Facets

2007 CE

#8101

Silent victories: The history and practice of public health in twentieth-century America. Edited by John W. Ward and Christian Warren.

2017 CE

#10663

Silicosis: A world history. Edited by Paul-André Rosental.

1988 CE

#7549

Smallpox and its eradication.

The definitive archival history in 1460 pages. In 2016 a PDF of this entire book could be downloaded from the W.H.O. at this link.

2012 CE

#8702

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

2003 CE

#13758

Solitary sex: A cultural history of masturbation.

2000 CE

#9392

Something new under the sun: An environmental history of the twentieth-century world.

1942 CE

#6436

Source book of medical history.

Reprinted, Dover Publications, 1960.

2000 CE

#8680

Spectacular bodies: The art and science of the human body from Leonardo to now.

1983 CE

#12173

Stephanus the Philosopher. A commentary on the Prognosticon of Hippocrates. Edited and translated by John M. Duffy. [CMG XI 1,2]

1995 CE

#8703

Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: dalla peste europea alla guerra mondiale, 1348-1918.

2010 CE

#8704

Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: Dalla peste nera ai giorni nostri.

1927 CE

#6418

Storia della medicina.

This work is similar in plan and scope to that of Garrison (No. 6408). Much attention is devoted to palaeopathology, with valuable accounts of the School of Salerno, and medieval and Renaissance Italian medicine. An E…

1947 CE

#6441

Storia della medicina. 2 vols.

1850 CE–1866 CE

#6385

Storia della medicina. 3 vols. in 4.

Vol. 2 was in 2 parts. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2004 CE

#9025

Stories in the time of cholera: Racial profiling during a medical nightmare.

'In 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-…

2021 CE

#13271

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

1898 CE

#447

Studien zur Geschichte der Anatomie im Mittelalter.

1909 CE

#6404

Studien zur Geschichte der Medizin.

1975 CE

#461.3

Studies in pre-Vesalian anatomy. Biography, translation, documents by L. R. Lind.

Includes English translations of texts by Alessandro Achillini, Alessandro Benedetti, Berengario da Carpi, Gabriele Zerbi, Niccolo Massa, Andrés de Laguna, J. Dryander and G. B. Canano.

1917 CE–1921 CE

#6411

Studies in the history and method of science. 2 vols. Edited by Charles Singer.

A collection of essays by several authorities, unusually well produced and illustrated for the time. Introduction to vol. 1 by Sir William Osler. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1980 CE

#6451.11

Subject catalogue of the history of medicine and related sciences. 18 vols.

Subject section: 9 vols.; Biographical section: 5 vols.; Topographical section: 4 vols. Reproduces the card subject catalogue of the library and includes a cumulation of Current Work in the History of Medicine (No. 64…

1997 CE

#10361

Subjected to science: Human experimentation in America before the Second World War.

2018 CE

#10476

Suffering scholars: Pathologies of the intellectual in Enlightenment France.

1844 CE–1850 CE

#11

Suśrutas. Áyruvédas. Id est medicinae systema a venerabili d'hanvantare demonstratum a Suśruta discipulo compositum. Nunc primum ex Sanksríta in Latinum sermonem vertit, introductionem, annotationes et rerum indicem adjecit Dr. Franciscus Hessler. 3 vols.

First translation of the Suśruta Samhitā into Latin, and the first publication of this text in the West. Suśruta is said to have lived in the 6th or 5th centuries, BCE. The principal medical contribution of the ancien…

1769 CE

#2204

Synopsis nosologiae methodicae.

This work made Cullen’s reputation. In it he divided diseases into fevers, neurosis, cachexias and local disorders. Cullen was the foremost British clinical teacher of his time, one of the first to give clinical…

1780 CE

#5488

Tableau historique et raisonné des épidémies catharrales vulgairement dites la grippe; depuis 1510 jusques et y compris celle de 1780.

1731 CE

#9461

Tabular observations recommended as the plainest and surest way of practising and improving physick. In a letter to a friend.

Clifton argued that physicians should base their judgments about the effects of treatments on a sufficient number of their own observations, or trusted observations by other physicians, rather than on the correlation …

1999 CE

#7032

Taking positions. On the erotic in Renaissance culture.

Of particular relevance to the history of medical literature is Chapter 8: "Mythology, Sexuality, and Science in Charles Estienne's Manual of Anatomy" (pp. 161-188). This refers to Estienne's De dissectione partium co…

1999 CE

#7104

Teaching America about sex. Marriage guides and sex manuals from the late Victorians to Dr. Ruth.

1967 CE

#1671.62

Ten centuries of European hospital architecture.

1952 CE

#1671.1

The advance to social medicine.

Originally published in French, 1948.

1987 CE

#10557

The AIDS History Project.

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/aids/ "In 1987, the Archives & Special Collections initiated, in collaboration with the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society (GLBHT HS) and University of Califor…

1984 CE

#10105

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

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…

2016 CE

#7566

The Anatomical Venus: Wax / Sex / God / Death.

2010 CE

#8593

The anatomist anatomis'd: An experimental discipline in Enlightenment Europe.

History of the practice and teaching of anatomy, and comparative anatomy, in the 18th century, mainly in Europe, but also touching on the introduction of Western methods of studying and teaching anatomy into Japan.

2009 CE

#9332

The anatomy murders: Being the true and spectacular history of Edinburgh's notorious Burke and Hare and of the man of science who abetted them in the commission of their most heinous crimes.

1972 CE

#2199.1

The angel of Bethesda [1724] edited, with introduction and notes by Gordon W. Jones.

The only large systematic compilation of medical knowledge prepared in the Thirteen Colonies before the American revolution. The manuscript, which Mather finished in 1724, remained unpublished in the American Antiquar…

2007 CE

#7059

The battle of the bulge: A history of obesity research.

1931 CE

#5352

The bibliography of schistosomiasis (bilharziasis).

1997 CE

#8629

The blues: A history of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield system.

1988 CE

#8837

The body and society: Men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity.

"A groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lif…

2020 CE

#12989

The body of evidence. Corpses and proofs in early modern European medicine. Edited by Francesco Paolo de Ceglia.

"When, why and how was it first believed that the corpse could reveal ‘signs’ useful for understanding the causes of death and eventually identifying those responsible for it? The Body of Evidence. Corpses…

1998 CE

#7701

The Cambridge encyclopedia of human paleopathology by Arthur C. Auderheide and Conrado Rodríguez-Martín, including a dental chapter by Odin Langsjoen.

Includes a significant historical introduction.

2000 CE

#7425

The Cambridge world history of food. 2 vols.

An encyclopedic work in 2153 pages; edited by Kiple and Ornelas.

1993 CE

#6963

The Cambridge world history of human disease. Edited by Kenneth F. Kiple [and 12 co-editors].

An encyclopedic world history of disease, incorporating a geographic approach.

2010 CE

#9953

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Library

https://archive.org/details/cmslibrary&tab=collection "The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Library is a research library dedicated to supporting the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The digitized collect…

1949 CE

#10

The Charaka Samhita. 6 vols.

Edited and published with translations in Hindi, Gujerati and English. The Charaka Samhita is the oldest known Hindu text on Ayurveda (life sciences). It was followed by the Sushruta Samhita. Except for some topics an…

1962 CE

#7927

The cholera years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866.

Edition with new Afterword published in 1987.

1996 CE

#8660

The cigarette papers. Edited by Stanton A. Glantz, John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes.

Analysis and selective reproduction of 4000 pages of internal tobacco industry documents proving that a tobacco company was fully aware that it was promoting and marketing a highly addictive carcinogenic substance. El…