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Judith A. Houck

Assistant Professor, Women's Studies, Medical History and Bioethics, and History of Science and the Center for Women's Health and Women's Health Research

Office: 1426 Med Sci Center
1300 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706-1585
Phone: 608-263-6287(office)
608-262-1460 (Hist. Med. Office)
Fax: 608-262-2327
Email: jahouck@wisc.edu
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Special interests and recent research:

Women's health, race and medicine, bodies, sex and sexuality

Recent publications:

  • "How to Treat a Menopausal Woman: A History, 1900-2000," Current Woman's Health Reports 2 (2000): 349-355.
  • "'What Do These Women Want?': Feminist Responses to Feminine Forever, 1963-1980,"Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 77 (2003): 103-132.
  • "Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America," (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006)

Regularly offered courses:

  • 523: The History of Race in American Medicine and Public Health
  • 524: Medical History of Sex and Sexuality
  • 531: Women and Health in American History
  • 532: A History of the Body