Facets

2008 CE

#9878

The politics of vaccination: Practice and policy in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, 1800-1874.

1988 CE

#10452

A history of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund 1902-1986.

"The author takes a broad perspective and provides a comparative framework by discussing the changing relationship between the ICRF and the medical profession, government, and other charities, notably the Cancer Resea…

1928 CE

#11005

A medical review of Soviet Russia.

Gantt went to Russia in the 1920s with the American Relief Administration, and became a student of Pavlov. Moving to Johns Hopkins in 1929, he founded the Pavlovian Laboratory, and devoted his career to understanding …

2001 CE

#7776

Bodies politic: Disease, death and doctors in Britain, 1650-1900.

Social history emphasizing the visual depiction of disease, death and doctors.

1998 CE

#8785

Death of medicine in Nazi Germany: Dermatology under the Swastika. Edited by A. Bernard Ackerman.

1987 CE

#7665

Death, dissection and the destitute: The politics of the corpse in pre-victorian Britain.

2001 CE

#13979

Deutsche Medizin im Dritten Reich: Karrieren vor und nach 1945.

1986 CE

#6551.4

Doctors and medicine in medieval England 1340-1530.

A social, cultural, and intellectual history of medicine and medical practitioners between the Black Death and the foundation of the Royal College of Physicians.

1989 CE

#8678

Doctors under Hitler.

1890 CE

#1650

English sanitary institutions, reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations.

Simon "viewed the state as provider of the basic conditions needed for subsistence (without interfering in the iron law of wages) through sanitary reform of the environment, prevention of epidemic diseases, and the re…

2005 CE

#10166

Exilio y depuración política: En la Facultad de Medicina de San Carlos.

Focuses on the period of the Second Spanish Republic, 1931-1939.

1998 CE

#9999

General practice under the National Health Service 1948-1997. Edited by Irvine Loudon, John Horder & Charles Webster.

1969 CE

#10637

George III and the mad business.

1996 CE

#9772

Government and health care: The British National Health Service 1958–1979.

1996 CE

#8052

Health and healing in eighteenth-century Germany.

1989 CE

#7668

Health for sale: Quackery in England 1660-1850.

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).

2003 CE

#9874

Health, disease and society in Europe, 1500-1800: A source book. Edited by Peter Elmer and Ole Peter Grell.

2004 CE

#9876

Health, disease and society in Europe, 1800-1930: A source book. Edited by Deborah Brunton.

2008 CE

#9600

Hippocratic recipes: Oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth-and fourth-century Greece.

"... the first extended study of the pharmacological recipes included in the Hippocratic Corpus. The recipes, found mostly in the gynaecological and nosological treatises, are here examined both from a philological an…

2007 CE

#11465

Hospital politics in seventeenth-century France: The crown, urban elites and the poor.

2015 CE

#10969

Ill composed: Sickness, gender, and belief in early modern England.

A cultural history of illness from the standpoint of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.

1834 CE

#10394

Jurisprudence de la médecine, de la chirurgie, et de la pharmacie en France, comprenant la médecine légale, la police médicale, la responsabilitié des médecins, chirurgiens, pharmaciens, etc, l'exposé et la discussion des lois, ordonnances, réglemens et instructions concernant l'art de guérir, appuyé des jugemens des cours et des tribunaux.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2000 CE

#10433

Knowledge and practice in English medicine, 1550–1680.

"The book vividly maps out some central areas: remedies (and how they were made credible), notions of disease, advice on preventive medicine and on healthy living, and how surgeons worked upon the body and their under…

1911 CE

#1710

La dépopulation de la France: Ses conséquences, ses causes, mésures à prendre pour la combattre.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1981 CE

#11947

Le milieu médical en France du XIIe au XVe siècle. En annexe, 2e supplément au Dictionnaire d'Ernest Wickersheimer.

2017 CE

#9882

Malleable anatomies: Models, makers, and material culture in eighteenth-century Italy.

"Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modeling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy. It investigates the "mania" for anatomical displays that swept the Italian peninsula, …

2001 CE

#8276

Medicine and the German Jews: A history.

2013 CE

#10541

Medicine and the workhouse. Edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard Schwarz.

The first in depth study of the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Throughout this period workhouses were a…

2004 CE

#9877

Medicine transformed: Health, disease and society in Europe 1800-1930.

2011 CE

#10576

Medicine, government, and public health in Philip II's Spain: Shared interests, competing authorities.

1981 CE

#6982

Medieval medicus. A social history of Anglo-Norman medicine.

Includes a directory of Anglo-Norman physicians.

2021 CE

#14104

Morbid undercurrents: Medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France.

"During the 1790s and beyond, medicine left the somber halls of universities, hospitals, and learned societies and became profoundly politicized, inspiring a whole panoply of different—often bizarre and shocking…

1963 CE

#9947

Naissance de la clinique: Une archéologie du regard médical.

Translated into English as The birth of the clinic: An archaeology of medical perception (1973).

1998 CE

#9770

National Health Service: A political history.

Revised second edition, 2002.

2004 CE

#7893

Nazi medicine and the Nuremberg trials: From medical war crimes to informed consent.

1990 CE

#9764

Politics and public health in revolutionary Russia, 1890-1918.

1988 CE

#9771

Problems of health care: The National Health Service before 1957.

2002 CE

#8034

Professional and popular medicine in France 1770-1830: The social world of medical practice.

"This is the first comprehensive study on a national scale of the entire range of medical practitioners who flourished in preindustrial and early industrial societies. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, it provides…

1974 CE

#5019.12

Psychiatry for the poor. 1851 Colney Hatch Asylum: Friem Hospital 1973. A medical and social history.

This is in effect a history of institutional psychiatry in Britain to time of writing.

1988 CE

#10228

Racial hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis.

1933 CE

#10308

Red medicine: Socialized health in Soviet Russia.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2014 CE

#10171

Santé et société à Montpellier à la fin du Moyen Âge.

1984 CE

#10243

Secret passions, secret remedies: Narcotic drugs in British Society, 1820-1930.

"....The major orientation is to opium, with two chapters on its alkaloid, morphine, occasional references to cocaine, and a mention of heroin. There is an enlightening discussion of reasons for the initial acceptance…

1937 CE

#9832

Socialized medicine in the Soviet Union.

"... Sigerist was influential in the creation of socialized medicine in Canada. He made four trips to Canada in the 1930s and 1940s at the invitation of various medical groups to speak on this topic. Under his influen…

2009 CE

#8428

The care of brute beasts: A social and cultural study of veterinary medicine in Early Modern England.

1993 CE

#8784

The citizen-patient in revolutionary and imperial Paris.

1948 CE

#1669

The dawn of Scottish social welfare. A survey from medieval times to 1863.

2007 CE

#11464

The great nation in decline: Sex, modernity and health crises in revolutionary France c.1750–1850.

2006 CE

#8035

The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs.