Facets

1906

#12739

The jungle.

Sinclair wrote The jungle to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and other industrialized cities. His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its …

1928

#194.1

Äskulap und Venus. Eine Kultur- und Sittengeschichte im Spiegel des Ärztes.

An exhaustive and well-illustrated survey of medical anthropology with emphasis on sexuality.

1974

#12444

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

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.

1992

#8054

The Norton history of the environmental sciences.

1996

#9757

Baths and bathing in classical antiquity.

Reviews and analyzes the structure, function, and design of baths, seeking to integrate their architecture with the wider social and cultural custom of bathing, and examining in particular the changes this custom unde…

1998

#10477

Enlightenment and pathology: Sensibility in the literature and medicine of eighteenth-century France.

1999

#7032

Taking positions. On the erotic in Renaissance culture.

Of particular relevance to the history of medical literature is Chapter 8: "Mythology, Sexuality, and Science in Charles Estienne's Manual of Anatomy" (pp. 161-188). This refers to Estienne's De dissectione partium co…

2000

#9392

Something new under the sun: An environmental history of the twentieth-century world.

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…

2010

#8027

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

2013

#7618

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

2014

#8584

Food and environment in early and medieval China.

2020

#13774

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