Marcia Meldrum
Biographic Data
| ID | 1083171 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcia Meldrum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcia |
| FAMILY NAME | Meldrum |
| SIGNATURE | MELDRUM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-2116-2766 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Portrayal or Betrayal
The presence and quality of LGBTQ+ representation in film and television has important implications for viewers, especially LGBTQ+ youth. This study conducted a content analysis of the 2022 Disney+ Pride Collection, a list of movies and episodes designated by Disney as including LGBTQ+ characters and stories. This analysis examined the depiction of LGBTQ+ fictional characters, finding that Black LGBTQ+ characters were more likely to be presented …
The growth of problematic media use over early childhood
Migraine
This very rich book by Katherine Foxhall is a joy to read. Each of the major chapters begins with an excerpt from a primary source written in a particular historical period, describing the sufferings and treatment of a patient with migraine: a tenth-century medical text and collection of recipes, a sixteenth-century letter pleading for help, nineteenth-century case notes from the National Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epileptic in Queen Square, …
Opioids' Long Shadow
2020 is not the only time the world has seen opioids ruining the lives of thousands. This article discusses 3 historical episodes in which the need to relieve pain was challenged by the need to prevent and control opioid addiction: the era of iatrogenic addiction in the early 20th century before and after the passage of the Harrison Act of 1914; the shift in attitudes toward and treatment of pain from the 1950s to the 1970s; and the current opioi…
Client Outreach in Los Angeles County’s Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program
Outreach, coupled with the strategic used of potential court involvement, can lead to voluntary enrollment of treatment-refusing individuals with many, often severe, barriers to engaging in outpatient treatment
Website Review
The Ongoing Opioid Prescription Epidemic
The Ongoing Opioid Prescription Epidemic: Historical Context Affiliation Marcia L. Meldrum PhDMarcia L. Meldrum is with the Center for Social Medicine and the Humanities, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California Los Angeles.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Marcia Meldrum, B7-437 Semel, Box #62, 760 Westwood Plaza, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1759. (e-mail: [email protected]ucla.edu). Reprints can be …
The Story of Pain
This elegantly conceived and written book approaches the problem of physical pain, not from the philosophical, medical or scientific perspective, but as ‘a history of the interpretation of bodily experiences’ (p. 25). Joanna Bourke seeks, using a multitude of fascinating literary, biographical and clinical sources, ‘to explore some of the ways that the historically unstable practice of pain is constituted and reconstituted in relation to ... soci…
Pain
Reviewed by: Pain: A Political History by Keith Wailoo Marcia L. Meldrum Keith Wailoo. Pain: A Political History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. 284 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-1-4214-1365-5). Keith Wailoo takes a new and perceptive approach to the history of pain, presenting it as a legal, political, and cultural touchstone in post–World War II America. In his account, the problem of chronic, disabling pain refined and solidified the …
Perceived Sources of Stress and Resilience in Men in an African American Community
Stress owing to psychosocial factors such as finances and racism are common among African American men. But, at the same time, most men found support for resiliency to ameliorate stress in religion and family. Future work to engage African American men around alleviating stress and supporting resiliency should both take into account the perceived causes of stress and incorporate culturally appropriate sources of resiliency support
Perceived Sources of Stress and Resilience in Men in an African American Community
Perceived Sources of Stress and Resilience in Men in an African American Community Bowen Chung, MD, MSHS, Marcia Meldrum, PhD, Felica Jones, Anthony Brown, and Loretta Jones What Is the Purpose of the Study? • To understand perceived causes of stress and tools used to promote resiliency in African American men in South Los Angeles. What Is the Problem? • African American men are at higher risk for a number of adverse health outcomes, including mo…
On the Pill
The first thought that occurred to me when this book arrived in the mail was that it seemed rather a slim volume to deal with such a rich topic, located at such a busy intersection of twentieth-century traffic: governmental authority vs. private enterprise; medical authority vs. consumer autonomy; the ethics and risks of biotechnology; gender relations; social and religious mores; the meaning of family; media and the cultural construction and rec…
Inventing Pain Medicine
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 3, Fall 1999
The Powerful Placebo
Rationalizing Medical Work
