Facets

2002 CE

#8384

A traffic of dead bodies: Anatomy and embodied social identity in nineteenth century America.

2015 CE

#10341

Beyond germs: Native depopulation in North America. Edited by Catherine M. Cameron, Paul Kelton, and Alan C. Swedlund.

This book "challenges the “virgin soil” hypothesis that was used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous people of North America. This hypothesis argues that the massive depopulation of the…

1874 CE

#6585

Contributions to the annals of medical progress and medical education in the United States before and during the War of Independence.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

2009 CE

#8617

Health and medicine on display: International expositions in the United States, 1876-1904.

2008 CE

#10082

Health transitions in Arctic populations. Edited by T. Kue Young and Peter Bjerregaard.

Concerns indigenous and non-indigenous people in five Arctic regions: Greenland, Northern Canada, Alaska, Arctic Russia, and Northern Fennoscandia (Scandinavia).

1932 CE

#8074

Medical care for the American people. The final report of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care.

See Gore, "A forgotten landmark medical study from 2932 by the Committee on the Cost of Medical Care," Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2013 Apr; 26 (2): 142–143. Available from PubMedCentral at this link. See also, R…

2008 CE

#8080

National health insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, territory, and the roots of difference.

Explores why two countries that were very similar in many ways, struck out on radically divergent paths to public health insurance. Canada developed a universal single-payer system of national health care, while the U…

2010 CE

#10342

Shadows in the valley: A cultural history of illness, death, and loss in New England, 1840-1916.

"...The study is organized for the most part around disease categories and the life cycle, so that the cultural framework of people's habits and values often seems secondary. Most of what we learn about illness and de…

1982 CE

#6596.6

The social transformation of American medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry.

2008 CE

#7929

This republic of suffering: Death and the American Civil War.

2013 CE

#10062

Transforming the culture of dying: The work of the Project on Death in America.

"Over a period of almost 10 years, the work of the Project on Death in America (PDIA) played a formative role in the advancement of end of life care in the United States. The project concerned itself with adults and c…