Facets

2008 CE

#9878

The politics of vaccination: Practice and policy in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, 1800-1874.

1723 CE

#1689

A letter … containing, a comparison between the mortality of the natural small pox, and that given by inoculation.

Jurin was an enthusiastic supporter of inoculation against smallpox, and proved statistically that the fatality of inoculated smallpox is very much less than the fatality of natural smallpox. This is one of the earlie…

1987 CE

#6998

And the band played on: Politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic.

Shilts, an investigative journalist, chronicled the discovery and spread of HIV / AIDS with special emphasis on government indifference and political infighting—specifically in the United States—to what wa…

2001 CE

#10091

Black death, white medicine: Bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945.

2008 CE

#10509

Cholera and nation: Doctoring the Victorian social body.

1995 CE

#8103

Disease and class: Tuberculosis and the shaping of modern North American society.

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.

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…

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…

2005 CE

#10080

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

1987 CE

#12487

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

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.

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.

1962 CE

#7927

The cholera years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866.

Edition with new Afterword published in 1987.

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…

2016 CE

#9694

The great transition: Climate, disease and society in the late-medieval world.

1995 CE

#8036

The making of a social disease: Tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France.

2009 CE

#10573

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

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 …

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…

2004 CE

#13690

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

2015 CE

#8042

Vietnamese traditional medicine: A social history.

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