Heather Munro Prescott
Professor,
Department of History
Office Phone: (860) 832-2809
Fax: (860) 832-2804
Email: prescott@mail.ccsu.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D.,
M.A.,
B.A., The
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
A.
Lindsay O'Connor Visiting Associate Professor of American Institutions,
Chair, Department of History, CCSU, 1999-2002
HONORS AND AWARDS RECEIVED SINCE PHD
Will Solimene Award of Excellence in Medical Communication,
Research
Grant-in-Aid,
Sabbatical leave, CCSU, 1998-99.
Honorary Visiting Scholar, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, 1998-99.
Honorable Mention, Paul S. Kerr Prize,
Francis C. Wood Institute Fellowship, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 1997.
Yale Scholars Program, 1996-1997.
National Institutes of Health Publication Grant LM 05903-01 from the National Library of Medicine, 1995-1996.
ACOG-Ortho Fellowship in the History of American Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1994.
CSU-AAUP Faculty Research Grants: 2002-2003; 2001-2002; 2000-2001; 1999-2000; 1998-99, 1997-1998, 1996-1997, 1995-1996, 1994-1995, and 1993-1994.
CSU-AAUP Curriculum Development Grant for the History Department, Summer 2000.
CSU-AAUP Faculty Development Grant for Women's Studies, 1998-99, 1997-98, 1996-97, and 1995-1996.
CSU-AAUP Curriculum Development Grant for Women’s Studies, Summer 1997.
PUBLICATIONS
I. Books:
Child Health in American History: Essays and Documents. Co-edited with Janet Golden and Richard Meckel. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, forthcoming.
“A Doctor of Their Own”: The History of Adolescent Medicine. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.
II. Articles and Book Chapters:
“Guides to Womanhood: Gynecology and Adolescent Sexuality in the Post World War II Era.” In Georgina Feldberg, Molly Ladd-Taylor, Alison Li, and Kathryn McPherson, ed. Women, Health, and Nation: Canada and the United States since 1945. Montreal, CA: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003.
“Using Student Bodies: College and University Students as Research Subjects.” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 57 (2002): 3-38.
“’I Was a Teenage Dwarf’: The Social Construction of ‘Normal’ Adolescent Growth and Development in Twentieth Century America.” In Alexandra Minna Stern and Howard Markel, ed. Formative Years: Children's Health in America, 1880-2000. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2002.
“The White Plague Goes to College: Tuberculosis Prevention Programs in Colleges and Universities, 1920-1960.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 74 (2000): 847-884.
“Not Their Parent’s MD: Why Teens Need a Doctor of Their Own.” Connect for Kids Website, May 2000, http://www.connectforkids.org.
“History of Adolescent Medicine in the 20th Century: From Hall to Elkind.” Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews 11/1 (February 2000): 1-12.
“The ‘Agrarian Myth’ and Student Health at the University of Pennsylvania.” Transactions and Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Ser. 5, XXI (1999): 87-117.
“Sending Their Sons Into Danger: Cornell University and the Ithaca Typhoid Epidemic of 1903.” New York History 78/3 (July 1997): 273-308.
“James Roswell Gallagher, M.D., 1903-1995.” Journal of Adolescent Health 18/1 (1996): 2-3.
“‘Legislating Family Values’: An Historical Commentary on the Parental Consent Requirement in the Casey Decision.” Trends in Health Care, Law, and Ethics 8/3 (Summer, 1993): 32-36.
III. Encyclopedia articles:
"Adolescent
Medicine." In Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and
Society, ed. Paula S. Fass. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, forthcoming.
“Anorexia Nervosa;” and “Adolescent Nutrition and Fertility.” In The Cambridge World History of Food, edited by Kenneth Kiple and Kriemhild Coneé Ornelas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
“Adolescent Health;” and “Menstruation.” In Girlhood in America: An Encyclopedia. Denver, CO: ABC-CLIO, 2000.
“Eating Disorders.” In The Family in America: An Encyclopedia. Denver, CO: ABC-CLIO, 2000.
“Venereal Disease.” In Boyhood in America: An Encyclopedia. Denver, CO: ABC-CLIO, 2000.
“Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin;” “Florence Rena Sabin;” and “Lillian Wald.” In Women in World History: A Biographical Encylopedia. Waterford, CT: Dworkin Press, 1999.
“Eating Disorders.” In Dictionary of American History, edited by Robert H. Ferrell and Joan Hoff. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons Reference Books, 1996.
