Facets

2008 CE–2011 CE

#9537

Public health: The development of a discipline. Edited by Dona Schneider and David E. Lilienfeld. 2 vols.

Collections of readings edited and introduced. Vol. 1: From the age of Hippocrates to the progressive era. Vol. 2: Twentieth century challenges.

2016 CE

#10669

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

1989 CE

#12414

Pure food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906.

2016 CE

#11496

Quarantine: Local and global histories. Edited by Alison Bashford.

2004 CE

#10560

Rappresentare il corpo: Art e anatomia da Leonardo all'illuminismo.

Extensive book (324 pages, many color plates) issued in connection with an exhibition held in Bologna, December 2004 to March 2005, celebrating the fourth centenary of Ulisse Aldrovandi. A much-condensed guide to the …

1935 CE

#5403

Rats, lice and history: being a study in biography, which, after 12 preliminary chapters indispensable for the preparation of the lay reader, deals with the life history of typhus fever.

2018 CE

#10935

Reading contagion: The hazards of reading in the age of print.

2017 CE

#12840

Reinventing Hippocrates. Edited by David Cantor.

"The name of Hippocrates has been invoked as an inspiration of medicine since antiquity, and medical practitioners have turned to Hippocrates for ethical and social standards. While most modern commentators accept tha…

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…

2007 CE

#7775

Renaissance vision from spectacles to telescopes.

Through an examination of original economic documents, as well as scientific documents, Ilardi discovered that Florence rather than Venice was the 15th-century center for making eye glasses and that lenses for farsigh…

1876 CE

#10839

Report of the Royal Commission on the Practice of Subjecting Live Animals to Experiments for Scientific Purposes: With minutes and evidence and appendix.

This commission, or others with a similar name, seems to have continued intermittently in England for several decades, with the fourth report of the Royal Commission on Vivisection issued as late as 1908. Digital facs…

2007 CE

#12330

Resuscitation greats. Edited by Peter Baskett and Thomas Baskett.

1976 CE

#2028.9

Resuscitation: an historical perspective. Catalogue of an exhibit at the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists…

2003 CE

#9253

Reworking the bench: Research notebooks in the history of science. Edited by Frederic L. Holmes, Jürgen Renn and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger.

Besides the historographical consideration of the value of laboratory notebooks for studying the history of experimentation and discovery, this volume includes studies of notebooks by Galvani, Schwann, Pavlov, Carl Co…

1486 CE

#40

Rhazes: Liber Elhavi sive Ars medicinae. Translated by Feragius Salernitanus. Edited by Joannes Bugatus.

The Al-Hawi, or Continens, a great encyclopedia of medicine. The above first Latin translation by Feragius Salernitanus is the largest and heaviest of the medical incunabula. The original manuscript was in Arabic. IST…

1997 CE

#12360

Rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection: Unraveling the mysteries of a dread disease.

1999 CE

#12340

Rheumatic fever in America and Britain: A biological, epidemiological, and medical history.

2003 CE

#9152

Right living: An Anglo-American tradition of self-help medicine and hygiene. Edited by Charles Rosenberg.

2001 CE

#8396

Rising life expectancy: A global history.

"Between 1800 and 2000 life expectancy at birth rose from about 30 years to a global average of 67 years, and to more than 75 years in favored countries. This dramatic change was called a health transition, characteri…

1492 CE

#2191

Rosa anglica practica medicinae. Ed: Nicolaus Scyllacius.

The first printed medical book of an Englishman. John of Gaddesden was a prebendary of St. Paul’s Cathedral and physician to Edward II. The work, to quote Garrison, “consists mainly of Arabist quackeries a…

2007 CE

#11357

Routledge international encyclopedia of queer culture. Edited by David. A. Gerstner.

1992 CE

#11406

Rudolf Virchow Sämtliche Werke. Herausgegeben von Christian Andree. 71 vols. anticipated.

From the number of volumes planned we may conclude that Virchow was one of the most prolific of all physicians. According to the Wikipedia article on Christian Andree, to which I have linked, volumes in this set were …

1995 CE

#12544

Safeguarding the public health: A history of the New Zealand Department of Health.

