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348 entries match Public Health [N02.500] · Historiography & General Works [K01.900]
1988 CE
#7549
Smallpox and its eradication.
The definitive archival history in 1460 pages. In 2016 a PDF of this entire book could be downloaded from the W.H.O. at this link.
2012 CE
#8702
Social poison: The culture and politics of opiate control in Britain and France, 1821–1926.
2003 CE
#13758
Solitary sex: A cultural history of masturbation.
2000 CE
#9392
Something new under the sun: An environmental history of the twentieth-century world.
1995 CE
#8703
Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: dalla peste europea alla guerra mondiale, 1348-1918.
2010 CE
#8704
Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: Dalla peste nera ai giorni nostri.
2021 CE
#13271
Strong hearts and healing hands: Southern California Indians and field nurses, 1920-1950.
2018 CE
#10476
Suffering scholars: Pathologies of the intellectual in Enlightenment France.
1999 CE
#7032
Taking positions. On the erotic in Renaissance culture.
Of particular relevance to the history of medical literature is Chapter 8: "Mythology, Sexuality, and Science in Charles Estienne's Manual of Anatomy" (pp. 161-188). This refers to Estienne's De dissectione partium co…
1999 CE
#7104
Teaching America about sex. Marriage guides and sex manuals from the late Victorians to Dr. Ruth.
1967 CE
#1671.62
Ten centuries of European hospital architecture.
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.
1973 CE
#8902
The American disease: Origins of narcotic control.
Third expanded edition (1999). "Supporting the theory that Americans' attitudes toward drugs have followed a cyclic pattern of tolerance and restraint, author David F. Musto examines the relations between public outcr…
2007 CE
#7059
The battle of the bulge: A history of obesity research.
1997 CE
#8629
The blues: A history of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield system.
1988 CE
#8837
The body and society: Men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity.
"A groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lif…
2000 CE
#7425
The Cambridge world history of food. 2 vols.
An encyclopedic work in 2153 pages; edited by Kiple and Ornelas.
1993 CE
#6963
The Cambridge world history of human disease. Edited by Kenneth F. Kiple [and 12 co-editors].
An encyclopedic world history of disease, incorporating a geographic approach.
2010 CE
#9953
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Library
https://archive.org/details/cmslibrary&tab=collection "The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Library is a research library dedicated to supporting the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The digitized collect…
1996 CE
#8660
The cigarette papers. Edited by Stanton A. Glantz, John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes.
Analysis and selective reproduction of 4000 pages of internal tobacco industry documents proving that a tobacco company was fully aware that it was promoting and marketing a highly addictive carcinogenic substance. El…
1943 CE
#1666
The conquest of epidemic diseases. A chapter in the history of ideas.
Reprinted 1980.
2017 CE
#12372
The coronary heart disease pandemic in the twentieth century: Emergence and decline in advanced countries.
"This book demonstrates that a pandemic of coronary heart disease occurred in North America, western and northern Europe, and Australia and New Zealand from the 1930s to about 2000. At its peak it caused more deaths t…
2016 CE
#9257
The culture of food in England 1200-1500.
1948 CE
#1669
The dawn of Scottish social welfare. A survey from medieval times to 1863.
1997 CE
#11822
The decline of infant and child mortality: The European experience, 1750-1990.
1940 CE
#1664
The development of public health in Canada: a review of the history and organization of public health in the provinces of Canada, with an outline of the present organization of the National Health Section of the Department of Pensions and National Health, Canada. Edited by R. D. Defries.
CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION
1955 CE
#2137.01
The diseases of occupations.
A classic textbook on the subject with valuable historical chapters and references. Hunter put the text through six editions to 1978. The work was rewritten as Hunter’s Diseases of occupations, ed. by P.A.B. Raf…
1994 CE
#10849
The early homosexual rights movement (1864–1935).
Revised edition, 1995.
1939 CE
#1092.51
The Englishman’s food. A history of five centuries of English diet.
Revised edition, 1958.
1979 CE
#13788
The eradication of smallpox from India.
1995 CE
#7029
The facts of life: The creation of sexual knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950.
2017 CE
#10694
The Fate of Rome: Climate, disease, and the end of an empire.
2018 CE
#10626
The fears of the rich, the needs of the poor: My years at the CDC,
Director of the Centers for Disease Control from 1977-1983, and President and Co-Founder of The Task Force for Global Heath, 1984-1999, Foege was instrumental in the eradication of smallpox, the generalization of immu…
2000 CE
#8360
The four horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, war, famine and death in Reformation Europe.
1996 CE
#12748
The geography of perversion: Male-To-male sexual behavior outside the West and the ethnographic imagination, 1750-1918.
"Recent years have seen enormous attention devoted to the history of sexuality in the Western world. But how has the West conceived of non-western societies been influenced by these other traditions? The Geography of …
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
#8780
The great starvation experiment: Ancel Keys and the men who starved for science.
2006 CE
#8035
The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs.
1995 CE
#13655
The health of prisoners: Historical essays edited by Richard Creese, W. F. Bynum and J. Bearn
1982 CE
#12492
The healthiest city: Milwaukee and the politics of health reform.
1927 CE
#1655
The history of heating, ventilation, and lighting.
1943 CE
#2136
The history of miners’ diseases. A medical and social interpretation.
2021 CE
#13486
The history of pediatric and adult hearing screening.
1994 CE
#13654
The history of public health and the modern state. Edited by Dorothy Porter.
1986 CE
#3726
The history of scurvy and vitamin C.
2003 CE
#9452
The history of tropical neurology: Nutritional disorders.
2005 CE
#8166
The humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross.
2013 CE
#8185