Reviewed by: Rationalizing Medical Work: Decision-Support Techniques and Medical Practices* Marcia L. Meldrum (bio) Rationalizing Medical Work: Decision-Support Techniques and Medical Practices. By Marc Berg. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997. Pp. x+238; illustrations, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $30. Marc Berg undertakes in this very interesting volume to analyze the application of decision-support tools—computer-based support systems, …
The Progress of Experiment
A Half Century of Peer Review, 1946-1996 (review)
Reviewed by: A Half Century of Peer Review, 1946–1996 Marcia L. Meldrum Richard Mandel. A Half Century of Peer Review, 1946–1996. Bethesda, Md.: Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of Health, 1996. xiii + 340 pp. Ill. No charge (paperbound). (Available from Dr. Samuel H. Joseloff, Rockledge II, Room 3176, MSC 7768, Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-7768). The practice of peer review lies a…
Beyond the Natural Body
History of Pain (review)
Reviewed by: History of Pain Marcia L. Meldrum Roselyne Rey. History of Pain. Translated by Elliott WallaceLouiseCaddenJACaddenSW. Histoire des Sciences. Paris: Editions la Découverte, 1993. 409 pp. F 198.00 (paperbound). Pain is one of the few truly universal human experiences; it is also among the least understood. Philosophers, poets, scientists, physicians, nurses, and pain sufferers have struggled over the centuries to understand, to explain…
Simple Methods" and "Determined Contraceptors"
“Simple Methods” and “Determined Contraceptors”: The Statistical Evaluation of Fertility Control, 1957–1968 Marcia L. Meldrum (bio) In the 1950s, the practice of contraception gained a measure of respectability, in the wake of endorsement by medical authorities and growing concern over world population growth. Yet a kind of moral stigma remained—the product of Catholic opposition, the public glorification of postwar family values, and the birth c…
The Ongoing Opioid Prescription Epidemic
The Ongoing Opioid Prescription Epidemic: Historical Context Affiliation Marcia L. Meldrum PhDMarcia L. Meldrum is with the Center for Social Medicine and the Humanities, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California Los Angeles.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Marcia Meldrum, B7-437 Semel, Box #62, 760 Westwood Plaza, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1759. (e-mail: [email protected]ucla.edu). Reprints can be …
Perceived Sources of Stress and Resilience in Men in an African American Community
Stress owing to psychosocial factors such as finances and racism are common among African American men. But, at the same time, most men found support for resiliency to ameliorate stress in religion and family. Future work to engage African American men around alleviating stress and supporting resiliency should both take into account the perceived causes of stress and incorporate culturally appropriate sources of resiliency support
Client Outreach in Los Angeles County’s Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program
Outreach, coupled with the strategic used of potential court involvement, can lead to voluntary enrollment of treatment-refusing individuals with many, often severe, barriers to engaging in outpatient treatment
Perceived Sources of Stress and Resilience in Men in an African American Community
Perceived Sources of Stress and Resilience in Men in an African American Community Bowen Chung, MD, MSHS, Marcia Meldrum, PhD, Felica Jones, Anthony Brown, and Loretta Jones What Is the Purpose of the Study? • To understand perceived causes of stress and tools used to promote resiliency in African American men in South Los Angeles. What Is the Problem? • African American men are at higher risk for a number of adverse health outcomes, including mo…
Simple Methods" and "Determined Contraceptors"
“Simple Methods” and “Determined Contraceptors”: The Statistical Evaluation of Fertility Control, 1957–1968 Marcia L. Meldrum (bio) In the 1950s, the practice of contraception gained a measure of respectability, in the wake of endorsement by medical authorities and growing concern over world population growth. Yet a kind of moral stigma remained—the product of Catholic opposition, the public glorification of postwar family values, and the birth c…
Beyond the Natural Body
History of Pain (review)
Reviewed by: History of Pain Marcia L. Meldrum Roselyne Rey. History of Pain. Translated by Elliott WallaceLouiseCaddenJACaddenSW. Histoire des Sciences. Paris: Editions la Découverte, 1993. 409 pp. F 198.00 (paperbound). Pain is one of the few truly universal human experiences; it is also among the least understood. Philosophers, poets, scientists, physicians, nurses, and pain sufferers have struggled over the centuries to understand, to explain…
The Progress of Experiment
A Half Century of Peer Review, 1946-1996 (review)
Reviewed by: A Half Century of Peer Review, 1946–1996 Marcia L. Meldrum Richard Mandel. A Half Century of Peer Review, 1946–1996. Bethesda, Md.: Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of Health, 1996. xiii + 340 pp. Ill. No charge (paperbound). (Available from Dr. Samuel H. Joseloff, Rockledge II, Room 3176, MSC 7768, Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-7768). The practice of peer review lies a…
Inventing Pain Medicine
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 3, Fall 1999
The Powerful Placebo
Rationalizing Medical Work
