American Women's History

     Janet Golden specializes in the history of American Medicine and American Women's History. She is the author of A Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and is the co-editor of Mothers and Motherhood: Readings in American History (Ohio State University Press, 1997).  She has co-authored and co-edited four other books and is the author of numerous articles, most recently "'An Argument that Goes Back to the Womb:' The Demedicalization of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, 1973-1992," Journal of Social History (forthcoming); "'I Can Make You a New Man:' The Health Advice of Charles Atlas," with Elizabeth Toon Rethinking History (forthcoming) and,"The Politics of Paternity: Fetal Risks and Reproductive Responsibilities," with Cynthia Daniels Current Legal Issues: Law and Medicine (forthcoming). 

      Dr. Golden received a Fellowship for College Teachers from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a Research Grant from the National Institutes of Health for her current project, a cultural history of fetal alcohol syndrome.  She is also working, with Elizabeth Toon, on a study of strongman Charles Atlas, and she writes occasionally about medical photographs and about commodification and biomedicine.  She co-edits the Women and Health book series at Ohio State University Press and is currently serving as director of the Graduate Program in History.  Among the graduate courses she has taught are: Colloquium on Women, Problems and Directed Readings in U.S. History I and II, and the Writing Seminar.