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1933 CE

#8079

The incidence of illness and the receipt and costs of medical care among representative families. Experiences in twelve consecutive months during 1928-1931. Publications of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care : No. 26.

Digital facsimile from Hathi Trust at this link.

1999 CE

#8078

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

2007 CE

#8077

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

2004 CE

#8076

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

1933 CE

#8075

The costs of medical care: A summary of investigations on the economic aspects of the prevention and care of illness.

1932 CE

#8074

Medical care for the American people. The final report of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care.

See Gore, "A forgotten landmark medical study from 2932 by the Committee on the Cost of Medical Care," Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2013 Apr; 26 (2): 142–143. Available from PubMedCentral at this link. See also, R…

1810 CE

#8073

Précis historique de l'art vétérinaire pour servir d'introduction a une bibliographie vétérinaire générale.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1966 CE

#8072

Médecine humaine et vétérinaire à la fin du Moyen Âge.

1865 CE–1889 CE

#8071

Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences médicales. Directeur: A. Dechambre. 100 vols.

A massive encyclopedia based on historical principles, written by the leading authorities, and with detailed bibliographical references. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

2004 CE

#8070

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

1999 CE

#8069

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

2004 CE

#8068

Invention of hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière.

See No. 4558.1

2014 CE

#8067

Seeing the insane: A visually and cultural history of our attitudes toward the mentally ill.

1988 CE

#8066

Disease and representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS.

2012 CE

#8065

Health and illness: Images of difference.

2016 CE

#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 CE

#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.S…

2016 CE

#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

2000 CE

#8061

Epidemics and genocide in Eastern Europe, 1890-1945.

2010 CE

#8060

The problem of nutrition: Experimental science, public health and economy in Europe 1914-1945.

2012 CE

#8059

Historical dictionary of the World Health Organization. Second edition.

Covers the history of the WHO through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendices, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on key bodies, programs, events and p…

1995 CE

#8058

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

1945 CE

#8057

Bibliography of the technical work of the Health Organisation of the League of Nations, 1920-1945.

2015 CE

#8056

Histoire et épistémologie de l'anatomie et de la physiologie en art dentaire: De l'antiquité à la fin du XXe siècle.

1976 CE

#8055

The naturalist in Britain: A social history.

1992 CE

#8054

The Norton history of the environmental sciences.

1999 CE

#8053

Medicine and society in early modern Europe.

Second edition, 2010.

1996 CE

#8052

Health and healing in eighteenth-century Germany.

1997 CE

#8051

The clock and the mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine.

2007 CE

#8050

History, medicine, and the traditions of Renaissance learning.

1990 CE

#8049

Medieval & Early Renaissance medicine: An introduction to knowledge and practice.

1987 CE

#8048

Geschichte unter der Haut. Ein Eisenacher Arzt und seine Patientinnen um 1730.

A study of cultural representations of women patients as recorded in the case records of Johann Storch (1681-1751), a physician who lived and worked in the town of Eisenach, Germany during the first half of the 18th c…

2016 CE

#8047

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

2006 CE

#8046

Medical charlatanism in early modern Italy.

2005 CE

#8045

Alcoholism in America, from Reconstruction to Prohibition.

2004 CE

#8044

Altering American Consciousness: The history of alcohol and drug use in the United States, 1800-2000.

2015 CE

#8043

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

2015 CE

#8042

Vietnamese traditional medicine: A social history.

Reception of foreign medical ideas and techniques through the case study of smallpox.

2002 CE

#8041

Vital accounts: Quantifying health and population in eighteenth-century England and France.

Focuses several chapters on the debates over innoculation for smallpox, and statistical measurement of results, statistical studies of the effect of climate on disease, etc.

1782 CE

#8040

Traité des maladies vermineuses dans les animaux.

Includes two plates printed in color by Edouard Dagoty. These were not included in later editions. Digital facsimile of th 1782 edition from the Internet Archive at this link; of the 1787 edition at this link.

2010 CE

#8039

Utopia's garden: French natural history from Old Regime to revolution.

2014 CE

#8038

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

2013 CE

#8037

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

1995 CE

#8036

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

2006 CE

#8035

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

2002 CE

#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…

1981 CE

#8033

Digging up bones: The excavation, treatment, and study of human skeletal remains. Third edition.

1998 CE

#8032

Food in antiquity: A survey of the diet of early peoples

Originally published in 1969.

1588 CE

#3416

A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body: With other precepts of the same arte, practised and written by that famous man Franciscus Arceus ... and translated into English by Iohn Read, chirurgion: Whereunto is added the exact cure of the caruncle, never before set foorth in the English toung: With a treatise of the fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Iohannes Ardern: And also the discription of the emplaister called Dia Chalciteos, with its use and vertues: With an apt table for the better finding of the perticular matters, contayned in this present worke.

This translation by surgeon John Read contains the first printing of John of Arderne's writings on his operation for the cure of anal fistula, written originally about 1376. At one time John of Arderne practiced at Ne…

2000 CE

#8030

African traditional medicine: A dictionary of plant use and applications with supplement: Search system for diseases.