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Emily Abel

b. 1942

Public health and medical historian

Medical historianHistorian University teacher
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About Emily Abel

Born 1942. Emily Abel is a medical historian, historian and university teacher.

Emily K. Abel is a public health and medical historian, author and professor emerita at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health where she was a Professor of Health Services and Women’s Studies.

Abel earned a B.A. from Swarthmore College, M.A. in history from Columbia University, her Ph.D. in history from the University of London, and her M.P.H. from the UCLA School of Public Health.

Publications Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940 (Harvard University Press, 2000) Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 2000 Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative (Rutgers University Press, 2006) Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles (Rutgers University Press, 2007) Won the Viseltear Prize of the Medical Section of the American Public Health Association for an outstanding book in the history of public health. After the Cure: Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors (NYU Press, 2008), co-written with Saskia Subramanian. The Inevitable Hour: A History of Caring for Dying Patients in America (Johns Hopskins University Press, 2013) Prelude to Hospice: Florence Wald, Dying People, and Their Families (Rutgers University Press, 2018) Sick and Tired: An Intimate History of Fatigue (University of North Carolina Press, 2021)

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Medical historian, historian, university teacher
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University of London

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public health and medical historian

When was Emily Abel born?

Emily Abel was born on 13 September 1942.

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Emily Abel is a medical historian, historian and university teacher.

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