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30 entries match Americas (non-U.S.) [Z01.107] · Public Health [N02.500]
1745
#2094
An essay on the West-India dry-gripes… to which is added, an extraordinary case in physick.
Cadwalader, an American pupil of Cheselden, left a classical account of lead colic and lead palsy. This was later shown by Benjamin Franklin, printer of the above work, to be due to the consumption of Jamaica rum whic…
1759
#1770
Observations on the changes of the air and the concomitant epidemical diseases, in the Island of Barbados.
Hillary included good accounts of lead colic and infective hepatitis, and probably the first description of sprue (celiac disease).
1776
#1601.1
Observations sur les maladies des nègres, leurs causes, leurs traitemens et les moyens de les prévenir.
Study of the health conditions and diseases of black slaves in the Americas. Digital facsimile of the 1776 edition from Google Books at this link. Second edition, expanded to two volumes. Paris: L'Auteur, 1792.
1794
#9989
Hortus Americanus, containing an account of the trees, shrubs, and other vegetable productions of South-America and the West-India islands, and particularly of the island of Jamaica; interspersed with many curious and useful observations, respecting their uses in medicine, diet, and mechanics.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1803
#8025
Practical rules for the management and medical treatment of negro slaves in the sugar colonies
Collins, a British doctor and planter, spent fourteen years in the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent. Written from the utilitarian perspective of a master, this handbook on slave medicine was intended to maximize the …
1807 –1834
#7452
Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du nouveau continent, fait en 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804. 34 vols.
In 1799 Humboldt and Bonpland embarked on a six-year tour of research through South America and Mexico, a trip which would afterwards be called, justifiably, "the scientific discovery of America." The two amassed exha…
1846
#8918
Geological observations on South America. Being the third part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle.
The third and last of Darwin's geological reports on the Beagle voyage. In it he described the pampas, the plateaus and the Andres, showing how they had been gradually pushed up in the way that Charles Lyell surmised …
1861
#8110
De Mexique au point de vue de son influence sur la vie de l'homme.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1864
#8109
Le Mexique et l'Amérique tropicale: climats, hygiène et maladies.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1918
#11014
The medical report of the Rice Expedition to Brazil.
The expedition was led by Alexander H. Rice, Jr., an American physician, geographer, geologist and explorer noted for his expeditions to the Amazon Basin. "As a geographer and explorer Rice specialized in rivers.[1][7…
1938
#12593
A medical survey of the republic of Guatemala, by George Cheever Shattuck. With the collaboration of Joseph C. Bequaert, Margaret M. Hilferty, Jack H. Sandground [and] Samuel Drury Clark.
Organized and directed by the Department of Tropical Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1940
#1664
The development of public health in Canada: a review of the history and organization of public health in the provinces of Canada, with an outline of the present organization of the National Health Section of the Department of Pensions and National Health, Canada. Edited by R. D. Defries.
CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION
1948
#9024
The Pan American Sanitary Bureau: Its origin, developments and achievements, 1902-1944.
1950
#9030
La demogenia Peruana y sus problemas medico-sociales.
1954
#9031
La solidaridad de las Américas ante la salud.
1955
#9027
The Pan American Saintary Bureau: Half a century of health activities 1902-1954.
Digital facsimile from the Pan American Health Organization at this link.
1968
#7836
Medicine in Mexico: From Aztec herbs to betatrons.
In collaboration with Jose Alvarez Amezquita and Miguel E. Bustamante.
1970
#8605
New horizons in health care. Proceedings First International Congress on Group Medicine. Edited by Robert Beamish.
Addresses the goal of "the provision of adequate health care for every citizen."
1971
#10858
The pre-Columbian mind: A study into the aberrant nature of sexual drives, drugs affecting behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America.
1990
#7513
Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.
2001
#10193
Medicine that Walks: Disease, medicine, and Canadian Plains native people, 1880-1940.
"... Lux takes issue with the 'biological invasion' theory of the impact of disease on Plains Aboriginal people. She challenges the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with the diseases brought by Europ…
2007
#7835
Unequal cures: Public health and political change in Bolivia, 1900-1950,
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…
2009
#10443
Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A cultural history of cacao. Edited by Cameron L. McNeil.
2010
#7834
Medicine and politics in colonial Peru: Population growth and the Bourbon reforms.
2010
#8009
Healing the body politic: El Salvador's popular struggle for health rights from civil war to neoliberal peace.
2012
#8093
Making Medicare: New perspectives on the history of Medicare in Canada.
2015
#12130
Medicine on the periphery: Public health in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870-1960.
2016
#10662
Progressive mothers, better babies, race, public health, and the state in Brazil, 1850-1945.
2017
#10666