Facets

2001 CE

#10799

Malaria: Poverty, race, and public health in the United States.

2013 CE

#10801

Marrow of tragedy: The health crisis of the American Civil War.

1930 CE

#10301

Medical history of Michigan. Compiled and edited by a committee, C. B. Burr, Chairman, and published under the auspices of the Michigan State Medical Society. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the U.S. Library of Congress at this link.

1977 CE

#9151

Medicine without doctors: Home health care in American history. Edited by Guenter B. Risse, Ronald L. Numbers, and Judith Walzer Leavitt.

1892 CE

#10438

Mineral springs and health resorts of California: With a complete chemical analysis of every important mineral water in the world... A Prize Essay; Annual Prize of the Medical Society of the State of California, Awarded April 20, 1889.

The first half of the book concerns mineral springs and health resorts in California and how to use them; the second half mostly concerns mineral springs and other health resorts in North America and Europe. Digital f…

1992 CE

#13297

Miners and medicine: West Virginia memories.

"The coal-company doctors of Appalachia fought the health hazards of the coal fields, arguably the most dangerous and diseased working environment of the modern world. Often the doctors were held accountable for evils…

2008 CE

#8080

National health insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, territory, and the roots of difference.

Explores why two countries that were very similar in many ways, struck out on radically divergent paths to public health insurance. Canada developed a universal single-payer system of national health care, while the U…

2002 CE

#8663

New Deal medicine: The rural health programs of the Farm Security Administration.

"Drawing on oral histories, archival records, and medical journals from the 1930s and 1940s, Grey finds the programs were both a rehearsal for more modern forms of medical organization and a lightning rod for critics …

1962 CE

#2137.02

Occupational health in America.

Written under the auspices of the Industrial Medical Association, this history emphasizes 20th century achievements.

1836 CE–1837 CE

#2123.1

On the influence of trades, professions, and occupations, in the United States in the production of disease.

The first American work devoted entirely to occupational diseases. Reprinted with introduction, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1943.

1882 CE

#9506

Opium-smoking in America and China: A study of its prevalence, and effects, immediate and remote, on the individual and the nation.

The author claims (p. 1) that "the first white man who smoked opium in America is said to have been a sporting character named Clendenyn. The second—induced to try it by the first—smoked in 1871." Digital …

1871 CE

#10483

Physical effects of compressed air, and of the causes of pathological symptoms produced on man, by increased atmospheric pressure employed for the sinking of piers, in the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.

Study of caisson disease and its treatement resulting from experience in treating workmen constructing the Eads Bridge, which opened in 1874. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2012 CE

#7891

Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown.

1989 CE

#8727

Plagues and politics: The story of the United States Public Health Service.

1916 CE

#8154

Plant succession: An analysis of the development of vegetation.

A seminal work of ecological science, establishing a dynamic model of species succession toward an eventual "climax" equilibrium under the influence of climate and other factors in a given habitat. "From his observati…

1847 CE

#10063

Proceedings of the National Medical Conventions, held in New York, May, 1846, and in Philadelphia, May, 1847.

The complete proceedings of the founding of the American Medical Association. This version also contains the text of the Code of Ethics written by Isaac Hayes and adopted by the AMA. In updated forms, this remains the…

1972 CE

#12490

Public health and the state: Changing views in Massachusetts, 1842-1936.

1959 CE

#13800

Public health in the town of Boston, 1630-1822.

2016 CE

#10669

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

2016 CE

#9114

Remaking the American patient: How Madison Avenue and modern medicine turned patients into consumers.

"In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explo…

1850 CE

#1609

Report of a general plan for the promotion of public and personal health, devised, prepared, and recommended by the commissioners appointed under a resolve of the legislature of Massachusetts relating to a sanitary survey of the State.

Compiled by a team, but entirely written by Shattuck, this report was the first general blueprint for the promotion of public health presented to an American governmental body. Its first proposal was for the creation …

1859 CE

#11304

Report on the medical topography and epidemics of California.

