The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of "Defective" Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures since 1915 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, paperback 1999. http://www.oup-usa.org/docs/0195135393.html

A Calculus of Suffering: Pain, Professionalism, and Anesthesia in Nineteenth-Century America (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985, paperback 1987).

His other publications include:

"Contagion and Culture," American Literary History 14 (Winter 2002), 858-865.

"Taking 'Better Baby' Contests Seriously," American Journal of Public Health May 2002, pp. 707-708.

"The Relationship Between Bioethics and History," in A History of Medical Ethics, eds. Laurence McCullough and Robert Baker (New York: Cambridge University Press, scheduled for 2004).

"Eugenic Euthanasia in Early-Twentieth-Century America and Medically-Assisted Suicide Today," in Law at the End of Life: The Supreme Court and Assisted Suicide, ed. Carl Schneider (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000), pp. 221-38.

"Brain Death in a Cultural Context: The Reconstruction of Death 1967-1981," The Definition of Death, eds. Stuart Youngner, Robert Arnold and Renie Schapiro (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), pp. 3-33.

"Eugenics and Public Health in American History," American Journal of Public Health 87 (November 1997), 1767-1772.

"Defining the Defective: Eugenics, Aesthetics, and Mass Culture in Early 20th-Century America," The Body and Physical Difference: Discourses of Disability, eds. David T. Mitchell and Sharon Snyder (University of Michigan Press, 1997), pp. 89-110.

Revised and reprinted as: "Defining the Defective: Eugenics, Esthetics, and Mass Culture in Early 20th-Century America," in Controlling Our Destinies: Historical, Philosophical and Ethical and Theological Perspectives on the Human Genome Project, ed. Phillip Sloan (Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2000), pp. 187-208.

"U.S. Government Sex Education Films in the 1920s," Isis, Special Issue on Science and Film, 84 (December 1993), 766-68.

"Back from the Grave: Recurring Controversies Over Defining and Diagnosing Death in History," in Death: Beyond Whole-Brain Criteria, Philosophy and Medicine Series (Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988), ed. Richard M. Zaner, pp. 17-74.

"The Patient's Role in Medical Decisionmaking: A Social History of Informed Consent in Medical Therapy," in Making Health Care Decisions: Studies on the Foundations of Informed Consent, President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine, Vol. III (Washington: G.P.O., 1982), pp. 1-35.

"The Ethics of Preventive Medicine: Thomas Edison's Tuberculosis Films: Mass Media and Health Propaganda," Hastings Center Report, 8 (June 1978), 21-27.

"Medical Professionalism," Encyclopedia of Bioethics (New York: The Free Press, 1978), III, 1028-1034.

"Politics, Parties, and Pestilence: Epidemic Yellow Fever in Philadelphia and the Rise of the First Party System," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., XXIX (October 1972), 559-586.

"Politics, Parties, and Pestilence" also revised and reprinted in Sickness and Health in America, 2nd ed (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), edited Judith Leavitt and Ronald Numbers, pp. 356-371. Also in 1st ed.

"Politics, Parties, and Pestilence" also reprinted with a new 3 page Afterword in A Melancholy Scene of Devastation: The Public Response to the 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic, eds. J. Worth Estes and Billy G. Smith (Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 1997) pp. 119-146.

His reference work contributions include:

"Death," Oxford Companion to the Body, ed. Colin Blakemore and Sheila Jennett (London: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 196-97.

"The Black Stork," Encyclopedia of Death and Dying, ed. Robert Kastenbaum (New York: Macmillan, 2002) I: 66-69..

"Medical Films," Censorship: An International Encyclopedia (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001) II: 815-816.

Media Projects:

Misdiagnosis of Death (First Take Productions for The Learning Channel) interviewed about history of fear of premature burial, broadcast April 3, 2001.

ABC 20/20, interviewed about the history of eugenics, broadcast March 22, 2000, correspondent Cynthia MacFadden.

Beyond Affliction (Straight Ahead Productions), 4 hours. Academic advisor and broadcast interviews for series on the historical construction of disabilities, distributed for broadcast by NPR May 1998. Winner of Robert F. Kennedy Foundation Journalism Award 1999.

A Personal Understanding of Death (Sleeping Giant Productions), ten half-hour programs for CBC and PBS television broadcast and distance learning courses. Historical consultant and on-camera interviews, broadcast 1999.

CBS 60 Minutes, interviewed about the history of the meaning of death by Ed Bradley, broadcast April 2, 1995 and December 24, 1995.

The People's Plague: Tuberculosis in America (Florentine Films, 1995), 2 hours. Historical consultant, PBS broadcast October 2, 1995.

Fit: Episodes in the History of the Body (Straight Ahead Films, 1992), 60 minutes broadcast; 72 minutes videotape. Historical consultant. Broadcast syndicated on PBS 1994.

Creator and director, University of Michigan Historical Health Film Collection: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/history/healthfilms/healthfilms.html