Selected Scholarly Writing

2024

• “Disability Futures, Scientific Ableism, and the Making of Modern Epidemics” Osiris, edited by Mara Mills, Sarah Rose, Jaipreet Virdi (2024): 261-279.

2021   

• “No Scalpel Required: When Orthopedic Surgery was Conservative,” Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons, 138-139.
• “Physical Therapy in the Time of Pandemic,” Physical Therapy Journal: 1-2.

2019

• “Tracing Paper, The Posture Sciences, and the Mapping of the Female Body,” in Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge, edited by Carla Bittel, Elaine Leong, and Christine von Oertzen, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 124-40.

2017

• “The Body Politic in Pain,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 60, no. 2, 285-91.
• “Confectionary Care: The Child As a Category of Historical Analysis,” Nursing History Review 25, no. 1, 82-85.
• “Prosthetic Imaginaries: Spinal Surgery and Innovation from the Patient’s Perspective,” in Technological Change in Modern Surgery: Historical Perspectives on Innovation, edited by Thomas Schlich and Christopher Crenner, Rochester: Rochester University Press, 100-28.
• “Half a Man: The Symbolism and Science of Paraplegic Impotence in World War II America, (with Whitney Laemmli) in Phallacies: Historical Intersection of Disability and Masculinity, edited by Kathleen M. Brian and James W. Trent, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 126-52.

2016

• “Spines of Steel: A Case of Surgical Enthusiasm in America,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 90, no. 2, 222-49.
• “Teamwork: Metaphors and Myths of Equality in the Health-Care Setting,” Nursing History Review 24, no. 1, 69-75.
• “The Great War and Modern Health Care.” New England Journal of Medicine 374, no. 20, 1907-09.

2015

• “Half a Man: The Symbolism and Science of Paraplegic Impotence in World War II America,” (with Whitney Laemmli), Osiris, edited by Robert A. Nye and Erika Lorraine Milam, 30, no. 1, 228-49.
• “Integrating Disability, Transforming Disease History: Tuberculosis and Its Past,” (with Emily Abel), in Civil Disabilities: Citizenship, Membership, Belonging, edited by Nancy Hirschmann and Beth Linker, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 83-102.
• “Civil Disabilities: An Introduction,” (with Nancy Hirschmann),in Civil Disabilities: Citizenship, Membership, Belonging, edited by Nancy Hirschmann and Beth Linker, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1-21.

2013

• “On the Borderland of Medical and Disability History: A Survey of the Fields.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 87, no. 4, 499-535.
• “Beware of the One-Armed Soldier,” Physical Therapy 93, no. 9, 1160.

2012

• “A Dangerous Curve: The Role of History in America’s Scoliosis Screening Programs,” American Journal of Public Health 102, no. 4, 606-16.

2011

• “Shooting Disabled Soldiers: Medicine and Photography in World War I America.” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 66, no. 3, 313-46.

2007

• “Feet for Fighting: Locating Disability and Social Medicine in First World War America,” Social History of Medicine 20, no. 1, 91-109. Winner of the Roy Porter Prize, Society for the Social History of Medicine.
• “Resuscitating the ‘Great Doctor’: The Career of Biography in Medical History,” In The History of Poetics and Scientific Biography, edited by Thomas Söderqvist, Aldershoot: Ashgate Press, 221-39.

2005

• “Strength and Science: Gender, Physiotherapy, and Medicine in Early Twentieth Century America,” Journal of Women’s History 17, no. 3, 105-32.
• “The Business of Ethics: Gender, Medicine, and the Professional Codification of the American Physiotherapy Association, 1918-1935,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 60, no. 3, 321-54. Winner of the American Association for Bioethics and Humanities Essay Award.