Publications of Peter C. English

Books

  1. Resistance to Antibiotics: A History (2003) (work in progress.)
  2. Old Paint: A Medical History of Childhood Lead-Paint Poisoning in the United States to 1980 (2001), New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press
  3. P.C. English, Rheumatic Fever. A Biological, Epidemiological, and Medical History of Rheumatic Fever in America and Britain from the 18th to the 20th Century (1999), New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press
  4. P.C. English, Shock, Physiological Surgery and George Washington Crile: Medical Innovation in the Progressive Era (1980), Greenwood Press (Pages xi/273.)

Papers Published

  1. English, PC, Emergence of rheumatic fever in the nineteenth century., The Milbank quarterly, vol. 67 Suppl 1 no. 1 (January, 1989), pp. 33-49, ISSN 0887-378X
  2. P.C. English, Failure-to-Thrive, in Medicine & Pediatrics, edited by James D. Crapo, Michael A. Hamilton, and Susan Edgman (1988), pp. 598-599, . Hanley & Belfus, Inc., Medical Publishers
  3. English, PC, Therapeutic strategies to combat pneumococcal disease: repeated failure of physicians to adopt pneumococcal vaccine, 1900-1945., Perspectives in biology and medicine, vol. 30 no. 2 (January, 1987), pp. 170-185, ISSN 0031-5982
  4. P.C. English, Not Miniature Men and Women: Abraham Jacobi's Vision of a New Medical Specialty a Century Ago, in Children and Health Care: Moral and Social Issues, edited by John C. Moskop and Loretta M. Kopelman (1986), pp. 247-273, Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  5. English, PC, Diphtheria and theories of infectious disease: centennial appreciation of the critical role of diphtheria in the history of medicine., Pediatrics, vol. 76 no. 1 (July, 1985), pp. 1-9, ISSN 0031-4005
  6. P.C. English, Typhoid Mary, in World Book Encyclopedia (1985)
  7. English, PC, Pediatrics and the unwanted child in history: foundling homes, disease, and the origins of foster care in New York City, 1860 to 1920., Pediatrics, vol. 73 no. 5 (May, 1984), pp. 699-711, ISSN 0031-4005
  8. P.C. English, Commentary on Stanley J. Reiser's 'Critical Care in an Historical Context', in Ethics and Critical Medicine, edited by John C. Moskop and Loretta M. Kopelman (1984), pp. 225-231, Dordrecht, Netherlands: Reidel Publishers
  9. with Grossman, H; English PC, , Radiology and the History of Child Abuse, Pediatric Annals, vol. 12 no. 2 (1983), pp. 870-874
  10. English, PC, History of the North Carolina Pediatric Society, North Carolina Pediatric Society (1982), pp. i/23
  11. with Katz, SL, Disease, in World Book Encyclopedia, vol. 5 (1980), pp. 183-191
  12. English, PC, The Infant Who Fails to Thrive Without an Organic Reason, Pediatric Annals, vol. 7 (1978), pp. 774-781

Book Reviews

  1. Andrew Cliff, Peter Haggett, Matthew Smallman-Raynor, Measles: An Historical Geography of a Major Human Viral Disease: From Global Expansion to Local Retreat, 1840-1990, Bulletin of the History of Medicine (1999)
  2. Benedict Russell, Rheumatic Fever & Streptococcal Infection, Bulletin of the History of Medicine (1999)
  3. W. Bruce Fye, The Development of American Physiology: Scientific Method in the Nineteenth Century, American Historical Review (1987), Baltimore
  4. Rima D. Apple, Mothers and Medicine: A Social History of Infant Feeding, 1890-1950, Bulletin of the History of Medicine (1987), Madison
  5. William Lloyd Fox, Dandy of Johns Hopkins, American Historical Review (1984), Baltimore
  6. George Rosen, The Structure of American Medical Practice 1875-1941, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (1983), Philadelphia
  7. Clement A. Smith, The Children's Hospital of Boston, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (1983), Boston
  8. A. McGhee Harvey, Science at the Bedside. Clinical Research in American Medicine, 1905-1945, The Journal of American History (1981), Johns Hopkins
  9. Jay M. Arena and John P. McGovern, Davison of Duke, His Reminiscences, Journal of the American Medical Association (1980), Duke
  10. John A. Shepherd, Lawson Tait: The Rebellious Surgeon (1845-1899), Clio Medica (1980), Kansas
  11. Toby Gelfand, Professionalizing Modern Medicine; Paris Surgeons and Medical Science and Institutions in the 18th Century, Annals of Surgery (1980)
  12. Charles Rosenberg, Healing and History. Essays for George Rosen, Annals of Science (1979), New York: Science History Publications
  13. A.J. Youngson, The Scientific Revolution in Victorian Medicine, Clio Medica (1979), New York
  14. Owen Wangensteen and Sarah Wangensteen, The Rise of Surgery, Isis (1978), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
  15. The Medicine Show. Patients, Physicians and Perplexities of the Health Revolution in Modern Society, edited by Patricia Branca, Annals of Science (1977), New York: Science History Publications
  16. Thomas Cone, Two Hundred Years of Infant Feeding in America, Bulletin of History of Medicine (1977)