Facets

2010 CE

#8060

The problem of nutrition: Experimental science, public health and economy in Europe 1914-1945.

1956 CE

#6485

The public physicians of ancient Greece. (Smith College Studies in History, Vol. XLII.)

Re-examination of the question of whether the public physicians employed by the Greek city-states derived their entire income from their salaried positions and thus provided free medical care or whether they received …

2005 CE

#8328

The rise and fall of HMOs: An American health care revolution.

A broad historical overview of HMOs with a close analysis of one institution, the Marshfield Clinic in northern Wisconsin.

2003 CE

#9885

The rise of causal concepts of disease: Case histories.

"The philosopher K Codell Carter's authoritative study of the transition from an assumption that diseases have multiple causes to the modern belief in universal, necessary causes is such a book. For decades, historian…

1932 CE

#1657.1

The rise of preventive medicine.

2015 CE

#9039

The Rockefeller Foundation, public health and international diplomacy, 1920–1945.

The role of the Rockefeller Foundation and the League of Nations in improving public health during the interwar period. Barona argues that the Foundation applied a model of business efficiency to its ideology of sprea…

2013 CE

#10552

The Routledge history of sex and the body, 1500 to the present. Edited by Sarah Toulalan and Kate Fisher.

1990 CE

#7619

The sanitarians: A history of American public health.

2000 CE

#10516

The sanitary city: Urban infrastructure in America from colonial times to the present.

2001 CE

#10838

The scalpel and the butterfly: The war between animal research and animal protection.

2012 CE

#12154

The scars of Venus: A history of venereology.

2020 CE

#13774

The science of starving in Victorian literature, medicine, and political economy.

2008 CE

#9880

The sciences of homosexuality in early modern Europe. Edited by Kenneth Borris and George S. Rousseau.

"This collection establishes that efforts to produce scientific explanations for same-sex desires and sexual behaviours are not a modern invention, but have long been characteristic of European thought. The sciences o…

1975 CE

#1671.8

The scientific background of the International Sanitary Conferences, 1851-1938.

First published in WHO Chronicle, 1974. 28, 159-71, 229-47, 369-84, 414-26, 455-70, 475-508. Available from apps.who.int at this link.

1967 CE

#10679

The sleeping sickness epidemic of Uganda 1900-1920: A study in historical geography.

1982 CE

#6596.6

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

1732 CE

#9460

The state of physick, ancient and modern, briefly considered: with a plan for the improvement of it.

Instead of assessing the efficacy of therapies by their correlation with theories, Clifton argued that physicians should base their judgments about the effects of treatments on a sufficient number of their own observa…

1961 CE

#1671.4

The story of England’s hospitals.

1919 CE

#1653

The story of English public health.

1962 CE

#3978.5

The story of insulin: Forty years of success against diabetes.

With G. Hetenyi and W. R. Feasby.

1946 CE

#1667

The story of water supply.

2009 CE

#13711

The tainted gift: The disease method of frontier expansion.

2001 CE

#10417

The technology of orgasm: "Hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction.

2009 CE

#9811

The theatre of the body: Staging death and embodying life in early-modern London.

"...The book takes as its specific focus seventeenth-century London, in a significant study encompassing the period from the incorporation of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons (1540) to the staging of Edward R…

2022 CE

#13903

The transformation of American sex education: Mary Calderone and the fight for sexual health.

1942 CE

#2261

The treatment of burns.

Contains some history of the subject and includes a valuable bibliography of 1,320 entries.

1929 CE

#1657

The treatment of the sick poor of this country and the preservation of the health of the poor in this country.

1951 CE

#1671

The United States Public Health Service, 1798-1950.

1901 CE

#10833

The vivisection question.

Leffingwell sought a middle ground between the anti-vivisectionists, who callled for the abolition of all experimentation, and vivisectionists who rejected any restraint. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at…

1884 CE

#11682

The vivisectors' directory; being a list of the licensed vivisectors in the United Kingdom; together with the leading physiologists in foreign laboratories. Compiled from authentic sources. Edited by Benjamin Bryan, with a preface by Frances Power Cobbe.

A remarkably detailed listing of scientific and medical researchers conducting research involving vivisection with address information and details of their research. This information was published in order to supply d…

1972 CE

#9628

The voyage of the Challenger.

2000 CE

#13753

The world of Auzoux: Models of man and beast in papier-maché.

1592 CE

#379

Theatrum anatomicum infinitis locis auctum, ad morbos accommodatum....

Includes historical data. Bauhin was professor of anatomy at Basle.

1708 CE

#582

Theoria medica vera.

Stahl tried to explain vital phenomena by mystical means. He was the head of the so-called Animistic School which explained disease as caused by misdirected activities on the part of the soul. A three-volume German tr…

1981 CE

#11909

Theories of fever from antiquity to the enlightenment. Edited by W. F. Bynum and Vivian Nutton. Medical History, Supplement No. 1.

1973 CE

#2068.16

Therapeutics from the primitives to the 20th century, with an appendix: history of dietetics.

Includes a valuable bibliography. First published in German, Stuttgart, 1970.

1990 CE

#6786.34

Thornton’s medical books, libraries and collectors. A study of bibliography and the book trade in relation to the medical sciences.

A highly useful work, originally published by John L. Thornton (b. 1913) in 1949. This new edition includes the following fully-documented historical essays: P. Jones, Medical books before the invention of printing. D…

2004 CE

#9263

To cast out disease: A history of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (1913-1951).

2011 CE

#9710

Toxic archipelago: A history of industrial disease in Japan.

1907 CE

#451

Tradition und Naturbeobachtung in den Illustrationen medicinischer Handschriften und Frühdrucke vornehmlich des 15. Jahrhunderts.

1829 CE–1833 CE

#2288

Traité d’anatomie pathologique. 2 vols. and atlas.

Includes a historical review of the subject from the time of the Ancient Egyptians to Corvisart, and a summary of the advances in pathology during the preceding 50 years. Vol. 2, pp. 553-600 deals with diseases of the…

2001 CE

#9786

Traumatic pasts: History, psychiatry, and trauma in the modern age, 1870-1930. Edited by Mark S. Micale and Paul Lerner.

1999 CE

#7535

Twentieth-century sexuality: A history.

1976 CE

#6596.3

Two centuries of American medicine 1776-1976.

A valuable supplement to Packard (No. 6590), besides covering the main events in American medicine.

1935 CE

#8403

Ueber die anatomischen kenntnisse der altägyptischen ärzte. Morgenland; Darstellungen aus Geschichte und Kultur des Ostens., Hft. 26.

1903 CE

#12535

Une version syriaque des aphorismes d'Hippocrate. Texte et traduction par H. Pognon. 2 vols.

Edition of Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds arabe 6734, a Syriac manuscript copied on 10 October 1205 by a physician, probably a Jacobite or Melchite naned Behnam, but nothing in the codex indicates the …

2007 CE

#7835

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

1873 CE

#2225

Untersuchungen über den fieberhaften Process und seine Behandlung.

Senator was a director of the Charité Hospital in Berlin and later at the university polyclinic. His study of fever represents his best work.

1910 CE

#2234

Vagotonie: klinische Studie.

English translation, 1915.

2004 CE

#13690

Venereal disease, hospitals and the urban poor: London's "foul wards," 1600-1800.