Facets

1906 CE

#12739

The jungle.

Sinclair wrote The jungle to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and other industrialized cities. His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its …

1936 CE

#1661

The last thirty years in public health.

1879 CE

#9028

The laws relating to quarantine of Her Majesty's dominions at home and abroad, and of the principal foreign states, including the sections of the Public health act, 1875, which bear upon measures of prevention

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1995 CE

#8036

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

1987 CE

#9883

The making of the modern body: Sexuality and society in the nineteenth century. Edited by Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur.

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…

1992 CE

#8054

The Norton history of the environmental sciences.

1967 CE

#10396

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

1955 CE

#9027

The Pan American Saintary Bureau: Half a century of health activities 1902-1954.

Digital facsimile from the Pan American Health Organization at this link.

1948 CE

#9024

The Pan American Sanitary Bureau: Its origin, developments and achievements, 1902-1944.

1981 CE

#12120

The Pan-American Health Organization: Origins and Evolution.

2014 CE

#10629

The Pelvis: Structure, gender and society.

"This book offers a critical review of the pelvic sciences—past, present and future—from an anatomical and physiological perspective....The book starts with a “construction plan” of the pelvis …

2003 CE

#10028

The people's health: Public health in Australia, 1788-1950. Vol. 2: The people's health: Public health in Australia, 1950 to the present. 2 vols.

1974 CE

#9411

The physician and sexuality in Victorian America.

2013 CE

#10486

The pleasure's all mine: A history of perverse sex.

1971 CE

#10858

The pre-Columbian mind: A study into the aberrant nature of sexual drives, drugs affecting behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America.

2010 CE

#8060

The problem of nutrition: Experimental science, public health and economy in Europe 1914-1945.

2005 CE

#8328

The rise and fall of HMOs: An American health care revolution.

A broad historical overview of HMOs with a close analysis of one institution, the Marshfield Clinic in northern Wisconsin.

1932 CE

#1657.1

The rise of preventive medicine.

2015 CE

#9039

The Rockefeller Foundation, public health and international diplomacy, 1920–1945.

The role of the Rockefeller Foundation and the League of Nations in improving public health during the interwar period. Barona argues that the Foundation applied a model of business efficiency to its ideology of sprea…

2013 CE

#10552

The Routledge history of sex and the body, 1500 to the present. Edited by Sarah Toulalan and Kate Fisher.

1990 CE

#7619

The sanitarians: A history of American public health.

2000 CE

#10516

The sanitary city: Urban infrastructure in America from colonial times to the present.

2020 CE

#13774

The science of starving in Victorian literature, medicine, and political economy.

2008 CE

#9880

The sciences of homosexuality in early modern Europe. Edited by Kenneth Borris and George S. Rousseau.

"This collection establishes that efforts to produce scientific explanations for same-sex desires and sexual behaviours are not a modern invention, but have long been characteristic of European thought. The sciences o…

1975 CE

#1671.8

The scientific background of the International Sanitary Conferences, 1851-1938.

First published in WHO Chronicle, 1974. 28, 159-71, 229-47, 369-84, 414-26, 455-70, 475-508. Available from apps.who.int at this link.

1967 CE

#10679

The sleeping sickness epidemic of Uganda 1900-1920: A study in historical geography.

1982 CE

#6596.6

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

1961 CE

#1671.4

The story of England’s hospitals.

1919 CE

#1653

The story of English public health.

1946 CE

#1667

The story of water supply.

2001 CE

#10417

The technology of orgasm: "Hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction.

2022 CE

#13903

The transformation of American sex education: Mary Calderone and the fight for sexual health.

1929 CE

#1657

The treatment of the sick poor of this country and the preservation of the health of the poor in this country.

1951 CE

#1671

The United States Public Health Service, 1798-1950.

1973 CE

#2068.16

Therapeutics from the primitives to the 20th century, with an appendix: history of dietetics.

Includes a valuable bibliography. First published in German, Stuttgart, 1970.

2004 CE

#9263

To cast out disease: A history of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (1913-1951).

2011 CE

#9710

Toxic archipelago: A history of industrial disease in Japan.

2001 CE

#9786

Traumatic pasts: History, psychiatry, and trauma in the modern age, 1870-1930. Edited by Mark S. Micale and Paul Lerner.

1999 CE

#7535

Twentieth-century sexuality: A history.

2007 CE

#7835

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

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 …

2016 CE

#8062

WHO Historical collection.

Background Disease classifications and nomenclature documents History of international health organizations documents League of Nations malaria documents Rare books on plague, smallpox and epidemiology

2016 CE

#8063

Wikipedia Timeline of global health.

1.Big picture 1.1Late 1700s–1930s (pre-WWII era) 1.21940s–early 1960s (post-WWII era) 1.3Late 1960s–1970s 1.41980s–2000 1.52000s and beyond 2.Full timeline 2.1Inclusion criteria 2.2Timeline 3.S…

1988 CE

#13296

Worker's health, workers' democracy: The Western miners' struggle, 1891-1925.

"The most dangerous work in North America at the turn of the century may have been extracting metal-bearing ore from mountains of hard rock. Beginning in the 1890s miners in the West worked through local unions both t…

1963 CE

#9023

World health and history.

2015 CE

#9859

Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South.

"The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878--a disaster that caused 20,000 deaths and financial losses of nearly $200 mill…

1905 CE

#1651

Zur Vorgeschichte der modernen Hygiene.