Facets

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.

1983 CE

#9156

Mental illness and American society, 1875-1940.

1973 CE

#9153

Mental institutions in America: Social policy to 1873.

1848 CE

#12083

Mittheilungen über die in Oberschlesien herrschende Typhus-Epidemie.

Virchow was one of the first to identify medicine as a social science. He developed a theory of epidemics that emphasized the social circumstances permitting spread of illness. This approach has been called sociologic…

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…

2005 CE

#10080

Must we all die? Alaska's enduring struggle with tuberculosis.

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).

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…

1998 CE

#9770

National Health Service: A political history.

Revised second edition, 2002.

1978 CE

#2188.2

Naval and maritime medicine during the American revolution.

2004 CE

#7893

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

1958 CE

#9297

Negroes and medicine.

2002 CE

#8663

New Deal medicine: The rural health programs of the Farm Security Administration.

"Drawing on oral histories, archival records, and medical journals from the 1930s and 1940s, Grey finds the programs were both a rehearsal for more modern forms of medical organization and a lightning rod for critics …

1987 CE

#12487

No magic bullet: A social history of venereal disease in the United States since 1880.

2007 CE

#8077

Origins of American health insurance: A history of industrial sickness funds.

2009 CE

#11242

Ottoman medicine: Healing and medical institutions, 1500-1700.

1976 CE

#8658

Physician signers of the Declaration of Independence.

1961 CE

#10370

Physicians to the Presidents, and their patients: A Biobibliography.

Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1987 CE

#11024

Physiology in the American context, 1850-1940. Edited by Gerald L. Geison.

Traces the development of American physiology in the cultural context of the period. Divided into three parts: social and institutional history; physiology in relation to other fields; and instruments, materials and t…

1995 CE

#9681

Picturing health and illness: Images of identity and difference.

2015 CE

#8274

Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world: The Ottoman experience, 1347-1600.

2005 CE

#10515

Plague and fire: Battling black death and the 1900 burning of Honolulu's Chinatown.

2012 CE

#7891

Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown.

1976 CE

#9689

Plagues and peoples.

1989 CE

#8727

Plagues and politics: The story of the United States Public Health Service.

1775 CE

#2155

Plain, concise, practical remarks, on the treatment of wounds and fractures; to which is added an appendix, on camp and military hospitals; principally designed for the use of young military surgeons in North America.

The first surgical work written by an American and printed in North America. Jones’s work was the accepted guide to surgical practice during the American Revolutionary War.

1990 CE

#9764

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

1995 CE

#13681

Power and illness. The failure of American health policy.

2008 CE

#10974

Prescribing by numbers: Drugs and the definition of disease.

"The second half of the twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a new model of chronic disease―diagnosed on the basis of numerical deviations rather than symptoms and treated on a preventive basis before any over…

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.

2003 CE

#12371

Public health and the risk factor: A history of an uneven medical revolution.

"The acceptance of risk factors has produced changes in public health and medicine as profound as those that resulted from bacteriology and the germ theory of disease. . . . The risk factor concept has been controvers…

1972 CE

#12490

Public health and the state: Changing views in Massachusetts, 1842-1936.

2016 CE

#10669

Public opinion, public policy, and smoking: The transformation of American attitudes and cigarette use.

1988 CE

#10228

Racial hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis.

2017 CE

#9714

Reasoning against madness: Psychiatry and the state in Rio de Janeiro, 1830-1944.

1933 CE

#10308

Red medicine: Socialized health in Soviet Russia.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2016 CE

#9114

Remaking the American patient: How Madison Avenue and modern medicine turned patients into consumers.

"In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explo…

2011 CE

#14148

Remedy and reaction: The peculiar American struggle over health care reform.

"Winner of the 2011 American Publishers Awards and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in the Government and Politics category, as given by the Association of American Publishers. Read an interview with Paul Starr on the Yal…

2012 CE

#12131

Revolutionary medicine: Health and the body in post-Soviet Cuba.

"Until the Soviet bloc collapsed in 1989, socialist Cuba encouraged citizens to view access to health care as a human right and the state's responsibility to provide it as a moral imperative. Since the loss of Soviet …

2019 CE

#13671

Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture.

2013 CE

#12023

Ritual and conflict: The social relations of childbirth in early modern England.

"This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to th…

1988 CE

#8788

Ritual healing in suburban America. By Meredith B. McGuire with the assistance of Debra Kantor.

2014 CE

#10171

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

1998 CE

#9901

Santé et société esclavagiste à la Martinique.

1997 CE

#7370

Scientists and the sea 1650-1900. A study of marine science.

2011 CE

#7232

Scottish Medicine: An Illustrated History.

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…