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Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences

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1890English sanitary institutions, reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations.
1902Dangerous trades: the historical, social, and legal aspects of industrial occupations as affecting health, by a number of experts.
1928The quacks of old London.
1928A medical review of Soviet Russia.
1930The infant welfare movement in the eighteenth century.
1936The development of modern medicine, an interpretation of the social and scientific factors involved.
1937Socialized medicine in the Soviet Union.
1943The history of miners’ diseases. A medical and social interpretation.
1943Civilization and disease.
1946The midwest pioneer: His ills, cures, & doctors.
1947American medical research, past and present.
1948The dawn of Scottish social welfare. A survey from medieval times to 1863.
1951Genesis and geology: A study in the relations of scientific thought, natural theology, and social opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850.
1955A short history of medicine.
1956Lincoln's fifth wheel: the political history of the U. S. Sanitary Commission.
1957Medicine in Chicago, 1850-1950: A chapter in the social and scientific development of a city.
1959The history of nursing: An interpretation of the social and medical factors involved.
1961Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique.
1961Physicians to the Presidents, and their patients: A Biobibliography.
1962The cholera years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866.
1963Naissance de la clinique: Une archéologie du regard médical.
1964The hospitals, 1800-1948: A study in social administration in England and Wales.
1965Epidemic disease in Mexico City 1761-1813: An administrative, social, and medical study.
1966Medicine in America: historical essays.
1967The medical messiahs. A social history of health quackery in twentieth-century America.
1967Medical licensing in America, 1650-1965.
1968Geschichte der Medizin. Einführung in ihre Grundzüge.
1968The trial of the assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and law in the gilded age.
1968An uneasy equilibrium: Private and public financing of health service in the United States 1875-1965.
1969Gandhi's truth: On the origins of militant nonviolence.
1969George III and the mad business.
1972The trade in lunacy: A study of private madhouses in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
1972Public health and the state: Changing views in Massachusetts, 1842-1936.
1973Mental institutions in America: Social policy to 1873.
1974Psychiatry for the poor. 1851 Colney Hatch Asylum: Friem Hospital 1973. A medical and social history.
1974From medical police to social medicine.
1974The courage to fail: A social view of organ transplants and dialysis.
1975Antivivisection and medical science in Victorian society.
1976The naturalist in Britain: A social history.
1976Physician signers of the Declaration of Independence.
1976Plagues and peoples.
1976​–2018Histoire de la sexualité. 4 vols.
1976A service to the sick: A history of the health services for Africans in Southern Rhodesia (1890-1953).
1977"Doctors wanted: No women need apply." Sexual barriers in the medical profession, 1835-1975.
1978Medicine and pharmacy in American political prints (1765-1870).
1978Abortion in America: The origins and evolution of national policy, 1800-1900.
1979Harry S. Truman versus the medical lobby: The genesis of Medicare.
1981Medieval medicus. A social history of Anglo-Norman medicine.
1981Le milieu médical en France du XIIe au XVe siècle. En annexe, 2e supplément au Dictionnaire d'Ernest Wickersheimer.
1982The social transformation of American medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry.