CADUCEUS: A Humanities Journal for Medicine and the Health Sciences

CADUCEUS, an award-winning interdisciplinary scholarly journal devoted to the health sciences and the heritage of healing, was published between 1985 and 1997 by the Department of Medical Humanities. The journal provided a forum for humanities scholars in the fields of history, anthropology, the visual arts, museology, ethics, literature, archeology, and the sciences. Peer-reviewed and authoritative, each issue of CADUCEUS offered several perspectives on a single theme. CADUCEUS also featured articles on the material culture of the health sciences, especially the holdings of museums and special libraries.

Named for the ancient symbol of healing, CADUCEUS explored the heritage of healing through multicultural and interdisciplinary approaches to the health sciences. In the 13 years of its publication, it provided a forum for more than 140 scholars in diverse specialties, including medical biography, pharmacy, instrumentation, alternative therapies, technology, and art.

Certain back issues are still available from the Department. Please call or write:

The Department of Medical Humanities
Publications Manager
PO Box 19603
Springfield, IL 62794-9603
U.S.A.
217.545.4261

or send email to: lcleverdon@siumed.edu

AVAILABLE BACK ISSUES

VOLUME I

sold as a full volume set only

(1985-1)  "Patent Medicine in Nineteenth Century America" by John Parascandola

(1985-2) "The Human Figure in Modern Painting" by George Kimball Plochmann

(1985-3)  "Women in Health Care Delivery: The Histories of Women, Medicine and Photography" by Jill Gates Smith

VOLUME II

available as a full volume set

(1986-1)  "Emmet Pearson Collection of Disinfected Mail" by Glen W. Davidson; "The Other Abraham: Flexner in Illinois" by Patricia S. Ward

(1986-2)  "Classification of Artifacts at the Dittrick Museum" by Patsy Gerstner and Judith Chelnick; "Microscopy and the Army Medical Museum" by Adrianne Noe and George S.M. Cowan

(1986-3) "Modern Surgery and the Development of Group Practice in the Midwest" by Dale C. Smith

VOLUME III

available as a full volume set

(1987-2) "Diphtheria: Dr. Joseph O’Dwyer and His Intubation Tubes" by Craig Gelfand; "Arsenic and No Lace" by Ferenc Gyorgvey; "Clendening History of Medicine Library" by Robert Hudson

(1987-3) (one copy) "Francis X. Dercum and Animal Locomotion" by Michael R. McVaugh; "The Medical Museum, University Hospital, London Ontario" by J.T.H. Connor; "A Traveller's Guide to the History of Biology and Medicine (Pengelley)" reviewed by Glen W. Davidson; "The Pengelley Guide" by Erick T. Pengelley and Daphne M. Pengelley

(1987-4) (no copies) "Transportation of the Wounded: The Models of the Armed Forces Medical Museum" by Alan Hawk; "The Medical Period Room" by James Edmonson; "An Alternative Perspective: The Medical Period Room" by J.T.H. Connor; Index of Volumes 1-3

VOLUME IV

(1988-1)  (no copies) "Chinese Medicine in America" by Glen W. Davidson; "Chinese Medicine in America: A Study in Adaptation" by Christopher Muench; "The Museum and Traditional Asian Medicine: A Study in Collaboration" by Paul Buell; "The Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum in John Day, Oregon" by Carolyn Micnhimer and Glen W. Davidson

(1988-2) "Homeopathy in Illinois" by Frederick Karst; "Charriere" by Urs Boschung; "Charriere’s Instruments in America" by James Edmonson; "Health Sciences at the National Museum of American History" by Audrey Davis

(1988-3/4) "Hygeia’s Sisters: Women in Pharmacy" by Patricia Spain Ward; "The Pest House at Jaffa: Medicine, Art and French Romantic Painting" by Joseph Merrill and Hebbel Hoff; "The Bakken: A Library and Museum of Electricity in Life" by John Senior

VOLUME V

(1989-2) (no copies) "The Peak of Electromechanical Experimentation in Physiology: A Unique View Through Walter Miles’ ‘Report of a Visit to Foreign Laboratories’ in 1920" by Gordon M. Shepherd and Janice Braun; "The U.S. Army Medical Museum" by Thomas O. McMasters

(1989-3) "Disinfection of Letters: Defense Measures Against Epidemics" by Klaus Meyer; "Indiana Medical History Museum" by Katherine M. McDonell; "Sectarian and Related Medical Systems and the Medical Museum: A Matter of Interpretation" by J.T.H. Connor

