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

2017

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Silicosis: A world history. Edited by Paul-André Rosental.

2017

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Madhouse: Psychiatry and politics in Cuban history.

2017

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The Fate of Rome: Climate, disease, and the end of an empire.

2017

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Prostitution in the ancient Greek world.

2017

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The coronary heart disease pandemic in the twentieth century: Emergence and decline in advanced countries.

"This book demonstrates that a pandemic of coronary heart disease occurred in North America, western and northern Europe, and Australia and New Zealand from the 1930s to about 2000. At its peak it caused more deaths t…

2018

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GALEN: Hygiene. Books 1-4, Books 5-6. Thrasybulus on exercise with a small ball. Edited and translated by Ian Johnston. 2 vols.

2018

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Belonging on an island: Birds, extinction, and evolution in Hawai'i.

2018

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Suffering scholars: Pathologies of the intellectual in Enlightenment France.

2018

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Imagining Chinese medicine. Edited by Vivienne Lo and Penelope .

Finely produced and illustrated collection, with many plates in color, of 36 scholarly essays on the widest range of Chinese medical illustrations, including erotica.

2018

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The fears of the rich, the needs of the poor: My years at the CDC,

Director of the Centers for Disease Control from 1977-1983, and President and Co-Founder of The Task Force for Global Heath, 1984-1999, Foege was instrumental in the eradication of smallpox, the generalization of immu…

2018

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Reading contagion: The hazards of reading in the age of print.

2018

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Maimonides On coitus. A new parallel Arabic-English Edition and Translation by Gerrit Bos. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides Vol. 11.)

"Moses Maimonides' On Coitus was composed at the request of an unknown high-ranking official who asked for a regimen that would be easy to adhere to, and that would increase his sexual potency, as he had a large numbe…

2018

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Eros, Wollust, Sünde. Sexualität in Europa von der Antike bis in die Frühe Neuzeit.

2019

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Pathogen genomics in public health.

"An important transformation is under way in public health. Next-generation sequencing (also called “high-throughput sequencing”) is reshaping communicable disease surveillance, allowing for earlier detection and more…

2019

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Literature and nature in the English renaissance: An ecocritical anthology. Edited by Todd Andrew Borlik.

2020

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Disibility in industrial Britain: A cultural and literary history of impairment in the coal industry.

2020

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Future of the human climate niche.

Significance "We show that for thousands of years, humans have concentrated in a surprisingly narrow subset of Earth’s available climates, characterized by mean annual temperatures around ∼13 °C. This distribution lik…

2020

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Appetite and its discontents: Science, medicine, and the urge to eat, 1750-1850.

2020

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Clean: The new science of skin.

"A preventative medicine physician and staff writer for The Atlantic explains the surprising and unintended effects of our hygiene practices in this informative and entertaining introduction to the new science of skin…

2020

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Revolutionary therapies: How the California Stem Cell Program saved lives, eased suffering - and changed the face of medicine forever.

2020

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Paleoclimatology: From snowball earth to the anthropocene.

2020

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Global health and the new world order: Historical and anthropological approaches to a changing regime of governance. Edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Claire Beaudevin, Christoph Gradmann, Anne M. Lovell, Laurent Pordié and David Cantor.

2020

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The science of starving in Victorian literature, medicine, and political economy.

2020

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Fevers, feuds, and diamonds: Ebola and the ravages of history.

"Farmer first visited the Western African Ebola virus epidemic site in July 2014, and much of the book is devoted to his personal experiences. Reviewing the outbreak in 2020, he noted that there were almost no Ebola d…

2021

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Strong hearts and healing hands: Southern California Indians and field nurses, 1920-1950.

2021

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Preventable: The inside story of how leadership failures, politics, and selfishness doomed the U.S. coronavirus response.

2021

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The history of pediatric and adult hearing screening.

2022

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The transformation of American sex education: Mary Calderone and the fight for sexual health.

2022

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Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk.

1) Using a phylogeographical model of the mammal-virus network, and projections of geographical range shifts, the authors assert that 3,139 mammal species will aggregate in new combinations at high elevations, seeking…