Facets

1995 CE

#9102

The meanings of sex difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, science, and culture.

"...explores the ways in which scientific ideas about sex differences in the later Middle Ages participated in the broader cultural assumptions about gender. Professor Cadden discusses how medieval natural philosophic…

2010 CE

#10225

The measure of America, 2010-2011: Mapping risks and resilience.

"This fully illustrated report, with over 130 color images, is based on the groundbreaking American Human Development Index, which provides a single measure of the well-being for all Americans, disaggregated by state …

2008 CE

#10224

The measure of America: American human development report, 2008-2009.

" the first-ever human development report for a wealthy, developed nation. It introduces the American Human Development Index, which provides a single measure of well-being for all Americans, disaggregated by state an…

1999 CE

#11166

The Medical Follow-up Agency: The first fifty years 1946–1996.

"The Medical Follow-up Agency is a national treasure for veterans and for long-term studies of health. Its data resources provide incomparable opportunities to follow very important populations and to ask creative que…

1967 CE

#6643.2

The medical messiahs. A social history of health quackery in twentieth-century America.

1923 CE

#6456

The medicine man: A sociological study of the character and evolution of shamanism.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1996 CE

#9201

The microscope in the Dutch Republic: The shaping of discovery.

Focusing on Jan Swammerdam and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the author demonstrates that their uneasiness with their social circumstances spurred their discoveries. Ruestow argues that while aspects of Dutch culture impede…

1946 CE

#8741

The midwest pioneer: His ills, cures, & doctors.

The first general history of frontier or pioneer medicine in America, covering mainly the first half of the 19th century, and including many folk medicine treatments. First published privately in Crawfordsville, India…

1979 CE

#8772

The Monro collection in the Medical Library of the University of Otago: A descriptive catalogue with annotations and introduction

Scottish army surgeon John Monro (1670-1740) initiated a series of events that lead to the establishment of a dynasty which, beginning with his son Alexander Monro, changed the course of medical teaching and learning.…

1976 CE

#8055

The naturalist in Britain: A social history.

1999 CE

#10229

The Nazi war on cancer.

1967 CE

#10396

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

2009 CE

#10573

The plague files: Crisis management in sixteenth-century Seville.

2004 CE

#8076

The politics of healing: Histories of alternative medicine in twentieth-century North America.

2003 CE

#11593

The progressive era's health reform movement: A historical dictionary.

1928 CE

#6643

The quacks of old London.

2002 CE

#12415

The quest for drug control: Politics and federal policy in a period of increasing substance abuse, 1963-1981.

2001 CE

#9816

The royal doctors, 1485-1714: Medical personnel at the Tudor and Stuart courts.

"... investigates the influential individuals who attended England's most important patients during a pivotal epoch in the evolution of the state and the medical profession. Over three hundred men [and a handful of wo…

2012 CE

#8105

The sick child in early modern England, 1580-1720.

The first book on children's health and illness in early modern England.

1992 CE

#8414

The social basis of health and healing in Africa. Edited by Steven Feierman and John M. Janzen.

The essays in this book concern disease, health and healing practices on the African continent. The contributors all emphasize the social conditions linked to ill health and the development of local healing traditions…

1939 CE

#8120

The social function of science.

This pioneering sociological study contained two large folding information graphics. The first was one of the first attempts at a "map of science." It divided science into physical, biological, and social sectors, and…

2011 CE

#8247

The social history of health and medicine in colonial India. Edited by Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison.

1992 CE

#10077

The social ideas of American physicians (1776-1976): Studies of the humanitarian tradition in medicine.

1932 CE

#351

The social life of monkeys and apes.

A study of the relationship of Man to the other primates, from the physiological and biochemical standpoint. Zuckerman’s work is considered the first adequate interpretation of simian society. 2nd ed., 1980.

1951 CE

#13175

The social system.

The first treatise on sociological theory that included an analysis of the function of medicine in society.

1982 CE

#6596.6

The social transformation of American medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry.

2008 CE

#9967

The sterilization movement and global fertility in the twentieth century.

2009 CE

#9811

The theatre of the body: Staging death and embodying life in early-modern London.

"...The book takes as its specific focus seventeenth-century London, in a significant study encompassing the period from the incorporation of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons (1540) to the staging of Edward R…

1972 CE

#8805

The trade in lunacy: A study of private madhouses in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

1968 CE

#7928

The trial of the assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and law in the gilded age.

1972 CE

#9628

The voyage of the Challenger.

2002 CE

#8610

The word as scalpel: A history of medical sociology.

2008 CE

#7929

This republic of suffering: Death and the American Civil War.

2017 CE

#10454

To heal humankind: The right to health in history,

1998 CE

#11164

To improve human health. A history of the Institute of Medicine.

Digital edition available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK230742/ .

2013 CE

#10062

Transforming the culture of dying: The work of the Project on Death in America.

"Over a period of almost 10 years, the work of the Project on Death in America (PDIA) played a formative role in the advancement of end of life care in the United States. The project concerned itself with adults and c…

1868 CE

#5376

Ueber den Hungertyphus und einige verwandte Krankheitsformen.

Virchow was instrumental in introducing into Germany an epidemiology based on the study of multiple factors – sociological as well as bacteriological. In the above report on the reappearance of typhus in Berlin …

2009 CE

#9267

Uneasy encounters: The politics of medicine and health in China 1900-1937. Edited by Iris Borowy.

2007 CE

#7835

Unequal cures: Public health and political change in Bolivia, 1900-1950,

2003 CE

#7057

Unequal treatment: Confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Edited by B. D. Smedley, A. Y. Stith, and A. R. Nelson.

"Congress, in 1999, requested an IOM study to assess the extent of disparities in the types and quality of health services received by U.S. racial and ethnic minorities and non-minorities; explore factors that may con…

2021 CE

#13373

Up against the wall: Art, activism, and the AIDS poster. Edited by Donald Albrecht and Jessica Lacher-Feldman. Medical and consulting editor William M. Valenti.

Documents the power and impact of nearly 200 examples of AIDS posters from around the world and the social activism that continues to bring awareness to a disease without vaccine or a cure. Selected from the 8000 post…

2015 CE

#12441

Vaccine nation: America's changing relationship with immunization.

2004 CE

#13690

Venereal disease, hospitals and the urban poor: London's "foul wards," 1600-1800.

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 …

2015 CE

#8042

Vietnamese traditional medicine: A social history.

Reception of foreign medical ideas and techniques through the case study of smallpox.

1987 CE

#10264

Vivisection in historical perspective. Edited by Nicholaas A. Rupke.

1974 CE

#8769

Welfare medicine in America: A case study of Medicaid.

The first study of Medicaid. Revised edition, 2003.

1998 CE

#8646

When abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973.

1934 CE

#7700

Who shall survive? A new approach to the problem of human interrelations.

Moreno founded psychodrama, and pioneered group psychotherapy. Apart from its psychiatric and sociological significance, this work contained some of the earliest graphic depictions of social networks— data visua…

1970 CE

#10554

Women and their bodies.

This 35-cent, 136-page book organized in 1969 by Nancy Miriam Hawley at Boston's Emmanuel College, was written by twelve Boston feminist activists. It eventually sold 250,000 copies in New England without any formal a…