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823 entries match Historiography & General Works [K01.900]

2014 CE

#10542

Female circumcision and clitoridectomy in the United States: A history of a medical treatment.

"From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, American physicians treated women and girls for masturbation by removing the clitoris (clitoridectomy) or clitoral hood (female circumcision). Durin…

2010 CE

#8027

Fictions of well-being: Sickly readers and vernacular medical writing in late medieval and early modern Spain. Michael

1935 CE

#1660

Fifty years in public health: a personal narrative with comments.

1981 CE

#8028

Fighting the plague in seventeenth century Italy.

2006 CE

#13702

Fit to be citizens? Public health and race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939.

2016 CE

#10667

Fixing medical prices: How physicians are paid.

1999 CE

#11925

Flu: The story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it.

2014 CE

#8584

Food and environment in early and medieval China.

2016 CE

#8047

Food and health in early modern Europe: Diet, medicine and society, 1450-1800.

1998 CE

#8032

Food in antiquity: A survey of the diet of early peoples

Originally published in 1969.

1989 CE

#7424

Food in history. Revised and updated edition

Digital version available at this link.

2009 CE

#9258

Food in medieval England: Diet and nutrition. Edited by C. M. Woolgar, D. Serjeantson and T. Waldron.

1977 CE

#1092.54

Food: The gift of Osiris. 2 vols.

Extensively illustrated history of nutrition in ancient Egypt.

2009 CE

#11412

Foul bodies: Cleanliness in early America.

1992 CE

#7195

Founders of nutrition science. Biographical articles from the Journal of Nutrition, volumes 5-120, 1932-1990. Edited by William J. Darby and Thomas H. Jukes. 2 vols.

2011 CE

#7005

Fragonard Museum. The écorchés. The anatomical masterworks of Honoré Fragonard by Christophe Degueurce. With an essay by Laure Cadot. Translated from the French by Philip Adds.

The painter and printmaker Fragonard preserved the results of his dissections via means never divulged, but which may have been based on those of Jean-Joseph Sue. His pieces were often prepared for theatrical effect r…

1974 CE

#11327

From medical police to social medicine.

1999 CE

#7379

From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic sleep and the roots of psychological healing.

1897 CE

#8881

Fundamentos racionales y condiciones téchnicas de la Investigación biológica.

For the second edition (Madrid: Fortanet, 1899) Ramón y Cajal changed the title to Reglas y consejos sobre investigación cientifica. He added Los tónicos de la voluntad to the fourth ediition (Mad…

1998 CE

#9999

General practice under the National Health Service 1948-1997. Edited by Irvine Loudon, John Horder & Charles Webster.

1903 CE

#448

Geschichte der Anatomie.

1965 CE

#1671.61

Geschichte der Geriatrie. Dreitausend Jahre Physiologie, Pathologie und Therapie des alten Menschen.

1822 CE–1829 CE

#6383

Geschichte der Heilkunde. 2 vols.

2001 CE–2013 CE

#8477

Geschichte der Histopathologie. 2 vols.

Traces development of microscopy in disease research and diagnostics, as applied in surgical, gynecological, and dermatologic pathology in the 19th and 20th centuries.

1845 CE

#2421

Geschichte der Lustseuche. Erster Theil. Die Lustseuche im Alterthume.

French translation, 1847; English translation as The plague of lust, being a history of venereal disease in classical antiquity, and including: Detailed investigations into the cult of Venus, and phallic worship, brot…

1859 CE

#6386

Geschichte der Medicin.

1898 CE

#6396

Geschichte der Medicin. 2 vols.

A collection of lectures. The bibliography of the revised edition of 1922, for which Sudhoff was responsible, is significantly improved over the first edition.

1921 CE

#6413

Geschichte der Medizin im Überblick.

5th edition, 1965, under the title Illustrierte Geschichte der Medizin.

1974 CE

#6451.9

Geschichte der Medizin. 2 vols.

French translation, 1978.

1949 CE–1955 CE

#6445

Geschichte der Medizin. Die historische Entwicklung der Heilkunde und des ärztlichen Lebens. 2 vols. [in 3].

1968 CE

#6451.6

Geschichte der Medizin. Einführung in ihre Grundzüge.

A general history of medicine from a Marxist perspective.

1906 CE–1911 CE

#6401

Geschichte der Medizin. Vol. 1-2, pt. 1.

An English translation was published in London, 2 vols., 1909-25.

1967 CE–1972 CE

#461.2

Geschichte der medizinische Abbildung. 2nd ed. 2 vols.

A history of medical illustration, but primarily covering the history of anatomy. English translation of Vol. 1 (to 1600), London: Pitman, 1970. Vol. 2, edited by Marielene Putscher, extended the work to close to time…

1903 CE

#2313

Geschichte der pathologischen Anatomie des Menschen. In: Puschmann, T.: Handbuch der Geschichte der Medizin, 2, 473-559

1852 CE

#440

Geschichte und Bibliographie der anatomischen Abbildung.

In this classic work Choulant traced the evolution of anatomical illustration from the early schematic plates up to his own time, including a valuable bibliography. Reprinted, Wiesbaden, 1974. An English translation b…

1890 CE

#1650

Gesundheitspflege im Mittelalter.

2003 CE

#8218

Goldberger's war: The life and work of a public health crusader.

c. 1490 CE

#13042

Governayle of helthe. Add: John Lydgate, Medicina stomachi.

Though it's exact publication date is uncertain, this is the first medical publication issued in English by William Caxton, the first English printer, who set up the first English press in Westminster Abbey. Only two …

1996 CE

#9772

Government and health care: The British National Health Service 1958–1979.

2007 CE

#9759

Government and public health in America.

"How involved should the government be in American healthcare? Ronald Hamowy argues that to answer this pressing question, we must understand the genesis of the five main federal agencies charged with responsibility f…

1876 CE

#6389

Grundriss der Geschichte der Medicin und des heilenden Standes.

Until superseded by Garrison, Baas’s book was the most important one-volume text on the history of medicine. For an expert evaluation of it, see Garrison’s History, 4th ed., p. 884. An English translation,…

1996 CE

#7040

Handbook of medieval sexuality. Edited by Bullough and Brundage.

1902 CE–1905 CE

#6398

Handbuch der Geschichte der Medizin. Begründet von Theodore Puschmann. Herausgegeben von Max Neuburger und Julius Pagel. 3 vols.

Puschmann died before the completion of this work, and it was then edited by Pagel and Neuburger. It ranks with the work of Haeser; many authorities collaborated in the writing of the histories of the various subjects…

1875 CE

#2226

Handbuch der Pathologie und Therapie des Fiebers.

1979 CE

#10104

Harry S. Truman versus the medical lobby: The genesis of Medicare.

1890 CE

#6392

Hauptmomente in der älteren Geschichte der medicinischen Klinik.

Reprinted Hildesheim, G. Olms, 1966.

2010 CE

#8009

Healing the body politic: El Salvador's popular struggle for health rights from civil war to neoliberal peace.

2009 CE

#8617

Health and medicine on display: International expositions in the United States, 1876-1904.

2015 CE

#7854

Health care in America: A history.

1971 CE

#8327

Health maintenance strategy.

Elwood is often referred to as the "father of the health maintenance organization. He not only coined the term, he also played a role in bringing about structural changes to the American health care system to simultan…