2015 CE

#11442

Salmonella infections, networks of knowledge, and public health in Britain, 1880-1975.

2015 CE

#9705

Sanitation, latrines and intestinal parasites in past populations. Edited by Piers D. Mitchell.

1973 CE

#5352.6

Schistosomiasis: the evolution of a medical literature. Selected abstracts and citations, 1852-1952.

Includes 384 core references and bibliography (without abstracts) covering 1963-72.

1967 CE

#5352.5

Schistosomiasis. A bibliography of the world’s literature from 1852 to 1962. 2 vols.

2003 CE

#7427

Schooling sex: Libertine literature and erotic education in Italy, France, and England 1534-1685.

1991 CE

#8627

Science and empire: East Coast Fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal.

East Coast fever (theileriosis) is an animal disease in Africa caused by the protozoan parasite Theileria parva.

1994 CE

#9557

Science and the practice of medicine in the nineteenth century.

1917 CE–1922 CE

#10532

Science et dévouement: Le service de santé, la Croix-Rouge, les oeuvres de solidarité de guerre et d'après-guerre. Publie avec la colloboration de MM. J. Abadie, Jacques Bertillon, Georges Brouardel....Edited by François Albert.

A deluxe, large format, commemorative volume edited by journalist François Albert. It was published by subscription, limited to 5000 copies, and issued in fascicules from 1917-1922. Includes contributions by 50…

1994 CE

#7027

Science in the bedroom: A history of sex research.

1997 CE

#7370

Scientists and the sea 1650-1900. A study of marine science.

1920 CE

#3723

Scurvy, past and present.

Includes a history and bibliography.

2002 CE

#10175

Seeing her sex: Medical archives and the female body.

"Through a detailed analysis of exterior and interior images of the female body, this book examines the relationship between human reproduction and cultural representation from 1750-1910. With examples drawn from medi…

1968 CE

#2581.7

Selected papers on the pathogenic rickettsiae. Edited by Nicholas Hahon.

"The selected papers ... range from the sixteenth century to the modern era. A number of the papers are classics in the field and several of the selections appear in English translation for the first time. The editor …

1929 CE

#2318

Selected readings in pathology.

This work makes it possible to read many of the classical writings on the subject which previously, through language difficulties, were beyond the reach of many. The book forms a valuable companion to Long’s his…

2003 CE

#8643

Self-experimenters: Sources for study.

Grouped by category of experiment, and then by the name of the self-experimenter, this is a guide to their biographies and the articles that reported their results.

1992 CE

#8637

Sentinel for health: A history of the Centers for Disease Control

1998 CE

#12729

Sex and sexuality in early America. Edited by Merril D. Smith.

One of the only books on sexuality in colonial America.

1983 CE

#9095

Sex and society in Islam: Birth control before the nineteenth century.

1997 CE

#10030

Sex, disease, and society: A comparative history of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Scott Bamber and Michael Waugh.

2002 CE

#7536

Sexual blackmail: A modern history.

1930 CE

#8322

Sexual life in ancient India: A study in the comparative history of Indian Culture.

Extensively revised by the author, with additional notes by the translator (unidentified), from Das Weib im altindischen Epos. Ein Beitrag zur indischen und zur vergleichenden Kulturgeschichte. Von Johann Jacob Meyer.…

1985 CE

#8228

Sexualité et savoir médical au Moyen Âge.

Translated into English by A. Adamson as Sexuality and medicine in the Middle Ages, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1988.

1996 CE

#10174

Sexualities in Victorian Britain. Edited by Andrew H. Miller and James Eli Adams.

2005 CE

#8839

Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing unto others.

1989 CE

#7028

Sexuality: An illustrated history. Representing the sexual in medicine and culture from the Middle Ages to the age of AIDS.

2013 CE

#9374

Ship of death: A voyage that changed the Atlantic world.

A multi-disciplinary account from the perspectives of the history of the slave trade, the anti-slavery movement and medical history, of the voyage of the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792-…

2007 CE

#11082

Shock and awe: The performance dimension of Galen's anatomy demonstrations. (Version 5; January 2007.)

Digital edition available from princeton.edu at this link: http://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/pdfs/gleason/010702.pdf