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2007

#8163

De Yalta à Dien Bien Phu: Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, 1945-1955. (Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. Vol. 3:)

2007

#8985

How everyday products make people sick: Toxins at home and in the workplace.

An eloquent historical approach, written for a semi-popular audience, to everyday problems in occupational medicine and toxicology.

2007

#9759

Government and public health in America.

"How involved should the government be in American healthcare? Ronald Hamowy argues that to answer this pressing question, we must understand the genesis of the five main federal agencies charged with responsibility f…

2007

#11357

Routledge international encyclopedia of queer culture. Edited by David. A. Gerstner.

2007

#11464

The great nation in decline: Sex, modernity and health crises in revolutionary France c.1750–1850.

2007

#11465

Hospital politics in seventeenth-century France: The crown, urban elites and the poor.

2007

#11575

Differential diagnoses: A comparative history of health care problems and solutions in the United States and France.

2007

#12988

Les regimes de santé au Moyen Âge. 2 vols.

2007

#13577

Vernacular bodies: The politics of reproduction in Early Modern England.

"Making babies was a mysterious process in 17th-century England. Fissell uses popular sources—songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals—to recover how ordinary men and women understood t…

2008

#8080

National health insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, territory, and the roots of difference.

Explores why two countries that were very similar in many ways, struck out on radically divergent paths to public health insurance. Canada developed a universal single-payer system of national health care, while the U…

2008

#9006

Der Trieb zum Erzählen: Sexualpathologie und Homosexualität, 1852-1914.

2008 –2011

#9537

Public health: The development of a discipline. Edited by Dona Schneider and David E. Lilienfeld. 2 vols.

Collections of readings edited and introduced. Vol. 1: From the age of Hippocrates to the progressive era. Vol. 2: Twentieth century challenges.

2008

#9880

The sciences of homosexuality in early modern Europe. Edited by Kenneth Borris and George S. Rousseau.

"This collection establishes that efforts to produce scientific explanations for same-sex desires and sexual behaviours are not a modern invention, but have long been characteristic of European thought. The sciences o…

2008

#10509

Cholera and nation: Doctoring the Victorian social body.

2008

#10732

La salud y el Estado: El movimiento sanitario internacional y la administración española (1851-1945).

2009

#8164

De Budapest à Saigon: Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, 1956-1965. (Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, Vol.4.)

2009

#8317

Chocolate: History, culture and heritage. Edited by Louis Evan Grivetti and Howard-Yana Shapiro.

2009

#8617

Health and medicine on display: International expositions in the United States, 1876-1904.

2009

#8886

Coming to terms with world health: The League of Nations Health Organization 1921-1946.

2009

#9258

Food in medieval England: Diet and nutrition. Edited by C. M. Woolgar, D. Serjeantson and T. Waldron.

2009

#9758

Bathing in the Roman world.

2009

#9830

A history of total health.

https://kaiserpermanentehistory.org/ "A History of Total Health invites you to join in a discussion of today’s health care as we draw links to relevant events in the history of Kaiser Permanente and the industrial con…

2009

#10443

Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A cultural history of cacao. Edited by Cameron L. McNeil.

2009

#10770

Public health and social justice in the age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800–1854.

2009

#11412

Foul bodies: Cleanliness in early America.

2010

#8009

Healing the body politic: El Salvador's popular struggle for health rights from civil war to neoliberal peace.

2010

#8027

Fictions of well-being: Sickly readers and vernacular medical writing in late medieval and early modern Spain. Michael

2010

#8060

The problem of nutrition: Experimental science, public health and economy in Europe 1914-1945.

2010

#8275

A history of healthcare in Istanbul: Health organizations, epidemics, infections and disease control, preventive health institutions, hospitals, medical education.

2010

#8704

Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: Dalla peste nera ai giorni nostri.

2010

#8822

Medicine in an age of commerce and empire: Britain and its tropical colonies 1660-1830.

2010

#9953

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Library

https://archive.org/details/cmslibrary&tab=collection "The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Library is a research library dedicated to supporting the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The digitized collect…

2010

#10612

Imagining illness: Public health and visual culture. Edited by David Serlin.

"From seventeenth-century broadsides about the handling of dead bodies, printed during London's plague years, to YouTube videos about preventing the transmission of STDs, public health advocacy and education has alway…

2010

#12377

Cholesterol and beyond: The research on diet and coronary heart disease, 1900-2000.

"A concise overview of the chain of evidence accumulated during the past century supporting the relationship between dietary habits and blood levels of cholesterol and the associated relationship between blood total a…

2010

#13377

Magnus Hirschfeld and the quest for sexual freedom. A history of the first international sexual freedom movement

2011

#9710

Toxic archipelago: A history of industrial disease in Japan.

2011

#10576

Medicine, government, and public health in Philip II's Spain: Shared interests, competing authorities.

2011

#11167

Adventures in the Orgasmatron: Wilhelm Reich and the invention of sex.

Published in the US as Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the sexual revolution came to America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

2012

#7891

Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown.

2012

#8059

Historical dictionary of the World Health Organization. Second edition.

Covers the history of the WHO through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendices, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on key bodies, programs, events and p…

2012

#8093

Making Medicare: New perspectives on the history of Medicare in Canada.

2012

#8492

Plague, quarantines and geopolitics in the Ottoman empire.

An examination of Ottoman plague treatises and writers from the Black Death until 1923.

2012

#8702

Social poison: The culture and politics of opiate control in Britain and France, 1821–1926.

2012

#8799

Chocolate as medicine: A quest over the centuries.

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

#11149

Les origines de la sexologie (1850-1900).

2012

#13759

Obscenity, sex education, and medical democracy in the antebellum United States American sexual histories.

Includes a study of the trials of American sex educator Frederick Hollick for obscenity.

2013

#7618

An environmental history of the Middle Ages: The crucible of nature.

2013

#8037

Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the sciences in Paris, 1670-1760.

2013

#8185

The inevitable hour: A history of caring for dying patients in America.