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301 entries match Social & Political History [K01.850]
1997 CE
#10030
Sex, disease, and society: A comparative history of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Scott Bamber and Michael Waugh.
1999 CE
#13585
Sexual cultures in Europe: National histories.
"... brings together for the first time studies of the sexual cultures of all the major European countries--including France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Spain, Britain and the Netherlands--to focus on their commonalities…
2010 CE
#10342
Shadows in the valley: A cultural history of illness, death, and loss in New England, 1840-1916.
"...The study is organized for the most part around disease categories and the life cycle, so that the cultural framework of people's habits and values often seems secondary. Most of what we learn about illness and de…
1990 CE
#13555
Sleepless souls: Suicide in early modern England.
"Sleepless Souls is a social and cultural history of suicide in early modern England. It traces the rise and fall of the crime of self-murder and explores why suicide came to be harshly punished in the sixteenth centu…
1988 CE
#7912
SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE. 1-
Contents of the recent issue may be viewed at http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/content/current.
2012 CE
#8702
Social poison: The culture and politics of opiate control in Britain and France, 1821–1926.
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…
1975 CE
#257.6
Sociobiology: The new synthesis.
Integration of biological and evolutionary theory with the study of social behavior and social organization of animal populations.
1989 CE
#7763
Socioeconomics of surgery.
Probably the first book-form study of these issues.
1779 CE–1827 CE
#1599
System einer vollständigen medicinischen Polizey. 9 vols.
The first systematic treatise on public hygiene. Frank believed the ruler of a state should stand in the relation of a father to his children, among his duties being the safeguarding of the people’s health and t…
2017 CE
#12546
Teens and their doctors: The story of the development of adolescent medicine.
Traces the development of adolescent medicine from the first program, opened by Ros Gallagher at Boston Children’s Hospital, in 1951, to the creation of the Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM), in 1968. The bo…
1981 CE
#2188.3
The [United States] Army Medical Department, 1775-1818.
1952 CE
#1671.1
The advance to social medicine.
Originally published in French, 1948.
1984 CE
#10105
The AMA and U.S. health policy since 1940.
2006 CE
#9265
The birth of development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization changed the world, 1945–1965.
2009 CE
#8428
The care of brute beasts: A social and cultural study of veterinary medicine in Early Modern England.
1987 CE
#6596.61
The care of strangers: The rise of America’s hospital system.
1962 CE
#7927
The cholera years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866.
Edition with new Afterword published in 1987.
1993 CE
#8784
The citizen-patient in revolutionary and imperial Paris.
1992 CE
#10400
The code of codes: Scientific and social issues in the human genome project. Edited by Daniel J. Kevles and Leroy Hood.
Chapter 1. "Out of eugenics: The historical politics of the human genome" by D. J. Kevles. Chapter 2. "A history of the science and technology behind gene mapping and sequencing" by Horace Freeland Judson. Chapter 7. …
1992 CE
#9264
The colonial disease: A social history of sleeping sickness in colonial Zaire, 1900-1940.
2022 CE
#14090
The contagion of liberty: The politics of smallpox in the American revolution.
"The Revolutionary War broke out during a smallpox epidemic, and in response, General George Washington ordered the inoculation of the Continental Army. But Washington did not have to convince fearful colonists to pro…
1933 CE
#8075
The costs of medical care: A summary of investigations on the economic aspects of the prevention and care of illness.
1974 CE
#12343
The courage to fail: A social view of organ transplants and dialysis.
Includes chapters on the heart transplantation moratorium and the artificial heart.
1948 CE
#1669
The dawn of Scottish social welfare. A survey from medieval times to 1863.
1936 CE
#6433
The development of modern medicine, an interpretation of the social and scientific factors involved.
Shryock was one of the historians who founded and shaped the technique of writing the social history of medicine. This was his most influential work. Revised edition, 1947, translated into French, German and Japanese.
2006 CE
#9155
The dilemma of federal mental health policy: Radical reform or incremental change?
1968 CE
#7884
The evolution of preventive medicine in the United States Army, 1607–1939.
Available from the U.S. Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History, at this link.
1995 CE
#7029
The facts of life: The creation of sexual knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950.
1964 CE
#257.1
The genetical evolution of social behaviour I, II.
Hamilton’s mathematical theory of kin selection as an explanation for the evolution of social behavior (including supposedly altruistic behavior), is the foundation of sociobiology.
2009 CE
#13038
The good doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the struggle for social justice in health care.
"... documents the history of the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR), a group of health professionals who delivered health care to wounded protesters and victims of police violence during the Civil Rights Movem…
1999 CE
#9113
The gospel of germs: Men, women, and the microbe in American life.
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.
2016 CE
#9694
The great transition: Climate, disease and society in the late-medieval world.
1997 CE
#7069
The greatest benefit to mankind. A medical history of humanity.
2004 CE
#9875
The healing arts: Health, disease and society in Europe, 1500-1800. Edited by Peter Elmer
1906 CE
#7051
The health and physique of the Negro American: report of a social study made under the direction of Atlanta University: together with the Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, on May the 29th, 1906.
Probably the earliest sociological study of the medical problems of blacks written by a black. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1994 CE
#9742
The health of the presidents: The 41 United States presidents through 1993 from a physician's point of view.
1982 CE
#12492
The healthiest city: Milwaukee and the politics of health reform.
1943 CE
#2136
The history of miners’ diseases. A medical and social interpretation.
1959 CE
#6638
The history of nursing: An interpretation of the social and medical factors involved.
1964 CE
#10178
The hospitals, 1800-1948: A study in social administration in England and Wales.
The first comprehensive account of the development of hospitals in England and Wales from the early nineteenth century down to the establishment of the English National Health Service.
1986 CE
#11123
The impact of illness on world leaders.
1930 CE
#11324
The infant welfare movement in the eighteenth century.
1995 CE
#8036
The making of a social disease: Tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France.
1995 CE
#12022
The making of man-midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660-1770.
"In England in the seventeenth century, childbirth was the province of women. The midwife ran the birth, helped by female "gossips"; men, including the doctors of the day, were excluded both from the delivery and from…
1987 CE
#9883
The making of the modern body: Sexuality and society in the nineteenth century. Edited by Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur.
1985 CE
#10094
The making rehabilitation: A political economy of medical specialization, 1890-1980.
1833 CE
#10389
The manufacturing population of England, its moral, social, and physical conditions, and the changes which have arisen from the use of steam machinery; with an examination of infant labour.
Gaskell, a physician, addressed social, political and public health problems that resulted from the Industrial Revolution. Gaskell issued a revised edition of this work in 1836 under a different title: Artisans and Ma…