Facets

1723

#1689

A letter … containing, a comparison between the mortality of the natural small pox, and that given by inoculation.

Jurin was an enthusiastic supporter of inoculation against smallpox, and proved statistically that the fatality of inoculated smallpox is very much less than the fatality of natural smallpox. This is one of the earlie…

1775

#2155

Plain, concise, practical remarks, on the treatment of wounds and fractures; to which is added an appendix, on camp and military hospitals; principally designed for the use of young military surgeons in North America.

The first surgical work written by an American and printed in North America. Jones’s work was the accepted guide to surgical practice during the American Revolutionary War.

1778

#2157

Directions for preserving the health of soldiers: recommended to the consideration of the officers of the Army of the United States. Published by order of the Board of War.

A reprint from the Philadelphia Packet, No. 284. The pamphlet was reprinted by the Massachusetts Temperance Alliance in Boston, 1865, for distribution to the Union soldiers.

1779 –1827

#1599

System einer vollständigen medicinischen Polizey. 9 vols.

The first systematic treatise on public hygiene. Frank believed the ruler of a state should stand in the relation of a father to his children, among his duties being the safeguarding of the people’s health and the pre…

1789 –1793

#80

Medical inquiries and observations. 2 vols.

Rush was considered the ablest American clinician of his time. He was a friend of Benjamin Franklin and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. His many writings are distinguished for their classical st…

1809

#1603

A treatise on medical police, and on diet, regimen, &c. In which the permanent and regularly recurring causes of disease in general, and those of Edinburgh and London in particular, are described; with a general plan of medical police to obviate them, and a particular one adapted to the local circumstances of these cities. 2 vols.

First notable work on the subject in English. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1823

#6584.9

A military journal during the American Revolutionary War, from 1775-1783…

The first American medical historian, Thacher gave the best contemporary account of medicine during the Revolutionary War, as well as an important history of the war in general. See No. 6710.

1828

#6710

American medical biography. 2 vols.

Thacher was the first American medical historian. The above biography is a valuable source of information on the early medical history of the United States. Reprinted, New York, Da Capo Press, 1967.

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.

1837

#11813

Histoire statistique et morale des enfants trouvés.

A thorough analysis of the problem of foundling children from a social, medical, legal and historical standpoint. The work begins with a history of the treatment of abandoned children from antiquity to the time of wri…

1848

#12083

Mittheilungen über die in Oberschlesien herrschende Typhus-Epidemie.

Virchow was one of the first to identify medicine as a social science. He developed a theory of epidemics that emphasized the social circumstances permitting spread of illness. This approach has been called sociologic…

1850

#10295

An historical sketch of the state of medicine in the American Colonies, from their first settlement to the period of the Revolution.

A pioneering historical interpretation of the development of medicine in the 13 colonies up to the American Revolution. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. This is the second, significantly expan…

1868

#5376

Ueber den Hungertyphus und einige verwandte Krankheitsformen.

Virchow was instrumental in introducing into Germany an epidemiology based on the study of multiple factors – sociological as well as bacteriological. In the above report on the reappearance of typhus in Berlin and Ea…

1873 –1881

#173

Descriptive sociology: A cyclopaedia of facts; representing the constitution of every type and grade of human society, past and present, stationary and progressive; classified and tabulated for easy comparison and convenient study of the relations of social phenomena. 8 pts.

Spencer founded and edited this series.

1873

#11388

Letter of Johns Hopkins to the trustees of "The Johns Hopkins Hospital".

The letter published in this 12-page pamphlet was dated March 10th, 1873. It outlined financier and philanthropist Johns Hopkins' planned bequest and general plans for the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Hopkins died in Decem…

1874

#6585

Contributions to the annals of medical progress and medical education in the United States before and during the War of Independence.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1879

#12084

Gesammelte Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der öffentlichen Medicin und der Seuchenlehre. 2 vols.

