Facets

1948

#1669

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

1948

#2137

History of factory and mine hygiene.

1948

#9024

The Pan American Sanitary Bureau: Its origin, developments and achievements, 1902-1944.

1950

#1670

A history of English public health, 1834-1939.

1950

#9030

La demogenia Peruana y sus problemas medico-sociales.

1951

#1671

The United States Public Health Service, 1798-1950.

1952

#1671.1

The advance to social medicine.

Originally published in French, 1948.

1954

#9031

La solidaridad de las Américas ante la salud.

1954

#9879

"L'Eunuque dans l'Égypte pharaonique.

Full annotated text available at https://people.well.com/user/aquarius/pharaonique.htm.

1955

#2137.01

The diseases of occupations.

A classic textbook on the subject with valuable historical chapters and references. Hunter put the text through six editions to 1978. The work was rewritten as Hunter’s Diseases of occupations, ed. by P.A.B. Raffle, W…

1955

#9027

The Pan American Saintary Bureau: Half a century of health activities 1902-1954.

Digital facsimile from the Pan American Health Organization at this link.

1956

#1671.2

A short history of public health.

2nd edition, 1966.

1957

#1092.52

A history of nutrition.

1957

#8669

Industrial medicine in western Pennsylvania, 1850-1950.

Probably the first history of occupational medicine in any part of the United States. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1958

#1671.3

A history of public health.

1959

#13800

Public health in the town of Boston, 1630-1822.

1961

#1671.4

The story of England’s hospitals.

1962 –1968

#1671.5

Prostitution and society. A survey. 3 vols.

Vol. 1: Primitive, classical and oriental. Vol. 2: Prostitution in Europe and the New World. Vol 3: Modern sexuality.

1962

#2137.02

Occupational health in America.

Written under the auspices of the Industrial Medical Association, this history emphasizes 20th century achievements.

1962

#13164

A bio-bibliography of Florence Nightingale.

Completed and edited for publication by Sue M. Goldie after the death of William J. Bishop.

1963

#1671.6

Contraception through the ages.

1963

#8161

Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. De Solférino à Tsoushima.

English translation: History of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Volume I: From Solferino to Tsushima. (Geneva: Henry Dunant Institute, 1985).

1963

#9023

World health and history.

1965

#1092.53

Das Vitaminbuch. Die Geschichte der Vitaminforschung.

1965

#1671.61

Geschichte der Geriatrie. Dreitausend Jahre Physiologie, Pathologie und Therapie des alten Menschen.

1965

#1685.1

History and geography of the most important diseases.

Originally published in German, 1963.

1967

#1671.62

Ten centuries of European hospital architecture.

1967

#10396

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

1967

#10679

The sleeping sickness epidemic of Uganda 1900-1920: A study in historical geography.

1968

#7836

Medicine in Mexico: From Aztec herbs to betatrons.

In collaboration with Jose Alvarez Amezquita and Miguel E. Bustamante.

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…

1971

#1671.7

International health organizations and their work. 2nd ed.

A systematic account of international health work from its beginnings to modern times. First published 1952.

1971

#8327

Health maintenance strategy.

Elwood is often referred to as the "father of the health maintenance organization. He not only coined the term, he also played a role in bringing about structural changes to the American health care system to simultan…

1971

#8501

Doctors of the mines: A commemorative volume published in 1971 to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Mine Medical Officer's Association of South Africa. With a history of the work of mine medical officers.

1971

#10858

The pre-Columbian mind: A study into the aberrant nature of sexual drives, drugs affecting behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America.

1972

#10684

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome VI, 2e partie: Du régime des maladies aiguës, Appendice, De l'aliment, De l'usage des liquides. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises of different periods devoted to nutrition: On regimen in acute diseases (in two versions, with the second traditionally identified as th…

1972

#12490

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

1973

#2068.16

Therapeutics from the primitives to the 20th century, with an appendix: history of dietetics.

Includes a valuable bibliography. First published in German, Stuttgart, 1970.

1973

#8902

The American disease: Origins of narcotic control.

Third expanded edition (1999). "Supporting the theory that Americans' attitudes toward drugs have followed a cyclic pattern of tolerance and restraint, author David F. Musto examines the relations between public outcr…

1973

#10223

Medicine and public health in the People's Republic of China. Edited by Joseph R. Quinn.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1974

#9411

The physician and sexuality in Victorian America.

1974

#11327

From medical police to social medicine.

1974

#12444

Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and public health in pre-DDT America.

1974

#12491

A history of public health in New York City.

1975

#1671.8

The scientific background of the International Sanitary Conferences, 1851-1938.

First published in WHO Chronicle, 1974. 28, 159-71, 229-47, 369-84, 414-26, 455-70, 475-508. Available from apps.who.int at this link.

1975

#9135

Blue Cross since 1929: Accountability and the public trust.

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).

1977

#1092.54

Food: The gift of Osiris. 2 vols.

Extensively illustrated history of nutrition in ancient Egypt.

1977

#13376

Marie Stopes: A checklist of her writings

The printed dust jacket reads differently from the title page: "Marie Stopes: A preliminary checklist of her writings together with some biographical notes."

1978

#8162

Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. Vol. 2: De Sarajevo à Hiroshima.

English translation: History of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Volume II: From Sarajevo to Hiroshima (Geneva: Henri Dunant Institute, 1984).