IsisCB Explore

Article ID: CBB927265261

Making Endemic Goiter an American Disease, 1800–1820 (2021)

Naramore, Sarah E. (Author)

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Volume: 76
Issue: 3
Pages: 239-263

URI: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/8/article/836753

Outside Links

WorldCat

Google Scholar

JSTOR

Academia.edu

In 1800, American physician and naturalist Benjamin Smith Barton (1766–1815) published A Memoir Concerning the Disease of Goitre as it Prevails in Different Parts of North-America. The text documented the nature of the disease in the United States and highlighted how it differed from the ailment’s presentation in European patients. While medical topographies were common during this period, Barton’s goiter research and the steady stream of American goiter research that followed are worth special attention. This body of literature demonstrates how American physicians understood their relationship to transnational medical discussions and the unique perspective they brought to them. Goiter literature was common in European medical and travel writing during this period and intensely focused on the appearance of the disease in the mountains of Switzerland and Northern Italy. American goiter by its very appearance in non-mountainous regions of the United States contradicted nearly all of the received wisdom about the ailment’s cause and potential cure. For two decades, American writers leveraged their own observations and local knowledge to challenge larger narratives in their field.

...More

Citation URI

https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB927265261/

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Book Peard, Julyan G.; (2000)
Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Medicine (/isis/citation/CBB000111796/)

Article Rebelo, Fernanda; (2013)
Entre o Carlo R. e o Orleannais: a saúde pública e a profilaxia marítima no relato de dois casos de navios de imigrantes no porto do Rio de Janeiro, 1893--1907 (/isis/citation/CBB001420664/)

Book Rupke, Nicolaas A.; (2000)
Medical Geography in Historical Perspective (/isis/citation/CBB000110555/)

Article Amaral, Isabel; (2012)
Bactéria ou parasita? a controvérsia sobre a etiologia da doença do sono e a participação portuguesa, 1898--1904 (/isis/citation/CBB001420615/)

Article García, Mónica; (2014)
Typhoid Fever in Nineteenth-Century Colombia: Between Medical Geography and Bacteriology (/isis/citation/CBB001320606/)

Article Edler, Flavio Coelho; (2010)
Pesquisa clínica e experimental no Brasil oitocentista: circulação e controle do conhecimento em helmintologia médica (/isis/citation/CBB001420470/)

Article Mitman, Gregg; Numbers, Ronald L.; (2003)
From Miasma to Asthma: The Changing Fortunes of Medical Geography in America (/isis/citation/CBB000600382/)

Thesis Dorn, Michael Leverett; (2003)
Climate, Alcohol, and the American Body Politic: The Medical and Moral Geographies of Daniel Drake (1785--1852) (/isis/citation/CBB001562228/)

Thesis Elaine Rose LaFay; (2019)
Afflictions of the Tropics' Brink: Medicine, Meteorology, and the Cultivation of Place in the Antebellum Gulf South (/isis/citation/CBB772500784/)

Article Dorn, M. L.; (2000)
(In)temperate zones: Daniel Drake's medico-moral geographies of urban life in the trans-Appalachian American west (/isis/citation/CBB000111773/)

Book Jacques Pépin; (2021)
The Origins of AIDS (/isis/citation/CBB084551418/)

Article Cueto, Marcos; (2003)
Nationalism, Carrión's Disease and Medical Geography in the Peruvian Andes (/isis/citation/CBB000600379/)

Book Haggett, Peter; (2000)
The Geographical Structure of Epidemics (/isis/citation/CBB000650735/)

Article Ewan, Joseph; (1988)
Benjamin Smith Barton's influence on trans-Allegheny natural history (/isis/citation/CBB000041116/)

Article Ewan, Joseph; (1983)
From Calcutta and New Orleans, or, Tales from Barton's greenhouse (/isis/citation/CBB000002277/)

Book Ewan, Joseph; Ewan, Nesta; Hollowell, Victoria C.; Duggan, Eileen P.; Crosby, Marshall R.; (2007)
Benjamin Smith Barton: Naturalist and Physician in Jeffersonian America (/isis/citation/CBB000774294/)

Article Clarke, Brendan; (2014)
Mapping the Methodologies of Burkitt Lymphoma (/isis/citation/CBB001421648/)

Thesis Lee, Der-Shiuan; (2011)
Intermetropolitan Networks of Co-Invention in American Biotechnology (/isis/citation/CBB001567302/)

Book Homei, Aya; Worboys, Michael; (2013)
Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States 1850-2000: Mycoses and Modernity (/isis/citation/CBB001552793/)

Book Shelley Z. Reuter; (2016)
Testing Fate: Tay-Sachs Disease and the Right to Be Responsible (/isis/citation/CBB751314117/)

Comments

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}