Facets

1974

#9411

The physician and sexuality in Victorian America.

1974

#12491

A history of public health in New York City.

1977

#9151

Medicine without doctors: Home health care in American history. Edited by Guenter B. Risse, Ronald L. Numbers, and Judith Walzer Leavitt.

1981

#9674

Making sense of self: Medical advice literature in late nineteenth-century America.

1981

#10329

A century of surgery: The history of the American Surgical Association, 1880-1980. 2 vols.

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.

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

#10105

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

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…

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.

1991

#9673

Enter the physician: The transformation of domestic medicine, 1760-1860.

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…

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.

1999

#9113

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

1999

#13315

Governing the health care state: A comparative study of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany.

"This book represents the first comparative study of how health policy is made in leading industrial nations. Using detailed case histories of the UK, the US and Germany, it shows that health care systems and modern s…

2000

#10516

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

2001 –2008

#7524

An annotated catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater collection of American popular medicine and health reform. 3 vols.

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…

2001

#10799

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

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

#7962

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

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…

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

#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

#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…

2009

#8617

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

2009

#11412

Foul bodies: Cleanliness in early America.

2010

#9670

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

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 …

2012

#7891

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

2012

#9971

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

2013

#10801

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

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 …

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

#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

#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…

2016

#10669

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

2017

#9973

Teeth: The story of beauty, inequality, and the struggle for oral health in America.

2018

#10425

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

2021

#13271

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