Welcome to the UNC Press Virtual Exhibit for the American Association for the History of Medicine
Scroll through our newest releases!
We’re looking forward to meeting you at the conference. However if you’re not traveling this year, we’re bringing our book exhibit to you.
From virtually anywhere, you can browse our list of new and recent titles, learn about new books in our Studies in Social Medicine series, chat with our editor Sandra Korn, and more.
Congratulations to our book award winners!
Both books Shortlisted for the 2026 George Rosen Prize,
American Association for the History of Medicine
All of our books (in fact, our entire site) are available now at our 40 percent AAHM conference discount. Plus if your order totals $75, domestic U.S. shipping is FREE! Just use promo code 01DAH40 at checkout.
Follow the links below for information on submitting a book proposal, ordering desk or examination copies (even free digital exam copies), classroom permissions, disability resources, and more. We’ve even created a handy FAQ document, with answers to the most-asked questions we get at exhibit booths.
Titles on Display
Click on any book below to learn more. And, using our View Inside feature, you can leaf through the pages for a preview of each new book, just as if you were standing at our booth. Check it out on each book page.
Eugenics and the Southern Politics of Welfare
Race, Health, and Disability in Argentine Immigration Policy, 1876–1932
Intercultural Medicine in Modern Mexico
The Surprising History of Contraception and Sexuality in American Religion
A Daughter's Memoir of Caregiving, Grief, and Possibility
Mary Bickerdyke, Civil War–Era Nurse
Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South
Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis
A History of African American Health and Labor
How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign and Changed the Civil War
Sovereign Bodies, Sovereign Spaces
Urban Indigenous Health Activism in the United States and Australia
How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers
America's War on Aging from Valley Forge to Silicon Valley
Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Ripples of Hope in the Mississippi Delta
Charting the Health Equity Policy Agenda
The Life and Death of Ryan White
AIDS and Inequality in America
America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness
The Life and Times of a Remarkable African American Physician
The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman
The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940
A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution
A History of Latin American Social Medicine
Immigration and Health in Rural America
300 Years of Racism, Health Disparities, and Health Care Activism in New Orleans
Citizenship and the Politics of Tuberculosis in Twentieth-Century Cuba
A History of Black Women's Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America
A Path toward Health Justice
Miami and the Making of Modern Medicine
Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools
A Doctor's Notes on Empathy
Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America
Food Shaming and Race in America
Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health
Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care in the Twenty-First Century
An Introduction
A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment
Black Bodies and Black Food in Twentieth-Century America
Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945
How Migration, Health, and Race Intersect in New York City
The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South
An Intimate History of Fatigue
Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions
Christian Science Origins and Experience in American Culture
How the American Child Welfare System Lost Its Way
Patients Talk about Money with Their Doctor
How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media and Culture
The African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS
Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana
Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism
Scientific Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers Abroad, 1898–1948
The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman
An African American Physician, Educator, and Founder of Durham's Black Wall Street
The History of Youth Football and the Origins of a Public Health Crisis
Reproduction on the Reservation
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century
Embedded Corporatism and U.S. Drug Enforcement in the Americas
Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools
Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion?
Paramahansa Yogananda and Modern American Religion in a Global Age
Psychotherapists, Buddhist Traditions, and Defining Religion
Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions
Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture
Globalization and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States and Japan
Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South
America and the Eradication of Smallpox in the Cold War Era
Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840
Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic
The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy
Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study