Facets

1999

#8078

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

1999

#8511

Leib und Seele. Eine Kulturgeschichte des gesunden Lebens.

Translated into English by Jane Dewhurst as Wellbeing: A cultural history of healthy living (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008).

1999

#8960

Dragon's brain perfume: An historical geography of camphor.

"In the Dragon's Brain Perfume (a Chinese description of Camphor) once more the existence and importance of world systems of exchange becomes clear. In the pre-industrial world aromatic substances have always counted …

1999

#9113

The gospel of germs: Men, women, and the microbe in American life.

1999

#9748

Hygiene in the early modern medical tradition.

1999

#12543

Maori health and government policy 1840-1940.

1999

#13315

Governing the health care state: A comparative study of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany.

"This book represents the first comparative study of how health policy is made in leading industrial nations. Using detailed case histories of the UK, the US and Germany, it shows that health care systems and modern s…

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

#7425

The Cambridge world history of food. 2 vols.

An encyclopedic work in 2153 pages; edited by Kiple and Ornelas.

2000

#7784

Permissible dose: A history of radiation protection in the twentieth century.

2000

#8102

Brush with death: A social history of lead poisoning.

2000

#8181

Medical geography in historical perspective. (Medical History, Supplement No. 20). Edited by Nicolaas A. Rupke.

2000

#8360

The four horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, war, famine and death in Reformation Europe.

2000

#9392

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

2000

#10516

The sanitary city: Urban infrastructure in America from colonial times to the present.

2000

#12208

Beriberi, white rice, and vitamin B: A disease, a cause, and a cure.

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

#7840

Long night's journey into day: Prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945.

2001

#8396

Rising life expectancy: A global history.

"Between 1800 and 2000 life expectancy at birth rose from about 30 years to a global average of 67 years, and to more than 75 years in favored countries. This dramatic change was called a health transition, characteri…

2001

#9786

Traumatic pasts: History, psychiatry, and trauma in the modern age, 1870-1930. Edited by Mark S. Micale and Paul Lerner.

2001

#10091

Black death, white medicine: Bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945.

2001

#10193

Medicine that Walks: Disease, medicine, and Canadian Plains native people, 1880-1940.

"... Lux takes issue with the 'biological invasion' theory of the impact of disease on Plains Aboriginal people. She challenges the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with the diseases brought by Europ…

2001

#10335

Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle cell anemia and the politics of race and health.

"Set in Memphis, home of one of the nation's first sickle cell clinics, Dying in the City of the Blues reveals how the recognition, treatment, social understanding, and symbolism of the disease evolved in the twentiet…

2001

#10417

The technology of orgasm: "Hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction.

2001

#10799

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

2001

#10866

A history of bisexuality.

2002

#7536

Sexual blackmail: A modern history.

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…

2002

#8663

New Deal medicine: The rural health programs of the Farm Security Administration.

"Drawing on oral histories, archival records, and medical journals from the 1930s and 1940s, Grey finds the programs were both a rehearsal for more modern forms of medical organization and a lightning rod for critics …

2002

#8903

Drugs in America: A historical reader. [Compiled by] David F. Musto.

2002

#9565

The evolution of the conservation movement, 1850-1920.

https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html "documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage, through books, pamphlets, government…

2002

#10040

Medical police and the history of pubic health.

Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

2002

#12415

The quest for drug control: Politics and federal policy in a period of increasing substance abuse, 1963-1981.

2003

#7427

Schooling sex: Libertine literature and erotic education in Italy, France, and England 1534-1685.

2003

#8218

Goldberger's war: The life and work of a public health crusader.

2003

#9152

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

2003

#9452

The history of tropical neurology: Nutritional disorders.

2003

#10028

The people's health: Public health in Australia, 1788-1950. Vol. 2: The people's health: Public health in Australia, 1950 to the present. 2 vols.

2003

#10210

Homosexuality and civilization.

The history of homosexuality in Europe and parts of Asia from Homer to the 18th century.

2003

#10215

Protecting America's health: The FDA, business, and one hundred years of regulation.

2003

#10233

Deforesting the earth: From prehistory to global crisis.

This work, which was heralded as a masterwork of scholarship when published, originally consisted of 689pp. In 2006 the publishers issued "an abridgment" to make the work accessible to a "general readership." The abri…

2003

#10583

Origin of the life of a human being: Conception and the female according to ancient Indian medical and sexological literature.

2003

#10710

Nameless offences: Homosexual desire in the nineteenth century.

2003

#10758

On the properties of foodstuffs (De alimentorum facultatibus). Introduction, translation and commentary by Owen Powell.

2003

#11593

The progressive era's health reform movement: A historical dictionary.

2003

#12371

Public health and the risk factor: A history of an uneven medical revolution.

"The acceptance of risk factors has produced changes in public health and medicine as profound as those that resulted from bacteriology and the germ theory of disease. . . . The risk factor concept has been controvers…

2003

#13758

Solitary sex: A cultural history of masturbation.

2003

#14155

Mountains beyond mountains: The quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a man who would cure the world

Traces the life of physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer with particular focus on his work fighting tuberculosis, especially in Haiti, Peru, and Russia.

2004

#7944

Making Kedjom medicine: A history of public health and well-being in Cameroon.