Facets

2013

#10486

The pleasure's all mine: A history of perverse sex.

2013

#10552

The Routledge history of sex and the body, 1500 to the present. Edited by Sarah Toulalan and Kate Fisher.

2013

#10774

Broadcasting birth control: Mass media and family planning.

Explores the films and radio and television broadcasts developed by twentieth-century birth control advocates to promote family planning at home in the United States, and in the expanding international arena of popula…

2013

#10801

Marrow of tragedy: The health crisis of the American Civil War.

2013

#13295

Dangerously sleepy: Overworked Americans and the cult of manly wakefulness.

The first book to track the longtime association of overwork and sleep deprivation from the nineteenth century to the present.

2014

#7846

Imperial hygiene: A critical history of colonialism, nationalism and public health.

2014

#8038

Feeding France: New sciences of food, 1760-1815.

2014

#8584

Food and environment in early and medieval China.

2014

#10422

Aphrodisiacs, fertility and medicine in early modern England.

This work "... in its extensive study of gynecological treatises from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, provides an important intervention into assumptions about the subversive quality of aphrodisiacs and abor…

2014

#10542

Female circumcision and clitoridectomy in the United States: A history of a medical treatment.

"From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, American physicians treated women and girls for masturbation by removing the clitoris (clitoridectomy) or clitoral hood (female circumcision). Durin…

2014

#10629

The Pelvis: Structure, gender and society.

"This book offers a critical review of the pelvic sciences—past, present and future—from an anatomical and physiological perspective....The book starts with a “construction plan” of the pelvis and shows its structural…

2014

#11195

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and the religion of biologic living.

"Purveyors of spiritualized medicine have been legion in American religious history, but few have achieved the superstar status of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his Battle Creek Sanitarium. In its heyday, the 'San' was …

2015

#8043

Another person's poison: A history of food allergy.

2015

#8274

Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world: The Ottoman experience, 1347-1600.

2015

#8770

Medicare and Medicaid at 50: America's entitlement programs in the age of affordable care. Edited by Alan B. Cohen, David C. Colby, Keith A. Wailoo, and Julian E. Zelizer.

2015

#9039

The Rockefeller Foundation, public health and international diplomacy, 1920–1945.

The role of the Rockefeller Foundation and the League of Nations in improving public health during the interwar period. Barona argues that the Foundation applied a model of business efficiency to its ideology of sprea…

2015

#9705

Sanitation, latrines and intestinal parasites in past populations. Edited by Piers D. Mitchell.

2015

#9859

Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South.

"The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878--a disaster that caused 20,000 deaths and financial losses of nearly $200 mill…

2015

#11442

Salmonella infections, networks of knowledge, and public health in Britain, 1880-1975.

2015

#12130

Medicine on the periphery: Public health in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870-1960.

2016

#8047

Food and health in early modern Europe: Diet, medicine and society, 1450-1800.

2016

#8062

WHO Historical collection.

Background Disease classifications and nomenclature documents History of international health organizations documents League of Nations malaria documents Rare books on plague, smallpox and epidemiology

2016

#8063

Wikipedia Timeline of global health.

1.Big picture 1.1Late 1700s–1930s (pre-WWII era) 1.21940s–early 1960s (post-WWII era) 1.3Late 1960s–1970s 1.41980s–2000 1.52000s and beyond 2.Full timeline 2.1Inclusion criteria 2.2Timeline 3.See also 3.1General 3.2Di…

2016

#8165

International Committee of the Red Cross: History.

https://www.icrc.org/en/who-we-are/history. Extensive background, videos, links to the ICRC archives, etc., etc. Accessed 12-2016

2016

#8986

Fake silk: The lethal history of viscose rayon.

2016

#9114

Remaking the American patient: How Madison Avenue and modern medicine turned patients into consumers.

"In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explo…

2016

#9238

A history of global health: Interventions into the lives of other peoples.

2016

#9257

The culture of food in England 1200-1500.

2016

#10485

Amatory pleasures: Explorations in eighteenth-century sexual culture.

2016

#10662

Progressive mothers, better babies, race, public health, and the state in Brazil, 1850-1945.

2016

#10669

Public opinion, public policy, and smoking: The transformation of American attitudes and cigarette use.

2016

#11496

Quarantine: Local and global histories. Edited by Alison Bashford.

2016

#14068

Influenza encyclopedia: The American influenza epidemic of 1918 - 1919: A digital encyclopedia. Second edition.

ABOUT "Historians, journalists, and the public at large have long been interested in the 1918 “Spanish flu” epidemic, a dramatic chapter in American life that has spawned an impressive body of books, articles, and mul…

2017

#10663

Silicosis: A world history. Edited by Paul-André Rosental.

2017

#10694

The Fate of Rome: Climate, disease, and the end of an empire.

2017

#11033

Prostitution in the ancient Greek world.

2017

#12372

The coronary heart disease pandemic in the twentieth century: Emergence and decline in advanced countries.

"This book demonstrates that a pandemic of coronary heart disease occurred in North America, western and northern Europe, and Australia and New Zealand from the 1930s to about 2000. At its peak it caused more deaths t…

2018

#10476

Suffering scholars: Pathologies of the intellectual in Enlightenment France.

2018

#10533

Imagining Chinese medicine. Edited by Vivienne Lo and Penelope .

Finely produced and illustrated collection, with many plates in color, of 36 scholarly essays on the widest range of Chinese medical illustrations, including erotica.

2018

#10626

The fears of the rich, the needs of the poor: My years at the CDC,

Director of the Centers for Disease Control from 1977-1983, and President and Co-Founder of The Task Force for Global Heath, 1984-1999, Foege was instrumental in the eradication of smallpox, the generalization of immu…

2018

#10935

Reading contagion: The hazards of reading in the age of print.

2018

#13584

Eros, Wollust, Sünde. Sexualität in Europa von der Antike bis in die Frühe Neuzeit.

2020

#12590

Disibility in industrial Britain: A cultural and literary history of impairment in the coal industry.

2020

#12627

Appetite and its discontents: Science, medicine, and the urge to eat, 1750-1850.

2020

#13774

The science of starving in Victorian literature, medicine, and political economy.

2021

#13271

Strong hearts and healing hands: Southern California Indians and field nurses, 1920-1950.

2021

#13486

The history of pediatric and adult hearing screening.

2022

#13903

The transformation of American sex education: Mary Calderone and the fight for sexual health.