Facets

1961

#1671.4

The story of England’s hospitals.

1964 –2005

#6550.1

A history of the Royal College of Physicians of London. 4 vols. Vols. 1 & 2 by Sir George Norman Clark, vol. 3 by A. M. Cooke, vol. 4 by Asa Briggs.

1967

#10396

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

1971

#10845

La sexualidad femenina. Una investigación estadística.

"Between 1932 and 1961 Serrano Vicéns systematically studied the sexuality of 1417 women who went through his surgery. With that data, he wrote a book entitled "Female sexuality. A statistical investigation " that rem…

1972

#10684

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome VI, 2e partie: Du régime des maladies aiguës, Appendice, De l'aliment, De l'usage des liquides. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises of different periods devoted to nutrition: On regimen in acute diseases (in two versions, with the second traditionally identified as th…

1976

#6551

History of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

1978

#10846

Informe sexual de la mujer española.

1981

#10222

Inside Russian medicine: An American doctor's first-hand report. With research assistance by Nicholas A. Petroff.

A period piece but valuable for its professional assessment of the state of Russian medicine during the period.

1983

#12956

Constantini Liber de coitu: El tratado de andrología de Constantino el Africano. Edited by Enrique Montero Cartelle.

1987

#7665

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

1987

#12957

Liber minor de coitu: Tratado menor de andrología anónimo Salernitano: Edicíon crítica, traducción y notas, by Enrique Montero Cartelle.

1988

#9771

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

1989

#12889

Phossy jaw and the French match workers: Occupational health and women in the Third Republic.

"The 1898 suppression of white phosphorous in the French match industry was a victory of organized labour. At a time when most French workers did not have the power to effect changes in the health and safety condition…

1990

#9764

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

1992

#11054

Courage under siege: Starvation, disease, and death in the Warsaw Ghetto.

1992

#11134

Mission and method: The early-nineteenth-century French public health movement.

1995

#8703

Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: dalla peste europea alla guerra mondiale, 1348-1918.

1996

#9772

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

1996

#10019

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome II, 2ème partie: Airs, eaux, lieux. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna. (Collection des universités de France).

1996

#10120

The health consequences of 'modernisation': Evidence from circumpolar peoples.

"What are the health consequences of switching from an active 'hunter-gatherer' lifestyle to that of sedentary modern living? Here, the impact of 'modernisation' in circumpolar peoples is assessed. The hazards to huma…

1998

#9770

National Health Service: A political history.

Revised second edition, 2002.

1998

#10477

Enlightenment and pathology: Sensibility in the literature and medicine of eighteenth-century France.

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…

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.

2006

#11062

Sex, aging, & death in a medieval medical compendium. Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.52, its texts, language and scribe. Edited by M. Teresa Tavormina.

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.

2008

#10732

La salud y el Estado: El movimiento sanitario internacional y la administración española (1851-1945).

2009

#8973

Vulgariser la medecine: Du style medical en France et en Italie (XVIe et XVIIe siecles). Edited by Andrea Carlino and Michel Jeanneret.

2009

#9258

Food in medieval England: Diet and nutrition. Edited by C. M. Woolgar, D. Serjeantson and T. Waldron.

2009

#10770

Public health and social justice in the age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800–1854.

2010

#8027

Fictions of well-being: Sickly readers and vernacular medical writing in late medieval and early modern Spain. Michael

2010

#8704

Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: Dalla peste nera ai giorni nostri.

2011

#10576

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

2014

#10422

Aphrodisiacs, fertility and medicine in early modern England.

This work "... in its extensive study of gynecological treatises from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, provides an important intervention into assumptions about the subversive quality of aphrodisiacs and abor…

2015

#11442

Salmonella infections, networks of knowledge, and public health in Britain, 1880-1975.

2016

#8106

The smoke of London: Energy and environment in the early modern city.

2016

#8550

Household medicine in seventeenth-century England.

2016

#9257

The culture of food in England 1200-1500.

2017

#11033

Prostitution in the ancient Greek world.

2018

#10476

Suffering scholars: Pathologies of the intellectual in Enlightenment France.