“Anorexia Nervosa.” In The Cambridge History of Human Disease, edited by Kenneth Kiple. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
IV. Book Reviews:
Review of Lara J. Marks, Sexual Chemistry: A History of the Contraceptive Pill (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001), Quarterly Review of Biology 77/4 (December, 2002): 493.
Review of Valerie Steele, The Corset: A Cultural History (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001), Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 57/3 (2002): 363-364.
Review of Jeffrey P. Moran, Teaching Sex: The Shaping of Adolescence in the 20th Century (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000), Bulletin of the History of Medicine 75/3 (Fall 2001): 621-623.
Review of Alice Dourmant Dreger, Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998) and Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), forthcoming in National Women’s Studies Association Journal.
Review of Kathleen W. Jones, Taming the Troublesome Child: American Families, Child Guidance, and the Limits of Psychiatric Authority (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999) in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 55/2 (April 2000): 193-195.
Review of Rima D. Apple, Vitamania: Vitamins in American Culture (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996) in Food and Foodways 8/2 (1999): 131-32.
Review of Paula A. Treichler, Lisa Cartwright, and Constance Penley, eds. The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Gender, and Science (New York: New York University Press, 1998) for H-Women, September 1998.
Review of Ruth M. Alexander, The "Girl Problem": Female Sexual Delinquency in New York, 1900-1930 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995), in Women & Health 26/4 (1997): 102.
Review of Howard Markel, Quarantine! East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), in New York History 78/3 (1997): 352-353.
Review of Sonja Van’t Hof, Anorexia Nervosa: The Historical and Cultural Specificity: Fallacious Theories and Tenacious “Facts” (Berwyn, PA: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1994) in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 33/ 3 (1997): 327.
Review of Vern L. Bullough, Science in the Bedroom: A History of Sex Research, (New York: Basic Books, 1994), in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 27/1 (1996): 97-99.
Review of Mary G. Winkler and Leth B. Cole, eds. The Good Body: Asceticism in Contemporary Culture (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press) in Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 184/2 (1996): 136.
Review of Kathy Davis, Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery (New York: Routledge, 1995), in Women & Health 24/2 (1996): 83.
Review of Susan Bordo, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), in Bulletin of the History of Medicine 68/4 (1994): 754-755.
Review of James R. Kincaid, Child-Loving; The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture (New York: Routledge, 1992), in Journal of Social History 27/3 (1994): 649-651.
Review of Rima D. Apple, editor, Women, Health, and Medicine in America: A Historical Handbook (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990), in Isis 84 (1993): 131-132
Review of Lawrence J. Friedman, Menninger: The Family and the Clinic (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1992), in Oral History Review 21/ 1 (1993): 146.
Review of Edward Shorter, From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era (New York: Free Press, 1992), in New York History 73/2 (1992): 237.
CONFERENCES AND INVITED TALKS
Chair for panel, “Bridging Disciplinary Divides,” Connecting S&TS: The Academy, the Polity and the World, Cornell University, September 25-28, 2003.
Chair, Roundtable, Women’s History and Children’s History, Twelfth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Storrs, Connecticut, June 6-9, 2002.
“’A Most
Obnoxious Form of Contract Practice: The
Evolution of College Health Centers in the Twentieth Century.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Association for the History of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri, April
2002.
Chair and Commentator for panel, “Charting Children,” Middle Atlantic American Studies Association Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 22-23, 2002.
Commentator for panel “Embodied Narratives in Anglo-American Medicine: Practitioners, Patients, and Corpses, 1740-1880,” Annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Boston, Massachusetts, January 4-7, 2001.
“I Was a Teenage Dwarf, or What is ‘Normal’ Adolescent Development?” for panel “Growing and Knowing: Science, Standardization, and American Youth,” Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, Vancouver, BC, November 2-5, 2000.
“The Rockefeller Foundation and the Social Construction of ‘Normal’ Adolescent Growth and Development in Twentieth Century America.” Paper presented at the Cowie Symposium on the History of American Child Health and Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 22-23, 2000.
“Medicine Defines ‘Normal’ Adolescence.” Paper Presented at the Conference on the History of Childhood in America, Washington, DC, August 5-6, 2000.
“From Oral
Health to Perfect Smiles: Advertising and Children’s Oral Health,” for “The
Face of a Child: Surgeon General’s Conference on Children and Oral Health,”
Washington, DC, June 12-13, 2000.
