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Janet Golden,
Professor (B.A., Ph.D., Boston University)
a specialist in medical history, women's history, children's
history and American social history has been a member
of the history department at Rutgers University since
1992. Professor Golden is the author or editor of several
books, including Message
in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (Harvard
University Press), A
Social History of Wet Nursing: From Breast to Bottle
(Cambridge University Press) and among her edited or co-edited
books are Children
and Youth in Sickness and in Health with Richard
Meckel and Heather Munro Presscott, Mothers
and Motherhood: Readings in American History with
Rima D. Apple, Framing
Disease: Studies in Cultural History with
Charles E. Rosenberg, The
American General Hospital: Communities and Social
Contexts
with Diana E. Long, and Infant
Asylums and Children's Hospitals: Medical Dilemmas and
Developments, 1950-1920.
Dr.
Golden is currently writing a history of babies in modern
America and coediting, Healing the World's Children:
International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child
Health in the 20th Century (under review).
Janet
Golden teaches a variety of undergraduate courses in American
history on topics such as Health and Society; History of
Women in the United States; America in the 1950s; America
in the 1960s; Perspectives on History; and the Senior Seminar.
Her graduate courses include Readings in American History;
Colloquium on American Health and Medicine, Colloquium on
American Women's History; and the Writing Seminar.
Janet
Golden is a member of the Research, Education and Advocacy
Committee of the Maternity Care Coalition. In the past she
has served as Treasurer of Philadelphia's Women Organized
Against Rape and as Vice President of the Board of the Institute
for Social Medicine and Community Health. She has served
as a historical consultant on two documentary film projects:
"Maggie Growls: Maggie Kuhn and the Grey Panthers"
(Goldwater, Attie Productions, 2000) and "Motherless"
(Goldwater, Attie, Pontius Productions 1991). Her professional
service includes serving on grants panels for the National
Institutes of Health and the National Endowment for the
Humanities; serving on the Council of and chairing various
committees for the American Association for the History
of Medicine; serving on the editorial boards of The
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History and Nursing
History Review; and as a contributing editor to the
Newsletter of the Society for the History of Children
and Youth. She is co-editor of the Women and Health
book series published by Ohio State University Press.
Message
in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome,
Harvard
University Press, 2005. Paperback 2006.
Children
and Youth in Sickness and in Health : A Handbook and Guide
(co-edited with Richard Meckel and Heather Munro Prescott)
Greenwood Press, 2004.
Mothers
and Motherhood: Readings in American History (co-edited
with Rima Apple) Ohio State University Press, 1997.
Social
History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle,
Cambridge
University Press, 1996. (Paperback,
2001).
"Successes and Missed Opportunities in Protecting
Our Children's Health: Critical Junctures in the History
of Children's Health Policy in the United States” with
Howard Markel, Pediatrics 115 (2005): 1129-1133.
"The History You Ought to Know: Using the Past to
Help Set an Agenda for Children's Health Policy in the
21st Century." with Howard Markel, Health Affairs 23
(2004): 147-152.
"'Procreative
Compounds': Popoular Market Eugenics from the Development
of Artificial Insemination with Donor Sperm to the Rise
of the American Sperm Banking Industry," (with Cynthia
Daniels) Journal of Social History (forthcoming)
"'Live Clean, Think Clean and Don't Go to Burlesque
Shows': Charles Atlas as Health Advisor," (with Elizabeth
Toon) Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied
Sciences 57 (2002): 260-282.
"The "Tempest in a Cocktail Glass': Mothers, Alcohol
and Television, 1973-1992" Journal of Health Politics,
Policy, and Law 25 (2000): 473-498.
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Awards, Honors & Grants |
Award,
Leonard Hastings Schoff Publication Fund, Columbia University
Seminars, 2003.
Grant, Commonwealth Foundation, President's Discretionary
Fund, Co-PI with Howard Markel, 2003.
Conference Grant, Associated Medical Services (Canada),
Co-PI with George Weisz and Cynthia Commachio, 2003.
Research Grant, Center for Children and Childhood Studies,
Rutgers University, 2000, 2001.
Fellowship for College Teachers, National Endowment for
the Humanities, 1999.
Research Grant 1 RO1 LMO6567-01, National Library of Medicine,
National Institutes of Health. 1998.
Grant to Get Grants, Rutgers Research Council. 1997, 1992.
Research Grant, Rutgers Research Council. 1996, 1994, 2003.
Faculty Fellowship, Center for the Critical Analysis of
Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University, 1995-96.
0RTHO-ACOG Fellowship, American College of Obstetricians
& Gynecologists. 1995.
Research Grant 1 RO1 LMO5150-01, National Library of Medicine,
National Institutes of Health, 1991-92.
Brunner Fellowship, Center for the Study of the History
of Nursing. 1990.
Research Fellowship, Wood Institute, College of Physicians
of Philadelphia. 1990
For selected
summaries of Dr. Golden's research, please visit
A
Cultural History of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
or
A
History of the Health Experiences of Children and Youth
in the United States from the Colonial Period through the
Twentieth Century.
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