Logan provided an updated report with the same title in 1865. Digital facsimile of the 1865 report from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1914 CE

#10520

Sanitary conditions among the Eskimos: A report on conditions in native villages along the Arctic coast of Alaska. Supplement No. 9 to Public Health Reports, December 12, 1913.

In 1912 the U.S. Public Health Service assigned Dr. Emil Krulish to supervise health care in the Territory of Alaska. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2021 CE

#13271

Strong hearts and healing hands: Southern California Indians and field nurses, 1920-1950.

2017 CE

#9973

Teeth: The story of beauty, inequality, and the struggle for oral health in America.

1984 CE

#10105

The AMA and U.S. health policy since 1940.

1984 CE

#10988

The American Clinical and Climatological Association: 1884-1984.

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…

1986 CE

#10986

The Association of American Physicians, 1886-1986: A century of progress in medical science.

"The Association of American Physicians is a nonprofit, professional organization founded in 1885 by seven physicians, including Dr. William Osler and Dr. William Henry Welch, for “the advancement of scientific …

2013 CE

#13284

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Science, governance, and the pursuit of cures

The California Institute for Regenerative medicine was the first state-fund institution that provided stable, in-state funding on a very large scale for biomedical research. "The California Institute for Regenerative …

1873 CE

#10482

The effects of high atmospheric pressure, including the caisson disease.

Classic study of caisson disease. Smith was "Late Surgeon to the New York Bridge Co. (Caisson Work)", treating workmen who built the Brooklyn Bridge. The Eads Bridge (St. Louis) and the Brooklyn Bridge (New York City)…

1837 CE

#10411

The family nurse; or companion of the frugal housewife. Revised by a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society.

Child was was an abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Her journals, both fiction and domestic manuals, reached wide audie…

1939 CE

#6594

The first Negro medical society. A history of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia.

A detailed history of the “first American Negro medical society formed in America and probably in the world”. Cobb was the first black American medical historian of note.

1999 CE

#9113

The gospel of germs: Men, women, and the microbe in American life.

1910 CE

#11446

The health index of children.

Hoag was medical director of the public schools in Berkeley, California. As Hoag wrote in his introduction, the object of this work was "to show teachers and parents how to detect easily those ordinary physical defect…

1982 CE

#12492

The healthiest city: Milwaukee and the politics of health reform.

2006 CE

#7962

The Humboldt current: Nineteenth-century exploration and the roots of American environmentalism.

2010 CE

#10225

The measure of America, 2010-2011: Mapping risks and resilience.

"This fully illustrated report, with over 130 color images, is based on the groundbreaking American Human Development Index, which provides a single measure of the well-being for all Americans, disaggregated by state …

2008 CE

#10224

The measure of America: American human development report, 2008-2009.

" the first-ever human development report for a wealthy, developed nation. It introduces the American Human Development Index, which provides a single measure of well-being for all Americans, disaggregated by state an…

1903 CE

#11020

The medical annals of Maryland 1799-1899. Prepared for the centennial of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1876 CE

#10412

The people's medical advisor.

A graduate of the Eclectic Medical College in Cincinnati, Vaughn was a member of the New York State Senate (31st D.) in 1878 and 1879, and was elected as a Republican to the 46th United States Congress, holding office…

1808 CE

#10067

The pharmacopoeia of the Massachusetts Medical Society,

The first state pharmacopeia issued in the United States. Jackson and Warren were the "Committee for the Pharmacopoeia." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1974 CE

#9411

The physician and sexuality in Victorian America.

2000 CE

#10516

The sanitary city: Urban infrastructure in America from colonial times to the present.

1845 CE

#9556

The sanitary condition of the laboring population of New York with suggestions for its improvement.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1982 CE

#6596.6

The social transformation of American medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry.

1951 CE

#1671

The United States Public Health Service, 1798-1950.

2016 CE

#10421

Vanishing America: Species extinction racial peril, and the origins of conservation.

"Nineteenth-century citizens of European descent widely believed that Native Americans would eventually vanish from the continent. Indian society was thought to be tied to the wilderness, and the manifest destiny of U…

2015 CE

#9859

Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South.

"The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878--a disaster that caused 20,000 deaths and financial losses of nearly $200 mill…