Emily K Abel
Biographic Data
| ID | 122623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily K Abel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily K |
| FAMILY NAME | Abel |
| SIGNATURE | ABEL E K |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCLA Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0328-901X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Advice for dementia carers: A critique of the literature
Living in Death’s Shadow: Family Experiences of Terminal Care and Irreplaceable Loss
Modern Medical Science and the Divine Providence of God: Rethinking the Place of Religion in Postwar U.S. Medical History
Drawing on a large cache of letters to John and Frances Gunther after the death of their son as well as memoirs and fiction by bereaved parents, this essay challenges the assumptions of secularization that infuse histories of twentieth-century American medicine. Many parents who experienced the death of children during the postwar period relied heavily on religion to help make sense of the tragedies medicine could not prevent. Parental accounts i…
"In the Last Stages of Irremediable Disease": American Hospitals and Dying Patients before World War II
After a brief discussion of early- and mid-nineteenth-century hospitals, this article focuses on the years between 1880 and 1939, when those facilities underwent a major transformation and the proportion of hospital deaths steadily increased. During both periods, private hospitals refused admission to many seriously ill people and discharged others when death approached. City hospitals dumped poor patients with advanced disease on chronic care fa…
Patient Dumping in New York City, 1877–1917
Although the term “patient dumping” was rarely used before the 1960s, the practice started much earlier. In the late 1870s, the New York Times began to report that private hospitals were using ambulances to shift poor, moribund patients to Bellevue, the city's preeminent public facility. Many trips had serious medical consequences. Private hospitals also instructed ambulances to take critically ill patients directly to Bellevue regardless of the …
The Rise and Fall of Celiac Disease in the United States
Because celiac disease is greatly under-diagnosed in the United States, a common assumption is that U.S. doctors and researchers always have considered the condition extremely rare. However, the disorder captured widespread medical attention at the beginning of the twentieth century. Luther Emmett Holt, a leading pediatrician, encouraged three other doctors to investigate the condition. Two helped to associate celiac disease with elite medical in…
Milton I. Roemer Advocate of Social Medicine, International Health, and National Health Insurance
MILTON ROEMER WAS BORN in 1916 in Paterson, New Jersey, where his father practiced medicine. At the age of 16, he entered Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, as a premedical student. At Cornell, he met Ruth Rosenbaum, who was soon to become Ruth Roemer, his lifelong partner in public health and health activism. Henry Sigerist, then professor of the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins, was an important influence on Roemer during his medical s…
Fit To Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879–1939 (review)
Reviewed by: Fit To Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 Emily K. Abel Natalia Molina . Fit To Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939. American Crossroads. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. xiv + 279 pp. Ill. $50,00, £32.50 (cloth, 0-520-24648-9); $19.95, £12.95 (paperbound, 0-520-24649-7). This masterful account helps to introduce readers to the history of public healt…
Obesity at the Crossroads: Feminist and Public Health Perspectives
Only the Best Class of Immigration”: Public Health Policy Toward Mexicans and Filipinos in Los Angeles, 1910–1940
Public health officials contributed to the early 20thcentury campaign against Mexicans and Filipinos in Los Angeles. In 1914, the newly established city and county health departments confronted the overwhelming task of building a public health infrastructure for a rapidly growing population spread over a large area. However, for several years public health reports focused almost exclusively on the various infectious diseases associated with Mexic…
From Exclusion to Expulsion: Mexicans and Tuberculosis in Los Angeles, 1914-1940
Even before the influx of Mexicans, public health officials in Los Angeles constructed very sick and very poor tubercular people as an illegitimate presence who not only endangered others but also represented weakness and failure and imposed intolerable economic burdens. The identification of tuberculosis with Mexicans during the 1920s hardened the perception that they did not belong in Los Angeles. Because Mexicans lived and worked in dangerous …
Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940
Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940
