Recommended Reading
VENEREAL DISEASE & THOMAS PARRAN
Brandt, Allan. No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States Since 1880. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Fee, Elizabeth. “Venereal Disease: The Wages of Sin?” In Passion and Power. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.
Jones, James. Bad Blood. New York: Free Press, 1993.
Lord, Alexandra. Condom Nation. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Parascandola, John. Sex, Sin, and Science: A History of Syphilis in America. Westport: Praeger, 2008.
“Parran Hall Name Disappears After Board of Trustees Agrees with Chancellor’s Recommendation,” University Times, Vol. 50, Issue 22, https://www.utimes.pitt.edu/news/parran-hall-name.
Poirier, Suzanne. Chicago’s War on Syphilis. Westport: Praeger, 2008.
Reverby, Susan, ed. Tuskegee’s Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Snyder, Lynn. “New York, the Nation, the World: The Career of Surgeon General Thomas J. Parran, Jr., MD, (1892-1968).” In Public Health Reports, Vol. 110, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1995), 630-632.
PROSTITUTION & SEXUALITY
Clement, Elizabeth. Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945. Chapl Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
Collier, Aine. The Humble Little Condom: A History. Amherst: Prometheus, 2007.
Gamson, Joshua. “Rubber Wars: Struggles over the Condom in the United States.” In American Sexual Politics: Sex, Gender, and Race Since the Civil War, eds. John Fout and Maura Shaw, 311-332. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Hegarty, Marylin. Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes: The Regulation of Female Sexuality during World War II. New York: NYU Press, 2008.
Keire, Mara L. For Business and Pleasure: Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890-1933. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2010.
VISUAL CULTURE
DeNoon, Christopher. Posters of the WPA. Los Angeles: The Whetley Press, 1987.
Hansen, Bert. Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Medical Images and Popular Attitudes in America. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2009.
Parascandola, John. “VD at the Movies: PHS Films of the 1930s and 1940s.” Public Health Reports, Vol. 111, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr., 1996), 173-175.
Reagan, Leslie, et al, eds. Medicine’s Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television. University of Rochester Press, 2007.
THE NEW DEAL
Brinkley, Alan. The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War. 1995.
Ferguson, Karen. Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Grey, Michael. New Deal Medicine: The Rural Health Programs of the Farm Security Administration. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Hirshfield, Daniel S. The Lost Reform: The Campaign for Compulsory Health Insurance in the United States from 1932 to 1943. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970.
Klein, Jennifer. For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America’s Public-Private Welfare State. Princeton, 2006.
Sullivan, Patricia. Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
RACE & MEDICINE
Gamble, Vanessa Northington. Germs Have No Color Line: Blacks and American Medicine, 1900-1940. New York: Garland, 1989.
McBride, David. From TB to AIDS: Epidemics among Urban Blacks since 1900. Albany: SUNY Press, 1991.
Roberts, Samuel. Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Smith, Susan. Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women’s Health Activism in America, 1890-1950. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 1995.
Thomas, Karen Kruse. Deluxe Jim Crow: Civil Rights and American Health Policy, 1935-1945. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011.