James C Mohr

Biographic Data

ID1093377
NAMEJames C Mohr
GIVEN NAMESJames C
FAMILY NAMEMohr
SIGNATUREMOHR J C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS40
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT40
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
H-INDEX1

  • Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe

    James C MohrARTICLEJAMA2011

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  • Introduction: New Perspectives on Public Health Policy

    Open AccessJames C Mohr, James MohrARTICLEJournal of Policy History2007

    The makers of public health policy face enormous challenges in the twenty-first century. In the past, their field has been imprecisely defined, deeply conflicted, poorly organized, and constantly changing. Lines of responsibility within the field are blurred at best, and groups with similar goals sometimes find themselves at cross-purposes. In the United States, state and local agencies interact with each other, with federal programs, and with po…

  • Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown

    James C MohrBOOKPlague and fire2004

    A little over a century ago, bubonic plague-the same Black Death that decimated medieval Europe-arrived on the shores of Hawaii just as the islands were about to become a U.S. territory. In this absorbing narrative, James Mohr tells the story of that fearful visitation and its fiery climax-a vast conflagration that engulfed Honolulu's Chinatown. Mohr tells this gripping tale largely through the eyes of the people caught up in the disaster, from m…

  • A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America (review)

    James C MohrARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2003

    Michael Sappol offers a wide-ranging cultural history of anatomy in nineteenth-century America. The book is rooted in medical history and contains a great many excellent insights and intriguing facts about the early history of anatomy in the American republic, particularly in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Sappol argues more persuasively than any previous scholar that the study of human anatomy through the dissection of dead bodies…

  • Coping with Sickness: Medicine, Law and Human Rights-Historical Perspectives (review)

    James C MohrARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2002

    This short book of eight sprightly essays provides an entertaining and informative read. Though the subjects range somewhat eclectically from Spain during the counter-Reformation to Germany at the present time, the essays collectively demonstrate an overriding truth: when medicine, law, and human rights intertwine, the situation is almost always more complex than ideologues of any stripe would wish us to believe

  • Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn (review)

    James C MohrARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2000

    This is a first-rate book. It pivots, rather like a kaleidoscope, around two sensational trials involving the Brooklyn-based gynecologic surgeon Mary Dixon Jones. In the first trial, which took place in 1890, Dixon Jones was exonerated on charges of manslaughter brought by the district attorney after some of her patients died. In the second trial, which took place in 1892 and became the longest libel suit tried in the United States to that time, …

  • Imperiled Innocents: Anthony Comstock and Family Reproduction in Victorian America (review)

    James C MohrARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1998

    Reviewed by: Imperiled Innocents: Anthony Comstock and Family Reproduction in Victorian America James C. Mohr Nicola Beisel. Imperiled Innocents: Anthony Comstock and Family Reproduction in Victorian America. Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. x + 275 pp. Ill. $35.00; £27.50. Nicola Beisel takes seriously the claims of Anthony Comstock that …

  • The Politics of Abortion and Birth Control in Historical Perspective (review)

    James C MohrARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1998

    Reviewed by: The Politics of Abortion and Birth Control in Historical Perspective James C. Mohr Donald T. Critchlow, ed. The Politics of Abortion and Birth Control in Historical Perspective. (Originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Policy History, 1995, 7[1].) Issues in Policy History, no. 5. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. 181 pp. $13.95; £12.50 (paperbound). This book consists of an introductory ove…

  • The Life and Careers of William Henry Gorrill, 1841-1874

    James C Mohr, R Bruce WayARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1997

    Journal Article The Life and Careers of William Henry Gorrill, 1841–1874 Get access The Life and Careers of William Henry Gorrill, 1841–1874. By Way R. Bruce. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1996. x + 233 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $42.00.) James C. Mohr James C. Mohr University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 28, Issue 3, Autumn …

  • Legal Medicine in History (review)

