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Barbara L. Ley is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She teaches and conducts research on science and culture, the social dimensions of digital technology, and health and the media. About the Author Available titles in the Critical Issues in Health and Medicine series: Emily K. Abel, Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative Emily K. Abel, Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles Susan M. Chambré, Fighting for Our Lives: New York’s AIDS Community and the Politics of Disease James Colgrove, Gerald Markowitz, and David Rosner, eds., The Contested Boundaries of American Public Health Cynthia A. Connolly, Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909–1970 Edward J. Eckenfels, Doctors Serving People: Restoring Humanism to Medicine through Student Community Service Julie Fairman, Making Room in the Clinic: Nurse Practitioners and the Evolution of Modern Health Care Jill A. Fisher, Medical Research for Hire: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials Gerald N. Grob and Howard H. Goldman, The Dilemma of Federal Mental Health Policy: Radical Reform or Incremental Change? Rebecca M. Kluchin, Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950–1980 Jennifer Lisa Koslow, Cultivating Health: Los Angeles Women and Public Health Reform Bonnie Lefkowitz, Community Health Centers: A Movement and the People Who Made It Happen Ellen Leopold, Under the Radar: Cancer and the Cold War Barbara L. Ley, From Pink to Green: Disease Prevention and the Environmental Breast Cancer Movement David Mechanic, TheTruth about Health Care: Why Reform Is Not Working in America Alyssa Picard, Making the American Mouth: Dentists and Public Health in theTwentieth Century Karen Seccombe and Kim A. Hoffman, Just Don’t Get Sick: Access to Health Care in the Aftermath of Welfare Reform Leo B. Slater, War and Disease: Biomedical Research on Malaria in the Twentieth Century Rosemary A. Stevens, Charles E. Rosenberg, and Lawton R. Burns, eds., History and Health Policy in the United States: Putting the Past Back In ...

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