Virchow "articulated that the moral goal of the political role of medicine was to become an active agent in eliminating social inequality" (Dorothy Porter, Doctors, the state and the ethics of political medical practi…

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…

1902

#2129

Dangerous trades: the historical, social, and legal aspects of industrial occupations as affecting health, by a number of experts.

A collective work edited by Oliver. Digital fascimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1902

#12082

Essays in medical sociology. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1906

#7051

The health and physique of the Negro American: report of a social study made under the direction of Atlanta University: together with the Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, on May the 29th, 1906.

Probably the earliest sociological study of the medical problems of blacks written by a black. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1908

#10392

Diseases of occupation from the legislative, social, and medical points of view.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1909

#8797

Zulu medicine and medicine-men.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1909

#12081

Medical sociology: A series of observations touching upon the sociology of health and the relations of medicine to society.

The first American book specifically on the topic of medical sociology. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

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.

1923

#6456

The medicine man: A sociological study of the character and evolution of shamanism.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1928

#6643

The quacks of old London.

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 …

1930 –1933

#6588

Medicine in Virginia in the seventeenth (eighteenth, nineteenth) century. 3 vols.

1930

#11324

The infant welfare movement in the eighteenth century.

1931

#9213

Medical men in the American Revolution 1775-1783.

Digital edition from U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.

1932

#351

The social life of monkeys and apes.

A study of the relationship of Man to the other primates, from the physiological and biochemical standpoint. Zuckerman’s work is considered the first adequate interpretation of simian society. 2nd ed., 1980.

1932

#8074

Medical care for the American people. The final report of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care.

See Gore, "A forgotten landmark medical study from 2932 by the Committee on the Cost of Medical Care," Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2013 Apr; 26 (2): 142–143. Available from PubMedCentral at this link. See also, Ross, "…

1933

#8075

The costs of medical care: A summary of investigations on the economic aspects of the prevention and care of illness.

1933

#10308

Red medicine: Socialized health in Soviet Russia.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1934

#7700

Who shall survive? A new approach to the problem of human interrelations.

Moreno founded psychodrama, and pioneered group psychotherapy. Apart from its psychiatric and sociological significance, this work contained some of the earliest graphic depictions of social networks— data visualizati…

1936

#6433

The development of modern medicine, an interpretation of the social and scientific factors involved.

Shryock was one of the historians who founded and shaped the technique of writing the social history of medicine. This was his most influential work. Revised edition, 1947, translated into French, German and Japanese.

1937

#8594

Dr. Bodo Otto and the medical background of the American revolution by James E. Gibson.

Oddo, born in Germany, is one of the better-known American surgeons in the American revolutionary war; however he published nothing and is primarily known from this biography.

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…

1939

#8120

The social function of science.

This pioneering sociological study contained two large folding information graphics. The first was one of the first attempts at a "map of science." It divided science into physical, biological, and social sectors, and…

1943

#2136

The history of miners’ diseases. A medical and social interpretation.

1943

#8762

Civilization and disease.

Study of the effect of disease on economics, law, religion and science.

1944

#8385

An American dilemma: The Negro problem and modern democracy. By Gunnar Myrdal with the assistance of Richard Sterner and Arnold Rose.

Includes considerable anthropological, biological, and health data. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1946

#8741

The midwest pioneer: His ills, cures, & doctors.

The first general history of frontier or pioneer medicine in America, covering mainly the first half of the 19th century, and including many folk medicine treatments. First published privately in Crawfordsville, India…

1947

#6595

American medical research, past and present.

1948

#1669

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

1949

#6596

Aesculapius comes to the Colonies. The story of the early days of medicine in the thirteen original colonies.

1951

#8202

Genesis and geology: A study in the relations of scientific thought, natural theology, and social opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850.

New edition, with a foreward by Nicolaas A. Rupke and a new preface by the author (1996).

1951

#13175

The social system.

The first treatise on sociological theory that included an analysis of the function of medicine in society.