Facets

1905 CE

#5803

The historical relations of medicine and surgery to the end of the sixteenth century.

1992 CE

#7539

The history of British pathology.

1964 CE

#3979

The history of diabetes mellitus. 2nd ed.

1927 CE

#1655

The history of heating, ventilation, and lighting.

1943 CE

#2136

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

2021 CE

#13486

The history of pediatric and adult hearing screening.

1725 CE–1726 CE

#6378

The history of physick; from the time of Galen to the beginning of the sixteenth century. 2 vols.

Freind was the first English historian of medicine, and his book is a classic study of the period with which it treats. Freind dabbled in politics and planned the above work while committed to the Tower of London on a…

1994 CE

#13654

The history of public health and the modern state. Edited by Dorothy Porter.

1986 CE

#3726

The history of scurvy and vitamin C.

1937 CE

#8751

The history of the acute exanthemata.

Smallpox, chicken pox, scarlet fever, measles and German measles. Rolleston was the brother of Sir Humphrey Davy Rolleston.

2003 CE

#9452

The history of tropical neurology: Nutritional disorders.

1970 CE

#11112

The human placenta.

An elegantly published and illustrated monograph with extensive historical material.

1910 CE

#10835

The humane movement: A descriptive survey.

Concerns the origins and evolution of the humane movement that played a significant role in the emergence and growth of the antivivisection movement in the United States. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2005 CE

#8166

The humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross.

2013 CE

#8185

The inevitable hour: A history of caring for dying patients in America.

2015 CE

#11923

The influenza pandemic in Japan, 1918-1920: The first world war between humankind and a virus. Translation by Lynne E. Riggs and Takechi Manbu.

1996 CE

#7493

The ingenious machine of nature: Four centuries of art and anatomy.

1988 CE

#7671

The Irish body snatchers: A history of body snatching in Ireland.

2004 CE

#9996

The Italian boy: A tale of murder and body-snatching in 1830s London.

1906 CE

#12739

The jungle.

Sinclair wrote The jungle to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and other industrialized cities. His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its …

1979 CE

#8474

The laboratory rat, Volume 1: Biology and disease. Edited by Henry J. Baker, J. Russell Lindsey, Steven H. Weisbroth.

Chapter 1: Historical Foundations by J. Russell Lindsey.

1936 CE

#1661

The last thirty years in public health.

1879 CE

#9028

The laws relating to quarantine of Her Majesty's dominions at home and abroad, and of the principal foreign states, including the sections of the Public health act, 1875, which bear upon measures of prevention

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1995 CE

#8036

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

2008 CE

#13166

The making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy: Bodies, books, fortune, fame.

An exhaustive account of the creation, production, distribution and influence of this classic.

1987 CE

#9883

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

1985 CE

#10094

The making rehabilitation: A political economy of medical specialization, 1890-1980.

1981 CE

#6958

The Manchu anatomy and its historical origin. With annotations and translations by John B. de C. M. Saunders and Francis R. Lee.

The Anatomie Manchoue, a series of graphic illustrations taken from Western anatomical works, with notes in the Manchu-Tungus language. This was compiled under the supervision of Father Parrenin, a French Jesuit worki…

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…

2004 CE

#10553

The medical delivery business: Health reform, childbirth, and the economic order.

1950 CE

#16.1

The medical works of Hippocrates. A new translation by J. Chadwick and W.N. Mann.

This collection of translations was partly reprinted with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd, and the addition of three new translations by I.M. Lonie as Hippocratic Writings, Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1978.

1963 CE

#7947

The MEDLARS story at the National Library of Medicine.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1869 CE

#12126

The nomenclature of diseases drawn up by a joint committee appointed by the Royal College of Physicians of London. (Subject to decennial revision).

"The first authoritative source of disease terminology, with the names in English, Latin, French, German and Italian. Standardization of disease terminology was necessary for accurate recording and study of mortality,…

1992 CE

#8054

The Norton history of the environmental sciences.

1967 CE

#10396

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

2011 CE

#7847

The Oxford companion of the history of medicine. Edited by Mark Jackson.

2014 CE

#7889

The Oxford encyclopedia of the history of American science, medicine, and technology. Edited by Hugh Richard Slotten.

1955 CE

#9027

The Pan American Saintary Bureau: Half a century of health activities 1902-1954.

Digital facsimile from the Pan American Health Organization at this link.

1948 CE

#9024

The Pan American Sanitary Bureau: Its origin, developments and achievements, 1902-1944.

1981 CE

#12120

The Pan-American Health Organization: Origins and Evolution.

2014 CE

#10629

The Pelvis: Structure, gender and society.

"This book offers a critical review of the pelvic sciences—past, present and future—from an anatomical and physiological perspective....The book starts with a “construction plan” of the pelvis …

2003 CE

#10028

The people's health: Public health in Australia, 1788-1950. Vol. 2: The people's health: Public health in Australia, 1950 to the present. 2 vols.

1974 CE

#9411

The physician and sexuality in Victorian America.

1950 CE

#2238

The physiology and pathology of exposure to stress.

In his study of the etiology of the collagen disease Selye developed the idea that animals react to stress or injury by a certain sequence of physiological reactions – the “general adaptation syndrome”.

2013 CE

#10486

The pleasure's all mine: A history of perverse sex.

1997 CE

#9463

The powerful placebo: From ancient priest to modern physician.

1971 CE

#10858

The pre-Columbian mind: A study into the aberrant nature of sexual drives, drugs affecting behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America.

1892 CE

#2231

The principles and practice of medicine.

Osler’s textbook was the best English work on medicine of its time. He became Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford in 1904. Besides being one of the greatest of all clinicians, he was possessed of a fine liter…

1886 CE

#2230

The principles and practice of medicine. 2 vols.

Fagge was physician to Guy’s hospital and editor of Guy’s Hospital Reports. His important textbook was published posthumously.

1995 CE

#11019

The private science of Louis Pasteur.

"His biography of Pasteur was viewed as an outstanding work of scholarship which penetrated the secrecy that had surrounded much of the legendary scientist's laboratory work. Geison used Pasteur's laboratory notebooks…