Ph.D. Harvard University
Academic Affiliation: Professor, Herbert H. Lehman
Office phone: 718-960-7243
E-Mail: Eackerman7@att.net

Modern French History, History of Medicine

Selected Publications

Health Care in the Parisian Countryside, 1800-1914.  (New Brunswick and London:  Rutgers University Press, 1990).

Village on the Seine:  Tradition and Change in Bonnieres, 1815-1914. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1978).

Articles, Reviews, Essays:

"Waldemar Haffkine, Medical Science, and Jewish Idealism," Occasional Papers in Jewish History and Thought, no. 32, Hunter College, 2007.

"The Introduction of Surgery in a Hospital in Tonkin in 1906," in Les Nouvelles Pratiques de santé: Acteurs, objets, logiques sociales (XVIIIe-XXe siècles). ed. Patrice Bourdelais and Olivier Faure. (Paris: Belin, 2005), 89-102.

"The Intellectual Odyssey of a French Colonial Physician: Jules Regnault and Far Eastern Medicine," French Historical Studies, 91, (fall 1996):1083-1102.

"The Activities of a Country Doctor in New York State:  Dr.Elias Cornelius of Somers, 1794-1830."  In La Medicalisation de la societe francaise, 1770-1830.  (ed. Jean-Pierre Goubert. Waterloo, Ontario:  Historical Reflections Press, 1982).  My chapter in the above book also appeared as an article in Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques  Sept. 1982):  pp. l8l-193.

"Use by Patients of a French Provincial Hospital, 1895- 1923." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 54 (1980): 188- 203. (with the assistance of Enid A. Lang, M.D.).

"Chanzeaux at the Turn of the Century."  Chapter 3 in Laurence Wylie, ed., Chanzeaux: A Village in Anjou (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard Univ. Press, 1966), pp. 60-71. This book was translated into French and published as Chanzeaux, village d'Anjou by Gallimard in 1970; my pages in the French edition are 86-100).

Works in Progress:

French Medicine in Indochina, 1860-1931.