Book Chapters
“Chocolate in Science, Nutrition and Therapy: An Historical Perspective,” and “Epilogue” in P.K.
Wilson and W.J. Hurst, Chocolate and Health: Chemistry, Nutrition, and Therapy (Cambridge,
UK: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2015), pp. 1-27.
“Reading the Skin, Discerning the Landscape: A Geo-historical Perspective of Our Human
Surface,” in J. Reinarz and K. Siena (eds) A Medical History of Skin: Scratching the Surface
(London: Pickering and Chatto, Studies for the Social History of Medicine Series, 2013), pp. 209267.
“Championing a U.S. Clinic of Human Heredity: Post-War Constructs Built upon Pre-War
Concepts,” in B. Gausemeier, S. Müller-Willie,and E. Ramsen (eds) Human Heredity in the
Twentieth Century (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013), pp. 27-37.
“Conflict and Cooperation of Science and Spiritualism in Late 19 th- and Early 20th Century Anglo
-American Writings,” in C. Moreman (ed) The Spiritualist Movement: Speaking with the Dead in
America and Around the World, vol. 2, Section 3: Belief, Practice, and Evidence for Life after
Death (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2013), pp. 145-158.
“Cocoa, Chocolate and Health: Historical Perspectives,” in R.Paoletti, A. Poli, A. Conti and
F. Visioli (eds) Chocolate and Health (Milan: Springer Verlag, 2012), pp. 1-16.
“Pedigree Charts as Tools to Visualize Inherited Disease in Progressive Era America,” in S.
Müller-Willie and H-J. Rheinberger (eds) A Cultural History of Heredity: Heredity in the
Century of the Gene (Berlin: Max-Plank-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2008), pp. 163-190.
“Erasmus Darwin and the ‘Noble’ Disease (Gout): Conceptualizing Heredity and Disease in
Enlightenment England,” in S. Müller-Willie and H-J. Rheinberger (eds) Heredity
Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics and Culture 1500-1870
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), pp. 133-154.
“A Changing Landscape in the Medical Geography of ‘Hereditary’ Disease: Syphilis, Leprosy,
and Tuberculosis in Hawai‘i (1863-1903),” in S. Müller-Willie and H-J. Rheinberger (eds) A
Cultural History of Heredity: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Berlin: Max-PlankInstitut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2005), pp. 213-232.
“Erasmus Darwin on Animal Generation: Placing Heredity within Early 19 th-Century Contexts,”
in C. Smith and R. Arnot (eds) The Genius of Erasmus Darwin (London: Ashgate, 2005), pp. 113132.
“Influences of “Kosmos” in “Earth and Man,” in R. Erickson, M.A. Font, and B. Schwartz (eds)
Alexander von Humboldt: From the Americas to the Cosmos (New York: City University of New
York, 2004), 371-384.
"Erasmus Darwin on Hereditary Disease: Conceptualizing Heredity in Enlightenment English
Medical Writings," in S, Müller-Willie and H-J. Rheinberger (eds) Cultural
History of Heredity: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Berlin: Max-Plank-Institut für
Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2003), pp. 109-122.
“Imaging the Human Body: A Surgical Perspective of the Skin in the Enlightenment,” in Y.
Otsuka, S, Sakai, and S. Kuriyama (eds) Medicine and the History of the Body (Tokyo: Ishiyaku
EuroAmerica: 1999), pp. 339-355.
“Healers in History: A Multi-Cultural Perspective,” in R. Porter (ed) The Healing Arts: The Story
of Medicine (London: Ivy Press and New York: Marlowe & Co, 1997), 168-195, Korean
translation by In-Sok Yeo (Seoul: Nemo Books, 2009), pp. 353-412.
“Exposing the ‘Secret Disease’: Recognizing and Treating Syphilis in Daniel Turner’s London”
in L. Merians (ed.) Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century France and Great Britain
(University Press of Kentucky, 1996), pp. 68-84.
“Sherlock Holmes from Model Diagnostician to Medical Icon: The Physician’s Changing
Perspective” in C. Putnet, J.A. Cutshall King, and S. Sugarman (eds) Sherlock Holmes:
Victorian Sleuth to Modern Hero, 1894-1994 (Scarecrow Press, 1996), pp. 253-266.