Emily K. Abel's fine book allows us to penetrate the usually veiled, predominantly feminine world of familial caregiving. Family members have provided the majority of care for millennia. But as Abel, professor of health services and women's tudies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), observes, the meaning attached to such caregiving— even more than the techniques employed— varies from culture to culture and changes over time. Thro…
The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America
Journal Article The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America Get access Hoffman BeatrixThe Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America 2001Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressxvi261Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2588-3. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4902-2 Emily K. Abel Emily K. Abel University of California LosAngeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
Contagion and Confinement: Controlling Tuberculosis along the Skid Road . Barron H. Lerner
Taking the cure to the poor: Patients' responses to New York City's tuberculosis program, 1894 to 1918
Drawing on the case files of a major charitable agency, this paper explores how poor people experienced New York City's pioneering program of tuberculosis control. Although the program provided enormous benefits, poor New Yorkers often had pressing concerns that took priority over eradicating tuberculosis. Moreover, the program imposed extreme hardships even as it promised liberation from a terrible scourge. Poor people did not protest collective…
Medicine and Morality: The Health Care Program of the New York Charity Organization Society
The New York City Charity Organization Society (COS) previously has been viewed exclusively through a welfare lens. Relying primarily on COS case files between 1888 and 1918, this article demonstrates that the organization also played a central role in the delivery of health care to the immigrant poor. It hired visiting nurses, mediated between clients and various providers, and collaborated when the New York City Department of Health launched a …
Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research (review)
Reviewed by: Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research Emily Abel Alice Wexler. Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research. New York: Random House, 1995. xxv + 294 pp. Ill. $U.S. 23.00; $Can. 32.00. This remarkable book interweaves a family memoir with the story of the scientific quest for the gene for Huntington’s disease. The author is a historian who has written a widely acclaimed two-volume biography of Em…
Interactions between Public Health Nurses and Clients on American Indian Reservations during the 1930s
This essay examines the encounters between clients and public health nurses hired by the Office of Indian Affairs to work on American Indian reservations during the 1930s. It relies on two different types of sources. The first are the accounts of the nurses, including letters, memoirs, and above all their monthly and annual reports to Washington. The second are oral histories conducted by the authors with elderly residents of two Sioux reservatio…
Appealing for Children's Health Care: Conflicts between Mothers and Officials in the 1930s
In this article, I examine problems facing mothers seeking health care for sick and disabled children between 1929 and 1940. The article is based on letters written to government officials and reports of investigations conducted by caseworkers and public officials. By appealing to Washington, the letter writers actively rejected their denigration. Many complained about the dehumanizing treatment they received from welfare officials, and some remi…
A “Terrible and Exhausting” Struggle: Family Caregiving During the Transformation of Medicine
Journal Article A “Terrible and Exhausting” Struggle: Family Caregiving During the Transformation of Medicine Get access EMILY K. ABEL EMILY K. ABEL Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 50, Issue 4, October 1995, Pages 478–506, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/50.4.478 Published: 01 October 1995
Damned If We Do: Contradictions in Women's Health Care . Dorothy H. Broom No Longer Patient: Feminist Ethics and Health Care . Susan Sherwin Wash and Be Healed: The Water-Cure Movement and Women's Hea…
Benevolence and Social Control: Advice from the Children's Bureau in the Early Twentieth Century
This essay examines the correspondence in 1914-15 between Julia Lathrop, chief of the Children's Bureau, and a working-class woman in order to help illuminate a growing debate about the effect of state welfare programs on women. Although Lathrop imposed her own definition on her client's needs, helped to undermine women's confidence in their own knowledge and skills, and perpetuated the gender division of labor, she also responded to this corresp…
Who Cares for the Elderly? Public Policy and the Experiences of Adult Daughters
The Nature of Care
The ambiguities of social support: Adult daughters caring for frail elderly parents
Adult Daughters and Care for the Elderly
Only the Best Class of Immigration”: Public Health Policy Toward Mexicans and Filipinos in Los Angeles, 1910–1940
