Emily K. Abel is a historian of medicine and public health. Her book, Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940 (Harvard University Press, 2000), was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 2000. Her two books on the history of tuberculosis in Los Angeles are Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative (Rutgers University Press, 2006) and Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles (Rutgers University Press, 2007), which won the Viseltear Prize of the Medical Section of the American Public Health Association for an outstanding book in the history of public health. Her most recent book is After the Cure: Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors (NYU Press, 1908), co-written with Saskia Subramanian.