Her professional interests range across the history of disease, public health, gender and medicine, nursing, and alternative medicine in 19th- and 20th-century America. Her forthcoming publications include: a book tentatively titled Healer from the Outback: Sister Elizabeth Kenny, Polio and American Medicine, 1940-1952; a study of American radical health movements in the 1960s; and a study of American homeopathy in the 20th century.