Facets

1950 CE

#1670

A history of English public health, 1834-1939.

2014 CE

#10422

Aphrodisiacs, fertility and medicine in early modern England.

This work "... in its extensive study of gynecological treatises from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, provides an important intervention into assumptions about the subversive quality of aphrodisiacs and abor…

1992 CE

#11054

Courage under siege: Starvation, disease, and death in the Warsaw Ghetto.

1987 CE

#7665

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

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…

1998 CE

#10477

Enlightenment and pathology: Sensibility in the literature and medicine of eighteenth-century France.

2010 CE

#8027

Fictions of well-being: Sickly readers and vernacular medical writing in late medieval and early modern Spain. Michael

2009 CE

#9258

Food in medieval England: Diet and nutrition. Edited by C. M. Woolgar, D. Serjeantson and T. Waldron.

1845 CE

#2421

Geschichte der Lustseuche. Erster Theil. Die Lustseuche im Alterthume.

French translation, 1847; English translation as The plague of lust, being a history of venereal disease in classical antiquity, and including: Detailed investigations into the cult of Venus, and phallic worship, brot…

1996 CE

#9772

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

1972 CE

#10684

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome VI, 2e partie: Du régime des maladies aiguës, Appendice, De l'aliment, De l'usage des liquides. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises of different periods devoted to nutrition: On regimen in acute diseases (in two versions, with the second traditionally identified as th…

2007 CE

#11465

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

1981 CE

#10222

Inside Russian medicine: An American doctor's first-hand report. With research assistance by Nicholas A. Petroff.

A period piece but valuable for its professional assessment of the state of Russian medicine during the period.

1642 CE

#8956

La presence des absens; ou facile moyen de rendre présent au médecin l'estat d'un malade absent. Dressé par les docteurs en médecine consultans charitablement à Paris pour les pauvres malades.

Renaudot, physician, philanthropist and journalist, published this self-diagnostic handbook so that charity patients could communicate with their physicians by correspondence. Digital facsimile from biusante.paris.des…

2008 CE

#10732

La salud y el Estado: El movimiento sanitario internacional y la administración española (1851-1945).

2011 CE

#10576

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

1992 CE

#11134

Mission and method: The early-nineteenth-century French public health movement.

1998 CE

#9770

National Health Service: A political history.

Revised second edition, 2002.

1851 CE–1876 CE

#31

Oeuvres d’Oribase, texte grec, en grande partie inédit…traduit pour la première fois en français; par les Drs. Bussemaker et Daremberg. 6 vols.

Oribasius was a compiler of existing knowledge rather than an original writer. His output was immense; he compiled the Synagoge, an encyclopedic digest of medicine, hygiene, therapeutics, and surgery from Hippocrates …

1989 CE

#12889

Phossy jaw and the French match workers: Occupational health and women in the Third Republic.

"The 1898 suppression of white phosphorous in the French match industry was a victory of organized labour. At a time when most French workers did not have the power to effect changes in the health and safety condition…

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…

2017 CE

#11033

Prostitution in the ancient Greek world.

2009 CE

#10770

Public health and social justice in the age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800–1854.

2015 CE

#11442

Salmonella infections, networks of knowledge, and public health in Britain, 1880-1975.

1917 CE–1922 CE

#10532

Science 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.

A deluxe, large format, commemorative volume edited by journalist François Albert. It was published by subscription, limited to 5000 copies, and issued in fascicules from 1917-1922. Includes contributions by 50…

1995 CE

#8703

Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: dalla peste europea alla guerra mondiale, 1348-1918.

2010 CE

#8704

Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: Dalla peste nera ai giorni nostri.

2018 CE

#10476

Suffering scholars: Pathologies of the intellectual in Enlightenment France.

2016 CE

#9257

The culture of food in England 1200-1500.

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.

1967 CE

#10396

The origins of the National Health Service: The medical services of the New Poor Law, 1834-1871.

1961 CE

#1671.4

The story of England’s hospitals.

2007 CE

#13577

Vernacular bodies: The politics of reproduction in Early Modern England.

"Making babies was a mysterious process in 17th-century England. Fissell uses popular sources—songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals—to recover how ordinary men and women …