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Nancy J. Tomes

15 works· latest 2022· 2 institutionscluster: provisionalORCID 0000-0002-5146-162X

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Citations1,418

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Most cited in this library

The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-19801987 · 340 citations
The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life2001 · 282 citations
A Generous Confidence: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Art of Asylum-Keeping, 1840-18831985 · 179 citations
Merchants of Health: Medicine and Consumer Culture in the United States, 1900-19402001 · 116 citations
The private side of public health: sanitary science, domestic hygiene, and the germ theory, 1870-1900.1990 · 108 citations

Works

15 shown

A “Creation of the Media”

Feminist Media Histories·2022·1 author

18citations

Comment: What Historians of Medicine Can Learn from Historians of Capitalism

Bulletin of the history of medicine·2020·1 author

12citations

Histories of Medicine in the Household: Recovering Practice and ‘Reception’

Social History of Medicine·2016·3 authors

14citations

Introduction: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television

·2007·3 authors

28citations

Merchants of Health: Medicine and Consumer Culture in the United States, 1900-1940

Journal of American History·2001·1 author·other

116citations

The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life

The American Historical Review·2001·2 authors

282citations

The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life

Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews·1999·2 authors

Introduction to Special Issue on Rethinking the Reception of the Germ Theory of Disease: Comparative Perspectives

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences·1997·2 authors·editorial

52citations

American Attitudes toward the Germ Theory of Disease: Phyllis Allen Richmond Revisited

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences·1997·1 author·Open access

38citations

Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in New York City.

Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews·1996·2 authors

46citations

The Sanitarians: A History of American Public Health.

The American Historical Review·1991·2 authors·other

95citations

Wash and Be Healed: The Water-Cure Movement and Women's Health

The American Historical Review·1988·2 authors

47citations

The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980

The American Historical Review·1987·2 authors·other

340citations

A Generous Confidence: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Art of Asylum-Keeping, 1840-1883

The American Historical Review·1985·2 authors

179citations