Reviewed by: Rationalizing Medical Work: Decision-Support Techniques and Medical Practices* Marcia L. Meldrum (bio) Rationalizing Medical Work: Decision-Support Techniques and Medical Practices. By Marc Berg. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997. Pp. x+238; illustrations, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $30. Marc Berg undertakes in this very interesting volume to analyze the application of decision-support tools—computer-based support systems, …
On the Pill
The first thought that occurred to me when this book arrived in the mail was that it seemed rather a slim volume to deal with such a rich topic, located at such a busy intersection of twentieth-century traffic: governmental authority vs. private enterprise; medical authority vs. consumer autonomy; the ethics and risks of biotechnology; gender relations; social and religious mores; the meaning of family; media and the cultural construction and rec…
Perceived Sources of Stress and Resilience in Men in an African American Community
Stress owing to psychosocial factors such as finances and racism are common among African American men. But, at the same time, most men found support for resiliency to ameliorate stress in religion and family. Future work to engage African American men around alleviating stress and supporting resiliency should both take into account the perceived causes of stress and incorporate culturally appropriate sources of resiliency support
Perceived Sources of Stress and Resilience in Men in an African American Community
Perceived Sources of Stress and Resilience in Men in an African American Community Bowen Chung, MD, MSHS, Marcia Meldrum, PhD, Felica Jones, Anthony Brown, and Loretta Jones What Is the Purpose of the Study? • To understand perceived causes of stress and tools used to promote resiliency in African American men in South Los Angeles. What Is the Problem? • African American men are at higher risk for a number of adverse health outcomes, including mo…
Pain
Reviewed by: Pain: A Political History by Keith Wailoo Marcia L. Meldrum Keith Wailoo. Pain: A Political History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. 284 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-1-4214-1365-5). Keith Wailoo takes a new and perceptive approach to the history of pain, presenting it as a legal, political, and cultural touchstone in post–World War II America. In his account, the problem of chronic, disabling pain refined and solidified the …
Website Review
The Ongoing Opioid Prescription Epidemic
The Ongoing Opioid Prescription Epidemic: Historical Context Affiliation Marcia L. Meldrum PhDMarcia L. Meldrum is with the Center for Social Medicine and the Humanities, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California Los Angeles.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Marcia Meldrum, B7-437 Semel, Box #62, 760 Westwood Plaza, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1759. (e-mail: [email protected]ucla.edu). Reprints can be …
The Story of Pain
This elegantly conceived and written book approaches the problem of physical pain, not from the philosophical, medical or scientific perspective, but as ‘a history of the interpretation of bodily experiences’ (p. 25). Joanna Bourke seeks, using a multitude of fascinating literary, biographical and clinical sources, ‘to explore some of the ways that the historically unstable practice of pain is constituted and reconstituted in relation to ... soci…
Opioids' Long Shadow
2020 is not the only time the world has seen opioids ruining the lives of thousands. This article discusses 3 historical episodes in which the need to relieve pain was challenged by the need to prevent and control opioid addiction: the era of iatrogenic addiction in the early 20th century before and after the passage of the Harrison Act of 1914; the shift in attitudes toward and treatment of pain from the 1950s to the 1970s; and the current opioi…
Client Outreach in Los Angeles County’s Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program
Outreach, coupled with the strategic used of potential court involvement, can lead to voluntary enrollment of treatment-refusing individuals with many, often severe, barriers to engaging in outpatient treatment
Migraine
This very rich book by Katherine Foxhall is a joy to read. Each of the major chapters begins with an excerpt from a primary source written in a particular historical period, describing the sufferings and treatment of a patient with migraine: a tenth-century medical text and collection of recipes, a sixteenth-century letter pleading for help, nineteenth-century case notes from the National Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epileptic in Queen Square, …
The growth of problematic media use over early childhood
Portrayal or Betrayal
The presence and quality of LGBTQ+ representation in film and television has important implications for viewers, especially LGBTQ+ youth. This study conducted a content analysis of the 2022 Disney+ Pride Collection, a list of movies and episodes designated by Disney as including LGBTQ+ characters and stories. This analysis examined the depiction of LGBTQ+ fictional characters, finding that Black LGBTQ+ characters were more likely to be presented …
Medicine (15 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · History (5 works) · Library science (5 works)