Beatrix Hoffman
Department Chair and Associate Professor
Fields of Study: United States-20th Century, Legal/Constitutional/Policy, Medicine and Science, Social Movements
E-mail: beatrix@niu.edu
Phone: 815-753-0858
Office: Zulauf 710
Education: Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1996
Current Research: A history of the right to health care, patients as policy actors
Major/Recent Publications:
- The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America. The University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
- “Restraining the Health Care Consumer: The History of Deductibles and Copayments in U.S. Health Insurance.” Social Science History 30 (4), Winter 2006.
- “Emergency Rooms: The Reluctant Safety Net.” In Rosemary Stevens, Charles Rosenberg, and Lawton R. Burns, eds., History and Health Policy: Bringing the Past Back In. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006.
- “Sympathy and Exclusion: Access to Health Care for Undocumented Immigrants in the United States.” In Keith Wailoo, Julie Livingston, and Peter Garbaccia, eds., A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and the Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
- “Scientific Racism, Insurance, and Opposition to the Welfare State: Frederick L. Hoffman’s Transatlantic Journey.” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2 (April, 2003): 150-190.
- “Health Care Reform and Social Movements in the United States.” American Journal of Public Health 93 (January, 2003): 75-85.
Teaching Interests: U.S. history, history of medicine, politics, social policy, welfare states, research methods
Courses Taught:
- HIST 261 American History Since 1865
- HIST 361 History of Health and Medicine in the U.S.
- HIST 373 History of 20th-Century U.S. Politics
- HIST 491 Senior Thesis
- HIST 510C History of Medicine
- HIST 510C United States Policy History
- HIST 510C State and Society
Interdisciplinary Affiliations:
Affiliate, Women’s Studies Program
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