Background
Nancy Tomes was born on October 25, 1952, in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
Lexington, KY 40506, United States
The University of Kentucky where Nancy Tomes received a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
The University of Pennsylvania where Nancy Tomes received a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
173 W Lorain St, Oberlin, OH 44074, United States
Oberlin College where Nancy Tomes studied.
Nancy Tomes presenting on the history of women in STEM, in honor of Women's History Month.
President Stanley (far right) with this year’s Distinguished Professors (left to right): Dennis Assanis, Nancy Tomes, Robert Lazrsfeld and Distinguished Service Professor David Bynum.
Nancy Tomes Delivers the 2018 Messiah College American Democracy Lecture.
(Little more than a hundred years ago, ordinary Americans ...)
Little more than a hundred years ago, ordinary Americans had no idea that many deadly ailments were the work of microorganisms, let alone that their own behavior spread such diseases. The Gospel of Germs shows how the revolutionary findings of late nineteenth-century bacteriology made their way from the laboratory to the lavatory and kitchen, with public health reformers spreading the word and women taking up the battle on the domestic front. Drawing on a wealth of advice books, patent applications, advertisements, and oral histories, Tomes traces the new awareness of the microbe as it radiated outward from middle-class homes into the world of American business and crossed the lines of class, gender, ethnicity, and race.
https://www.amazon.com/Gospel-Germs-Women-Microbe-American-dp-0674357078/dp/0674357078/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(Remaking the American Patient explores the consequences o...)
Remaking the American Patient explores the consequences of the consumer economy and American medicine having come of age at exactly the same time. Tracing the robust development of advertising, marketing, and public relations within the medical profession and the vast realm we now think of as "health care," Tomes considers what it means to be a "good" patient. As she shows, this history of the coevolution of medicine and consumer culture tells us much about our current predicament over health care in the United States. Understanding where the shopping model came from, why it was so long resisted in medicine, and why it finally triumphed in the late twentieth century helps explain why, despite striking changes that seem to empower patients, so many Americans remain unhappy and confused about their status as patients today.
https://www.amazon.com/Remaking-American-Patient-Medicine-Consumers/dp/1469622777/?tag=2022091-20
2016
Nancy Tomes was born on October 25, 1952, in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
Nancy Tomes attended Oberlin College from 1970 to 1972. She also studied at the University of Kentucky where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974. She received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978.
Nancy Tomes also received a Postdoctoral Training at the National Institute of Mental Health from 1981 to 1983.
Nancy Tomes started her career as an assistant professor of history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1978. In 1984 she was appointed an associate professor of history and in 1997 she became a professor of history. Since 2015 she worked as a SUNY Distinguished Professor of History. Tomes developed “Medicine and Madison Avenue”, a website in collaboration with Duke University Library’s Special Collections, which explores the complex history of health-related advertising.
Nancy Tomes contributed to the book Friends and Neighbors: Group Life in America's First Plural Society that was published in 1982. She published her first book A Generous Confidence: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Art of Asylum-Keeping, 1840-1883 in 1984. She also wrote such books as The Art of Asylum Keeping: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry, The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life. Her recent book Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers was published in 2016. She also was a contributor to periodicals, including Journal of Social History and Journal of Medical and Allied Science.
(Little more than a hundred years ago, ordinary Americans ...)
1998(Remaking the American Patient explores the consequences o...)
2016Nancy Tomes is a member of the American Association for the History of Medicine, American Historical Association, American Studies Association, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Organization of American Historians.
Nancy Tomes married in 1979.