Facets

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…

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.

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.

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…

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.

1908

#10392

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

Digital facsimile from Google Books 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.

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…

1943

#2136

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

1948

#1669

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

1952

#1671.1

The advance to social medicine.

Originally published in French, 1948.

1967

#10396

The origins of the National Health Service: The medical services of the New Poor Law, 1834-1871.

1968

#9134

An uneasy equilibrium: Private and public financing of health service in the United States 1875-1965.

The central theme of this book is that health policy in the Unitesd States is the product of a deep ambivalence in public attitudes that on the one hand support a private, market-oriented health provision system, whil…

1970

#10554

Women and their bodies.

This 35-cent, 136-page book organized in 1969 by Nancy Miriam Hawley at Boston's Emmanuel College, was written by twelve Boston feminist activists. It eventually sold 250,000 copies in New England without any formal a…

1972

#12490

Public health and the state: Changing views in Massachusetts, 1842-1936.

1974

#8769

Welfare medicine in America: A case study of Medicaid.

The first study of Medicaid. Revised edition, 2003.

1974

#11327

From medical police to social medicine.

1976 –2018

#9948

Histoire de la sexualité. 4 vols.

The first 3 vols. were translated into English by Robert Hurley as The history of sexuality (1978-1986).

1979

#10104

Harry S. Truman versus the medical lobby: The genesis of Medicare.

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

#10217

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

1984

#10105

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

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

#11123

The impact of illness on world leaders.

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.

1988

#9771

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

1989

#8727

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

1990

#9764

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

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 …

1995

#7029

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

1995

#8036

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

1995

#8058

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

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

#13681

Power and illness. The failure of American health policy.

1996

#9772

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

1998

#9770

National Health Service: A political history.

Revised second edition, 2002.

1999

#7616

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

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

#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

#8102

Brush with death: A social history of lead poisoning.