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Gendered Hormonal Binaries and the Development of the Category of "Hormone-Dependent Cancers," 1940-1980
This article considers the establishment of the category of "hormone-dependent cancers," identified around the middle of the twentieth century as cancers sustained by particular hormones. A comparison of hormonal treatments for prostate cancer and those for breast cancer reveals that the genesis of "hormone-dependent cancer" as a biomedical category relied upon assumptions that cast androgens and estrogens as opposing ends of a gendered hormonal binary of health and disease. In the 1930s, cancer researchers claimed "female sex hormones" (estrogens) exacerbated breast cancer and "male sex hormones" (androgens) prevented it....
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Gina Surita Source Type: research

From Charity to Commerce: Bondholders, Women's Auxiliaries, and Community Health Care in Arizona
This article contrasts women's auxiliaries as volunteers and fundraisers at a voluntary sanatorium and a community hospital in metropolitan Phoenix. Their experience highlights the rising importance of private investors in nonprofit health care. Nonprofit community hospitals depended on volunteer labor from women's auxiliaries to keep their doors open in the mid-twentieth-century United States. However, their position became subordinate to financial demands from bondholders-these (and other) financial influences eroded the social capital created by charitable labor. At Maryvale Hospital, one of the "eight-percenter" mortga...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Anthony Pratcher Source Type: research

Revisiting the History of Abortion in the Wake of the Dobbs Decision
Bull Hist Med. 2023;97(1):1-10. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2023.0000.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38588198 | DOI:10.1353/bhm.2023.0000 (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kelly O'Donnell Naomi Rogers Source Type: research

From When Abortion Was a Crime to Abortion Is a Crime
Bull Hist Med. 2023;97(1):11-21. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2023.0001.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38588199 | DOI:10.1353/bhm.2023.0001 (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Leslie J Reagan Source Type: research

Writing the History of Legal Abortion
Bull Hist Med. 2023;97(1):22-29. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2023.0002.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38588200 | DOI:10.1353/bhm.2023.0002 (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Johanna Schoen Source Type: research