Facets

1995

#8058

International health organisations and movements, 1918-1939. Edited by Paul Weindling.

1995

#8103

Disease and class: Tuberculosis and the shaping of modern North American society.

1995

#9102

The meanings of sex difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, science, and culture.

"...explores the ways in which scientific ideas about sex differences in the later Middle Ages participated in the broader cultural assumptions about gender. Professor Cadden discusses how medieval natural philosophic…

1995

#9681

Picturing health and illness: Images of identity and difference.

1995

#10083

Aboriginal health in Canada: Historical, cultural, and epidemiological perspectives.

Revised second edition, same publisher, 2006.

1995

#12022

The making of man-midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660-1770.

"In England in the seventeenth century, childbirth was the province of women. The midwife ran the birth, helped by female "gossips"; men, including the doctors of the day, were excluded both from the delivery and from…

1995

#13681

Power and illness. The failure of American health policy.

1996

#8052

Health and healing in eighteenth-century Germany.

1996

#9201

The microscope in the Dutch Republic: The shaping of discovery.

Focusing on Jan Swammerdam and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the author demonstrates that their uneasiness with their social circumstances spurred their discoveries. Ruestow argues that while aspects of Dutch culture impede…

1996

#9772

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

1997

#7069

The greatest benefit to mankind. A medical history of humanity.

1997

#7370

Scientists and the sea 1650-1900. A study of marine science.

1997

#8273

Health and disease in the Holy Land: Studies in the history and sociology of medicine from ancient times to the present, edited by Manfred Waserman and Samuel S. Kotteck.

1997

#10030

Sex, disease, and society: A comparative history of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Scott Bamber and Michael Waugh.

1998

#8646

When abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973.

1998

#8785

Death of medicine in Nazi Germany: Dermatology under the Swastika. Edited by A. Bernard Ackerman.

1998

#9682

Creating beauty to cure the soul: Race and psychology in the shaping of aesthetic surgery.

1998

#9770

National Health Service: A political history.

Revised second edition, 2002.

1998

#9901

Santé et société esclavagiste à la Martinique.

1998

#9999

General practice under the National Health Service 1948-1997. Edited by Irvine Loudon, John Horder & Charles Webster.

1998

#10806

Medicine and the American Revolution: How diseases and their treatments affected the colonial army.

1998

#11164

To improve human health. A history of the Institute of Medicine.

Digital edition available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK230742/ .

1999

#7616

Health, civilization and the state: A history of public health from ancient to modern times.

1999

#8053

Medicine and society in early modern Europe.

Second edition, 2010.

1999

#8069

An American Obsession: Science, medicine, and homosexuality in modern society.

1999

#8078

... And the pursuit of national health: The incremental strategy toward national health insurance in the United States of America.

1999

#9113

The gospel of germs: Men, women, and the microbe in American life.

1999

#9761

Epidemics and history: Disease, power and imperialism.

1999

#10031

Histories of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Philip W, Setel, Milton J. Lewis, and Maryinez Lyons.

1999

#10229

The Nazi war on cancer.

1999

#10429

Conduct unbecoming a woman: Medicine on trial in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn.

"In the spring of 1889, Brooklyn's premier newspaper, the Daily Eagle, printed a series of articles that detailed a history of midnight hearses and botched operations performed by a scalpel-eager female surgeon named …

1999

#11166

The Medical Follow-up Agency: The first fifty years 1946–1996.

"The Medical Follow-up Agency is a national treasure for veterans and for long-term studies of health. Its data resources provide incomparable opportunities to follow very important populations and to ask creative que…

1999

#13585

Sexual cultures in Europe: National histories.

"... brings together for the first time studies of the sexual cultures of all the major European countries--including France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Spain, Britain and the Netherlands--to focus on their commonalities…

2000

#8061

Epidemics and genocide in Eastern Europe, 1890-1945.

2000 –2002

#8081

An American health dilemma: A medical history of African Americans and the problem of race. Vol. 1: Beginnings to 1900. Vol. 2: Race, medicine and health care in the United States 1900-2000.

2000

#8102

Brush with death: A social history of lead poisoning.

2000

#10433

Knowledge and practice in English medicine, 1550–1680.

"The book vividly maps out some central areas: remedies (and how they were made credible), notions of disease, advice on preventive medicine and on healthy living, and how surgeons worked upon the body and their under…

2001

#7776

Bodies politic: Disease, death and doctors in Britain, 1650-1900.

Social history emphasizing the visual depiction of disease, death and doctors.

2001

#8276

Medicine and the German Jews: A history.

2001

#9816

The royal doctors, 1485-1714: Medical personnel at the Tudor and Stuart courts.

"... investigates the influential individuals who attended England's most important patients during a pivotal epoch in the evolution of the state and the medical profession. Over three hundred men [and a handful of wo…

2001

#10091

Black death, white medicine: Bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945.

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…

2001

#10335

Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle cell anemia and the politics of race and health.

"Set in Memphis, home of one of the nation's first sickle cell clinics, Dying in the City of the Blues reveals how the recognition, treatment, social understanding, and symbolism of the disease evolved in the twentiet…

2001

#10623

Don't kill your baby: Public health and the decline of breastfeeding in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

2001

#13979

Deutsche Medizin im Dritten Reich: Karrieren vor und nach 1945.

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…

2002

#8384

A traffic of dead bodies: Anatomy and embodied social identity in nineteenth century America.

2002

#8610

The word as scalpel: A history of medical sociology.

2002

#8663

New Deal medicine: The rural health programs of the Farm Security Administration.

"Drawing on oral histories, archival records, and medical journals from the 1930s and 1940s, Grey finds the programs were both a rehearsal for more modern forms of medical organization and a lightning rod for critics …

2002

#9088

"Der Charlatan strebt nicht nach Wahrheit, er verlangt nur nach Geld". Zur Auseinandersetzung zwischen naturwissenschaftlicher Medizin und Laienmedizin im deutschen Kaiserreich am Beispiel von Hypnotismus und Heilmagnetismus.