault's influential if promiscuous contention that the signifying processes inherent in medical discourses serve disciplinary functions by reinforcing the association of the powerless and marginalized with deviance and danger. The discourses it examines are those inspired among late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century San Franciscan health officials and physici…
Kinship by Design
Reviewed by: Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United States Richard A. Meckel Ellen Herman. Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xii + 381 pp. Ill. $70.00, £41.00 (ISBN-10: 0-226-32759-0, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32759-4), $25.00, £14.50 (ISBN-10: 0-226-32760-4, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32760-0). The body of scholarship on the history of adoption in the United …
S. Weir Mitchell, 1829-1914
Journal Article S. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914: Philadelphia's Literary Physician Get access S. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914: Philadelphia's Literary Physician. By Nancy Cervetti. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012. xiv, 295 pp. $79.95.) Richard A. Meckel Richard A. Meckel Brown UniversityProvidence, Rhode Island [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American…
Naomi Rogers. Polio Wars
If you asked most Americans to tell the story of the nation's experience with poliomyelitis, they would relate the same familiar narrative. First emerging in epidemic form during the years around World War I, the disease scourged the nation with increasing regularity over the middle third of the century before being brought under control and subsequently banished by vaccines developed by two pioneering American male physician-medical researchers:…
Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner. Lead Wars
Convinced that the introduction of lead into the human ecology resulted in a tragic and ongoing environmental and public health disaster, the activist historians Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner have devoted a considerable part of their joint scholarship to exploring and analyzing the economic, social, political, and scientific processes through and by which that disaster has unfolded and continues to unfold. In their 2002 Deceit and Denial: The…
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