Facets

2008 CE

#9878

The politics of vaccination: Practice and policy in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, 1800-1874.

1999 CE

#8078

... And the pursuit of national health: The incremental strategy toward national health insurance in the United States of America.

2010 CE

#8275

A history of healthcare in Istanbul: Health organizations, epidemics, infections and disease control, preventive health institutions, hospitals, medical education.

1809 CE

#1603

A treatise on medical police, and on diet, regimen, &c. In which the permanent and regularly recurring causes of disease in general, and those of Edinburgh and London in particular, are described; with a general plan of medical police to obviate them, and a particular one adapted to the local circumstances of these cities. 2 vols.

First notable work on the subject in English. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1991 CE

#11165

America's welfare state from Roosevelt to Reagan.

"Social welfare policy in the United States has gone from controversy in the 1930s, to consensus at mid-century, and back to controversy and confusion in the late twentieth century. In America's Welfare State, Edward …

1999 CE

#8069

An American Obsession: Science, medicine, and homosexuality in modern society.

1968 CE

#9134

An uneasy equilibrium: Private and public financing of health service in the United States 1875-1965.

The central theme of this book is that health policy in the Unitesd States is the product of a deep ambivalence in public attitudes that on the one hand support a private, market-oriented health provision system, whil…

1987 CE

#6998

And the band played on: Politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic.

Shilts, an investigative journalist, chronicled the discovery and spread of HIV / AIDS with special emphasis on government indifference and political infighting—specifically in the United States—to what wa…

2001 CE

#10091

Black death, white medicine: Bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945.

2000 CE

#8102

Brush with death: A social history of lead poisoning.

2008 CE

#10509

Cholera and nation: Doctoring the Victorian social body.

1902 CE

#2129

Dangerous trades: the historical, social, and legal aspects of industrial occupations as affecting health, by a number of experts.

A collective work edited by Oliver. Digital fascimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1987 CE

#7665

Death, dissection and the destitute: The politics of the corpse in pre-victorian Britain.

2012 CE

#10668

Democratic governance & health: Hospitals, Politics and health policy in New Zealand.

"New Zealand is the only country in the world where elected health boards have long been a core feature of the health care system. These boards are conceptually important and aspirational for policy-makers and communi…

1983 CE

#10217

Disease change and the role of medicine: The Navajo experience.

1908 CE

#10392

Diseases of occupation from the legislative, social, and medical points of view.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2001 CE

#10335

Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle cell anemia and the politics of race and health.

"Set in Memphis, home of one of the nation's first sickle cell clinics, Dying in the City of the Blues reveals how the recognition, treatment, social understanding, and symbolism of the disease evolved in the twentiet…

2013 CE

#8037

Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the sciences in Paris, 1670-1760.

1986 CE

#8213

Ecological imperialism: The biological expansion of Europe, 900-1900.

Revised edition, 2004.

1890 CE

#1650

English sanitary institutions, reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations.

Simon "viewed the state as provider of the basic conditions needed for subsistence (without interfering in the iron law of wages) through sanitary reform of the environment, prevention of epidemic diseases, and the re…

2016 CE

#8047

Food and health in early modern Europe: Diet, medicine and society, 1450-1800.

1974 CE

#11327

From medical police to social medicine.

1879 CE

#12084

Gesammelte Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der öffentlichen Medicin und der Seuchenlehre. 2 vols.

Virchow "articulated that the moral goal of the political role of medicine was to become an active agent in eliminating social inequality" (Dorothy Porter, Doctors, the state and the ethics of political medical practi…

1996 CE

#9772

Government and health care: The British National Health Service 1958–1979.

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.

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.

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).

2007 CE

#11465

Hospital politics in seventeenth-century France: The crown, urban elites and the poor.

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…

1995 CE

#8058

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

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.

1911 CE

#1710

La dépopulation de la France: Ses conséquences, ses causes, mésures à prendre pour la combattre.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1987 CE

#9101

Law, sex and Christian society in medieval Europe.

."...explores the origin and develpment of the Christian church's sex law and the systems of belief upon which that law rested. Focusing on the Church's own legal system of canon law, James A. Brundage offers a compre…

2017 CE

#10666

Madhouse: Psychiatry and politics in Cuban history.

2012 CE

#8093

Making Medicare: New perspectives on the history of Medicare in Canada.

2004 CE

#10508

Mapping the Victorian social body.

"The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explos…

2002 CE

#10040

Medical police and the history of pubic health.

Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

2015 CE

#8770

Medicare and Medicaid at 50: America's entitlement programs in the age of affordable care. Edited by Alan B. Cohen, David C. Colby, Keith A. Wailoo, and Julian E. Zelizer.

2010 CE

#7834

Medicine and politics in colonial Peru: Population growth and the Bourbon reforms.

2001 CE

#10193

Medicine that Walks: Disease, medicine, and Canadian Plains native people, 1880-1940.

"... Lux takes issue with the 'biological invasion' theory of the impact of disease on Plains Aboriginal people. She challenges the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with the diseases brought by Europ…

2011 CE

#10576

Medicine, government, and public health in Philip II's Spain: Shared interests, competing authorities.

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…

1998 CE

#9770

National Health Service: A political history.

Revised second edition, 2002.

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 …

2007 CE

#8077

Origins of American health insurance: A history of industrial sickness funds.

2015 CE

#8274

Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world: The Ottoman experience, 1347-1600.

2012 CE

#7891

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