Facets

2002

#9685

Learning to smoke: Tobacco use in the West.

2002

#10040

Medical police and the history of pubic health.

Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

2002

#12415

The quest for drug control: Politics and federal policy in a period of increasing substance abuse, 1963-1981.

2003

#7057

Unequal treatment: Confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Edited by B. D. Smedley, A. Y. Stith, and A. R. Nelson.

"Congress, in 1999, requested an IOM study to assess the extent of disparities in the types and quality of health services received by U.S. racial and ethnic minorities and non-minorities; explore factors that may con…

2003

#8008

From popular medicine to medical populism: Doctors, healers, and public power in Costa Rica, 1800–1940.

2003

#9874

Health, disease and society in Europe, 1500-1800: A source book. Edited by Peter Elmer and Ole Peter Grell.

2003

#10183

A pest in the land: New World epidemics in a global perspective.

2003

#11593

The progressive era's health reform movement: A historical dictionary.

2003

#12371

Public health and the risk factor: A history of an uneven medical revolution.

"The acceptance of risk factors has produced changes in public health and medicine as profound as those that resulted from bacteriology and the germ theory of disease. . . . The risk factor concept has been controvers…

2004

#7893

Nazi medicine and the Nuremberg trials: From medical war crimes to informed consent.

2004

#8076

The politics of healing: Histories of alternative medicine in twentieth-century North America.

2004

#9875

The healing arts: Health, disease and society in Europe, 1500-1800. Edited by Peter Elmer

2004

#9876

Health, disease and society in Europe, 1800-1930: A source book. Edited by Deborah Brunton.

2004

#9877

Medicine transformed: Health, disease and society in Europe 1800-1930.

2004

#10508

Mapping the Victorian social body.

"The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explos…

2004

#13690

Venereal disease, hospitals and the urban poor: London's "foul wards," 1600-1800.

2005

#9935

Fathoming the ocean: The discovery and exploration of the deep sea.

2005

#10080

Must we all die? Alaska's enduring struggle with tuberculosis.

2005

#10166

Exilio y depuración política: En la Facultad de Medicina de San Carlos.

Focuses on the period of the Second Spanish Republic, 1931-1939.

2005

#10232

Emblematic monsters: Unnatural conceptions and deformed births in early modern Europe.

2005

#10515

Plague and fire: Battling black death and the 1900 burning of Honolulu's Chinatown.

2005

#10535

Japanese American midwives: Culture, community, and health politics, 1880-1950.

2006

#8035

The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs.

2006

#8285

Médecins et malades de l'Egypte romaine: Étude socio-légale de la profession médicale et de ses praticiens du Ier au IVe siècle ap. J.-C.

2006

#8596

Dr. Franklin's medicine

The history of medicine, and Franklin's involvements in it, within the context of his life and career.

2006

#9155

The dilemma of federal mental health policy: Radical reform or incremental change?

2006

#9265

The birth of development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization changed the world, 1945–1965.

2007

#7056

Eliminating healthcare disparities in America. Beyond the IOM Report. Edited by Richard Allen Williams.

2007

#7835

Unequal cures: Public health and political change in Bolivia, 1900-1950,

2007

#8077

Origins of American health insurance: A history of industrial sickness funds.

2007

#10027

Medicine and the care of the dying: A modern history.

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

#7929

This republic of suffering: Death and the American Civil War.

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…

2008

#9600

Hippocratic recipes: Oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth-and fourth-century Greece.

"... the first extended study of the pharmacological recipes included in the Hippocratic Corpus. The recipes, found mostly in the gynaecological and nosological treatises, are here examined both from a philological an…

2008

#9878

The politics of vaccination: Practice and policy in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, 1800-1874.

2008

#9967

The sterilization movement and global fertility in the twentieth century.

2008

#10082

Health transitions in Arctic populations. Edited by T. Kue Young and Peter Bjerregaard.

Concerns indigenous and non-indigenous people in five Arctic regions: Greenland, Northern Canada, Alaska, Arctic Russia, and Northern Fennoscandia (Scandinavia).

2008

#10224

The measure of America: American human development report, 2008-2009.

" the first-ever human development report for a wealthy, developed nation. It introduces the American Human Development Index, which provides a single measure of well-being for all Americans, disaggregated by state an…

2008

#10362

Flesh and blood: Organ transplantation and blood transfusion in twentieth-century America.

2008

#10509

Cholera and nation: Doctoring the Victorian social body.

2008

#10974

Prescribing by numbers: Drugs and the definition of disease.

"The second half of the twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a new model of chronic disease―diagnosed on the basis of numerical deviations rather than symptoms and treated on a preventive basis before any over…

2009

#8428

The care of brute beasts: A social and cultural study of veterinary medicine in Early Modern England.

2009

#8617

Health and medicine on display: International expositions in the United States, 1876-1904.

2009

#9267

Uneasy encounters: The politics of medicine and health in China 1900-1937. Edited by Iris Borowy.

2009

#9811

The theatre of the body: Staging death and embodying life in early-modern London.

"...The book takes as its specific focus seventeenth-century London, in a significant study encompassing the period from the incorporation of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons (1540) to the staging of Edward R…

2009

#10573

The plague files: Crisis management in sixteenth-century Seville.

2009

#11242

Ottoman medicine: Healing and medical institutions, 1500-1700.