Facets

1986

#13394

Magnus Hirschfeld: A portrait of a pioneer in sexology.

1987

#6998

And the band played on: Politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic.

Shilts, an investigative journalist, chronicled the discovery and spread of HIV / AIDS with special emphasis on government indifference and political infighting—specifically in the United States—to what was then perce…

1987

#7665

Death, dissection and the destitute: The politics of the corpse in pre-victorian Britain.

1987

#9101

Law, sex and Christian society in medieval Europe.

."...explores the origin and develpment of the Christian church's sex law and the systems of belief upon which that law rested. Focusing on the Church's own legal system of canon law, James A. Brundage offers a compre…

1987

#9883

The making of the modern body: Sexuality and society in the nineteenth century. Edited by Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur.

1987

#11009

Disease and discovery: A history of the Johns Hopkins School Hygiene & Public Health 1916-1939.

1987

#12139

A history of health & medicine in Queensland 1824-1960.

1987

#12957

Liber minor de coitu: Tratado menor de andrología anónimo Salernitano: Edicíon crítica, traducción y notas, by Enrique Montero Cartelle.

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.

1988

#7077

Intimate matters. A history of sexuality in America.

The first history of sexuality in America.

1988

#7549

Smallpox and its eradication.

The definitive archival history in 1460 pages. In 2016 a PDF of this entire book could be downloaded from the W.H.O. at this link.

1988

#8494

I Modi: The sixteen pleasures, an erotic album of the Italian Renaissance. Giulio Romano, Marcantonio Raimondi, Pietro Aretino and Count Jean-Fréderick-Maximilien de Waldeck. Edited, translated from the Italian and with a commentary by Lynne Lawner.

An edition and reconstruction of the only 16th century book of erotic engravings and poetry, surviving in a unique copy the original edition. For a summary of the history of this work of art, associated with several a…

1988

#8837

The body and society: Men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity.

"A groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lif…

1988

#9109

La prostitution médiévale.

Translated into English as Medieval prostitution (1988)."In fifteenth-century France, public prostitution was condoned by all sectors of society. Clerics and municipal officials not only tolerated prostitution, but we…

1988

#9771

Problems of health care: The National Health Service before 1957.

1988

#12349

The politics of prevention: Anti-Vaccinationism and public health in nineteenth-century England.

Digital facsimile from semanticscholar.org at this link.

1988

#13296

Worker's health, workers' democracy: The Western miners' struggle, 1891-1925.

"The most dangerous work in North America at the turn of the century may have been extracting metal-bearing ore from mountains of hard rock. Beginning in the 1890s miners in the West worked through local unions both t…

1989

#7028

Sexuality: An illustrated history. Representing the sexual in medicine and culture from the Middle Ages to the age of AIDS.

1989

#7424

Food in history. Revised and updated edition

Digital version available at this link.

1989

#8727

Plagues and politics: The story of the United States Public Health Service.

1989

#11475

Potential health effects of global climatic and environmental changes.

1989

#12414

Pure food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906.

1989

#12552

Public health in Papua New Guinea: Medical possibility and social constraint, 1884-1984.

1989

#12889

Phossy jaw and the French match workers: Occupational health and women in the Third Republic.

"The 1898 suppression of white phosphorous in the French match industry was a victory of organized labour. At a time when most French workers did not have the power to effect changes in the health and safety condition…

1990

#7513

Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.

1990

#7619

The sanitarians: A history of American public health.

1990

#9764

Politics and public health in revolutionary Russia, 1890-1918.

1990

#11448

Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. Edited by Wayne R. Dynes. Associate editors: Stephen Donaldson, Warren Johansson, and William A. Percy. 2 vols.

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…

1991

#11165

America's welfare state from Roosevelt to Reagan.

"Social welfare policy in the United States has gone from controversy in the 1930s, to consensus at mid-century, and back to controversy and confusion in the late twentieth century. In America's Welfare State, Edward …

1991

#14208

Chicxulub Crater: A possible Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary impact crater on the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.

Eleven years after publication of No. 14207, Alan Hildebrand, working with Luis and Walter Alvarez, proposed that the Chicxulub Crater, discovered by Antonio-Camargo-Zanoguera and Glen T. Penfield during the 1970s, wa…

1992

#7195

Founders of nutrition science. Biographical articles from the Journal of Nutrition, volumes 5-120, 1932-1990. Edited by William J. Darby and Thomas H. Jukes. 2 vols.

1992

#8054

The Norton history of the environmental sciences.

1992

#8637

Sentinel for health: A history of the Centers for Disease Control

1992

#8804

Miasmas and disease: Public health and the environment in the pre-industrial age. Translated by Elizabeth Potter.

1992

#11054

Courage under siege: Starvation, disease, and death in the Warsaw Ghetto.

1992

#11134

Mission and method: The early-nineteenth-century French public health movement.

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 …

1992

#11855

Disorderly eaters: Texts in self-empowerment. Edited by Lillian R. Furst and Peter W. Graham.

Explores the various manifestations of eating disorders in literature, including cannibalism, the magic attributes of food, religiously motivated fasting, and children's eating problems, from the classical period to T…

1992

#13297

Miners and medicine: West Virginia memories.

"The coal-company doctors of Appalachia fought the health hazards of the coal fields, arguably the most dangerous and diseased working environment of the modern world. Often the doctors were held accountable for evils…

1992

#14171

Sex reassignment. Thirty years of international follow-up studies after sex reassignment surgery: A comprehensive review, 1961-1991. Translated from German into American English by Roberta B. Jacobson and Alf B. Meier.)

Includes an extensive bibliography of printed and online sources. https://web.archive.org/web/20070520063824/http://www.symposion.com/ijt/pfaefflin/1000.htm

1992

#14334

Nitric oxide as a mediator of relaxation of the corpus cavernosum in response to nonadrenergic, noncholinergic neurotransmission.

Using strips of corpus cavernosum tissue from 21 male volunteers, the authors showed how the interaction of nitric oxide with the musculo/vascular system of the human penile corpora cavernosa initiated and maintained …

1993

#6963

The Cambridge world history of human disease. Edited by Kenneth F. Kiple [and 12 co-editors].

An encyclopedic world history of disease, incorporating a geographic approach.

1993

#8179

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

1993

#8811

Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.

An authoritative account of the way that medicine was practiced in India in adaptation to the situation faced by physicians and the state in India, focusing on three major epidemic diseases: smallpox, cholera plague.

1993

#9791

Directory of deceased American physicians, 1804-1929: A genealogical guide to over 149,000 medical practitioners providing brief biographical sketches drawn from the American Medical Association's Deceased Physician Masterfile. Edited by Arthur W. Hafner. 2 vols.

1994

#7027

Science in the bedroom: A history of sex research.

1994

#7068

Nature's economy. A history of ecological ideas. Second edition.

1994

#7201

Human sexuality: An encyclopedia, edited by Vern L. Bullough and Bonnie Bullough.