Diseased States: Epidemic Control in Britain and the United States by Charles Allan McCoy (review)

Abstract

University at Buffalo, New York, specializing in the history of medicine and early modern European history. Her research emphasizes the history of the body, the history of diseases, and the history of mental health. Her dissertation explores the rise of voluntary public “lunatic” hospitals in eighteenth-century London and the development of proto-psychiatry. She currently teaches at the University of Buffalo and works as the education resource assistant for Dig: A History Podcast.