(1989-4) "'Childbirth-Travells' and 'Spiritual Estates': Anne Hutchinson and Colonial Boston" by Deborah Kuhn McGregor; "Adolph and Fenn Papers at the University of Rochester" by Christopher Hoolihan; "Photography in Medicine at the Dittrick" by Nora O’Sullivan

VOLUME VI

(1990-2) "Art in the Service of Public Health: The Illustrated Poster" by William Helfand; "Poster Collection of the National Library of Medicine" by Lucinda Keister; "Federal Dietary Policy: From Food Adequacy to Chronic Disease Prevention" by Marion Nestle and Donna Porter

(1990-3) "Dr. Dittrick’s Museum" by James Edmonson; "A Medical Pioneer of Trumbull County" by Howard Dittrick; "Revisiting Abner Webb, Jr., M.D." by Molly Berger; "The Dittrick Museum Today" by Patsy Gerstner

VOLUME VII

(1991-1) "Excavation of the 1814 Battle of Snake Hill Site" by Adrianne Noe; "The Human Remains Controversies" by Glen W. Davidson; "When the Patient is Abraham Lincoln" by Marc Micozzi; "Advisory Statement on DNA Testing of Lincoln’s Tissue" by Victor McKusick; "A Symposium on Freud and Art at the Smart Museum" by Sue Taylor

(1991-2) "Military Ambulance Technology, 1793-1880" by John Haller; "Sterilizing Instruments: A Curator’s Perspective" by James Edmonson; "Decontamination and Sterilization of Instruments" by Eleanor Reilly; "Radioactive and Radium Sources" by Paul Frame; "Hazardous Substances and Controlled Drugs in Museums" by Ramunas Kondratas; "Environmental Concerns for Museum Personnel" by Patricia Miller

(1991-3) "Active Measures in the War Against Epidemics in Colonial Guatemala, 1519-1821" by Lawrence H. Feldman

VOLUME VIII

(1992-1) "Modern Medicine and the Emergence of Biomedical Ethics" by Gershon B. Grunfeld; "The Critic’s Perspective on the Use of Drama" by Hedy Weiss; "The Radical Gesture: The Use of Drama as a Museologic Technique" by Phillip V. Davis; "A Place to Stand: The Playwright’s Perspective" by Timothy Cope; "Present at the Creation: The First Five Years of the Stetten Museum" by Victoria A. Harden; "Medical Biographies at The Pearson Museum" by Barbara Mason

(1992-2) "The Ecorche Model and Pre-Vesalian Medical Illustration" by Roslynne V. Wilson; "Leonardo Da Vinci’s Anatomy, Revisited" by T. R. Doby; "Depth Studies: Illustrated Anatomies" by Barbara Maria Stafford et al.; "Visions of Body and Soul" by Alexander Grey

(1992-3) "Native Healing in Puget Sound" by Jay Miller; "Oscar Howe: Images of Native American Life and Death" by John Day; "Healing Arts and the Illinois Indian Tribes" by Raymond E. Hauser; "Native Women and Forced Sterilization, 1973-1976" by Robin Jarrell

VOLUME IX

(1993-1) "Introduction" by John S. Haller, Jr.; "Wine and Medicine from Hippocrates to the Renaissance" by Christopher Hoolihan; "Traditional African Approaches to Healing" by Pascal James Imperato; "Frontier Pharmacy in Oregon" by Robert A. Berk; "Dinshah P. Ghadiali and the Specro-Chrome" by Edward S. Kubersky; "The Lloyd Library and Museum" by Rebecca A. Perry

(1993-2) "Introduction: A Brief Report on the History of Medical Collections" and "Scholarship in the History of Medical Technology" by Audrey B. Davis; "The Role of Instruments in the Study of Greco-Roman Surgery" by Lawrence J. Bliquez; "Learning from the Artifact: Surgical Instruments as Resources in the History of Medicine and Medical Technology" by James M. Edmonson; "Steel Knives and Iron Lungs: Medical Instruments as Medical History" by Gretchen Worden; "Chicago Surgical Instrument Makers, 1855 to 1899" by Robert I. Goler; "Bigger than a Bread Box: Medical Buildings as Museum Artifacts" by J.T.H. Connor

(1993-3) "Dietary Advice for the 1990s: The Political History of the Food Guide Pyramid" by Marion Nestle; "Health Care for Seamen in the Port of New York, 1847-1903" by Florence Kavaler and Shirley A. Zavin; "Recreating the Knee: The History of Knee Arthroplasty" by Alan Hawk

