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1993 CE

#9791

Directory of deceased American physicians, 1804-1929: A genealogical guide to over 149,000 medical practitioners providing brief biographical sketches drawn from the American Medical Association's Deceased Physician Masterfile. Edited by Arthur W. Hafner. 2 vols.

2000 CE

#9790

Music as medicine: The history of music therapy since antiquity. Edited by Peregrine Horden.

2000 CE

#9789

Disease & geography: The history of an idea.

2002 CE

#9788

The history of massage: An illustrated survey from around the world.

1996 CE

#9787

Hep-cats, narcs, and pipe dreams: A history of America's romance with illegal drugs.

2001 CE

#9786

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

1986 CE

#9785

Masters of madness: Social origins of the American psychiatric profession.

2005 CE

#9784

Tobacco in history and culture: An encyclopedia. Edited by Jordan Goodman. 2 vols.

2009 CE

#9783

Before Prozac: The troubled history of mood disorders in psychiatry.

1993 CE

#9782

From the mind into the body: The cultural origins of psychosomatic symptoms.

1992 CE

#9781

From paralysis to fatigue: A history of psychosomatic illness in the modern era.

2005 CE

#9780

A historical dictionary of psychiatry.

The first historical dictionary of psychiatry.

2016 CE

#9779

Murder and the making of English CSI.

2012 CE

#9778

Poison, detection and the Victorian imagination.

2007 CE

#9777

Rabies in Britain: Dogs, disease and culture, 1830-2000.

Also published as Mad dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830-2000.

1990 CE

#9776

A chronology of nuclear medicine.

1982 CE

#9775

Dark paradise: Opiate addiction in America before 1940.

Enlarged edition retitled: Dark paradise: A history of opiate addiction in America (2002).

1998 CE

#9774

The genesis of surgical anesthesia.

Treats the history of surgical anesthesia from the earliest time through the work of John Snow (1813-1858).

1555 CE–1556 CE

#9773

Le benefice commun de tout le monde, ou commodité de vie d’vn chascun, pour la conseruation de santé: Remedes segretz tirées des plantes contre toutes maladies. 3 vols.

A vernacular guide for living a healthy life compiled from the writings of Fuchs. Includes herbal and dietary remedies, recipes for oils, pills and other preparations to treat maladies such as fever, plague and wounds.

1996 CE

#9772

Government and health care: The British National Health Service 1958–1979.

1988 CE

#9771

Problems of health care: The National Health Service before 1957.

1998 CE

#9770

National Health Service: A political history.

Revised second edition, 2002.

1979 CE

#9769

Health, medicine and mortality in the sixteenth century. Edited by Charles Webster.

Chapter 11 is an analysis of the life and work of librarian and key early pioneer in medical informatics, Sanford V. Larkey by Margaret Pelling. Another chapter, by Paul Slack, “Mirrors of health and treasures o…

2005 CE

#9768

Drug discovery: A history.

1995 CE

#9767

The spirit of voluntarism: A legacy of commitment and contribution: The United States pharmacopeia 1820-1995.

2004 CE

#9766

Civil War pharmacy: A history of drugs, drug supply and provision, and therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy.

1990 CE

#9764

Politics and public health in revolutionary Russia, 1890-1918.

2006 CE

#9763

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

2004 CE

#9762

War epidemics: An historical geography of infectious diseases in military conflict and civil strife, 1850–2000.

1999 CE

#9761

Epidemics and history: Disease, power and imperialism.

1991 CE

#9760

A history of education in public health: Health that mocks doctors' rules.

"This is the first book to examine and compare the history and contemporary problems of education for public health in Britain and the United States. In Britain, education for public health has been directed solely to…

2007 CE

#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…

2009 CE

#9758

Bathing in the Roman world.

1996 CE

#9757

Baths and bathing in classical antiquity.

Reviews and analyzes the structure, function, and design of baths, seeking to integrate their architecture with the wider social and cultural custom of bathing, and examining in particular the changes this custom unde…

1966 CE

#9756

Contributions to the history of medicine from the Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 1925-1935.

A useful collection of Garrison's numerous historical articles published in this journal.

1915 CE

#9755

John Shaw Billings: A memoir.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1888 CE

#9754

Medical museums, with special reference to the Army Medical Museum at Washington. The president's address delivered before the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, September 20, 1888.

An historical and comparative study promoting the value of medical museums. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1984 CE

#9753

Concordance des oeuvres hippocratiques. Éditée par Gilles Maloney et Winnie Frohn, avec la collaboration du Dr. Paul Potter. 5 vols.

Iintroductory material in French; text in Greek.

1982 CE

#9752

Cinq cents ans de bibliographie hippocratique, 1473-1982.

Includes 3332 numbered entries of works concerning Hippocrates and the Hippocratic corpus with index of author's names with their Latin form (particularly helpful for Renaissance Latinized names) and index of modern a…

2017 CE

#9751

Images of America: US National Library of Medicine. Edited by Jeffrey S. Reznick and Kenneth M. Koyle with the staff of the US National Library of Medicine.

Images with detailed captions documenting the development of this institution.

2005 CE

#9750

Bleed, blister, and purge. A history of medicine on the American frontier.

2006 CE

#9749

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

1999 CE

#9748

Hygiene in the early modern medical tradition.

1980 CE

#9747

Magical medicine: The folkloric component of medicine in the folk belief, custom, and ritual of the peoples of Europe and America. Seleced essays of Wayland D. Hand.

2003 CE

#9746

Medicine across cultures: History and practice of medicine in non-Western cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin.

A very wide-ranging selection of essays

1999 CE

#9745

Southern folk medicine 1750-1820.

1994 CE

#9744

Folk tradition and folk medicine in Scotland: The writings of David Rorie. Edited by David Buchan.

2000 CE

#9743

Early English charms, plant lore, and healing.

1994 CE

#9742

The health of the presidents: The 41 United States presidents through 1993 from a physician's point of view.

1967 CE

#9741

The doctor on the stage: Medicine and medical men in seventeenth-century England.