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[[File:Eugenic_Nation.jpg|thumbnail|250px|''Eugenic Nation'' by Alexandra Stein]] This is the Top Ten Social History of American Medicine Booklists. First, why did we leave Paul Starr’s The Social Transformation of American Medicine (Basic Books, 1984) off this Top Ten list? It is perhaps the best known American medical history book, and it is an essential reference. Pretty much anyone who has written about the history of American medicine has cited it. Should you read it? Yes. Check it out or buy it and skim the parts that interest you. It is probably the one book on the list that most historians are aware of and that is why we left it off.
We also left off William Rothstein's American Physicians in the Nineteenth Century: From Sects to Science (Johns Hopkins University Press, reprint edition 1992) and Judith Walzer Leavitt's Brought to Bed: Child-Rearing in America, 1750-1950 (Oxford University Press, 1986) for similar reasons.
Third, these books are in no particularly order. We don't think number 1 is more important or better than number 10.
[[File: Conduct_Unbecoming_a_Woman.jpeg|250px|thumbnail|''Conduct Unbecoming a Woman'' by Regina Morantz-Sanchez|150px]]
#Regina Morantz-Sanchez, ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195139283/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0195139283&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=GODAOEDP77LRZWW2 Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn]'' (Oxford University Press, 2000)
#Leslie Reagan, ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520274571/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0520274571&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=ZJBLI5MMVXW2V7AT Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America]'' (University of California Press 2012)