“An Enlightenment Science?: Surgery and the Royal Society” in R. Porter (ed.) Medicine and
the Enlightenment (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995), pp. 360-386.
“Acquiring Surgical Know-How: Occupational and Lay Instruction in Early Eighteenth-Century
London” in R. Porter (ed.) The History of Medical Popularization (London: Routledge,
1992), pp. 42-71.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
“Weighing Medical Evidence on a Historical Scale,” Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical
Humanities 3 (2011): www.hektoneinternational.org/Weighing-medical-evidence.html.
“Centuries of Seeking Chocolate’s Medicinal Benefits,” Lancet 376 (2010): 158-159.
“Visualizing the Human Body Through the Ages,” Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical
Humanities 2 (2010): www.hektoneinternational.org/visualizing_humanbody.html
(with Kyle J. Tobler and Peter G. Napolitano) “Frequency of Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer, and
Tobacco Use Articles in Women’s Magazines from 1987 to 2003,” Journal of Cancer Education
24 (2009): 1-4.
(with Richard B. Gunderman, MD, PhD) “Spirituality in Medicine,” Journal of the American
College of Radiology 5 (2008): 946-950.
(with George F. Blackall, Steven A. Melnick, Glenda H. Shoop, John George, Susan M. Lerner
Richard C. Pees, and Margaret Kreher) “Professionalism in Medical Education: The Development
and Validation of a Survey Instrument to Assess Attitudes Toward Professionalism,” Medical
Teacher 29 (2007): 58-62.
“Hereditary Factors Underlying the ‘Destructive Trinity of Diseases”: Syphilis. Leprosy, and
Tuberculosis in 19th-Century Hawai‘i,” Medicina e Storia 14 (2007): 37-64.
“Drink, Dames & Diseases: Erasmus Darwin on Inheritance,” Vesalius: Official Journal of the
International Society for the History of Medicine 13 (2007): 60-67.
“Confronting ‘Hereditary’ Disease: Eugenic Attempts to Eliminate Tuberculosis in Progressive
Era America,” Journal of Medical Humanities 27 (2006): 19-37.
“Influences of Alexander von Humboldt’s Kosmos in the Swiss-American Geohistorian and
Creationist Arnold Guyot’s Earth and Man (1849),” Omega: Indian Journal of Science
and Religion 4 (2005): 33-51.
(with Richard B. Gunderman) “Exploring the Human Interior: The Roles of Cadaver Dissection
and Radiologic Imaging in Teaching Anatomy,” Academic Medicine 80 (2005):745-749.
“Bad Habits from Bad Genes: Early 20th-Century Eugenic Attempts to Eliminate Syphilis and
Associated ‘Defects’ from the United States,” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 20 (2003):
11-41.
“Eugenicist Harry Laughlin’s Crusade to Classify and Control the ‘Socially Inadequate’ in
Progressive Era America,” Patterns of Prejudice 36 (2002): 49-67.
“Eighteenth-Century ‘Monsters’ and Nineteenth-Century ‘Freaks’: Reading the MaternallyMarked Child,” Literature and Medicine 21 (2002): 1-25.
“Arnold Guyot and the Pestalozzian Approach to Geology Education: A Model for 21st-Century
College Science?,” Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 92 (1999): 321-325.
“Origins of Science,” National Forum (Journal of the National Honor Society, Phi Kappa Phi),
76 (Winter 1996): 39-43. Also reprinted in SIRS Renaissance electronic database, 1996.
(with Richard B. O’Dell) “Changing Perspectives of Missouri Prairies: Pre-Settlement to Late
Twentieth-Century,” Missouri Prairie Journal 17 (1996): 21-26.
“Reading a Man Through His Gifts: Daniel Turner’s 1722 Donation to Yale College,” Yale
University Library Gazette 69 (1995): 129-148.
“Daniel Turner and the Art of Surgery in Early Eighteenth-Century London,” Journal of the Royal
Society of Medicine 87 (1994): 781-785.
(with Janice C. Wilson and Declan O’Regan) “A Century of History in the Gazette: An Index of
Medical History Articles in St Thomas’s Hospital Gazette (1891-1992),” St Thomas’s
Hospital Gazette, (1994): 36-40.
“‘Out of Sight, Out of Mind?’: The Daniel Turner - James Blondel Dispute over the Power of the
Mother’s Imagination,” Annals of Science, 49 (1992): 63-85. Reprinted in Philip K.
