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301 entries match Social & Political History [K01.850]
1999 CE
#10031
Histories of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Philip W, Setel, Milton J. Lewis, and Maryinez Lyons.
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.
2015 CE
#9636
In search of the perfect health system.
"With chapters on 25 different countries, this practical and succinct guide to the world's major health systems explores what lessons can be drawn from each to improve health worldwide. Each chapter is an essay design…
1995 CE
#8058
International health organisations and movements, 1918-1939. Edited by Paul Weindling.
1986 CE
#8666
Inventing the NIH: Federal biomedical research policy, 1887-1937.
2005 CE
#10535
Japanese American midwives: Culture, community, and health politics, 1880-1950.
2019 CE
#10768
Jewish medicine and healthcare in Central Eastern Europe: Shared identities and tangled histories. Edited by Marcin Moskalewicz, Ute Caumanns, and Fritz Dross.
1994 CE
#7239
Jews, medicine and medieval society.
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…
2018 CE
#10645
Knowledge, power, and women's reproductive health in Japan, 1690–1945.
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.
1987 CE
#9101
Law, sex and Christian society in medieval Europe.
."...explores the origin and develpment of the Christian church's sex law and the systems of belief upon which that law rested. Focusing on the Church's own legal system of canon law, James A. Brundage offers a compre…
1981 CE
#11947
Le milieu médical en France du XIIe au XVe siècle. En annexe, 2e supplément au Dictionnaire d'Ernest Wickersheimer.
2002 CE
#9685
Learning to smoke: Tobacco use in the West.
1873 CE
#11388
Letter of Johns Hopkins to the trustees of "The Johns Hopkins Hospital".
The letter published in this 12-page pamphlet was dated March 10th, 1873. It outlined financier and philanthropist Johns Hopkins' planned bequest and general plans for the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Hopkins died in Decem…
1956 CE
#7418
Lincoln's fifth wheel: the political history of the U. S. Sanitary Commission.
2017 CE
#10666
Madhouse: Psychiatry and politics in Cuban history.
2012 CE
#8093
Making Medicare: New perspectives on the history of Medicare in Canada.
2017 CE
#10539
Making medicines in early colonial Lima, Peru: Apothecaries, science and society.
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, …
1988 CE
#10029
Managing madness: Psychiatry and society in Australia 1788-1980.
2004 CE
#10508
Mapping the Victorian social body.
"The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explos…
1986 CE
#9785
Masters of madness: Social origins of the American psychiatric profession.
2006 CE
#8285
Médecins et malades de l'Egypte romaine: Étude socio-légale de la profession médicale et de ses praticiens du Ier au IVe siècle ap. J.-C.
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…
1789 CE–1793 CE
#80
Medical inquiries and observations. 2 vols.
Rush was considered the ablest American clinician of his time. He was a friend of Benjamin Franklin and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. His many writings are distinguished for their classical st…
1967 CE
#8761
Medical licensing in America, 1650-1965.
1973 CE
#8621
Medical men at the siege of Boston, April, 1775- April, 1776.
1931 CE
#9213
Medical men in the American Revolution 1775-1783.
Digital edition from U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.
2002 CE
#10040
Medical police and the history of pubic health.
Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
1909 CE
#12081
Medical sociology: A series of observations touching upon the sociology of health and the relations of medicine to society.
The first American book specifically on the topic of medical sociology. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
2015 CE
#8770
Medicare and Medicaid at 50: America's entitlement programs in the age of affordable care. Edited by Alan B. Cohen, David C. Colby, Keith A. Wailoo, and Julian E. Zelizer.
1986 CE
#11323
Medicine and American growth, 1800-1860.
"The interconnections between population increase, migration and immigration on the one hand, and disease and the development of medicine on the other in antebellum America are brilliantly presented" (publisher)
1978 CE
#6610.14
Medicine and pharmacy in American political prints (1765-1870).
2010 CE
#7834
Medicine and politics in colonial Peru: Population growth and the Bourbon reforms.
1999 CE
#8053
Medicine and society in early modern Europe.
Second edition, 2010.
2013 CE
#8300
Medicine and society in Ptolemaic Egypt.
1998 CE
#10806
Medicine and the American Revolution: How diseases and their treatments affected the colonial army.
2007 CE
#10027
Medicine and the care of the dying: A modern history.
2001 CE
#8276
Medicine and the German Jews: A history.
1993 CE
#8359
Medicine and the Reformation. Edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham.
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…
1966 CE
#6596.2
Medicine in America: historical essays.
1957 CE
#10282
Medicine in Chicago, 1850-1950: A chapter in the social and scientific development of a city.
Second edition, Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1991.
1980 CE
#6596.4
Medicine in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820. Edited by Philip Cash, Eric H. Christanson and J. Worth Estes.
A well-illustrated collection of essays covering medicine in Massachusetts but also applicable in some cases to the history of medicine and surgery throughout the American colonies.
1930 CE–1933 CE
#6588
Medicine in Virginia in the seventeenth (eighteenth, nineteenth) century. 3 vols.
2001 CE
#10193
Medicine that Walks: Disease, medicine, and Canadian Plains native people, 1880-1940.
"... Lux takes issue with the 'biological invasion' theory of the impact of disease on Plains Aboriginal people. She challenges the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with the diseases brought by Europ…
2004 CE
#9877