Facets

2011 CE

#10625

House on fire: The fight to eradicate smallpox.

Foege, as director of the Centers for Disease Control, is credited with "devising the global strategy that led to the eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s".[4]

2016 CE

#8550

Household medicine in seventeenth-century England.

1847 CE

#13772

Household surgery; or, hints on emergencies.

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.

2004 CE

#8070

How sex changed: A history of transsexuality in the United States.

1927 CE

#11595

How to make the periodic health examination: A manual of procedure. Foreward by Major General Merritte W. Ireland, Surgeon General, United States Army.

Fisk was medical director, Life Extension Institute; Crawford was Assistant Medical Director, Life Extension Institute. "This pioneering monograph on the value of periodic health examination includes numbers of photog…

1966 CE

#7039

Human sexual response.

Pioneering work on the human sexual response cycle by the researchers known as Masters and Johnson.

1994 CE

#7201

Human sexuality: An encyclopedia, edited by Vern L. Bullough and Bonnie Bullough.

1876 CE

#9316

Hygeia: A city of health.

Imaginative outline for an utopian city of 100,000 people which Richardson, as public health reformer, hoped would reduce mortality to five per thousand in two generations. Includes details of the laying out of street…

1986 CE

#9798

Hygiène et médecine: Histoire et actualités des maladies nosocomiales.

History of nosocomial or hospital-acquired infections.

1999 CE

#9748

Hygiene in the early modern medical tradition.

1917 CE

#7615

Hygiene of the printing trades.

Industrial Accidents and Hygiene Series: No. 12. Probably the earliest specific study of the hygiene and diseases of workers in the U.S. printing industry. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1882 CE

#13120

Hygiène professionnelle. Le compositeur typographe.

A 21-page pamphlet of the diseases and hygiene of typographers; chiefly diseases related to their exposure to lead through their hands and breathing in of of lead particles in the air as a result of poor ventilation. …

1836 CE

#1606

Hygiène publique. 2 vols.

The first volume reprints the author's Essai sur les cloaques ou égouts de la ville de Paris (1824). Parent-Duchâtelet wrote that he had visited all the places which he described in the text: ”J&rsq…

2004 CE

#9709

Hygienic modernity: Meanings of health and disease in treaty-port China.

1988 CE

#8494

I Modi: The sixteen pleasures, an erotic album of the Italian Renaissance. Giulio Romano, Marcantonio Raimondi, Pietro Aretino and Count Jean-Fréderick-Maximilien de Waldeck. Edited, translated from the Italian and with a commentary by Lynne Lawner.

An edition and reconstruction of the only 16th century book of erotic engravings and poetry, surviving in a unique copy the original edition. For a summary of the history of this work of art, associated with several a…

1825 CE

#10385

Igiene dé tipografi.

Probably the first separate publication on the diseases of printers and typesetters. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1877 CE

#12504

Igiene dell' amore

Digital facsimile of the Milan, 1891 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

2018 CE

#10533

Imagining Chinese medicine. Edited by Vivienne Lo and Penelope .

Finely produced and illustrated collection, with many plates in color, of 36 scholarly essays on the widest range of Chinese medical illustrations, including erotica.

2010 CE

#10612

Imagining illness: Public health and visual culture. Edited by David Serlin.

"From seventeenth-century broadsides about the handling of dead bodies, printed during London's plague years, to YouTube videos about preventing the transmission of STDs, public health advocacy and education has alway…

2014 CE

#7846

Imperial hygiene: A critical history of colonialism, nationalism and public health.

2007 CE

#7534

Impotence: A cultural history.

1907 CE

#2130

In Report of the Departmental Committee on Compensation for Industrial Diseases. Cd. 3495 and 3496.

The first reported case of asbestosis was observed by Murray at Charing Cross Hospital, London, in 1899 and reported to the Committee (Report, p. 14: Minutes of Evidence, p. 127) in 1907.

2015 CE

#9636

In search of the perfect health system.

"With chapters on 25 different countries, this practical and succinct guide to the world's major health systems explores what lessons can be drawn from each to improve health worldwide. Each chapter is an essay design…

1936 CE

#11821

Industrial dust: Hygienic significance, measurement and control.

Includes information on asbestosis.

1921 CE

#2133

Industrial fatigue and efficiency.

1934 CE

#10391

Industrial maladies.

