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History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

Judith A. Houck

Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies, Medical History and Bioethics, and History of Science and the Center for Women's Health and Women's Health Research

Office: 1426 Med Sci Center
1300 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706-1532 U.S.A.
Tel: 608-263-6287
608-262-1460 (Med. Hist. office)
Fax: 608-265-0486
Email: jahouck@wisc.edu
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Special interests and recent research:

Women's health, race and medicine, bodies, sex and sexuality.

Recent publications:

  • "Hot and Bothered" cover imageHot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006).
  • "'What Do These Women Want?' Feminist Responses to Feminine Forever, 1963-1980," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 77 (2003): 103-132.
  • "How to Treat a Menopausal Woman: A History, 1900-2000,"Current Woman's Health Reports 2 (2000): 349-355.

Regularly offered courses:

  • 523: The History of Race in American Medicine and Public Health
  • 524: Medical History of Sex and Sexuality
  • 531: Women and Health in American History
  • 532: A History of the Body
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