20th century United States History; Gender and Sexuality; Medicine, Disability and Science; Social and Cultural History
Post-45 U.S. History
Alcohol & Other Drugs in American History
Health and Illness in American History
Medicines & Drugs; Popular Culture
History of prescription drug abuse; 20th century pharmaceuticals and the consumer culture.
Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
"Entitled to Addiction? Race and Pharmaceuticals in America's First Drug War," Bulletin of the History of Medicine (forthcoming, Fall 2017)
with Nancy Campbell, "Gender and Criticl Drug Studies: An Introduction and an Invitation," Contemporary Drug Problems (Fall 2017)
“Busted for Blockbusters: ‘Scrip Mills’ and Prescribing Power in the 1970s,” in Jeremy Greene and Elizabeth Segal Watkins, eds., Prescribed: Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the Prescription in Modern America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)