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Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences

Exhibiting 229 entries found in the GMN corpus.

YearTitle & TagsAuthor(s)
1999 CEThe Nazi war on cancer.
2009 CEThe plague files: Crisis management in sixteenth-century Seville.
2004 CEThe politics of healing: Histories of alternative medicine in twentieth-century North America.
2003 CEThe progressive era's health reform movement: A historical dictionary.
1928 CEThe quacks of old London.
2002 CEThe quest for drug control: Politics and federal policy in a period of increasing substance abuse, 1963-1981.
2001 CEThe royal doctors, 1485-1714: Medical personnel at the Tudor and Stuart courts.
2012 CEThe sick child in early modern England, 1580-1720.
1992 CEThe social basis of health and healing in Africa. Edited by Steven Feierman and John M. Janzen.
2011 CEThe social history of health and medicine in colonial India. Edited by Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison.
1992 CEThe social ideas of American physicians (1776-1976): Studies of the humanitarian tradition in medicine.
1982 CEThe social transformation of American medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry.
2008 CEThe sterilization movement and global fertility in the twentieth century.
2009 CEThe theatre of the body: Staging death and embodying life in early-modern London.
1972 CEThe trade in lunacy: A study of private madhouses in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
1968 CEThe trial of the assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and law in the gilded age.
2008 CEThis republic of suffering: Death and the American Civil War.
2017 CETo heal humankind: The right to health in history,
1998 CETo improve human health. A history of the Institute of Medicine.
2013 CETransforming the culture of dying: The work of the Project on Death in America.
2009 CEUneasy encounters: The politics of medicine and health in China 1900-1937. Edited by Iris Borowy.
2007 CEUnequal cures: Public health and political change in Bolivia, 1900-1950,
2021 CEUp against the wall: Art, activism, and the AIDS poster. Edited by Donald Albrecht and Jessica Lacher-Feldman. Medical and consulting editor William M. Valenti.
2015 CEVaccine nation: America's changing relationship with immunization.
2004 CEVenereal disease, hospitals and the urban poor: London's "foul wards," 1600-1800.
2007 CEVernacular bodies: The politics of reproduction in Early Modern England.
2015 CEVietnamese traditional medicine: A social history.
1987 CEVivisection in historical perspective. Edited by Nicholaas A. Rupke.
1998 CEWhen abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973.