My Work
History of Medicine
Publications
"Coroners, Corruption, and the Politics of Death: Forensic Pathology in the United States"
Michael Clark and Catherine Crawford, eds. Legal Medicine in History, London: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. 268-289
"William Scott Wadsworth: An Appreciation of an Anomalous Career"
Transactions and Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Series V, Vol. XII, No. 3 (September 1990), pp. 335-346
H-Urban, H-Net Reviews. April, 1997
Review of David Rosner, ed. Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in New York City
Journal of Urban Affairs 18 (3) 1996 pp. 336-338
Review of Laurie Kaye Abraham, Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America
Journal of Urban Affairs 20 (1) 1998: pp. 92-93
Review of David Barnes, The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 51(1) January 1996: 92-93
Projects
Historical Consultant, Coming of Age: The Sexual Awakening of Margaret Mead by Debra Beatriz Blum
New York, St. Martin’s Press, 2017
Historical Consultant, "Antibiotics, The Wonder Drugs"
Modern Marvels, The History Channel
Presentations
"The Social History of Medicine”
Harvard Department of the History and Philosophy of Science Colloquium
"Tools, Toys, and Bodacious Tatas: The Breast in American Culture"
Ob/Gyn Grand Rounds, Mount Auburn Hospital; Mount Auburn Hospital Quarterly Seminar in Ob/Gyn; Mount Auburn Hospital Department of Ob/Gyn Nursing Seminar
"Safeguarding Society: Urbanization and Medical Practice in the United States"
American Association for the History of Medicine Annual Meeting
"Race and Medicine in America"
Mount Auburn Hospital Black History Month Lecture
"The Practice of Ob/Gyn a Century Ago"
Ob/Gyn Grand Rounds, Mount Auburn Hospital
"The Politics of Medicine: The Philadelphia Coroner's Office, 1900-1956,"
Francis C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine, College of Physicians of Philadelphia
"A House Divided: Medical Specialization and the Case of Forensic Pathology"
American Association for the History of Medicine Annual Meeting
"The Dead Cannot Perjure Themselves: Scientific Evidence in the Courts of Law"
Francis C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine, College of Physicians of Philadelphia
The Coroner Lady
Julie Johnson-McGrath, Ph.D.
I offer historical consulting services to writers of fiction and non-fiction on the following topics: forensic science, medicine, science, technology, social and behavioral sciences, popular and material culture.