Facets

2013

#8037

Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the sciences in Paris, 1670-1760.

2013

#8185

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

2013

#10486

The pleasure's all mine: A history of perverse sex.

2013

#10552

The Routledge history of sex and the body, 1500 to the present. Edited by Sarah Toulalan and Kate Fisher.

2013

#10774

Broadcasting birth control: Mass media and family planning.

Explores the films and radio and television broadcasts developed by twentieth-century birth control advocates to promote family planning at home in the United States, and in the expanding international arena of popula…

2013

#10801

Marrow of tragedy: The health crisis of the American Civil War.

2013

#10878

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus in bats, Saudi Arabia.

Dated November 2013. The authors collected bat feces from sites in Bisha, Saudi Arabia found less than 1-12 kilometers from the place of employment or home of an index case-patient there, and performed total nucleic a…

2013

#11519

The miraculous conformist: Valentine Greatrakes, the body politic, and the politics of healing in restoration Britain.

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 …

2013

#13295

Dangerously sleepy: Overworked Americans and the cult of manly wakefulness.

The first book to track the longtime association of overwork and sleep deprivation from the nineteenth century to the present.

2014

#7846

Imperial hygiene: A critical history of colonialism, nationalism and public health.

2014

#8038

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

2014

#8296

History of toxicology and environmental health. Toxicology in antiquity. 2 vols. Edited by Philip Wexler.

2014

#8584

Food and environment in early and medieval China.

2014

#10422

Aphrodisiacs, fertility and medicine in early modern England.

This work "... in its extensive study of gynecological treatises from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, provides an important intervention into assumptions about the subversive quality of aphrodisiacs and abor…

2014

#10542

Female circumcision and clitoridectomy in the United States: A history of a medical treatment.

"From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, American physicians treated women and girls for masturbation by removing the clitoris (clitoridectomy) or clitoral hood (female circumcision). Durin…

2014

#10629

The Pelvis: Structure, gender and society.

"This book offers a critical review of the pelvic sciences—past, present and future—from an anatomical and physiological perspective....The book starts with a “construction plan” of the pelvis and shows its structural…

2014

#10911

Medicine in Iran: Profession, practice, and politics, 1800-1925.

2014

#11195

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and the religion of biologic living.

"Purveyors of spiritualized medicine have been legion in American religious history, but few have achieved the superstar status of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his Battle Creek Sanitarium. In its heyday, the 'San' was …

2014

#11359

Trans bodies, Trans selves: A resource for the transgender community. Edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth.

2015

#8043

Another person's poison: A history of food allergy.

2015

#8274

Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world: The Ottoman experience, 1347-1600.

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.

2015

#9039

The Rockefeller Foundation, public health and international diplomacy, 1920–1945.

The role of the Rockefeller Foundation and the League of Nations in improving public health during the interwar period. Barona argues that the Foundation applied a model of business efficiency to its ideology of sprea…

2015

#9636

In search of the perfect health system.

"With chapters on 25 different countries, this practical and succinct guide to the world's major health systems explores what lessons can be drawn from each to improve health worldwide. Each chapter is an essay design…

2015

#9705

Sanitation, latrines and intestinal parasites in past populations. Edited by Piers D. Mitchell.

2015

#9859

Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South.

"The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878--a disaster that caused 20,000 deaths and financial losses of nearly $200 mill…

2015

#11442

Salmonella infections, networks of knowledge, and public health in Britain, 1880-1975.

2015

#11807

The coral reef era: From discovery to decline. A history of scientific investigation from 1600 to the anthropocene epoch.

2015

#12130

Medicine on the periphery: Public health in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870-1960.

2016

#7826

Facing addiction in America: The Surgeon General's report on alcohol, drugs, and health.

The first U.S. Surgeon General's report on substance misuse and the wide range of adverse health effects from alcohol and both legal and illegal drugs. It brought together evidence on prevention; treatment; and recove…

2016

#8047

Food and health in early modern Europe: Diet, medicine and society, 1450-1800.

2016

#8062

WHO Historical collection.

Background Disease classifications and nomenclature documents History of international health organizations documents League of Nations malaria documents Rare books on plague, smallpox and epidemiology

2016

#8063

Wikipedia Timeline of global health.

1.Big picture 1.1Late 1700s–1930s (pre-WWII era) 1.21940s–early 1960s (post-WWII era) 1.3Late 1960s–1970s 1.41980s–2000 1.52000s and beyond 2.Full timeline 2.1Inclusion criteria 2.2Timeline 3.See also 3.1General 3.2Di…

2016

#8064

WHO Model list of essential medicines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHO_Model_List_of_Essential_Medicines (accessed 12-2016). The first list, published in 1977, included 204 pharmaceutical drugs.[1] The WHO updates the list every two years. The WHO later …

2016

#8106

The smoke of London: Energy and environment in the early modern city.

2016

#8165

International Committee of the Red Cross: History.

https://www.icrc.org/en/who-we-are/history. Extensive background, videos, links to the ICRC archives, etc., etc. Accessed 12-2016

2016

#8550

Household medicine in seventeenth-century England.

2016

#8986

Fake silk: The lethal history of viscose rayon.

2016

#9114

Remaking the American patient: How Madison Avenue and modern medicine turned patients into consumers.

"In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explo…

2016

#9238

A history of global health: Interventions into the lives of other peoples.

2016

#9257

The culture of food in England 1200-1500.

2016

#9594

Data Refuge.

https://www.datarefuge.org/ "Data Refuge is a public and collaborative project designed to address concerns about federal climate and environmental data that is in danger of being lost[1]. In particular, the initiativ…

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…

2016

#10485

Amatory pleasures: Explorations in eighteenth-century sexual culture.

2016

#10662

Progressive mothers, better babies, race, public health, and the state in Brazil, 1850-1945.

2016

#10669

Public opinion, public policy, and smoking: The transformation of American attitudes and cigarette use.

2016

#11496

Quarantine: Local and global histories. Edited by Alison Bashford.

2016

#14068

Influenza encyclopedia: The American influenza epidemic of 1918 - 1919: A digital encyclopedia. Second edition.

ABOUT "Historians, journalists, and the public at large have long been interested in the 1918 “Spanish flu” epidemic, a dramatic chapter in American life that has spawned an impressive body of books, articles, and mul…

2017

#9973

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