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1,129 entries match Public Health [N02.500]

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…

1994

#8802

Public health in British India: Anglo-Indian preventive medicine 1859-1914.

The first major study of public health in British India.

1994

#9718

Molecular politics: Developing American and British regulatory policy for genetic engineering, 1972-1982.

1994

#10849

The early homosexual rights movement (1864–1935).

Revised edition, 1995.

1994

#12207

Protein and energy: A study of changing ideas in nutrition.

1994

#13654

The history of public health and the modern state. Edited by Dorothy Porter.

1995

#7029

The facts of life: The creation of sexual knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950.

1995

#8036

The making of a social disease: Tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France.

1995

#8058

International health organisations and movements, 1918-1939. Edited by Paul Weindling.

1995

#8703

Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: dalla peste europea alla guerra mondiale, 1348-1918.

1995

#9102

The meanings of sex difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, science, and culture.

"...explores the ways in which scientific ideas about sex differences in the later Middle Ages participated in the broader cultural assumptions about gender. Professor Cadden discusses how medieval natural philosophic…

1995

#9881

Green imperialism: Colonial expansion, tropical island edens and the origins of environmentalism 1600–1860.

"... the first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, concentrating especially on its hitherto unexplained colonial and global aspects. It highlights the significance of Utopian, Physiocra…

1995

#9929

La nutrition préhistorique.

1995

#12544

Safeguarding the public health: A history of the New Zealand Department of Health.

1995

#13292

Changing sex: Transsexualism, technology, and the idea of gender.

1995

#13317

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

1995

#13655

The health of prisoners: Historical essays edited by Richard Creese, W. F. Bynum and J. Bearn

1995

#13681

Power and illness. The failure of American health policy.

1996

#7040

Handbook of medieval sexuality. Edited by Bullough and Brundage.

1996

#8660

The cigarette papers. Edited by Stanton A. Glantz, John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes.

Analysis and selective reproduction of 4000 pages of internal tobacco industry documents proving that a tobacco company was fully aware that it was promoting and marketing a highly addictive carcinogenic substance. El…

1996

#8661

Industry Documents Library. University of California, San Francisco.

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/industry-documents/ "The Industry Documents Library (IDL) provides public access to internal corporate documents to facilitate research about cross-industry practices that harm public heal…

1996

#8872

Sildenafil: an orally active type 5 cyclic GMP-specific phosphodiesterase inhibitor for the treatment of penile erectile dysfunction.

Osterloh and team working at Pfizer's Sandwich, Kent research facility in England, demonstrated that sildenafil citrate (Viagra) initally studied for use in hypertension and angina pectoris, is effective in the treatm…

1996

#9162

Chasing dirt: The American pursuit of cleanliness.

"Americans in the early 19th century were, as one foreign traveller bluntly put it, "filthy, bordering on the beastly"--perfectly at home in dirty, bug-infested, malodorous surroundings. Many a home swarmed with flies…

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…

1996

#9772

Government and health care: The British National Health Service 1958–1979.

1996

#10019

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome II, 2ème partie: Airs, eaux, lieux. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna. (Collection des universités de France).

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…

1996

#10174

Sexualities in Victorian Britain. Edited by Andrew H. Miller and James Eli Adams.

1996

#10435

The song of the Dodo: Island biogeography in an age of extinctions.

1996

#12748

The geography of perversion: Male-To-male sexual behavior outside the West and the ethnographic imagination, 1750-1918.

"Recent years have seen enormous attention devoted to the history of sexuality in the Western world. But how has the West conceived of non-western societies been influenced by these other traditions? The Geography of …

1997

#8629

The blues: A history of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield system.

1997

#9137

Law and the American health care system.

Second revised edition, 2012, with extensive discussion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

1997

#9369

Dieting for an emperor: A translation of books 1 and 4 of Oribasius' Medical Compilations with an introduction and commentary by Mark Grant.

1997

#9457

Encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology, and medicine in non-Western cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin.

Second edition, significantly revised and expanded, 2016.

1997

#11822

The decline of infant and child mortality: The European experience, 1750-1990.

1998

#7613

Medicine, mortality and the book trade.

Seven essays, edited by Harris and Myers. Of special interest are Harris, "Printers' diseases: The human cost of a mechanical process"; Lotte Hellinga, "Medical incunabula"; John Symons, " 'These crafty dealers': Sir …

1998

#7717

Historical perspectives on climate change.

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.

1998

#9770

National Health Service: A political history.

Revised second edition, 2002.

1998

#10477

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

1998

#12729

Sex and sexuality in early America. Edited by Merril D. Smith.

One of the only books on sexuality in colonial America.

1998

#13294

Black lung: Anatomy of a public health disaster.

1998

#13807

The eradication of infectious diseases. Report of the Dahlem Workshop....Berlin, March 16-22, 1997. Edited by W. R. Dowdle and D. R. Hopkins.

This Dahlem Workshop occurred on the 20th anniversary of the eradication of smallpox.

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…

1999

#7104

Teaching America about sex. Marriage guides and sex manuals from the late Victorians to Dr. Ruth.

1999

#7535

Twentieth-century sexuality: A history.

1999

#7616

Health, civilization and the state: A history of public health from ancient to modern times.

1999

#7890

Mending bodies, saving souls: A history of hospitals.

1999

#8069

An American Obsession: Science, medicine, and homosexuality in modern society.