Facets

1833

#10389

The manufacturing population of England, its moral, social, and physical conditions, and the changes which have arisen from the use of steam machinery; with an examination of infant labour.

Gaskell, a physician, addressed social, political and public health problems that resulted from the Industrial Revolution. Gaskell issued a revised edition of this work in 1836 under a different title: Artisans and Ma…

1834

#10394

Jurisprudence de la médecine, de la chirurgie, et de la pharmacie en France, comprenant la médecine légale, la police médicale, la responsabilitié des médecins, chirurgiens, pharmaciens, etc, l'exposé et la discussion des lois, ordonnances, réglemens et instructions concernant l'art de guérir, appuyé des jugemens des cours et des tribunaux.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1890

#1650

English sanitary institutions, reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations.

Simon "viewed the state as provider of the basic conditions needed for subsistence (without interfering in the iron law of wages) through sanitary reform of the environment, prevention of epidemic diseases, and the re…

1911

#1710

La dépopulation de la France: Ses conséquences, ses causes, mésures à prendre pour la combattre.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1928

#11005

A medical review of Soviet Russia.

Gantt went to Russia in the 1920s with the American Relief Administration, and became a student of Pavlov. Moving to Johns Hopkins in 1929, he founded the Pavlovian Laboratory, and devoted his career to understanding …

1933

#10308

Red medicine: Socialized health in Soviet Russia.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1937

#9832

Socialized medicine in the Soviet Union.

"... Sigerist was influential in the creation of socialized medicine in Canada. He made four trips to Canada in the 1930s and 1940s at the invitation of various medical groups to speak on this topic. Under his influen…

1948

#1669

The dawn of Scottish social welfare. A survey from medieval times to 1863.

1963

#9947

Naissance de la clinique: Une archéologie du regard médical.

Translated into English as The birth of the clinic: An archaeology of medical perception (1973).

1964

#10178

The hospitals, 1800-1948: A study in social administration in England and Wales.

The first comprehensive account of the development of hospitals in England and Wales from the early nineteenth century down to the establishment of the English National Health Service.

1967

#10396

The origins of the National Health Service: The medical services of the New Poor Law, 1834-1871.

1969

#10637

George III and the mad business.

1972

#8805

The trade in lunacy: A study of private madhouses in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

1974

#5019.12

Psychiatry for the poor. 1851 Colney Hatch Asylum: Friem Hospital 1973. A medical and social history.

This is in effect a history of institutional psychiatry in Britain to time of writing.

1976

#8055

The naturalist in Britain: A social history.

1979

#8772

The Monro collection in the Medical Library of the University of Otago: A descriptive catalogue with annotations and introduction

Scottish army surgeon John Monro (1670-1740) initiated a series of events that lead to the establishment of a dynasty which, beginning with his son Alexander Monro, changed the course of medical teaching and learning.…

1981

#6982

Medieval medicus. A social history of Anglo-Norman medicine.

Includes a directory of Anglo-Norman physicians.

1981

#11947

Le milieu médical en France du XIIe au XVe siècle. En annexe, 2e supplément au Dictionnaire d'Ernest Wickersheimer.

1984

#10243

Secret passions, secret remedies: Narcotic drugs in British Society, 1820-1930.

"....The major orientation is to opium, with two chapters on its alkaloid, morphine, occasional references to cocaine, and a mention of heroin. There is an enlightening discussion of reasons for the initial acceptance…

1986

#6551.4

Doctors and medicine in medieval England 1340-1530.

A social, cultural, and intellectual history of medicine and medical practitioners between the Black Death and the foundation of the Royal College of Physicians.

1987

#7665

Death, dissection and the destitute: The politics of the corpse in pre-victorian Britain.

1988

#9771

Problems of health care: The National Health Service before 1957.

1988

#10228

Racial hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis.

1988

#10452

A history of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund 1902-1986.

"The author takes a broad perspective and provides a comparative framework by discussing the changing relationship between the ICRF and the medical profession, government, and other charities, notably the Cancer Resea…

1989

#7668

Health for sale: Quackery in England 1660-1850.

1989

#8678

Doctors under Hitler.

1990

#9764

Politics and public health in revolutionary Russia, 1890-1918.

1993

#8784

The citizen-patient in revolutionary and imperial Paris.

1996

#8052

Health and healing in eighteenth-century Germany.

1996

#9772

Government and health care: The British National Health Service 1958–1979.

1998

#8785

Death of medicine in Nazi Germany: Dermatology under the Swastika. Edited by A. Bernard Ackerman.

1998

#9770

National Health Service: A political history.

Revised second edition, 2002.

1998

#9999

General practice under the National Health Service 1948-1997. Edited by Irvine Loudon, John Horder & Charles Webster.

1999

#10229

The Nazi war on cancer.

2000

#10433

Knowledge and practice in English medicine, 1550–1680.

"The book vividly maps out some central areas: remedies (and how they were made credible), notions of disease, advice on preventive medicine and on healthy living, and how surgeons worked upon the body and their under…

2001

#7776

Bodies politic: Disease, death and doctors in Britain, 1650-1900.

Social history emphasizing the visual depiction of disease, death and doctors.

2001

#8276

Medicine and the German Jews: A history.

2001

#9816

The royal doctors, 1485-1714: Medical personnel at the Tudor and Stuart courts.

"... investigates the influential individuals who attended England's most important patients during a pivotal epoch in the evolution of the state and the medical profession. Over three hundred men [and a handful of wo…

2001

#13979

Deutsche Medizin im Dritten Reich: Karrieren vor und nach 1945.

2002

#8034

Professional and popular medicine in France 1770-1830: The social world of medical practice.

"This is the first comprehensive study on a national scale of the entire range of medical practitioners who flourished in preindustrial and early industrial societies. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, it provides…

2003

#9874

Health, disease and society in Europe, 1500-1800: A source book. Edited by Peter Elmer and Ole Peter Grell.

2004

#7893

Nazi medicine and the Nuremberg trials: From medical war crimes to informed consent.

2004

#9875

The healing arts: Health, disease and society in Europe, 1500-1800. Edited by Peter Elmer

2004

#9876

Health, disease and society in Europe, 1800-1930: A source book. Edited by Deborah Brunton.

2004

#9877

Medicine transformed: Health, disease and society in Europe 1800-1930.

2005

#10166

Exilio y depuración política: En la Facultad de Medicina de San Carlos.

Focuses on the period of the Second Spanish Republic, 1931-1939.

2006

#8035

The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs.

2007

#11464

The great nation in decline: Sex, modernity and health crises in revolutionary France c.1750–1850.

2007

#11465

Hospital politics in seventeenth-century France: The crown, urban elites and the poor.

2007

#13577

Vernacular bodies: The politics of reproduction in Early Modern England.

"Making babies was a mysterious process in 17th-century England. Fissell uses popular sources—songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals—to recover how ordinary men and women understood t…