Public health officials contributed to the early 20thcentury campaign against Mexicans and Filipinos in Los Angeles. In 1914, the newly established city and county health departments confronted the overwhelming task of building a public health infrastructure for a rapidly growing population spread over a large area. However, for several years public health reports focused almost exclusively on the various infectious diseases associated with Mexic…
Toynbee Hall, 1884-1914
Toynbee Hall, the first settlement house, was widely imitated in both England and the United States. This article explains the tremendous appeal that the institution held for a generation of social reformers and traces its development during a thirty-year period. Samuel Barnett, the founder and first warden of the settlement, had a vision of the role of settlement residents in working-class areas that bore a striking resemblance to the popular id…
Taking the cure to the poor: Patients' responses to New York City's tuberculosis program, 1894 to 1918
Drawing on the case files of a major charitable agency, this paper explores how poor people experienced New York City's pioneering program of tuberculosis control. Although the program provided enormous benefits, poor New Yorkers often had pressing concerns that took priority over eradicating tuberculosis. Moreover, the program imposed extreme hardships even as it promised liberation from a terrible scourge. Poor people did not protest collective…
Milton I. Roemer Advocate of Social Medicine, International Health, and National Health Insurance
MILTON ROEMER WAS BORN in 1916 in Paterson, New Jersey, where his father practiced medicine. At the age of 16, he entered Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, as a premedical student. At Cornell, he met Ruth Rosenbaum, who was soon to become Ruth Roemer, his lifelong partner in public health and health activism. Henry Sigerist, then professor of the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins, was an important influence on Roemer during his medical s…
Medicine and Morality: The Health Care Program of the New York Charity Organization Society
The New York City Charity Organization Society (COS) previously has been viewed exclusively through a welfare lens. Relying primarily on COS case files between 1888 and 1918, this article demonstrates that the organization also played a central role in the delivery of health care to the immigrant poor. It hired visiting nurses, mediated between clients and various providers, and collaborated when the New York City Department of Health launched a …
Interactions between Public Health Nurses and Clients on American Indian Reservations during the 1930s
This essay examines the encounters between clients and public health nurses hired by the Office of Indian Affairs to work on American Indian reservations during the 1930s. It relies on two different types of sources. The first are the accounts of the nurses, including letters, memoirs, and above all their monthly and annual reports to Washington. The second are oral histories conducted by the authors with elderly residents of two Sioux reservatio…
A “Terrible and Exhausting” Struggle: Family Caregiving During the Transformation of Medicine
Journal Article A “Terrible and Exhausting” Struggle: Family Caregiving During the Transformation of Medicine Get access EMILY K. ABEL EMILY K. ABEL Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 50, Issue 4, October 1995, Pages 478–506, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/50.4.478 Published: 01 October 1995
Benevolence and Social Control: Advice from the Children's Bureau in the Early Twentieth Century
This essay examines the correspondence in 1914-15 between Julia Lathrop, chief of the Children's Bureau, and a working-class woman in order to help illuminate a growing debate about the effect of state welfare programs on women. Although Lathrop imposed her own definition on her client's needs, helped to undermine women's confidence in their own knowledge and skills, and perpetuated the gender division of labor, she also responded to this corresp…
Collective Protest and the Meritocracy: Faculty Women and Sex Discrimination Lawsuits
Middle-Class Culture for the Urban Poor: The Educational Thought of Samuel Barnett
A number of comparisons can be drawn between the educational ideas and practices of Samuel Barnett, the founder of the first English settlement house, and those of the American progressives. Barnett resembled the progressives in his primary goal???to instill acceptable habits and attitudes in the poor???and in many of his specific remedies. He worked to expand the role of the state in education, to provide adult education for a broad segment of t…
Toynbee Hall, 1884-1914
Toynbee Hall, the first settlement house, was widely imitated in both England and the United States. This article explains the tremendous appeal that the institution held for a generation of social reformers and traces its development during a thirty-year period. Samuel Barnett, the founder and first warden of the settlement, had a vision of the role of settlement residents in working-class areas that bore a striking resemblance to the popular id…
Collective Protest and the Meritocracy: Faculty Women and Sex Discrimination Lawsuits
Home Health Care: Its Role in the Changing Health Services Market
