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1,129 entries match Public Health [N02.500]
1860 CE–1864 CE
#1778
Handbuch der historisch-geographischen Pathologie. 2 vols.
This is perhaps the greatest historical classic on the subject. Vol.1 appeared in 2 parts, with the first part issued in 1859 and the second part issued in 1860.
1911 CE–1913 CE
#1639
Handbuch der Hygiene. 6 vols.
With Max Gruber and P. M. Ficker.
1923 CE
#12994
Handwörterbuch der Sexualwissenschaft. Enzyklopädie der natur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Sexualkunde des Menschen heraugegeben von Max Marcuse.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. New edition with an introduction by Robert Jütte, Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2001.
1926 CE
#7105
Happiness in marriage.
Full text available from LifeDynamics.com at this link.
1802 CE
#7067
Harmonie hydro-végétale et météorologique, ou recherches sur les moyens de recréer avec nos forêts la force des températures et la régularité des saisons, par des plantations raisonnées. 2 vols.
Rauch was particularly concerned with deforestation, which not only affected the agriculture and scenery of the countryside, but also the whole ecological balance of crops, flora and fauna, and human interaction with …
1979 CE
#10104
Harry S. Truman versus the medical lobby: The genesis of Medicare.
2010 CE
#8009
Healing the body politic: El Salvador's popular struggle for health rights from civil war to neoliberal peace.
2009 CE
#8617
Health and medicine on display: International expositions in the United States, 1876-1904.
1971 CE
#8327
Health maintenance strategy.
Elwood is often referred to as the "father of the health maintenance organization. He not only coined the term, he also played a role in bringing about structural changes to the American health care system to simultan…
1911 CE
#11837
Health on the farm: A manual of rural sanitation and hygiene.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1986 CE
#8647
Health policies, health politics: The British and American experience, 1911-1965.
1999 CE
#7616
Health, civilization and the state: A history of public health from ancient to modern times.
1926 CE
#10467
Health, wealth and population in the early days of the industrial revolution.
Chapters on water supply, 18th physicians and pioneers of public health, the hospital and dispensary movement, general hygiene and midwifery, rickets and scurvy, antiseptics, smallpox, anti-typhus campaign, malaria, etc.
1862 CE
#11311
Health: Its friends and foes.
This work, which promoted vegetarianism and abstinence from tobacco along with other hygiene and overall health advice, was written as the author stated in his preface, "to meet the comprehension of the general reader…
1655 CE
#9324
Health's improvement, or rules for preparing all sorts of food used in this nation. Written by that ever famous Thomas Muffet, Doctor in physick: Corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Doctor in Physick, and fellow of the Colledg of Physitians in London.
Moffet's work in nutrition was collected in his book Health's Improvement, which was designed more for the layman than for physicians. It also contains the first list of British wildfowl, recognizing for the first tim…
1954 CE
#11714
Heart disease and industry with particular reference to workmen's compensation cases.
"The first monograph on the subject" (W. Bruce Fye).
1919 CE
#3732
Heilung von Rachitis durch künstliche Höhensonne.
Rickets cured by ultraviolet irradiation.
1903 CE
#13384
Hermaphrodismus und Zeugungsunfähigkeit: Eine systematische Darstellung der Missbildungen der menschlichen Geschlechtsorgane. Autorisierte deutsche Ausgabe von Dr. med. R. Teuscher.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1908 CE
#9502
Hermaphroditismus beim Menschen.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1926 CE
#7031
Het volkomen huwelijk. Een studie omtrent zijn physiologie en zijn techniek: voor den arts en den echtgenoot geschreven.
English translation: Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique. (1930). The first printing had an insert: "The sale of this book is strictly limited to members of the medical profession, Psychoanalysts, Scholars, a…
1883 CE
#13111
Hints in sickness: Where to go and what to do.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1996 CE
#10019
Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome II, 2ème partie: Airs, eaux, lieux. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna. (Collection des universités de France).
1972 CE
#10684
Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome VI, 2e partie: Du régime des maladies aiguës, Appendice, De l'aliment, De l'usage des liquides. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.
Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises of different periods devoted to nutrition: On regimen in acute diseases (in two versions, with the second traditionally identified as th…
1982 CE
#8187
Hippocratic heritage: A history of ideas about weather and human health.
The first historical survey of human biometeorology, tracing the evolution of the Hippocratic idea that weather is one of the dterminants of health from its ancient origins to time of writing.
1875 CE
#1646
Histoire de l’habitation humaine depuis les temps préhistoriques jusqu'à nos jours.
Viollet-Le-Duc traced the history of domestic architecture among the different "races" of mankind. Translated into English by Benjamin Bucknall as Habitations of man in all ages (1876). Digital facsimile of the French…
1851 CE–1853 CE
#1654.1
Histoire de la prostitution chez tous les peuples du monde depuis l'antiquité la plus reculée jusqu'a nos jours, par Paul Dufour. 6 vols.
