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301 entries match Social & Political History [K01.850]

1981

#11947

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

1982

#6596.6

The social transformation of American medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry.

1982

#12492

The healthiest city: Milwaukee and the politics of health reform.

1983

#9156

Mental illness and American society, 1875-1940.

1983

#10217

Disease change and the role of medicine: The Navajo experience.

1984

#10105

The AMA and U.S. health policy since 1940.

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…

1985

#10094

The making rehabilitation: A political economy of medical specialization, 1890-1980.

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.

1986

#8213

Ecological imperialism: The biological expansion of Europe, 900-1900.

Revised edition, 2004.

1986

#8647

Health policies, health politics: The British and American experience, 1911-1965.

1986

#8666

Inventing the NIH: Federal biomedical research policy, 1887-1937.

1986

#9785

Masters of madness: Social origins of the American psychiatric profession.

1986

#11123

The impact of illness on world leaders.

1986

#11323

Medicine and American growth, 1800-1860.

"The interconnections between population increase, migration and immigration on the one hand, and disease and the development of medicine on the other in antebellum America are brilliantly presented" (publisher)

1987

#6596.61

The care of strangers: The rise of America’s hospital system.

1987

#6998

And the band played on: Politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic.

Shilts, an investigative journalist, chronicled the discovery and spread of HIV / AIDS with special emphasis on government indifference and political infighting—specifically in the United States—to what was then perce…

1987

#7665

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

1987

#9101

Law, sex and Christian society in medieval Europe.

."...explores the origin and develpment of the Christian church's sex law and the systems of belief upon which that law rested. Focusing on the Church's own legal system of canon law, James A. Brundage offers a compre…

1987

#9883

The making of the modern body: Sexuality and society in the nineteenth century. Edited by Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur.

1987

#10264

Vivisection in historical perspective. Edited by Nicholaas A. Rupke.

1987

#11024

Physiology in the American context, 1850-1940. Edited by Gerald L. Geison.

Traces the development of American physiology in the cultural context of the period. Divided into three parts: social and institutional history; physiology in relation to other fields; and instruments, materials and t…

1987

#12487

No magic bullet: A social history of venereal disease in the United States since 1880.

1988

#7912

SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE. 1-

Contents of the recent issue may be viewed at http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/content/current.

1988

#8788

Ritual healing in suburban America. By Meredith B. McGuire with the assistance of Debra Kantor.

1988

#9771

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

1988

#10029

Managing madness: Psychiatry and society in Australia 1788-1980.

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

#7763

Socioeconomics of surgery.

Probably the first book-form study of these issues.

1989

#8678

Doctors under Hitler.

1989

#8727

Plagues and politics: The story of the United States Public Health Service.

1989

#10079

Chills and fever: Health and disease in the early history of Alaska.

1990

#9764

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

1990

#13555

Sleepless souls: Suicide in early modern England.

"Sleepless Souls is a social and cultural history of suicide in early modern England. It traces the rise and fall of the crime of self-murder and explores why suicide came to be harshly punished in the sixteenth centu…

1991

#9154

From asylum to community: Mental health policy in modern America.

1991

#11165

America's welfare state from Roosevelt to Reagan.

"Social welfare policy in the United States has gone from controversy in the 1930s, to consensus at mid-century, and back to controversy and confusion in the late twentieth century. In America's Welfare State, Edward …

1992

#8005

Enfermedad y sociedad en la crisis colonial del antiguo régimen: Nueva Granada en el tránsito del siglo XVIII al XIX, las epidemias de viruelas.

1992

#8414

The social basis of health and healing in Africa. Edited by Steven Feierman and John M. Janzen.

The essays in this book concern disease, health and healing practices on the African continent. The contributors all emphasize the social conditions linked to ill health and the development of local healing traditions…

1992

#9264

The colonial disease: A social history of sleeping sickness in colonial Zaire, 1900-1940.

1992

#10077

The social ideas of American physicians (1776-1976): Studies of the humanitarian tradition in medicine.

1992

#10400

The code of codes: Scientific and social issues in the human genome project. Edited by Daniel J. Kevles and Leroy Hood.

Chapter 1. "Out of eugenics: The historical politics of the human genome" by D. J. Kevles. Chapter 2. "A history of the science and technology behind gene mapping and sequencing" by Horace Freeland Judson. Chapter 7. …

1993

#8359

Medicine and the Reformation. Edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham.

1993

#8784

The citizen-patient in revolutionary and imperial Paris.

1994

#7239

Jews, medicine and medieval society.

1994

#9742

The health of the presidents: The 41 United States presidents through 1993 from a physician's point of view.

1995

#7029

The facts of life: The creation of sexual knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950.

1995

#7528

Diktatoren im Spiegel der Medizin: Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin.

Translated into English by David J. Parent as Dictators in the Mirror of Medicine: Napoleon, Hitler Stalin (Bloomington, IL: Med-Ed Press, 1995).

1995

#8036

The making of a social disease: Tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France.