Facets

1978

#9136

Almost persuaded: American physicians and compulsory health insurance, 1912-1920.

1978

#12121

International public health between the two world wars: The organizational problems.

1979

#10104

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

1979

#13788

The eradication of smallpox from India.

1981

#8028

Fighting the plague in seventeenth century Italy.

1981

#10222

Inside Russian medicine: An American doctor's first-hand report. With research assistance by Nicholas A. Petroff.

A period piece but valuable for its professional assessment of the state of Russian medicine during the period.

1981

#12120

The Pan-American Health Organization: Origins and Evolution.

1982

#6596.6

The social transformation of American medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry.

1982

#8187

Hippocratic heritage: A history of ideas about weather and human health.

The first historical survey of human biometeorology, tracing the evolution of the Hippocratic idea that weather is one of the dterminants of health from its ancient origins to time of writing.

1982

#12492

The healthiest city: Milwaukee and the politics of health reform.

1982

#14189

Corps infirmes et sociétés : Essais d'anthropologie historique.

Translated into English by William Sayers as A history of disability. New foreward by David T. Mitchel and Sharon L. Snyder. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2019. "The first book to attempt to provide a f…

1983

#9095

Sex and society in Islam: Birth control before the nineteenth century.

1984

#10105

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

1985

#8203

Aphrodisiacs: The science and the myth.

1985

#8228

Sexualité et savoir médical au Moyen Âge.

Translated into English by A. Adamson as Sexuality and medicine in the Middle Ages, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1988.

1986

#3726

The history of scurvy and vitamin C.

1986

#7957

A peculiar population: The nutrition, health, and mortality of American slaves from childhood to maturity.

Digital facsimile from Jstor and at this link.

1986

#8647

Health policies, health politics: The British and American experience, 1911-1965.

1986

#9798

Hygiène et médecine: Histoire et actualités des maladies nosocomiales.

History of nosocomial or hospital-acquired infections.

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.

1987

#11009

Disease and discovery: A history of the Johns Hopkins School Hygiene & Public Health 1916-1939.

1987

#12139

A history of health & medicine in Queensland 1824-1960.

1987

#13165

"I have done my duty." Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, 1854-56. Edited by Sue M. Goldie.

Nightingale's correspondence, 1854-1856.

1988

#7077

Intimate matters. A history of sexuality in America.

The first history of sexuality in America.

1988

#7549

Smallpox and its eradication.

The definitive archival history in 1460 pages. In 2016 a PDF of this entire book could be downloaded from the W.H.O. at this link.

1988

#8494

I Modi: The sixteen pleasures, an erotic album of the Italian Renaissance. Giulio Romano, Marcantonio Raimondi, Pietro Aretino and Count Jean-Fréderick-Maximilien de Waldeck. Edited, translated from the Italian and with a commentary by Lynne Lawner.

An edition and reconstruction of the only 16th century book of erotic engravings and poetry, surviving in a unique copy the original edition. For a summary of the history of this work of art, associated with several a…

1988

#8837

The body and society: Men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity.

"A groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lif…

1988

#9109

La prostitution médiévale.

Translated into English as Medieval prostitution (1988)."In fifteenth-century France, public prostitution was condoned by all sectors of society. Clerics and municipal officials not only tolerated prostitution, but we…

1988

#9771

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

1988

#13296

Worker's health, workers' democracy: The Western miners' struggle, 1891-1925.

"The most dangerous work in North America at the turn of the century may have been extracting metal-bearing ore from mountains of hard rock. Beginning in the 1890s miners in the West worked through local unions both t…

1989

#7028

Sexuality: An illustrated history. Representing the sexual in medicine and culture from the Middle Ages to the age of AIDS.

1989

#7424

Food in history. Revised and updated edition

Digital version available at this link.

1989

#8727

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

1989

#12414

Pure food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906.

1989

#12552

Public health in Papua New Guinea: Medical possibility and social constraint, 1884-1984.

1989

#12889

Phossy jaw and the French match workers: Occupational health and women in the Third Republic.

"The 1898 suppression of white phosphorous in the French match industry was a victory of organized labour. At a time when most French workers did not have the power to effect changes in the health and safety condition…

1990

#7513

Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.

1990

#7619

The sanitarians: A history of American public health.

1990

#9764

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

1991

#9760

A history of education in public health: Health that mocks doctors' rules.

"This is the first book to examine and compare the history and contemporary problems of education for public health in Britain and the United States. In Britain, education for public health has been directed solely to…

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 …

1992

#7195

Founders of nutrition science. Biographical articles from the Journal of Nutrition, volumes 5-120, 1932-1990. Edited by William J. Darby and Thomas H. Jukes. 2 vols.

1992

#8054

The Norton history of the environmental sciences.

1992

#8637

Sentinel for health: A history of the Centers for Disease Control

1992

#8804

Miasmas and disease: Public health and the environment in the pre-industrial age. Translated by Elizabeth Potter.

1992

#11054

Courage under siege: Starvation, disease, and death in the Warsaw Ghetto.

1992

#11134

Mission and method: The early-nineteenth-century French public health movement.

1992

#11406

Rudolf Virchow Sämtliche Werke. Herausgegeben von Christian Andree. 71 vols. anticipated.

From the number of volumes planned we may conclude that Virchow was one of the most prolific of all physicians. According to the Wikipedia article on Christian Andree, to which I have linked, volumes in this set were …