Dufour was a pseudonym of the writer Paul Lacroix. Translated into English by Samuel Putnam as History of prostitution among all the peoples of the world, from the most remote antiquity to the present day, 3 vols., Ch…
1976 CE–2018 CE
#9948
Histoire de la sexualité. 4 vols.
The first 3 vols. were translated into English by Robert Hurley as The history of sexuality (1978-1986).
1963 CE
#8161
Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. De Solférino à Tsoushima.
English translation: History of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Volume I: From Solferino to Tsushima. (Geneva: Henry Dunant Institute, 1985).
1978 CE
#8162
Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. Vol. 2: De Sarajevo à Hiroshima.
English translation: History of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Volume II: From Sarajevo to Hiroshima (Geneva: Henri Dunant Institute, 1984).
1802 CE
#8188
Histoire médicale de l'Armée d'Orient.
Napoleon appointed Desgenettes physician-in-chief for his expedition into Egypt. Desgenette's Histoire contained 19 separate chapters written by expedition personel. Digital facsimile of the 1802 from the Internet Arc…
1869 CE
#13817
Histoire médicale du tatouage. Anatomie - Physiologie - Médecine légale - Pathologie - Applications chirurgicales.
Médecin Principal de la Marine, Berchon based his research on the increasing numbers of tattooed sailors in the French navy. In 1861 he observed the transmission of syphilis from one sailor to another, who clai…
1762 CE
#1771
Historia natural, y medica de el Principado de Asturias.
The first recognizable description of pellagra is included on pp. 327-60 of this book, which was written in 1735 but not published until 1762, after the writer’s death. He called the disease mal de la rosa. Repr…
1623 CE
#10491
Historia vitae & mortis. Sive, titulus secundus in historia naturali & experimentali ad condendam philosophiam: Quae est instaurationis magnae pars tertia.
This was Bacon's direct contribution to medicine or medical philosophy, with natural and experimental observations on the prolongation of life. Translated into English as The History naturall And experimentall, of lif…
1800 CE
#1768
Historiae Aegypti compendium, Arabice et Latine. Partim ipse vertit, partim a Pocockio versum edendum curavit, notisque illustravit J. White.
Arabic-Latin bilingual text, edited by White, incorporating a translation begun by Edward Pococke the Younger (1648-1727). Abd al-Latif gave a good description of the fauna and flora of Egypt, its inhabitants and some…
2012 CE
#8059
Historical dictionary of the World Health Organization. Second edition.
Covers the history of the WHO through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendices, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on key bodies, programs, events and p…
1998 CE
#7717
Historical perspectives on climate change.
1965 CE
#1685.1
History and geography of the most important diseases.
Originally published in German, 1963.
1891 CE
#11124
History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present. Moral and physical reasons for its performance with a history of eunuchism, hermaphrodism, etc., and of the different operations practiced upon the prepuce.
Digital edition from Gutenberg.org at this link.
1948 CE
#2137
History of factory and mine hygiene.
1881 CE
#10334
History of medicine in Massachusetts. A centennial address delivered before the Massachusetts Medical Society at Cambridge, June 7, 1881.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1855 CE
#10103
History of the American Medical Association, from its organization up to January, 1855. To which is appended biographical notices, with portraits of the presidents of the association, and of the author
The first history of the American Medical Association, founded in 1847, written by one of its chief founders. Digital facsimile from Hathi Trust at this link.
1905 CE
#8689
History of the Philadelphia almshouses and hospitals from the beginning of the eighteenth to the ending of the nineteenth centuries, covering a period of nearly two hundred years. showing the mode of distributing public relief through the management of the Boards of Overseers of the Poor, Guardians of the Poor and the Directors of the Department of Charities and Correction.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1976 CE
#6551
History of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
1866 CE
#7799
History of the United States Sanitary Commission: being the general report of its work during the War of the Rebellion.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2014 CE
#8296
History of toxicology and environmental health. Toxicology in antiquity. 2 vols. Edited by Philip Wexler.
2003 CE
#10210
Homosexuality and civilization.
The history of homosexuality in Europe and parts of Asia from Homer to the 18th century.
1958 CE
#14170
Homosexuality, transvestism and change of sex.
Probably the first publication to illustrate the stages of surgical transition from male to female, and to discuss the risks then involved in the operations. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1794 CE
#9989
Hortus Americanus, containing an account of the trees, shrubs, and other vegetable productions of South-America and the West-India islands, and particularly of the island of Jamaica; interspersed with many curious and useful observations, respecting their uses in medicine, diet, and mechanics.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
2007 CE
#11465
Hospital politics in seventeenth-century France: The crown, urban elites and the poor.
1891 CE–1893 CE
#1628
Hospitals and asylums of the world. 4 vols. and atlas.
This great work deals with the history, administration, and planning of hospitals, and includes a bibliography. The author was an English financier and philanthropist rather than a professional historian or hospital a…