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138 entries match United States [Z01.058] · Professions & Education [M01 / N02]
1910
#10399
A history of the medical profession of Southern California with an historical sketch. Second edition. First edition destroyed in Times catastrophe.
Probably the first book on the history of medicine in the State of California. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1912
#10413
Modern methods in nursing.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1914
#10520
Sanitary conditions among the Eskimos: A report on conditions in native villages along the Arctic coast of Alaska. Supplement No. 9 to Public Health Reports, December 12, 1913.
In 1912 the U.S. Public Health Service assigned Dr. Emil Krulish to supervise health care in the Territory of Alaska. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1922
#9933
History of American Red Cross nursing.
By six authors. Also authored by Sarah Elizabeth Pickett, and Anna R. van Meter. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1925
#11007
Beginnings of medical education in and near Chicago: The institutions and the men.
Digital facsimile of separately paginated 144pp. illustrated offprint from the Internet Archive at this link.
1930
#12150
A history of the California Medical Society.
1932
#8074
Medical care for the American people. The final report of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care.
See Gore, "A forgotten landmark medical study from 2932 by the Committee on the Cost of Medical Care," Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2013 Apr; 26 (2): 142–143. Available from PubMedCentral at this link. See also, Ross, "…
1935
#8616
Folk medicine of the Pennsylvania Germans: The non-occult cases.
1944
#1766.605
Medical education in the United States before the Civil War.
Reprint, New York, Arno Press, 1971.
1946
#11725
Western Reserve University centennial history of the School of medicine.
1947
#8644
A history of the American Medical Association 1847 to 1947.
1948 –1963
#10981
The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: A chronicle. 3 vols.
Vol. 1: Early Years 1867-1893; Vol. 2: 1893-1905; Vol. 3: 1905-1914.
1949
#11726
The first medical college in Vermont: Castleton, 1818-1862.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1950
#12323
Memories, men and medicine: A history of medicine in Sacramento, California, with biographies of the founders of the Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement and a few contemporaries, illustrated with views of Sacramento and some important characters.
Covers from the California Gold Rush to 1949.
1958
#12151
History of the San Francisco Medical Society. Vol. I, 1850 to 1900.
1964
#12153
History of the Medical Society of the State of California.
Digital facsimile from ssvms.org at this link.
1965
#10991
Two centuries of medicine. A History of the School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
1968
#9157
The formation of the American medical profession: The role of institutions, 1780-1860.
1972
#10432
American physicians in the nineteenth century: From sects to science.
1973
#3705.04
A bibliography of dentistry in America, 1790-1840.
Covers monographs and periodical literature.
1974
#10982
Heritage of excellence: The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions 1914-1947.
1977
#9151
Medicine without doctors: Home health care in American history. Edited by Guenter B. Risse, Ronald L. Numbers, and Judith Walzer Leavitt.
1977
#10956
Medicine at Harvard: The first three hundred years.
1977
#12609
Standard history of the medical profession of Philadelphia by Burton A. Konkle, with the collaboration of James M. Anders ... [et al.] ; edited by Frederick P. Henry. Revised by Lisabeth M. Holloway, with an index and bibliography.
1980
#8999
Civil war nurse: The diary and letters of Hannah Ropes. Edited with an introduction and commentary by John R. Brumgardt.
1981
#8668
Science at the beside: Clinical research in American medicine 1905-1945.
Definitive account of the development of academic medicine and clinical research in America during the period covered.
1981
#9674
Making sense of self: Medical advice literature in late nineteenth-century America.
1982
#6596.6
The social transformation of American medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry.
1983
#8082
Educating black doctors: A history of Meharry Medical College.
1983
#10407
Changes in the land: Indians, colonists and the ecology of New England.
"In this work, Cronon demonstrated the impact on the land of the widely disparate conceptions of ownership held by Native Americans and English colonists. English law objectified land, making it an object of which the…
1984
#10298
Medical education in Mississippi: A history of the School of Medicine.
1984
#10988
The American Clinical and Climatological Association: 1884-1984.
1986
#10986
The Association of American Physicians, 1886-1986: A century of progress in medical science.
"The Association of American Physicians is a nonprofit, professional organization founded in 1885 by seven physicians, including Dr. William Osler and Dr. William Henry Welch, for “the advancement of scientific and pr…
1986
#10987
"For the welfare of mankind": The Commonwealth Fund and American medicine.
1987
#8601
Ordered to care: The dilemma of American nursing, 1850-1945.
1987
#10431
American medical schools and the practice of medicine: A history.
1989
#8667
A model of its kind. Vol. 1: A centennial history of medicine at Johns Hopkins. Vol. 2: A pictorial history of medicine at Johns Hopkins.
1990
#10985
Osler's legacy: The department of medicine at Johns Hopkins 1889-1989.
1991
#9673
Enter the physician: The transformation of domestic medicine, 1760-1860.
1991
#10983
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins Hospital: The first 100 years. Edited by John A.Rock, Timothy R.B. Johnson, J. Donald Woodruff.
1994
#9409
Medical protestants: The Eclectics in American medicine, 1825-1939.
The first modern history of the Eclectic school of American sectarian medicine. "The Eclectic school (sometimes called the "American School") flourished in the mid-nineteenth century when the art and science of medici…
1994
#10084
The health of Native Americans: Towards a biocultural epidemiology.
1994
#10090
Secret doctors: Ethnomedicine of African Americans.
"Based on an ethnographic study of the traditional medicine of African Americans in the rural southern United States, this work concentrates on the original Louisiana Territory, with its Native and African American in…
1994
#11785
Medical lives and scientific medicine at Michigan, 1891-1969. Edited by Joel D. Howell.
1997
#9407
Kindly medicine: Physio-medicalism in America, 1836-1911.
"Between 1836 and 1911, thirteen physio-medical colleges opened, and then closed, their doors. These authentic American schools, founded on a philosophy of so-called Physio-Medicalism, substituted botanical medicines …
1998
#9642
"Every man his own doctor." Popular medicine in early America: An exhibition drawn from the collections of Charles E. Rosenberg, William H. Helfand and the Library Company of Philadelphia.
1998
#10182
The land of prehistory: A critical history of American anthropology.
1998
#10332
An alternative Path: The making and remaking of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital.
"When Hahnemann Medical College was founded in Philadelphia in 1848, it was the only institution in the world to offer an M. D. degree in homeopathy, a therapeutic and intellectual alternative to orthodox medicine. Th…
1999
#10053
The black stork: Eugenics and the death of "defective" babies in American medicine and motion pictures since 1915.
1999
#10977