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History of Public Health

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YearTitle & TagsAuthor(s)
1851​–1853Histoire de la prostitution chez tous les peuples du monde depuis l'antiquité la plus reculée jusqu'a nos jours, par Paul Dufour. 6 vols.
1875Histoire de l’habitation humaine depuis les temps préhistoriques jusqu'à nos jours.
1879The laws relating to quarantine of Her Majesty's dominions at home and abroad, and of the principal foreign states, including the sections of the Public health act, 1875, which bear upon measures of prevention
1881Die öffentliche Hygiene im alten Rom.
1883Medical economy during the Middle Ages; a contribution to the history of European morals, from the time of the Roman Empire to the close of the 14th century.
1884London water supply, including a history and description of the London waterworks.
1890Gesundheitspflege im Mittelalter.
1890English sanitary institutions, reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations.
1905History of the Philadelphia almshouses and hospitals from the beginning of the eighteenth to the ending of the nineteenth centuries, covering a period of nearly two hundred years. showing the mode of distributing public relief through the management of the Boards of Overseers of the Poor, Guardians of the Poor and the Directors of the Department of Charities and Correction.
1906L’hygiène publique à travers les âges.
1906The jungle.
1917​–1922Science et dévouement: Le service de santé, la Croix-Rouge, les oeuvres de solidarité de guerre et d'après-guerre. Publie avec la colloboration de MM. J. Abadie, Jacques Bertillon, Georges Brouardel....Edited by François Albert.
1919The story of English public health.
1921A half-century of public health. Jubilee historical volume of the American Public Health Association.
1927The history of heating, ventilation, and lighting.
1927Evolution of preventive medicine.
1929The treatment of the sick poor of this country and the preservation of the health of the poor in this country.
1932The rise of preventive medicine.
1932A century of public health in Britain, 1832-1929.
1934A history of food adulteration and analysis.
1935Fifty years in public health: a personal narrative with comments.
1935Rats, lice and history: being a study in biography, which, after 12 preliminary chapters indispensable for the preparation of the lay reader, deals with the life history of typhus fever.
1936The last thirty years in public health.
1936Medical history of contraception.
1939John Howard (1726-1790) hospital and prison reformer: A bibliography
1940The development of public health in Canada: a review of the history and organization of public health in the provinces of Canada, with an outline of the present organization of the National Health Section of the Department of Pensions and National Health, Canada. Edited by R. D. Defries.
1943Cleanliness and godliness.
1943The conquest of epidemic diseases. A chapter in the history of ideas.
1946The story of water supply.
1947A guide to the history of physical education. 3rd edition, revised and enlarged by George Affleck.
1948The dawn of Scottish social welfare. A survey from medieval times to 1863.
1948The Pan American Sanitary Bureau: Its origin, developments and achievements, 1902-1944.
1950A history of English public health, 1834-1939.
1950La demogenia Peruana y sus problemas medico-sociales.
1951The United States Public Health Service, 1798-1950.
1952The advance to social medicine.
1954La solidaridad de las Américas ante la salud.
1955The Pan American Saintary Bureau: Half a century of health activities 1902-1954.
1956A short history of public health.
1958A history of public health.
1959Public health in the town of Boston, 1630-1822.
1961The story of England’s hospitals.
1962​–1968Prostitution and society. A survey. 3 vols.
1962A bio-bibliography of Florence Nightingale.
1963Contraception through the ages.
1963Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. De Solférino à Tsoushima.
1963World health and history.
1965Geschichte der Geriatrie. Dreitausend Jahre Physiologie, Pathologie und Therapie des alten Menschen.
1967Ten centuries of European hospital architecture.
1968Medicine in Mexico: From Aztec herbs to betatrons.