Facets

2004

#8070

How sex changed: A history of transsexuality in the United States.

2004

#8076

The politics of healing: Histories of alternative medicine in twentieth-century North America.

2004

#8321

Eros on the Nile. Translated from the Polish by Geoffrey L. Packer.

Originally published by Eros nad Nilem (Prószyyńki i S-ka S.A, 1998).

2004

#9263

To cast out disease: A history of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (1913-1951).

2004

#9709

Hygienic modernity: Meanings of health and disease in treaty-port China.

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…

2004

#14033

Public health in Qajar Iran.

"Until Now, there have been no books and only a few articles available in English that deal with the actual practice of medicine in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Iran. Willem Floor’s Public Health in Qajar Ir…

2005

#8166

The humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross.

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.

2005

#8839

Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing unto others.

2005

#12057

Ärzte, Ingenieure und städtische Gesundheit: medizinische Theorien in der Hygienebewegung des 19. Jahrhunderts.

2005

#13769

Essentials of medical geology: Impacts of the natural environment on public health. Editor-in-chief: Olle Selinus.

"... emphasizes the importance and interrelationships of geological processes to the health and diseases of humans and animals. Its accessible format fosters better communication between the health and geoscience comm…

2006

#7962

The Humboldt current: Nineteenth-century exploration and the roots of American environmentalism.

2006

#8035

The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs.

2006

#8251

Colonial pathologies: American tropical medicine, race, and hygiene in the Philippines.

2006

#8780

The great starvation experiment: Ancel Keys and the men who starved for science.

2006

#9265

The birth of development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization changed the world, 1945–1965.

2006

#9376

Producing sexual desire: Changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900.

2006

#9749

Death rode the rails: American railroad accidents and safety 1828-1965.

2006

#9763

Plague, SARS, and the story of medicine in Hong Kong.

2006

#10148

A century of adventure in northern health: The Public Health Service Commissioned Corps in Alaska, 1879-1978.

2006

#10366

All creatures: Naturalists, collectors, and biodiversity, 1850-1950.

2006

#11062

Sex, aging, & death in a medieval medical compendium. Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.52, its texts, language and scribe. Edited by M. Teresa Tavormina.

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

#7059

The battle of the bulge: A history of obesity research.

2007

#7534

Impotence: A cultural history.

2007

#7835

Unequal cures: Public health and political change in Bolivia, 1900-1950,

2007

#8077

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

2007

#8101

Silent victories: The history and practice of public health in twentieth-century America. Edited by John W. Ward and Christian Warren.

2007

#8163

De Yalta à Dien Bien Phu: Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, 1945-1955. (Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. Vol. 3:)

2007

#8985

How everyday products make people sick: Toxins at home and in the workplace.

An eloquent historical approach, written for a semi-popular audience, to everyday problems in occupational medicine and toxicology.

2007

#9759

Government and public health in America.

"How involved should the government be in American healthcare? Ronald Hamowy argues that to answer this pressing question, we must understand the genesis of the five main federal agencies charged with responsibility f…

2007

#11303

Inescapable ecologies: A history of environment, disease, and knowledge.

"Among the most far-reaching effects of the modern environmental movement was the widespread acknowledgment that human beings were inescapably part of a larger ecosystem." This book provides a "history of “ecological”…

2007

#11357

Routledge international encyclopedia of queer culture. Edited by David. A. Gerstner.

2007

#11361

The first man-made man: The story of two sex changes, one love affair, and a twentieth-century medical revolution.

A biography of Michael Dillon, who in the 1940s was the first successful case of female-to-male gender reassignment surgery--operations done by Sir Harold Gilles. Dillon established himself as a medical student. The b…

2007

#11370

Transsexual and other disorders of gender identity: A practical guide to management. Edited by James Barrett.

2007

#11464

The great nation in decline: Sex, modernity and health crises in revolutionary France c.1750–1850.

2007

#11465

Hospital politics in seventeenth-century France: The crown, urban elites and the poor.

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.

2007

#12988

Les regimes de santé au Moyen Âge. 2 vols.

2007

#13577

Vernacular bodies: The politics of reproduction in Early Modern England.

"Making babies was a mysterious process in 17th-century England. Fissell uses popular sources—songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals—to recover how ordinary men and women understood t…

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

#9006

Der Trieb zum Erzählen: Sexualpathologie und Homosexualität, 1852-1914.

2008 –2011

#9537

Public health: The development of a discipline. Edited by Dona Schneider and David E. Lilienfeld. 2 vols.

Collections of readings edited and introduced. Vol. 1: From the age of Hippocrates to the progressive era. Vol. 2: Twentieth century challenges.

2008

#9878

The politics of vaccination: Practice and policy in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, 1800-1874.

2008

#9880

The sciences of homosexuality in early modern Europe. Edited by Kenneth Borris and George S. Rousseau.

"This collection establishes that efforts to produce scientific explanations for same-sex desires and sexual behaviours are not a modern invention, but have long been characteristic of European thought. The sciences o…

2008

#10224

The measure of America: American human development report, 2008-2009.

" the first-ever human development report for a wealthy, developed nation. It introduces the American Human Development Index, which provides a single measure of well-being for all Americans, disaggregated by state an…

2008

#10509

Cholera and nation: Doctoring the Victorian social body.