Facets

1986 CE

#7957

A peculiar population: The nutrition, health, and mortality of American slaves from childhood to maturity.

Digital facsimile from Jstor and at this link.

2013 CE

#7618

An environmental history of the Middle Ages: The crucible of nature.

1928 CE

#194.1

Äskulap und Venus. Eine Kultur- und Sittengeschichte im Spiegel des Ärztes.

An exhaustive and well-illustrated survey of medical anthropology with emphasis on sexuality.

1996 CE

#9757

Baths and bathing in classical antiquity.

Reviews and analyzes the structure, function, and design of baths, seeking to integrate their architecture with the wider social and cultural custom of bathing, and examining in particular the changes this custom unde…

1974 CE

#12444

Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and public health in pre-DDT America.

1998 CE

#10477

Enlightenment and pathology: Sensibility in the literature and medicine of eighteenth-century France.

2010 CE

#8027

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

2014 CE

#8584

Food and environment in early and medieval China.

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…

2000 CE

#9392

Something new under the sun: An environmental history of the twentieth-century world.

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…

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 …

1992 CE

#8054

The Norton history of the environmental sciences.

2020 CE

#13774

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