Commentator for panel, “Building a Better American: Eugenics and Middle-Class Culture in the Progressive Era,” Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 3-7, 1999.
“Student Bodies at Radcliffe and Harvard.” Presentation for the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College, March 25, 1999.
“Guides to
Womanhood: Gynecologists and Adolescents
in the Postwar United States.” Presented
at the conference on “Women, Science and Health in Post-War North America,”
Toronto, Ontario, March 5-7, 1999.
“Giving Adolescents a Doctor of Their Own: Adolescent Medicine Past, Present, and Future.” Keynote address for the annual meeting of the American Medical Association, National Coalition on Adolescent Health, Washington, DC, December 11, 1998.
“Student Bodies at the University of Pennsylvania.” Presented at the Francis C. Wood Institute, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, November 10, 1998.
“Using the
Student Body: College and University
Students as Research Subjects.”
Presented at the Conference on Using Bodies: Humans in the Service of Twentieth Century
Medicine, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, England,
September 3-4, 1998.
“The White Plague Goes to College: The National Tuberculosis Association’s Campaign Against Tuberculosis in College and University Students in the 1930s and 1940s.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, May 7-10, 1998. Also presented at the CSU Faculty Research Conference, ESCU, October 16, 1999; and for the Robert H. Massey History of Medicine Society, University of Connecticut Health Center School of Medicine, January 13, 1999.
“‘Rebels with a Cause’: Democratic Ideology and the ‘Normalization’ of Adolescent Rebellion, 1930-1950,” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, San Francisco, CA, April 17-20, 1997. Also presented at the Psychology Colloquium Series, Wesleyan University, September 24, 1997.
“In Search of the Real ‘Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman’: Women Doctors on the Western Frontier,” Presented at the Every Monday Lecture Series, CCSU, May 12, 1997.
Commentator, Panel #209, “Putting on Blackface/Taking Off Weight: White Women’s Bodies and Their Sense of Self in the Early Twentieth-Century United States,” Tenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June 7-9, 1996, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“‘Virginity is a State of Mind and not an Anatomic Condition’: Changing Attitudes Toward Pelvic Examinations for Adolescents, 1900-Present," Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Special Interest Group in the History of Obstetrics and Gynecology, San Francisco, May 10, 1995.
“‘Young Man, You Are Normal’: Developmental Research and Theories of Masculinity at Harvard and Phillips Andover Academy, 1938-45.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 13-16, 1994.
“‘How Long Must We Send Our Sons Into Such Danger?’: Gender, Race, Class, and the Cornell Typhoid Fever Epidemic of 1903.” Presented at the Western New England Women's History Symposium, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September 30-October 1, 1994.
I. Service to Department:
· Department Chair, 1999-2002
· Chair, Department Program Review Committee, 1998-99
· Department Evaluation Committee, 1998-99
· Nominating Committee, 1998-99
· Chair, Economic/Business/Labor History Search, 1997-98
· BA Advisor, 1993-98
II. Service to University:
· Steering Committee, University/Community Women's Forum, 2000-present
· Alternate, Faculty Senate Representative for Arts and Sciences Chairs, 2000-present
· Co-coordinator, Women’s Studies Program, 1995-99
· Women’s Studies Advisory Committee, 1992-95, 1999-present
· Committee on the Concerns of Women, 1992-98, 2000-present
· Honors Program Advisory Committee, 1992-present
· Religious Studies Advisory Committee, 1998-present
· American Studies Advisory Committee, 1997-present
American Arts Advisory Committee, New Britain Museum of American Art, 2001-present.
Consulting Scholar, Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame, 1995-Present
Organizer and Commentator, “Votes for Women: The 75th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage,” Sponsored by the Connecticut Women’s Education and Legal Fund, October 7, 1995.
Editor, H-Women, 1996-1999.
H-Women Advisory Board, 1996-Present.
Invited Participant, “Body and Place: Intersecting Histories of Body and Its Environment,” Rutgers University, Newark, 16-18, 1998.
Manuscript reviewer for Broadview Press, Brown Partworks, Houghton Mifflin, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Journal of Women’s History, and Radical History Review.
Joan Jacobs Brumberg
S.J. Weiss Presidential Fellow and Professor
Human Development
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14850
John Harley Warner
Professor of History of Medicine,
American Civilization and History
Section for the History of Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
P.O. Box 208015
New Haven, CT 06520-8015
Richard A. Meckel
Associate Professor of American Civilization
Brown University
Box 1892
Providence, RI 02912