Legge was the first Medical Inspector of Factories and Workshops in the United Kingdom, appointed in 1898.

1919 CE

#2132

Industrial medicine and surgery.

1957 CE

#8669

Industrial medicine in western Pennsylvania, 1850-1950.

Probably the first history of occupational medicine in any part of the United States. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1925 CE

#2134

Industrial poisons in the United States.

1996 CE

#8661

Industry Documents Library. University of California, San Francisco.

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/industry-documents/ "The Industry Documents Library (IDL) provides public access to internal corporate documents to facilitate research about cross-industry practices that harm public heal…

2007 CE

#11303

Inescapable ecologies: A history of environment, disease, and knowledge.

"Among the most far-reaching effects of the modern environmental movement was the widespread acknowledgment that human beings were inescapably part of a larger ecosystem." This book provides a "history of “ecolo…

2016 CE

#14068

Influenza encyclopedia: The American influenza epidemic of 1918 - 1919: A digital encyclopedia. Second edition.

ABOUT "Historians, journalists, and the public at large have long been interested in the 1918 “Spanish flu” epidemic, a dramatic chapter in American life that has spawned an impressive body of books, artic…

1978 CE

#10846

Informe sexual de la mujer española.

2011 CE

#8888

Innovations médicales en situations humanitaires: La travail de Médecins Sans Frontières.

Translated into English as Medical innovations in humanitarian situations: The work of Médecins San Frontières (20).

1981 CE

#10222

Inside Russian medicine: An American doctor's first-hand report. With research assistance by Nicholas A. Petroff.

A period piece but valuable for its professional assessment of the state of Russian medicine during the period.

2016 CE

#8165

International Committee of the Red Cross: History.

https://www.icrc.org/en/who-we-are/history. Extensive background, videos, links to the ICRC archives, etc., etc. Accessed 12-2016

1995 CE

#8058

International health organisations and movements, 1918-1939. Edited by Paul Weindling.

1971 CE

#1671.7

International health organizations and their work. 2nd ed.

A systematic account of international health work from its beginnings to modern times. First published 1952.

1978 CE

#12121

International public health between the two world wars: The organizational problems.

1931 CE

#8887

International studies of the relation between the private & official practice of medicine with special reference to the prevention of disease. Vol. 1: The Netherlands, Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Vol. 2: Belgium, France, Italy, Jugo-Slavia, Hungary, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia. Vol. 3: England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland.(3 vols.)

Contains almost no references to prior literature.

1988 CE

#7077

Intimate matters. A history of sexuality in America.

The first history of sexuality in America.

1906 CE

#1637

Investigation on the purification of Boston sewage, with a history of the sewage-disposal problem.

1970 CE

#13559

Is carbon dioxide from fossil fuel changing man's environment?

Keeling developed the first instrument that could measure carbon dioxide in atmospheric samples with consistently reliable accuracy, and in 1958 began collecting carbon dioxide samples from a base he established at Ma…

1939 CE

#1080

Isolierung des Vitamins K in hochgereinigter Form.

Isolation of vitamin K1 from alfalfa. It was isolated independently by R. W. McKee and his co-workers, J. Amer. chem. Soc., 1939, 61, 1295.

1899 CE–1933 CE

#10848

Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen. Edited by Magnus Hirschfeld.

"An annual publication of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee, WhK), an early LGBT rights organization founded by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1897. The periodical featured article…

1941 CE

#10769

Jak zapobiegać chorobom zakaźnym i jak je zwalczać? Biblioteczka Zydowskiej Samopomocy Spolecznej. Nr. 1.

A 14-page pamphlet on epidemiology published by the Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna, Prezydium (Jewish Social Self-Help Organization) in the Kraków Ghetto to educate Jewish activists and physicians. The author per…

1968 CE

#11230

John Evelyn: A study in bibliopphily with a bibliography of his writings

Second edition, revised. First published in 1937 by The Grolier Club and Cambridge University Press.

1939 CE

#11239

John Howard (1726-1790) hospital and prison reformer: A bibliography

1834 CE

#10394

Jurisprudence de la médecine, de la chirurgie, et de la pharmacie en France, comprenant la médecine légale, la police médicale, la responsabilitié des médecins, chirurgiens, pharmaciens, etc, l'exposé et la discussion des lois, ordonnances, réglemens et instructions concernant l'art de guérir, appuyé des jugemens des cours et des tribunaux.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.