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 WomenâÂÂs 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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