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History of Public Health

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YearTitle & TagsAuthor(s)
1971International health organizations and their work. 2nd ed.
1972Public health and the state: Changing views in Massachusetts, 1842-1936.
1973The American disease: Origins of narcotic control.
1973Medicine and public health in the People's Republic of China. Edited by Joseph R. Quinn.
1974From medical police to social medicine.
1974Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and public health in pre-DDT America.
1974A history of public health in New York City.
1975The scientific background of the International Sanitary Conferences, 1851-1938.
1978Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. Vol. 2: De Sarajevo à Hiroshima.
1978International public health between the two world wars: The organizational problems.
1979The eradication of smallpox from India.
1981Fighting the plague in seventeenth century Italy.
1981Inside Russian medicine: An American doctor's first-hand report. With research assistance by Nicholas A. Petroff.
1981The Pan-American Health Organization: Origins and Evolution.
1982The healthiest city: Milwaukee and the politics of health reform.
1982Corps infirmes et sociétés : Essais d'anthropologie historique.
1987Disease and discovery: A history of the Johns Hopkins School Hygiene & Public Health 1916-1939.
1987A history of health & medicine in Queensland 1824-1960.
1987"I have done my duty." Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, 1854-56. Edited by Sue M. Goldie.
1988Smallpox and its eradication.
1988La prostitution médiévale.
1988Worker's health, workers' democracy: The Western miners' struggle, 1891-1925.
1989Plagues and politics: The story of the United States Public Health Service.
1989Public health in Papua New Guinea: Medical possibility and social constraint, 1884-1984.
1990The sanitarians: A history of American public health.
1990Politics and public health in revolutionary Russia, 1890-1918.
1991A history of education in public health: Health that mocks doctors' rules.
1992Sentinel for health: A history of the Centers for Disease Control
1992Miasmas and disease: Public health and the environment in the pre-industrial age. Translated by Elizabeth Potter.
1992Mission and method: The early-nineteenth-century French public health movement.
1993Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.
1994Public health in British India: Anglo-Indian preventive medicine 1859-1914.
1994The history of public health and the modern state. Edited by Dorothy Porter.
1995The making of a social disease: Tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France.
1995International health organisations and movements, 1918-1939. Edited by Paul Weindling.
1995Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: dalla peste europea alla guerra mondiale, 1348-1918.
1995Safeguarding the public health: A history of the New Zealand Department of Health.
1995The health of prisoners: Historical essays edited by Richard Creese, W. F. Bynum and J. Bearn
1996Chasing dirt: The American pursuit of cleanliness.
1996Baths and bathing in classical antiquity.
1997The decline of infant and child mortality: The European experience, 1750-1990.
1999Health, civilization and the state: A history of public health from ancient to modern times.
1999Mending bodies, saving souls: A history of hospitals.
1999Leib und Seele. Eine Kulturgeschichte des gesunden Lebens.
1999The gospel of germs: Men, women, and the microbe in American life.
1999Maori health and government policy 1840-1940.
2000Permissible dose: A history of radiation protection in the twentieth century.
2000The sanitary city: Urban infrastructure in America from colonial times to the present.
2001Rising life expectancy: A global history.
2001Black death, white medicine: Bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945.