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.

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.

1967

#10396

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

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.

1990

#9764

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

1996

#9772

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

1998

#9770

National Health Service: A political history.

Revised second edition, 2002.

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…

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…

2008

#9878

The politics of vaccination: Practice and policy in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, 1800-1874.

2011

#10576

Medicine, government, and public health in Philip II's Spain: Shared interests, competing authorities.