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Faculty Publications
Author search: Connolly, Cynthia
Connolly, Cynthia, 2018
Connolly, C.A. (2018). Children and drug safety: Balancing risk and protection in twentieth century America, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Connolly, Cynthia, 2018
Connolly, C.A. and Golden J. (2018). “Save 100,000 Babies:” The 1918 Children’s Year and its legacy, American Journal of Public Health 108(7), 902-907.
Connolly, Cynthia, 2017
Finck, K., Schilling Wolfe, D., Christian, C. & Connolly, C.A. (2017). Child welfare and poverty: The American paradox. In John Jackson, (Ed.). Social Policy and Social Justice, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 138-147.
Connolly, Cynthia, 2017
Connolly, C.A. (2017). “Mother: Here’s the Aspirin Tablet that ‘Fits’ Your Child’s Needs:’ Candy aspirin and children, 1947-1960, Nursing History Review 25, 103-116.
Connolly, Cynthia, 2013
Connolly, C.A. (2013). A History of the Commonwealth Fund’s Child Development and Preventive Care Program. New York, NY: The Commonwealth Fund.
Connolly, Cynthia, 2012 Connolly, C.A., Golden, J., & Schneider, B. (2012). “A startling new chemotherapeutic agent:” Pediatric infectious disease and the introduction of sulfonamides at Baltimore’s Sydenham Hospital. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 86, 66-93.
Connolly, Cynthia, 2011 Connolly, C.A. (2011). Classics in pediatrics: Pneumococcic meningitis: Complete recovery of a six month old infant treated with penicillin. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 165, 385-387.
Connolly, Cynthia, 2011 Connolly, C.A. (2011). Historians and health care reform: Avoiding the “Ash heap”. Nursing History Review , 19, 42688.
Connolly, Cynthia, 2011
Connolly, C.A. & Gibson, M.E. (2011). “The ‘White Plague’ and color: Children, race, and tuberculosis in Virginia 1900-1935,” Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 26, 230-238.
Connolly, Cynthia, 2010
D’Antonio, P., Connolly, C.A., Wall, B.M., Whelan, J.C., & Fairman, J. (2010). Histories of nursing: The power and the possibilities. Nursing Outlook, 58, 207-213.
Connolly, Cynthia, 2010 Connolly, C.A. (2010). “I am a trained nurse”: The nursing identity of anarchist and radical Emma Goldman. Nursing History Review , 18, 84-99.
Connolly, Cynthia, 2009 Crnic, M. & Connolly, C.A. (2009). “They can’t help getting well here:” Seaside hospitals for children in the United States, 1872-1917. Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 2, 220-233.
Connolly, Cynthia, 2008
Connolly, C.A. (2008). Saving sickly children: The tuberculosis preventorium in American life, 1909-1970. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Connolly, Cynthia, 1997
Connolly, C.A. & Lynaugh, J. (1997). Fifty years at the Division of Nursing United States Public Health Service. Washington, DC: USPHS Division of Nursing.