Terminal Degrees: The Job Crisis in Higher Education
The Union Campaign Against Cutbacks in Higher Education in Britain
The American Academic Profession: A Synthesis of Social Scientific Inquiry since World War II
Adult Daughters and Care for the Elderly
The Dilemma of Caring for Your Older Loved Ones or Friend
Policy Is Personal: Sex, Gender, and Informal Care
The last ten years have seen an enormous upsurge in interest in policies for community care in all countries of the developed world. They all have ageing populations and most have governments committed to tight control of welfare expenditure. A major consequence has been the growing attention paid to the position of 'carers' - those who find themselves caring for their relatives in their own homes and for no pay. A considerable academic literatur…
The ambiguities of social support: Adult daughters caring for frail elderly parents
Circles of care: Work and Identity in Women's Lives
The Nature of Care
Who Cares for the Elderly? Public Policy and the Experience of Adult Daughters
Who Cares for the Elderly? Public Policy and the Experiences of Adult Daughters
Damned If We Do: Contradictions in Women's Health Care . Dorothy H. Broom No Longer Patient: Feminist Ethics and Health Care . Susan Sherwin Wash and Be Healed: The Water-Cure Movement and Women's Hea…
Benevolence and Social Control: Advice from the Children's Bureau in the Early Twentieth Century
This essay examines the correspondence in 1914-15 between Julia Lathrop, chief of the Children's Bureau, and a working-class woman in order to help illuminate a growing debate about the effect of state welfare programs on women. Although Lathrop imposed her own definition on her client's needs, helped to undermine women's confidence in their own knowledge and skills, and perpetuated the gender division of labor, she also responded to this corresp…
A “Terrible and Exhausting” Struggle: Family Caregiving During the Transformation of Medicine
Journal Article A “Terrible and Exhausting” Struggle: Family Caregiving During the Transformation of Medicine Get access EMILY K. ABEL EMILY K. ABEL Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 50, Issue 4, October 1995, Pages 478–506, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/50.4.478 Published: 01 October 1995
Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research (review)
Reviewed by: Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research Emily Abel Alice Wexler. Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research. New York: Random House, 1995. xxv + 294 pp. Ill. $U.S. 23.00; $Can. 32.00. This remarkable book interweaves a family memoir with the story of the scientific quest for the gene for Huntington’s disease. The author is a historian who has written a widely acclaimed two-volume biography of Em…
Interactions between Public Health Nurses and Clients on American Indian Reservations during the 1930s
This essay examines the encounters between clients and public health nurses hired by the Office of Indian Affairs to work on American Indian reservations during the 1930s. It relies on two different types of sources. The first are the accounts of the nurses, including letters, memoirs, and above all their monthly and annual reports to Washington. The second are oral histories conducted by the authors with elderly residents of two Sioux reservatio…
Appealing for Children's Health Care: Conflicts between Mothers and Officials in the 1930s
In this article, I examine problems facing mothers seeking health care for sick and disabled children between 1929 and 1940. The article is based on letters written to government officials and reports of investigations conducted by caseworkers and public officials. By appealing to Washington, the letter writers actively rejected their denigration. Many complained about the dehumanizing treatment they received from welfare officials, and some remi…
Taking the cure to the poor: Patients' responses to New York City's tuberculosis program, 1894 to 1918
Drawing on the case files of a major charitable agency, this paper explores how poor people experienced New York City's pioneering program of tuberculosis control. Although the program provided enormous benefits, poor New Yorkers often had pressing concerns that took priority over eradicating tuberculosis. Moreover, the program imposed extreme hardships even as it promised liberation from a terrible scourge. Poor people did not protest collective…
Medicine and Morality: The Health Care Program of the New York Charity Organization Society
The New York City Charity Organization Society (COS) previously has been viewed exclusively through a welfare lens. Relying primarily on COS case files between 1888 and 1918, this article demonstrates that the organization also played a central role in the delivery of health care to the immigrant poor. It hired visiting nurses, mediated between clients and various providers, and collaborated when the New York City Department of Health launched a …
Contagion and Confinement: Controlling Tuberculosis along the Skid Road . Barron H. Lerner
Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940
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