Wilson (ed.) Childbirth. Changing Ideas and Practices in Britain and America, 1600 to
the Present (Hamden, CT: Garland Publishing, 1996), Vol. 3. Methods and Folklore,
361-383.
“‘Sacred Sanctuaries for the Sick’: Surgery at St Thomas’s Hospital (1725-26),” The London
Journal, 17 (1992): 36-53.
“William Cowper’s Anatomy of the Skin,” International Journal of Dermatology, 31 (1992):
361-363.
“‘Dear Price ... Yours Sincerely, A. Conan Doyle’: Letters from Doyle in the Harry Price
Collection,” A.C.D. - Journal of the Arthur Conan Doyle Society, 3 (1992): 152-195.
“‘I Have Seen the Dead Glimmer’: Arthur Conan Doyle’s Scientific Approach to Spirit
Photography,” Baker Street Miscellanea, 62 (1990): 1-10.
“Sherlock Holmes & Hippocrates: A Case of Similarity,” Baker Street Journal, 37 (1987):
41-44.
(with Adolph J. Janusziewcz, Manop Huntrakoon, and Morris D. Faiman), “Isolated Perfused
Lung Histamine Release, Lipid Peroxidation, and Tissue Superoxide Dismutase from Rats
Exposed to Normobaric Hyperoxia,” Toxicology, 39 (1986): 37-46.
Encyclopedia and Dictionary Entires
“Sir Francis Bacon,” (51-52) and “Genetics/Genomics,” (112-114) in Heidi A. Campbell,
Heather Looy (eds) A Science and Religion Primer (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009).
“Eugenics,” “William Withering,” “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,” “Sherlock Holmes,” (and many
edited entries) in Encyclopaedia Britannica (online in 2007).
“James Blondel,” (v.6, 266), “William Salmon,” (v.48, 734-735), “Joanna Stephens,” (v.52, 475),
“Mary Toft,” (v.54, 891-892), and “Daniel Turner” (v.55, 605-606), in H.C.G Matthew (ed) New
Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
“Anatomy and Surgery,” (v.3, 50-53), and “Practice of Medicine,” (v.3, 44-48), in A.C.
Kors (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).
“Lucretius,” (264-265), “Hildegard von Bingen,” (185), and “Daniel Defoe,” (102-103), in P.
Gossin (ed.) Encyclopedia of Literature and Science (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002).
“Anatomy,” (29-30), “Embryology,” (207-208), “Plastic Surgery,” (577-578), and “Surgery,”
(708-710), in A. Hessenbruch (ed.) Reader’s Guide to the History of Science (London:
Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001).
“Benjamin Fordyce Barker,” (v.2, 155-157), “Edward Hammond Clarke,” (v.4, 961-962),
“Logan Clendening,” (v.5, 55-56), “John Beele Davidge,” (v.6, 140-141), “Jared Elliot,”
(v.7, 400-401), “John Farquhar Fulton,” (v.8, 567-568), “Arthur Emanuel Hertzler,”
(v.10, 694-695), “Hugh Lenox Hodge,” (v.10, 911-912), “Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead,”
(v.11, 557-559), “Franklin Paine Mall,” (v.14, 369-371), “Antoine Francois Saugrain
deVigni,” (v. 19, 304-305), “Jacob da Silva Solis-Cohen,” (v.20, 360-361), “Thomas
Thatcher,” (v.21, 474-475), and “Hans Zinsser” (v.24, 247-249), in American National
Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).
“Andrew Taylor Still,” in L. Magner (ed.) Doctors, Nurses, and Medical Practitioners. A BioBibliographical Sourcebook (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997), 273-278.
“Biology,” (77-78), “William Cheselden,” (142), “Classification,” (157), “Embryology,” (217-8),
“Evolutionism,” (234), “Lazzaro Spallanzani,” (695-696), and “Vitalism” (769-770), in J.
Black and R. Porter (eds.) Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century World History (Oxford:
Basil Blackwell, 1994).
“Aleksandr Friedmann,” (v.2, 699-700), “Charlotte Moore,” (v.3, 1410-1411), and “Allan R.
Sandage” (v.4, 1775-1777), in Noble Twentieth-Century Scientists (Detroit, Michigan:
Gale Publications, 1995).