Facets
Browse across eight MeSH (opens in new tab) facets — era, geography, science, specialty, technology, history, culture, and reference. Select one tag per group; counts update across the others.
Clear filtersFacet filters
Geography
Specialties & Disease
- Anatomy & Pathology 4
- Cardiology & Blood 2
- Neurology & Psychiatry 16
- Obstetrics & Reproductive 9
- Infectious Disease (General) 4
- Surgery & Anesthesia 6
- Public Health 92
- Immunology & Dermatology 6
- General Clinical Medicine 6
- Military Medicine 21
- Psychology 1
- Alternative & Fringe Medicine 11
- Pediatrics 6
- Ophthalmology & Vision 0
- ENT & Hearing 0
- Urology & Nephrology 1
- Gastroenterology & Hepatology 0
- Pulmonary & Respiratory 0
- Rheumatology, Rehab & Pain 1
- Internal, Emergency & Geriatric 0
- Veterinary Medicine 1
- Epidemiology & Demography 17
- Physiology & Embryology 1
- Dentistry 0
- Plagues & Epidemics 26
- Microbiology & Virology 1
Social & Historical Studies
Institutions & Culture
Reference & Scholarly Works
Drugs & Technology
301 entries match Social & Political History [K01.850]
1995 CE
#8103
Disease and class: Tuberculosis and the shaping of modern North American society.
1983 CE
#10217
Disease change and the role of medicine: The Navajo experience.
1908 CE
#10392
Diseases of occupation from the legislative, social, and medical points of view.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
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.
2001 CE
#10623
Don't kill your baby: Public health and the decline of breastfeeding in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
1937 CE
#8594
Dr. Bodo Otto and the medical background of the American revolution by James E. Gibson.
Oddo, born in Germany, is one of the better-known American surgeons in the American revolutionary war; however he published nothing and is primarily known from this biography.
2006 CE
#8596
Dr. Franklin's medicine
The history of medicine, and Franklin's involvements in it, within the context of his life and career.
2001 CE
#10335
Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle cell anemia and the politics of race and health.
"Set in Memphis, home of one of the nation's first sickle cell clinics, Dying in the City of the Blues reveals how the recognition, treatment, social understanding, and symbolism of the disease evolved in the twentiet…
2013 CE
#8037
Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the sciences in Paris, 1670-1760.
1986 CE
#8213
Ecological imperialism: The biological expansion of Europe, 900-1900.
Revised edition, 2004.
2007 CE
#7056
Eliminating healthcare disparities in America. Beyond the IOM Report. Edited by Richard Allen Williams.
2005 CE
#10232
Emblematic monsters: Unnatural conceptions and deformed births in early modern Europe.
1992 CE
#8005
Enfermedad y sociedad en la crisis colonial del antiguo régimen: Nueva Granada en el tránsito del siglo XVIII al XIX, las epidemias de viruelas.
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…
1965 CE
#7933
Epidemic disease in Mexico City 1761-1813: An administrative, social, and medical study.
2000 CE
#8061
Epidemics and genocide in Eastern Europe, 1890-1945.
1999 CE
#9761
Epidemics and history: Disease, power and imperialism.
1902 CE
#12082
Essays in medical sociology. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
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.
1969 CE
#7487
Exploring the ocean world: A history of oceanography.
2016 CE
#10096
Farewell to the god of plague: Chairman Mao's campaign to deworm China.
2005 CE
#9935
Fathoming the ocean: The discovery and exploration of the deep sea.
2008 CE
#10362
Flesh and blood: Organ transplantation and blood transfusion in twentieth-century America.
1961 CE
#9946
Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique.
Foucault's first major book, translated into English as Madness and civilization: A history of insanity in the age of reason (1964).
2016 CE
#8047
Food and health in early modern Europe: Diet, medicine and society, 1450-1800.
1991 CE
#9154
From asylum to community: Mental health policy in modern America.
1974 CE
#11327
From medical police to social medicine.
2003 CE
#8008
From popular medicine to medical populism: Doctors, healers, and public power in Costa Rica, 1800–1940.
1969 CE
#7540
Gandhi's truth: On the origins of militant nonviolence.
1998 CE
#9999
General practice under the National Health Service 1948-1997. Edited by Irvine Loudon, John Horder & Charles Webster.
1951 CE
#8202
Genesis and geology: A study in the relations of scientific thought, natural theology, and social opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850.
New edition, with a foreward by Nicolaas A. Rupke and a new preface by the author (1996).
1969 CE
#10637
George III and the mad business.
1879 CE
#12084
Gesammelte Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der öffentlichen Medicin und der Seuchenlehre. 2 vols.
Virchow "articulated that the moral goal of the political role of medicine was to become an active agent in eliminating social inequality" (Dorothy Porter, Doctors, the state and the ethics of political medical practi…
1968 CE
#6451.6
Geschichte der Medizin. Einführung in ihre Grundzüge.
A general history of medicine from a Marxist perspective.
1996 CE
#9772
Government and health care: The British National Health Service 1958–1979.
1979 CE
#10104
Harry S. Truman versus the medical lobby: The genesis of Medicare.
2010 CE
#8009
Healing the body politic: El Salvador's popular struggle for health rights from civil war to neoliberal peace.
1997 CE
#8273
Health and disease in the Holy Land: Studies in the history and sociology of medicine from ancient times to the present, edited by Manfred Waserman and Samuel S. Kotteck.
1996 CE
#8052
Health and healing in eighteenth-century Germany.
2009 CE
#8617
Health and medicine on display: International expositions in the United States, 1876-1904.
1989 CE
#7668
Health for sale: Quackery in England 1660-1850.
1986 CE
#8647
Health policies, health politics: The British and American experience, 1911-1965.
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).
1999 CE
#7616
Health, civilization and the state: A history of public health from ancient to modern times.
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…
1976 CE–2018 CE
#9948
Histoire de la sexualité. 4 vols.
The first 3 vols. were translated into English by Robert Hurley as The history of sexuality (1978-1986).
1837 CE
#11813
Histoire statistique et morale des enfants trouvés.
A thorough analysis of the problem of foundling children from a social, medical, legal and historical standpoint. The work begins with a history of the treatment of abandoned children from antiquity to the time of wri…