Facets

1789 –1793

#80

Medical inquiries and observations. 2 vols.

Rush was considered the ablest American clinician of his time. He was a friend of Benjamin Franklin and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. His many writings are distinguished for their classical st…

1838

#10402

Botica general de los remedios esperimentados. Que á beneficio del público se reimprime por su original en Cadiz, en Sonoma, de la alta California: Por M. G. V.

The first medical book printed in California, a small 23-page pamphlet of folk or popular medicine. It was printed by Agustín V. Zamorano, the first printer in Alta California under Mexican rule before the region beca…

1855

#5454.2

Yellow fever, considered in its historical, pathological, etiological, and therapeutical relations: including a sketch of the disease as it has occurred in Philadelphia from 1699 to 1854, with an examination of the connections between it and the fevers known under the same name in other parts of temperate, as well as in tropical, regions. 2 vols.

The most important 19th century American monograph on yellow fever. La Roche’s work sketched the disease in its appearances from 1699 to 1854 at Philadelphia, which saw some of the worst yellow fever epidemics, and pr…

1905

#8689

History of the Philadelphia almshouses and hospitals from the beginning of the eighteenth to the ending of the nineteenth centuries, covering a period of nearly two hundred years. showing the mode of distributing public relief through the management of the Boards of Overseers of the Poor, Guardians of the Poor and the Directors of the Department of Charities and Correction.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1951

#1671

The United States Public Health Service, 1798-1950.

1957

#8669

Industrial medicine in western Pennsylvania, 1850-1950.

Probably the first history of occupational medicine in any part of the United States. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1959

#13800

Public health in the town of Boston, 1630-1822.

1962

#2137.02

Occupational health in America.

Written under the auspices of the Industrial Medical Association, this history emphasizes 20th century achievements.

1962

#7927

The cholera years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866.

Edition with new Afterword published in 1987.

1972

#2199.1

The angel of Bethesda [1724] edited, with introduction and notes by Gordon W. Jones.

The only large systematic compilation of medical knowledge prepared in the Thirteen Colonies before the American revolution. The manuscript, which Mather finished in 1724, remained unpublished in the American Antiquar…

1972

#12490

Public health and the state: Changing views in Massachusetts, 1842-1936.

1973

#8902

The American disease: Origins of narcotic control.

Third expanded edition (1999). "Supporting the theory that Americans' attitudes toward drugs have followed a cyclic pattern of tolerance and restraint, author David F. Musto examines the relations between public outcr…

1974

#9411

The physician and sexuality in Victorian America.

1974

#12491

A history of public health in New York City.

1976

#6596.3

Two centuries of American medicine 1776-1976.

A valuable supplement to Packard (No. 6590), besides covering the main events in American medicine.

1982

#6596.6

The social transformation of American medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry.

1982

#12492

The healthiest city: Milwaukee and the politics of health reform.

1984

#10105

The AMA and U.S. health policy since 1940.

1987

#11009

Disease and discovery: A history of the Johns Hopkins School Hygiene & Public Health 1916-1939.

1988

#7077

Intimate matters. A history of sexuality in America.

The first history of sexuality in America.

1989

#8727

Plagues and politics: The story of the United States Public Health Service.

1992

#13297

Miners and medicine: West Virginia memories.

"The coal-company doctors of Appalachia fought the health hazards of the coal fields, arguably the most dangerous and diseased working environment of the modern world. Often the doctors were held accountable for evils…

1997

#10361

Subjected to science: Human experimentation in America before the Second World War.

1999

#9113

The gospel of germs: Men, women, and the microbe in American life.

2000

#10516

The sanitary city: Urban infrastructure in America from colonial times to the present.

2001

#10799

Malaria: Poverty, race, and public health in the United States.

2002

#8384

A traffic of dead bodies: Anatomy and embodied social identity in nineteenth century America.

2002

#8663

New Deal medicine: The rural health programs of the Farm Security Administration.

"Drawing on oral histories, archival records, and medical journals from the 1930s and 1940s, Grey finds the programs were both a rehearsal for more modern forms of medical organization and a lightning rod for critics …

2002

#8903

Drugs in America: A historical reader. [Compiled by] David F. Musto.

2006

#7176

Man, medicine, and the state: The human body as an object of government sponsored medical research in the 20th century, edited by Wolfgang U. Eckart.

Chapters on controversial government experimental programs in Senegal, in Germany under the Nazi regime, including in concentration camps and in aerospace research, and also the Tuskegee syphilis experiment in Tuskege…

2006

#9749

Death rode the rails: American railroad accidents and safety 1828-1965.

2006

#10148

A century of adventure in northern health: The Public Health Service Commissioned Corps in Alaska, 1879-1978.

2006

#13702

Fit to be citizens? Public health and race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939.

2007

#9759

Government and public health in America.

"How involved should the government be in American healthcare? Ronald Hamowy argues that to answer this pressing question, we must understand the genesis of the five main federal agencies charged with responsibility f…

2008

#8080

National health insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, territory, and the roots of difference.

Explores why two countries that were very similar in many ways, struck out on radically divergent paths to public health insurance. Canada developed a universal single-payer system of national health care, while the U…

2009

#7205

Picturing medical progress from Pasteur to polio: A history of mass media images and popular attitudes in America.

2009

#7567

Dissection: Photographs of a rite of passage in American medicine 1880-1930.

2009

#8617

Health and medicine on display: International expositions in the United States, 1876-1904.

2009

#11412

Foul bodies: Cleanliness in early America.

2012

#7891

Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown.

2013

#10801

Marrow of tragedy: The health crisis of the American Civil War.

2014

#7889

The Oxford encyclopedia of the history of American science, medicine, and technology. Edited by Hugh Richard Slotten.

2014

#10542

Female circumcision and clitoridectomy in the United States: A history of a medical treatment.

"From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, American physicians treated women and girls for masturbation by removing the clitoris (clitoridectomy) or clitoral hood (female circumcision). Durin…

2015

#7854

Health care in America: A history.

2015

#9859

Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South.

"The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878--a disaster that caused 20,000 deaths and financial losses of nearly $200 mill…

2016

#9114

Remaking the American patient: How Madison Avenue and modern medicine turned patients into consumers.

"In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explo…

2016

#10667

Fixing medical prices: How physicians are paid.

2016

#10669

Public opinion, public policy, and smoking: The transformation of American attitudes and cigarette use.

2021

#13271

Strong hearts and healing hands: Southern California Indians and field nurses, 1920-1950.