Facets

2000

#7976

A population history of the United States. Edited by Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel.

From Pre-Columbian times to the present.

2001

#10335

Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle cell anemia and the politics of race and health.

"Set in Memphis, home of one of the nation's first sickle cell clinics, Dying in the City of the Blues reveals how the recognition, treatment, social understanding, and symbolism of the disease evolved in the twentiet…

2002

#9624

Working cures: Healing, health, and power on Southern slave plantations.

2002

#13127

Biologists and the promise of American life: From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey.

2006

#7962

The Humboldt current: Nineteenth-century exploration and the roots of American environmentalism.

2006

#8090

Birthing a slave: Motherhood and medicine in the Antebellum South.

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”…

2008

#10798

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

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

#9670

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

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.

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.

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.

2015

#10442

The butterflies of North America: Titian Peale's lost manuscript. Foreward by Ellen V. Futter. Preface and scientific captions by David A. Grimaldi. Introduction by Kenneth Haltman.

2016

#10421

Vanishing America: Species extinction racial peril, and the origins of conservation.

"Nineteenth-century citizens of European descent widely believed that Native Americans would eventually vanish from the continent. Indian society was thought to be tied to the wilderness, and the manifest destiny of U…

2018

#10425

Belonging on an island: Birds, extinction, and evolution in Hawai'i.

2018

#10525

The medical imagination: Literature and health in the early United States.

"... During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, doctors understood the imagination to be directly connected to health, intimately involved in healing, and central to medical discovery. In fact, for physicians and…

2018

#10755

To raise up the man farthest down: Tuskegee University's advancements in human health, 1881-1987.