Facets

2014 CE

#10422

Aphrodisiacs, fertility and medicine in early modern England.

This work "... in its extensive study of gynecological treatises from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, provides an important intervention into assumptions about the subversive quality of aphrodisiacs and abor…

1985 CE

#8203

Aphrodisiacs: The science and the myth.

1990 CE

#7513

Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.

1974 CE

#12444

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

2000 CE

#8102

Brush with death: A social history of lead poisoning.

2012 CE

#8799

Chocolate as medicine: A quest over the centuries.

2009 CE

#10443

Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A cultural history of cacao. Edited by Cameron L. McNeil.

2009 CE

#8317

Chocolate: History, culture and heritage. Edited by Louis Evan Grivetti and Howard-Yana Shapiro.

1999 CE

#8960

Dragon's brain perfume: An historical geography of camphor.

"In the Dragon's Brain Perfume (a Chinese description of Camphor) once more the existence and importance of world systems of exchange becomes clear. In the pre-industrial world aromatic substances have always counted …

2002 CE

#8903

Drugs in America: A historical reader. [Compiled by] David F. Musto.

2007 CE

#8985

How everyday products make people sick: Toxins at home and in the workplace.

An eloquent historical approach, written for a semi-popular audience, to everyday problems in occupational medicine and toxicology.

1992 CE

#11134

Mission and method: The early-nineteenth-century French public health movement.

1851 CE–1876 CE

#31

Oeuvres d’Oribase, texte grec, en grande partie inédit…traduit pour la première fois en français; par les Drs. Bussemaker et Daremberg. 6 vols.

Oribasius was a compiler of existing knowledge rather than an original writer. His output was immense; he compiled the Synagoge, an encyclopedic digest of medicine, hygiene, therapeutics, and surgery from Hippocrates …

2000 CE

#7784

Permissible dose: A history of radiation protection in the twentieth century.

2003 CE

#10215

Protecting America's health: The FDA, business, and one hundred years of regulation.

2016 CE

#10669

Public opinion, public policy, and smoking: The transformation of American attitudes and cigarette use.

1989 CE

#12414

Pure food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906.

2012 CE

#8702

Social poison: The culture and politics of opiate control in Britain and France, 1821–1926.

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…

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…

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.

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.