Facets

1989 CE

#8727

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

1990 CE

#9764

Politics and public health in revolutionary Russia, 1890-1918.

1995 CE

#13681

Power and illness. The failure of American health policy.

1988 CE

#9771

Problems of health care: The National Health Service before 1957.

2002 CE

#8034

Professional and popular medicine in France 1770-1830: The social world of medical practice.

"This is the first comprehensive study on a national scale of the entire range of medical practitioners who flourished in preindustrial and early industrial societies. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, it provides…

2003 CE

#12371

Public health and the risk factor: A history of an uneven medical revolution.

"The acceptance of risk factors has produced changes in public health and medicine as profound as those that resulted from bacteriology and the germ theory of disease. . . . The risk factor concept has been controvers…

1972 CE

#12490

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

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…

1999 CE

#13585

Sexual cultures in Europe: National histories.

"... brings together for the first time studies of the sexual cultures of all the major European countries--including France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Spain, Britain and the Netherlands--to focus on their commonalities…

2012 CE

#8702

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

1937 CE

#9832

Socialized medicine in the Soviet Union.

"... Sigerist was influential in the creation of socialized medicine in Canada. He made four trips to Canada in the 1930s and 1940s at the invitation of various medical groups to speak on this topic. Under his influen…

1779 CE–1827 CE

#1599

System einer vollständigen medicinischen Polizey. 9 vols.

The first systematic treatise on public hygiene. Frank believed the ruler of a state should stand in the relation of a father to his children, among his duties being the safeguarding of the people’s health and t…

1952 CE

#1671.1

The advance to social medicine.

Originally published in French, 1948.

1984 CE

#10105

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

2006 CE

#9265

The birth of development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization changed the world, 1945–1965.

1948 CE

#1669

The dawn of Scottish social welfare. A survey from medieval times to 1863.

1995 CE

#7029

The facts of life: The creation of sexual knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950.

2009 CE

#13038

The good doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the struggle for social justice in health care.

"... documents the history of the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR), a group of health professionals who delivered health care to wounded protesters and victims of police violence during the Civil Rights Movem…

1999 CE

#9113

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

2007 CE

#11464

The great nation in decline: Sex, modernity and health crises in revolutionary France c.1750–1850.

2006 CE

#8035

The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs.

1982 CE

#12492

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

1943 CE

#2136

The history of miners’ diseases. A medical and social interpretation.

1986 CE

#11123

The impact of illness on world leaders.

1995 CE

#8036

The making of a social disease: Tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France.

1987 CE

#9883

The making of the modern body: Sexuality and society in the nineteenth century. Edited by Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur.

1833 CE

#10389

The manufacturing population of England, its moral, social, and physical conditions, and the changes which have arisen from the use of steam machinery; with an examination of infant labour.

Gaskell, a physician, addressed social, political and public health problems that resulted from the Industrial Revolution. Gaskell issued a revised edition of this work in 1836 under a different title: Artisans and Ma…

1995 CE

#9102

The meanings of sex difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, science, and culture.

"...explores the ways in which scientific ideas about sex differences in the later Middle Ages participated in the broader cultural assumptions about gender. Professor Cadden discusses how medieval natural philosophic…

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…

1967 CE

#10396

The origins of the National Health Service: The medical services of the New Poor Law, 1834-1871.

2004 CE

#8076

The politics of healing: Histories of alternative medicine in twentieth-century North America.

2003 CE

#11593

The progressive era's health reform movement: A historical dictionary.

2002 CE

#12415

The quest for drug control: Politics and federal policy in a period of increasing substance abuse, 1963-1981.

1982 CE

#6596.6

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

1868 CE

#5376

Ueber den Hungertyphus und einige verwandte Krankheitsformen.

Virchow was instrumental in introducing into Germany an epidemiology based on the study of multiple factors – sociological as well as bacteriological. In the above report on the reappearance of typhus in Berlin …

2009 CE

#9267

Uneasy encounters: The politics of medicine and health in China 1900-1937. Edited by Iris Borowy.

2007 CE

#7835

Unequal cures: Public health and political change in Bolivia, 1900-1950,

2007 CE

#13577

Vernacular bodies: The politics of reproduction in Early Modern England.

"Making babies was a mysterious process in 17th-century England. Fissell uses popular sources—songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals—to recover how ordinary men and women …

1974 CE

#8769

Welfare medicine in America: A case study of Medicaid.

The first study of Medicaid. Revised edition, 2003.

1970 CE

#10554

Women and their bodies.

This 35-cent, 136-page book organized in 1969 by Nancy Miriam Hawley at Boston's Emmanuel College, was written by twelve Boston feminist activists. It eventually sold 250,000 copies in New England without any formal a…