My Work
Publications
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
"Speaking for the Dead: Forensic Pathologists and Criminal Justice in the United States"
Susan Silbey, ed, Law and Science: Volume I: Epistemological, Evidentiary, and Relational Engagements, London: Ashgate Publishing Group, 2008
"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
"The Impulse to Believe': Scientific Evidence and the "Problem" of the Jury in Historical Perspective"
Focus on Law Studies, American Bar Association Commission on College and University Legal Studies Fall 1995, Volume XI, Number 1, pp 9-11
"'The Impulse to Believe': Science, Juries, and History”
Scientific Evidence Review, Monograph no. 3 (1995), American Bar Association Section on Science and Technology
"Speaking for the Dead: Forensic Pathology and American Justice in the Twentieth Century,"
Science, Technology, and Human Values, 20 (4) Autumn 1995: 438-459
"Speaking for the Dead: Forensic Pathologists and Criminal Justice in the United States"
in Susan Silbey, ed, Law and Science: Volume I: Epistemological, Evidentiary, and Relational Engagements, London: Ashgate Publishing Group, 2008
"Witness for the Prosecution: Science versus Crime in Twentieth-Century America"
Legal Studies Forum XXII (1) January 1998 pp. 183-199
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
Review of "Chinatown"
Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, 2(3) 1994, pp. 56-57
"Who built the Built Environment Artifacts, Politics, and Urban Technology"
Technology and Culture 38(3), July 1997), pp. 690-696
"The Civic Club of Philadelphia" and "The Octavia Hill Association"
in Invisible Philadelphia: Community Through Voluntary Organizations. Philadelphia: The Atwater Kent Museum, 1993
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.