    James C MohrARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1996

    Reviewed by: Legal Medicine in History James C. Mohr Michael Clark and Catherine Crawford, eds. Legal Medicine in History. Cambridge History of Medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xi + 364 pp. $59.95. In their introduction to Legal Medicine in History, the editors emphasize the word "in" from their title: they want this collection of thirteen essays to demonstrate some of the integrative aspects of a formerly arcane subject, le…

  • Witnessing Insanity: Madness and Mad-Doctors in the English Court. Joel Peter Eigen

    James C MohrARTICLEIsis1996

  • Doctors and the Law: Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America

    Gerald N Grob, James C MohrARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1995

    After the American Revolution, the new republic's most prominent physicians envisioned a society in which doctors, lawyers, and the state might work together to ensure public well-being and a high standard of justice. But as James C. Mohr reveals in 'Doctors and the Law', what appeared to be fertile ground for cooperative civic service soon became a battlefield, as the relationship between doctors and the legal system became increasingly adversar…

  • Doctors and the Law: Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America

    Joseph F Spillane, James C MohrARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article Doctors and the Law: Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America. By James C. Mohr. (New %rk: Oxford University Press, 1993. xvi, 319 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-19-505384-2.) Get access Joseph F. Spillane Joseph F. Spillane Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Page 1300, https://doi.org/10.23…

  • Doctors and the Law: Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America

    Ed Hatton, James C MohrARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History1994

    Journal Article Doctors and the Law: Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America Get access Mohr James C., Doctors and the Law: Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xv, 319 pp. $30.00. Ed Hatton Ed Hatton Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 38, Issue 3, July 1994, Pages 379–381, https://…

  • Dubious Victory: The Reconstruction Debate in Ohio

    James C Mohr, Robert D SawreyARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1993

  • The Trinational Debate over Insanity and the Law in the 19th Century: Harris's Contribution

    Open AccessJames C MohrARTICLELaw & Social Inquiry1991

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  • The Trinational Debate over Insanity and the Law in the 19th Century: Harris's Contribution

    Open AccessJames C MohrARTICLELaw & Social Inquiry1991

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  • Notes and Announcements

    Barri E Lee, Jeffrey A Green et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Negro History1991

  • Historically Based Legal Briefs: Observations of a Participant in the Webster Process

    James C MohrARTICLEThe Public Historian1990Cited by: 1

    Research Article| July 01 1990 Historically Based Legal Briefs: Observations of a Participant in the Webster Process James C. Mohr James C. Mohr Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1990) 12 (3): 19–26. https://doi.org/10.2307/3378194 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permiss…

  • John A. Logan: Stalwart Republican from Illinois

    James C Mohr, James Pickett JonesARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1983

  • Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction

    James C Mohr, James M McphersonARTICLEJournal of American History1982

    Journal Article Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction. By James M. McPherson. (New York: Knopf, 1982. xix + 694 + xxxii pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95.) Get access James C. Mohr James C. Mohr University of Maryland, Baltimore County Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 3, December 1982, Pages 705–706, https…

  • The Pennsylvania Antiwar Movement, 1861-1865

    James C Mohr, Arnold Shankman et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1981

    Journal Article The Pennsylvania Antiwar Movement, 1861–1865. By Arnold M. Shankman. (Rutherford, NJ.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1980. 236 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $19.50.) Get access James C. Mohr James C. Mohr University of Maryland, Baltimore County Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 2, September 1981…

  • Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy, 1800-1900

    James C MohrARTICLEStudies in Family Planning1980

  • Decrease and Stultify: Contraception and Abortion in American Society

    David M Kennedy, James C Mohr et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1979

    Both these books are case studies in the ironic implications of social change. The title of James Reed's work proclaims the central irony of the history of birth control, as contraception emerged from tabooed obscurity in the nineteenth century to become a widely approved, even urgently demanded, practice in the twentieth century. James C. Mohr's account of abortion policy highlights ironies less familiar but no less dramatic. Today right-to-life…

  • Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy, 1800-1900

    James Harvey Young, James C MohrARTICLEJournal of American History1979