Emily K. Abel is a public health and medical historian, author and professor emerita at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health[1] where she was a Professor of Health Services and Women’s Studies.[2]
Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940 (Harvard University Press, 2000), named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 2000 ISBN978-0-674-00314-9
Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative (Rutgers University Press, 2006) ISBN978-0-8135-3901-0
Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles (Rutgers University Press, 2007), won the Viseltear Prize of the Medical Section of the American Public Health Association for an outstanding book in the history of public health ISBN978-0-8135-4175-4
After the Cure: Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors (NYU Press, 2008), co-written with Saskia Subramanian. ISBN978-0-8147-0725-8
Sick and Tired: An Intimate History of Fatigue (University of North Carolina Press, 2021)[5]