Facets

1974

#8769

Welfare medicine in America: A case study of Medicaid.

The first study of Medicaid. Revised edition, 2003.

1977

#9151

Medicine without doctors: Home health care in American history. Edited by Guenter B. Risse, Ronald L. Numbers, and Judith Walzer Leavitt.

1978

#10980

The Interurban Clinical Club (1905-1976): A record of achievement in clinical science.

"[William] Osler also made a very significant contribution to the realization of Flexner’s task by helping to create the Interurban Clinical Club in 1905 [8]. The purpose of this organization was the exchanging of ide…

1981

#9674

Making sense of self: Medical advice literature in late nineteenth-century America.

1981

#13902

The family book about sexuality.

1982

#6596.6

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

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

#10217

Disease change and the role of medicine: The Navajo experience.

1983

#10407

Changes in the land: Indians, colonists and the ecology of New England.

"In this work, Cronon demonstrated the impact on the land of the widely disparate conceptions of ownership held by Native Americans and English colonists. English law objectified land, making it an object of which the…

1984

#10988

The American Clinical and Climatological Association: 1884-1984.

1985

#11060

Structure of the protein subunit in the photosynthetic reaction centre of Rhodopseudomonas viridis at 3 Å resolution.

Discovery of the three-dimensional structure of a protein complex found in certain photosynthetic bacteria, called the photosynthetic reaction center. This was the first elucidation of the 3D crystal structure of any …

1986

#10986

The Association of American Physicians, 1886-1986: A century of progress in medical science.

"The Association of American Physicians is a nonprofit, professional organization founded in 1885 by seven physicians, including Dr. William Osler and Dr. William Henry Welch, for “the advancement of scientific and pr…

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.

1991

#9673

Enter the physician: The transformation of domestic medicine, 1760-1860.

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…

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 …

1993

#8179

A model for national health care: The history of Kaiser Permanente.

1994

#8538

The history and geography of human genes.

The first full-scale attempt to reconstruct where human populations originated and the paths by which they spread throughout the world, using genetic data integrated with data from geography, ecology, archaeology, phy…

1995

#13317

Valuing health care: Costs, benefits, and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals and other medical technologies. Edited by Frank A. Sloan.

1996

#10120

The health consequences of 'modernisation': Evidence from circumpolar peoples.

"What are the health consequences of switching from an active 'hunter-gatherer' lifestyle to that of sedentary modern living? Here, the impact of 'modernisation' in circumpolar peoples is assessed. The hazards to huma…

1998

#8032

Food in antiquity: A survey of the diet of early peoples

Originally published in 1969.

1998

#9642

"Every man his own doctor." Popular medicine in early America: An exhibition drawn from the collections of Charles E. Rosenberg, William H. Helfand and the Library Company of Philadelphia.

1999

#8078

... And the pursuit of national health: The incremental strategy toward national health insurance in the United States of America.

1999

#13585

Sexual cultures in Europe: National histories.

"... brings together for the first time studies of the sexual cultures of all the major European countries--including France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Spain, Britain and the Netherlands--to focus on their commonalities…

2000

#13318

The benefits of medical research and the role of the NIH.

According to Senator Mack's report, the economic costs of illness in the U.S. were approximately $3 trillion annually, representing 31% of the nation’s GDP. This included “direct” costs of public and private health ca…

2001 –2008

#7524

An annotated catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater collection of American popular medicine and health reform. 3 vols.

2001

#10799

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

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…

2003

#9152

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

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.

2006

#13702

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

2006

#14048

An inconvenient truth. The planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it.

A politician, Gore was one of the first to draw popular attention to climate change. He supplemented the best-selling book with a film and DVD with the same title. Ten years later, recognizing that in spite of its wid…

2007

#8077

Origins of American health insurance: A history of industrial sickness funds.

2007

#11575

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

2007

#12505

The physiology of love and other writings. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Nicoletta Pireddu. Translated by David Jacobson.

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

#13515

Cultural encyclopedia of the body. Edited by Victoria Pitts-Taylor. 2 vols.

2009

#8617

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

2009

#8973

Vulgariser la medecine: Du style medical en France et en Italie (XVIe et XVIIe siecles). Edited by Andrea Carlino and Michel Jeanneret.

2010

#8060

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

2011

#13319

The delivery of regenerative medicines and their impact on healthcare. Edited by Catherine D. Prescott and Dame Julia Polak.

2012

#8093

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

2012

#8799

Chocolate as medicine: A quest over the centuries.

2013

#8185

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

2013

#13284

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Science, governance, and the pursuit of cures

The California Institute for Regenerative medicine was the first state-fund institution that provided stable, in-state funding on a very large scale for biomedical research. "The California Institute for Regenerative …

2014

#8038

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

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.

2016

#8550

Household medicine in seventeenth-century England.

2016

#10421

Vanishing America: Species extinction racial peril, and the origins of conservation.

"Nineteenth-century citizens of European descent widely believed that Native Americans would eventually vanish from the continent. Indian society was thought to be tied to the wilderness, and the manifest destiny of U…

2017

#9973

Teeth: The story of beauty, inequality, and the struggle for oral health in America.