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Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences

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YearTitle & TagsAuthor(s)
1982The healthiest city: Milwaukee and the politics of health reform.
1983Mental illness and American society, 1875-1940.
1984The AMA and U.S. health policy since 1940.
1984Secret passions, secret remedies: Narcotic drugs in British Society, 1820-1930.
1985The making rehabilitation: A political economy of medical specialization, 1890-1980.
1986Doctors and medicine in medieval England 1340-1530.
1986Ecological imperialism: The biological expansion of Europe, 900-1900.
1986Health policies, health politics: The British and American experience, 1911-1965.
1986Inventing the NIH: Federal biomedical research policy, 1887-1937.
1986Masters of madness: Social origins of the American psychiatric profession.
1986The impact of illness on world leaders.
1986Medicine and American growth, 1800-1860.
1987The care of strangers: The rise of America’s hospital system.
1987And the band played on: Politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic.
1987Death, dissection and the destitute: The politics of the corpse in pre-victorian Britain.
1987Law, sex and Christian society in medieval Europe.
1987The making of the modern body: Sexuality and society in the nineteenth century. Edited by Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur.
1987Vivisection in historical perspective. Edited by Nicholaas A. Rupke.
1987Physiology in the American context, 1850-1940. Edited by Gerald L. Geison.
1987No magic bullet: A social history of venereal disease in the United States since 1880.
1988SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE. 1-
1988Problems of health care: The National Health Service before 1957.
1988Managing madness: Psychiatry and society in Australia 1788-1980.
1988Racial hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis.
1988A history of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund 1902-1986.
1989Health for sale: Quackery in England 1660-1850.
1989Doctors under Hitler.
1989Plagues and politics: The story of the United States Public Health Service.
1989Chills and fever: Health and disease in the early history of Alaska.
1990Politics and public health in revolutionary Russia, 1890-1918.
1990Sleepless souls: Suicide in early modern England.
1991From asylum to community: Mental health policy in modern America.
1991America's welfare state from Roosevelt to Reagan.
1992Enfermedad y sociedad en la crisis colonial del antiguo régimen: Nueva Granada en el tránsito del siglo XVIII al XIX, las epidemias de viruelas.
1992The social basis of health and healing in Africa. Edited by Steven Feierman and John M. Janzen.
1992The colonial disease: A social history of sleeping sickness in colonial Zaire, 1900-1940.
1992The social ideas of American physicians (1776-1976): Studies of the humanitarian tradition in medicine.
1993Medicine and the Reformation. Edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham.
1993The citizen-patient in revolutionary and imperial Paris.
1994Jews, medicine and medieval society.
1994The health of the presidents: The 41 United States presidents through 1993 from a physician's point of view.
1995The facts of life: The creation of sexual knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950.
1995Diktatoren im Spiegel der Medizin: Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin.
1995The making of a social disease: Tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France.
1995International health organisations and movements, 1918-1939. Edited by Paul Weindling.
1995Disease and class: Tuberculosis and the shaping of modern North American society.
1995The meanings of sex difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, science, and culture.
1995Picturing health and illness: Images of identity and difference.
1995The making of man-midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660-1770.
1995Power and illness. The failure of American health policy.