Laura J McGough

Biographic Data

ID5856887
NAMELaura J McGough
GIVEN NAMESLaura J
FAMILY NAMEMcGough
SIGNATUREMCGOUGH L J
AFFILIATIONSAt the time this article was written, all authors were with the Department of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Laura J. McGough is also with the Department of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University. Steven J. Reynolds and Thomas C. Quinn are also with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX1

  • Plague Hospitals

    Laura J McGoughARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2015

    Reviewed by: Plague Hospitals: Public Health for the City in Early Modern Venice by Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw Laura J. McGough Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw. Plague Hospitals: Public Health for the City in Early Modern Venice. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2012. xiv + 290 pp. Ill. $124.95 (978-0-7546-6958-6). Jane Stevens Crawshaw’s new study of Venice’s two bubonic plague hospitals— known collectively as the lazaretti—places these institutions within the …

  • The Republic of Therapy

    Laura J McGoughARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2012

    Reviewed by: The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS Laura J. McGough Vinh-Kim Nguyen. The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010. xi + 237 pp. Ill. $22.95 (978-0-8223-4874-0). Vinh-Kim Nguyen’s engaging new study of HIV/AIDS in Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso sheds light on a previously unexplored aspect of contemporary history: the…

  • Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe (review)

    Laura J McGoughARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2008

    Reviewed by: Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe Laura J. McGough Claire L. Carlin , ed. Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xii + 289 pp. Ill. $74.95 (ISBN-10: 1-4039-3926-8; ISBN-13: 978-1-4039-3926-5). This collection of essays from a group of Canadian and European scholars of literature, history, art history, and philosophy explores how Europeans perceived contagion in the early modern period. …

  • Demons, Nature, or God? Witchcraft Accusations and the French Disease in Early Modern Venice

    Laura J McGoughARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2006

    In early modern Venice, establishing the cause of a disease was critical to determining the appropriate cure: natural remedies for natural illnesses, spiritual solutions for supernatural or demonic ones. One common ailment was the French disease (syphilis), widely distributed throughout Venice's neighborhoods and social hierarchy, and evenly distributed between men and women. The disease was widely regarded as curable by the mid-sixteenth century…

  • HIV/Aids Stigma

    Open AccessLaura J McGoughARTICLEThe AMA Journal of Ethic2005

    In 1728, the impoverished Flora Price applied to her local parish churchwardens in London for assistance. Charitable support was provided at local parishes to carefully screened applicants. During her interview, she admitted that she suffered from the "pox," the common term for sexually transmitted diseases before physicians clinically distinguished between syphilis and gonorrhea. Instead of entering a hospital, she was sent to a workhouse, an in…

  • Venereal Disease, Hospitals, and the Urban Poor

    Laura J McGoughARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2005

    Reviewed by: Venereal Disease, Hospitals, and the Urban Poor: London's "Foul Wards," 1600-1800 Laura J. McGough Kevin P. Siena . Venereal Disease, Hospitals, and the Urban Poor: London's "Foul Wards," 1600-1800. Rochester Studies in Medical History, vol. 4. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2004. viii + 367 pp. Ill. $80.00 (1-58046-148-4). This social history of venereal disease in early modern London is a welcome addition to a fiel…

  • Moving Mountains

    Laura J McGoughARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2005

    Reviewed by: Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS Laura J. McGough Anne-christine d'Adesky . Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS. London: Verso, 2004. vi + 487 pp. $U.S. 30.00; £20.00; $Can. 45.00 (1-84467-002-3). As an activist and journalist, Anne-christine d'Adesky has first-hand experience of the global struggle to fight HIV/AIDS. Her book serves as a useful introduction to the dramatic changes in international AIDS pol…

  • Which Patients First? Setting Priorities for Antiretroviral Therapy Where Resources Are Limited

    Laura J McGough, Steven J Reynolds et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2005Cited by: 1References: 12

    The availability of limited funds from international agencies for the purchase of antiretroviral (ARV) treatment in developing countries presents challenges, especially in prioritizing who should receive therapy. Public input and the protection of human rights are crucial in making treatment programs equitable and accountable. By examining historical precedents of resource allocation, we aim to provoke and inform debate about current ARV programs…

  • Pox

    Laura J McGoughARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2004

    Deborah Hayden. Pox: Genius, Madness, and the Mysteries of Syphilis. New York: Perseus, 2003. xx + 379 pp. Ill. $US 27.50; $Can. 41.50 (0-465-02881-0)

  • The Myth of Pope Joan

    Laura J McGoughARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2003

  • Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice. Jutta Gisela Sperling

    Laura Mcgough, Laura J McGoughARTICLEThe Journal of Religion2002