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301 entries match Social & Political History [K01.850]
2009
#13038
The good doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the struggle for social justice in health care.
"... documents the history of the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR), a group of health professionals who delivered health care to wounded protesters and victims of police violence during the Civil Rights Movem…
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.
2010
#8275
A history of healthcare in Istanbul: Health organizations, epidemics, infections and disease control, preventive health institutions, hospitals, medical education.
2010
#10225
The measure of America, 2010-2011: Mapping risks and resilience.
"This fully illustrated report, with over 130 color images, is based on the groundbreaking American Human Development Index, which provides a single measure of the well-being for all Americans, disaggregated by state …
2010
#10342
Shadows in the valley: A cultural history of illness, death, and loss in New England, 1840-1916.
"...The study is organized for the most part around disease categories and the life cycle, so that the cultural framework of people's habits and values often seems secondary. Most of what we learn about illness and de…
2010
#13023
A cultural history of the human body. Edited by Linda Kalof and William Bynum. 6 vols.
"A Cultural History of The Human Body presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers 2800 years of the human body as a physical, social, spiritual and cultural objec…
2011
#7232
Scottish Medicine: An Illustrated History.
2011
#8247
The social history of health and medicine in colonial India. Edited by Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison.
2011
#9625
Body and soul: The Black Panther Party and the fight against medical discrimination.
2011
#10576
Medicine, government, and public health in Philip II's Spain: Shared interests, competing authorities.
2011
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A first rate madness: Uncovering the links between leadership and mental illness.
2011
#14148
Remedy and reaction: The peculiar American struggle over health care reform.
"Winner of the 2011 American Publishers Awards and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in the Government and Politics category, as given by the Association of American Publishers. Read an interview with Paul Starr on the Yal…
2012
#7891
Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown.
2012
#8093
Making Medicare: New perspectives on the history of Medicare in Canada.
2012
#8105
The sick child in early modern England, 1580-1720.
The first book on children's health and illness in early modern England.
2012
#8702
Social poison: The culture and politics of opiate control in Britain and France, 1821–1926.
2012
#10668
Democratic governance & health: Hospitals, Politics and health policy in New Zealand.
"New Zealand is the only country in the world where elected health boards have long been a core feature of the health care system. These boards are conceptually important and aspirational for policy-makers and communi…
2012
#12131
Revolutionary medicine: Health and the body in post-Soviet Cuba.
"Until the Soviet bloc collapsed in 1989, socialist Cuba encouraged citizens to view access to health care as a human right and the state's responsibility to provide it as a moral imperative. Since the loss of Soviet …
2013
#8037
Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the sciences in Paris, 1670-1760.
2013
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Medicine and society in Ptolemaic Egypt.
2013
#10062
Transforming the culture of dying: The work of the Project on Death in America.
"Over a period of almost 10 years, the work of the Project on Death in America (PDIA) played a formative role in the advancement of end of life care in the United States. The project concerned itself with adults and c…
2013
#10541
Medicine and the workhouse. Edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard Schwarz.
The first in depth study of the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Throughout this period workhouses were a…
2013
#12023
Ritual and conflict: The social relations of childbirth in early modern England.
"This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to th…
2013
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A medical history of skin: Scratching the surface. Edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Kevin Siena.
2014
#10171
Santé et société à Montpellier à la fin du Moyen Âge.
2015
#8042
Vietnamese traditional medicine: A social history.
Reception of foreign medical ideas and techniques through the case study of smallpox.
2015
#8274
Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world: The Ottoman experience, 1347-1600.
2015
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Medicare and Medicaid at 50: America's entitlement programs in the age of affordable care. Edited by Alan B. Cohen, David C. Colby, Keith A. Wailoo, and Julian E. Zelizer.
2015
#9636
In search of the perfect health system.
"With chapters on 25 different countries, this practical and succinct guide to the world's major health systems explores what lessons can be drawn from each to improve health worldwide. Each chapter is an essay design…
2015
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Beyond germs: Native depopulation in North America. Edited by Catherine M. Cameron, Paul Kelton, and Alan C. Swedlund.
This book "challenges the “virgin soil” hypothesis that was used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous people of North America. This hypothesis argues that the massive depopulation of the New World w…
2015
#10969
Ill composed: Sickness, gender, and belief in early modern England.
A cultural history of illness from the standpoint of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.
2015
#12441
Vaccine nation: America's changing relationship with immunization.
2016
#8047
Food and health in early modern Europe: Diet, medicine and society, 1450-1800.
2016
#9114
Remaking the American patient: How Madison Avenue and modern medicine turned patients into consumers.
"In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explo…
2016
#9694
The great transition: Climate, disease and society in the late-medieval world.
2016
#10096
Farewell to the god of plague: Chairman Mao's campaign to deworm China.
2016
#10669
Public opinion, public policy, and smoking: The transformation of American attitudes and cigarette use.
2017
#9714
Reasoning against madness: Psychiatry and the state in Rio de Janeiro, 1830-1944.
2017
#9882
Malleable anatomies: Models, makers, and material culture in eighteenth-century Italy.
"Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modeling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy. It investigates the "mania" for anatomical displays that swept the Italian peninsula, …
2017
#10021
Bodies beyond borders: Moving anatomies, 1750–1950. Edited by Kaat Wils, Raf de Bont, and Sokhieng Au.
2017
#10454
To heal humankind: The right to health in history,
2017
#10539
Making medicines in early colonial Lima, Peru: Apothecaries, science and society.
2017
#10666
Madhouse: Psychiatry and politics in Cuban history.
2017
#12546
Teens and their doctors: The story of the development of adolescent medicine.
Traces the development of adolescent medicine from the first program, opened by Ros Gallagher at Boston Children’s Hospital, in 1951, to the creation of the Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM), in 1968. The book des…
2018
#10645
Knowledge, power, and women's reproductive health in Japan, 1690–1945.
2019
#10768
Jewish medicine and healthcare in Central Eastern Europe: Shared identities and tangled histories. Edited by Marcin Moskalewicz, Ute Caumanns, and Fritz Dross.
2019
#13671
Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture.
2021
#13373
Up against the wall: Art, activism, and the AIDS poster. Edited by Donald Albrecht and Jessica Lacher-Feldman. Medical and consulting editor William M. Valenti.
Documents the power and impact of nearly 200 examples of AIDS posters from around the world and the social activism that continues to bring awareness to a disease without vaccine or a cure. Selected from the 8000 post…
2021
#14104
Morbid undercurrents: Medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France.
"During the 1790s and beyond, medicine left the somber halls of universities, hospitals, and learned societies and became profoundly politicized, inspiring a whole panoply of different—often bizarre and shocking—subcu…