Facets

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…

2007

#10371

Race & medicine in nineteenth and early twentieth-century America.

2007

#11303

Inescapable ecologies: A history of environment, disease, and knowledge.

"Among the most far-reaching effects of the modern environmental movement was the widespread acknowledgment that human beings were inescapably part of a larger ecosystem." This book provides a "history of “ecological”…

2007

#13219

Promise on Parnassus: The first century of the UCSF School of Nursing.

History of the School of Nursing at the University of California San Franicsco.

2008

#7929

This republic of suffering: Death and the American Civil War.

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…

2008

#9117

A history of the Pennsylvania Hospital.

2008

#10082

Health transitions in Arctic populations. Edited by T. Kue Young and Peter Bjerregaard.

Concerns indigenous and non-indigenous people in five Arctic regions: Greenland, Northern Canada, Alaska, Arctic Russia, and Northern Fennoscandia (Scandinavia).

2008

#10224

The measure of America: American human development report, 2008-2009.

" the first-ever human development report for a wealthy, developed nation. It introduces the American Human Development Index, which provides a single measure of well-being for all Americans, disaggregated by state an…

2008

#10289

The encyclopedia of Civil War medicine.

2008

#10798

Intensely human: The health of the black soldier in the American Civil War.

2008

#12097

Creek Indian medicine ways. The enduring power of Muskoke religion.

"Called the Mvskoke in their language, the Creek Indians of Oklahoma continue to practice traditional medicine. In Creek Indian Medicine Ways, David Lewis, a full-blood Mvskoke and practicing medicine man, tells about…

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.

2009

#12095

Forgotten voices: Death records of the Yakama, 1888-1964.

"Despite a recent resurgence in studies of death and disease in native peoples of the Western Hemisphere, little work has been done on death and disease in Native Americans during the reservation period of the late 19…

2010

#7584

Seeking the cure: A history of medicine in America.

2010

#7752

Practicing medicine in a black regiment: The Civil War diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts, edited by Richard M. Reid.

Wilder was a Harvard-trained white physician assigned to one of the first African American regiments in the American Civil War.

2010

#8085

Black physicians in the Jim Crow South.

2010

#9002

This birth place of souls: The Civil War nursing diary of Harriet Eaton edited with an introduction by Jane E. Schultz.

2010

#9670

A companion to American environmental history. Edited by Douglas Cazaux Sackman.

2010

#9931

American nursing: A history of knowledge, authority, and the meaning of work.

2010

#10225

The measure of America, 2010-2011: Mapping risks and resilience.

"This fully illustrated report, with over 130 color images, is based on the groundbreaking American Human Development Index, which provides a single measure of the well-being for all Americans, disaggregated by state …

2010

#10342

Shadows in the valley: A cultural history of illness, death, and loss in New England, 1840-1916.

"...The study is organized for the most part around disease categories and the life cycle, so that the cultural framework of people's habits and values often seems secondary. Most of what we learn about illness and de…

2010

#10973

Educating physicians: A call for reform of medical school and residency.

"The current blueprint for medical education in North America was drawn up in 1910 by Abraham Flexner in his report Medical Education in the United States and Canada. The basic features outlined by Flexner remain in p…

2010

#12101

Medicine in the Old West: A history, 1850–1900.

2011

#7805

Knowing nature: Art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840. Edited by Amy R. W. Meyers with the assistance of Lisa L. Ford.

Large format, finely produced with excellent color plates.

2011

#10360

Miraculous plagues: An epidemiology of early New England narrative.

2011

#10904

Emergence of a new pathogenic Ehrlichia species, Wisconsin and Minnesota, 2009.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Pritt, Sloan, Johnson. Discovery of a new species of Ehrlichia, initially denoted as "Wisconsin and Minnesota, 2009," that was not related to E. chaffeensiis or E. ewin…

2012

#7692

Mapping the nation: History and cartography in nineteenth-century America.

Includes medical, statistical cartography.

2012

#7891

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

2012

#8206

Sex, sickness, and slavery: Illness in the antebellum South.

2012

#9971

American canopy: Trees, forests and the making of a nation.

2012

#9977

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 22: Science and medicine. Edited by James G. Thomas, Jr. & Charles Reagan Wilson.

2012

#10290

Lincoln and medicine.

2012

#10586

Doctored: The medicine of photography in nineteenth-century America.

2012

#10915

A new phlebovirus associated with severe febrile illness in Missouri.

Order of authorship in the original paper: McMullan, Folk, Kelly. Discovery of a new Phlebovirus, which the authors name the "Heartland virus" and with high probability that Amblyoma is the tick vector. Digital facsim…

2012

#10932

Leading the way: A history of Johns Hopkins Medicine.

2013

#8001

Licensed to practice: The Supreme Court defines the American medical profession.

History of the 1889 Supreme Court case that legalized the licensing of physicians in the U.S. and the impact of that decision on the subsequent development of this nation's unique medical system.

2013

#9405

The history of American homeopathy: From rational medicine to holistic health care.

2013

#10062

Transforming the culture of dying: The work of the Project on Death in America.

"Over a period of almost 10 years, the work of the Project on Death in America (PDIA) played a formative role in the advancement of end of life care in the United States. The project concerned itself with adults and c…

2013

#10801

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

2013

#12102

Alcohol and opium in the Old West: Use, abuse and influence.

2013

#12141

Cholera in Detroit: A history.

2013

#13284

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Science, governance, and the pursuit of cures

The California Institute for Regenerative medicine was the first state-fund institution that provided stable, in-state funding on a very large scale for biomedical research. "The California Institute for Regenerative …

2013

#13582

Modern colonization by medical intervention: U.S. medicine in Puerto Rico.

2014

#7754

African American medicine in Washington, D.C.: Healing the capital during the Civil War Era.

Concerns the role of African American nurses, doctors and surgeons during the American Civil War.

2014

#7837

Border medicine: A transcultural history of Mexican American curanderismo.

2014

#7889

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