Facets

2000

#10516

The sanitary city: Urban infrastructure in America from colonial times to the present.

2000

#12208

Beriberi, white rice, and vitamin B: A disease, a cause, and a cure.

2001

#7840

Long night's journey into day: Prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945.

2001

#8396

Rising life expectancy: A global history.

"Between 1800 and 2000 life expectancy at birth rose from about 30 years to a global average of 67 years, and to more than 75 years in favored countries. This dramatic change was called a health transition, characteri…

2001

#9786

Traumatic pasts: History, psychiatry, and trauma in the modern age, 1870-1930. Edited by Mark S. Micale and Paul Lerner.

2001

#10091

Black death, white medicine: Bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945.

2001

#10193

Medicine that Walks: Disease, medicine, and Canadian Plains native people, 1880-1940.

"... Lux takes issue with the 'biological invasion' theory of the impact of disease on Plains Aboriginal people. She challenges the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with the diseases brought by Europ…

2001

#10417

The technology of orgasm: "Hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction.

2001

#10799

Malaria: Poverty, race, and public health in the United States.

2001

#10866

A history of bisexuality.

2002

#7536

Sexual blackmail: A modern history.

2002

#8034

Professional and popular medicine in France 1770-1830: The social world of medical practice.

"This is the first comprehensive study on a national scale of the entire range of medical practitioners who flourished in preindustrial and early industrial societies. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, it provides…

2002

#8663

New Deal medicine: The rural health programs of the Farm Security Administration.

"Drawing on oral histories, archival records, and medical journals from the 1930s and 1940s, Grey finds the programs were both a rehearsal for more modern forms of medical organization and a lightning rod for critics …

2002

#8903

Drugs in America: A historical reader. [Compiled by] David F. Musto.

2002

#10040

Medical police and the history of pubic health.

Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

2003

#7427

Schooling sex: Libertine literature and erotic education in Italy, France, and England 1534-1685.

2003

#8218

Goldberger's war: The life and work of a public health crusader.

2003

#9152

Right living: An Anglo-American tradition of self-help medicine and hygiene. Edited by Charles Rosenberg.

2003

#9452

The history of tropical neurology: Nutritional disorders.

2003

#10028

The people's health: Public health in Australia, 1788-1950. Vol. 2: The people's health: Public health in Australia, 1950 to the present. 2 vols.

2003

#10210

Homosexuality and civilization.

The history of homosexuality in Europe and parts of Asia from Homer to the 18th century.

2003

#10215

Protecting America's health: The FDA, business, and one hundred years of regulation.

2003

#10583

Origin of the life of a human being: Conception and the female according to ancient Indian medical and sexological literature.

2003

#10710

Nameless offences: Homosexual desire in the nineteenth century.

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…

2003

#13758

Solitary sex: A cultural history of masturbation.

2004

#7944

Making Kedjom medicine: A history of public health and well-being in Cameroon.

2004

#8070

How sex changed: A history of transsexuality in the United States.

2004

#8321

Eros on the Nile. Translated from the Polish by Geoffrey L. Packer.

Originally published by Eros nad Nilem (Prószyyńki i S-ka S.A, 1998).

2004

#9263

To cast out disease: A history of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (1913-1951).

2004

#9709

Hygienic modernity: Meanings of health and disease in treaty-port China.

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

#14033

Public health in Qajar Iran.

"Until Now, there have been no books and only a few articles available in English that deal with the actual practice of medicine in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Iran. Willem Floor’s Public Health in Qajar Ir…

2005

#8166

The humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross.

2005

#8328

The rise and fall of HMOs: An American health care revolution.

A broad historical overview of HMOs with a close analysis of one institution, the Marshfield Clinic in northern Wisconsin.

2005

#8839

Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing unto others.

2005

#12057

Ärzte, Ingenieure und städtische Gesundheit: medizinische Theorien in der Hygienebewegung des 19. Jahrhunderts.

2006

#8035

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

2006

#8251

Colonial pathologies: American tropical medicine, race, and hygiene in the Philippines.

2006

#8780

The great starvation experiment: Ancel Keys and the men who starved for science.

2006

#9376

Producing sexual desire: Changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900.

2006

#9749

Death rode the rails: American railroad accidents and safety 1828-1965.

2006

#9763

Plague, SARS, and the story of medicine in Hong Kong.

2006

#10148

A century of adventure in northern health: The Public Health Service Commissioned Corps in Alaska, 1879-1978.

2006

#13702

Fit to be citizens? Public health and race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939.

2007

#7059

The battle of the bulge: A history of obesity research.

2007

#7534

Impotence: A cultural history.

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

#8101

Silent victories: The history and practice of public health in twentieth-century America. Edited by John W. Ward and Christian Warren.