VOLUME X

(1994-1) "The National Museum of Civil War Medicine: Building a Vision" by John E. Olson; "Field Medicine at Antietam" by James O. Breeden; "Jonathan A. Letterman, Surgeon for the Soldiers" by Gordon E. Dammann; "Beverly Barrett: A Civilian Doctor in the Civil War" by Thomas P. Sweeney; "The Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Museum" by Jean Lightowler Kirchner

VOLUME XI

(1995-1) "An Introduction: Faintly Heard and Little Noted" by M. Patricia Donahue; "A Network of Service: Female Nurses in the Civil War" by Kathleen S. Hanson; "American Military Nurses in Wartime and the Impact of Their Experiences on Peacetime Nursing Practice" by Elizabeth M. Norman; "The Naval Reserve Nurse Corps: The First Fifty Years, 1908-1958" by Laurie K. Glass; "Reflections on the Changing Image of Nurses in Wartime" by M. Patricia Donahue

(1995-2) "Changing Fashions in Therapeutics" by J. Worth Estes; "Therapeutic Method in the Later Middle Ages: Amau de Vilanova on Medical Contingency" by Michael R. McVaugh and Luis Garcia-Ballester; "Making Sense of Therapeutics in Seventeenth-Century New England" by Norman Gevitz and Micaela Sullivan-Fowler; "The Chemical Revolution and the Art of Healing" by Frederic L. Holmes; "Pathology and Treatment: The Case of Ulcers" by Christopher Crenner

(1995-3) "Medical and Commercial Supports for Scoliotic Patients, 1819-1935" by Jane Farrell-Beck; "The Evolution of the Progressive-Era Hemocytometer" by Jack David Davis; "Anatomical Comparisons, Metaphysical Conceits: Poets, Physicians, and the Motions of the Heart" by David Rosen; "Redefining Death in America, 1968" by M. L. Tina Stevens

VOLUME XII

(1996-1) "Introduction" and "Smallpox and Measles in Mali: Contrasting Control Strategies and Outcomes" by Pascal James Imperato; "An Epidemiologic Analysis of the Ten Plagues of Egypt" by John S. Marr and Curtis D. Malloy; "The Tuberculosis Story: From Koch to the Year 2000" by Mahfouz H. Zaki and Mary E. Hibberd; "Cholera: Outlook for the Twenty-First Century" by John Craig

(1996-3) "When Did a Random Patient Benefit from a Random Physician? Introduction and Historical Background" by William G. Rothstein; "Technology and Institutions in the Twentieth Century" by Rosemary Stevens; "Surgery: It’s Not a Random Therapy" by Dale C. Smith; "When Did Medicine Become Beneficial? The Perspective from Internal Medicine" by Steven J. Peitzman; "Drug Therapy and the Random Patient" by John Parascandola; "American Psychiatry: From Hospital to Community in Modern America" by Gerald N. Grob; "The Iconography of Child Public Health: Between Medicine and Reform" by Janet Golden

VOLUME XIII

(1997-1) "Introduction" by Renate Wilson; "Education and the Cabinet of Curiosities at the Francke Foundations" by Thomas J. Müller; "The Traffic in Halle Orphanage Medications: Medicinals, Philanthropy, and Colonial Mission" by Renate Wilson; "Academic and Practical Medicine in Halle During the Era of Stahl, Hoffmann, and Juncker" by Jürgen Konert; "How Shall I Take My Medicine? Dosages and Other Matters in Eighteenth-Century Medicine" by John K. Crellin; "Illness and Therapy in Two Eighteenth-Century Physician Texts" by Jacob Woodrow Savacool; "The Traffic in Medical Ideas: Popular Medical Texts as German Imports and American Imprints" by David L. Cowen and Renate Wilson

(1997-3))"Introduction" by Ramunas Kondratas; "From Stethoscopes to Artificial Hearts" by Judy M. Chelnick; "Ophthalmology-Optometric Collections" by Katherine Ott; "Medical Imaging" by Ramunas Kondratas; "Toothkeys to Prosthodontics" by Philip D. Spiess II; "The Pharmacy Collections" by Diane L. Wendt and Eric W. Jentsch; "Scientific Medicines" by Ramunas Kondratas; "Public Health Collections" by Patricia Peck Gossel; "Molecular Medicine: Collecting a Revolution in Progress" by G. Terry Sharrer; "A Select Bibliography" by Philip D. Spiess II