Facets

2008 CE

#10509

Cholera and nation: Doctoring the Victorian social body.

2010 CE

#12377

Cholesterol and beyond: The research on diet and coronary heart disease, 1900-2000.

"A concise overview of the chain of evidence accumulated during the past century supporting the relationship between dietary habits and blood levels of cholesterol and the associated relationship between blood total a…

1943 CE

#1665

Cleanliness and godliness.

A history of sewage disposal, the privy, and related matters.

2006 CE

#8251

Colonial pathologies: American tropical medicine, race, and hygiene in the Philippines.

1993 CE

#8811

Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.

An authoritative account of the way that medicine was practiced in India in adaptation to the situation faced by physicians and the state in India, focusing on three major epidemic diseases: smallpox, cholera plague.

2009 CE

#8886

Coming to terms with world health: The League of Nations Health Organization 1921-1946.

1963 CE

#1671.6

Contraception through the ages.

1982 CE

#14189

Corps infirmes et sociétés : Essais d'anthropologie historique.

Translated into English by William Sayers as A history of disability. New foreward by David T. Mitchel and Sharon L. Snyder. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2019. "The first book to attempt to provide a f…

1992 CE

#11054

Courage under siege: Starvation, disease, and death in the Warsaw Ghetto.

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.

2013 CE

#13295

Dangerously sleepy: Overworked Americans and the cult of manly wakefulness.

The first book to track the longtime association of overwork and sleep deprivation from the nineteenth century to the present.

1965 CE

#1092.53

Das Vitaminbuch. Die Geschichte der Vitaminforschung.

2009 CE

#8164

De Budapest à Saigon: Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, 1956-1965. (Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, Vol.4.)

1478 CE

#20

De medicina. Ed: Bartholomaeus Fontius.

De Medicina is the oldest Western medical document after the Hippocratic writings. Written about 30 CE, it remains the greatest medical treatise from ancient Rome, and the first Western history of medicine. Celsus&rsq…

2007 CE

#8163

De Yalta à Dien Bien Phu: Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, 1945-1955. (Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. Vol. 3:)

2006 CE

#9749

Death rode the rails: American railroad accidents and safety 1828-1965.

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…

2008 CE

#9006

Der Trieb zum Erzählen: Sexualpathologie und Homosexualität, 1852-1914.

1847 CE

#2265

Die Krankheiten des Orient’s: vom Standpunkte der vergleichenden Nosologie betrachtet.

Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.

1881 CE

#1647

Die öffentliche Hygiene im alten Rom.

2007 CE

#11575

Differential diagnoses: A comparative history of health care problems and solutions in the United States and France.

1987 CE

#11009

Disease and discovery: A history of the Johns Hopkins School Hygiene & Public Health 1916-1939.

2020 CE

#12590

Disibility in industrial Britain: A cultural and literary history of impairment in the coal industry.

1971 CE

#8501

Doctors of the mines: A commemorative volume published in 1971 to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Mine Medical Officer's Association of South Africa. With a history of the work of mine medical officers.

2014 CE

#11195

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and the religion of biologic living.

"Purveyors of spiritualized medicine have been legion in American religious history, but few have achieved the superstar status of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his Battle Creek Sanitarium. In its heyday, the 'San' was …

1999 CE

#8960

Dragon's brain perfume: An historical geography of camphor.

"In the Dragon's Brain Perfume (a Chinese description of Camphor) once more the existence and importance of world systems of exchange becomes clear. In the pre-industrial world aromatic substances have always counted …

2002 CE

#8903

Drugs in America: A historical reader. [Compiled by] David F. Musto.

2013 CE

#8037

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

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…

1998 CE

#10477

Enlightenment and pathology: Sensibility in the literature and medicine of eighteenth-century France.

1845 CE

#10479

Entstehung, Berlauf und Behandlung der Krankheiten der Künstler und Gewerbetreibenden. Nach dem neuesten Standpunkte der Medizin, Chemie, Mechanik und Technologie, so wie nach den Mittheilungen berühmter Gewertsärzte des In-und Auslandes und eigenen Forschungen bearbeitet.

See Karbe, "The significance of A.C.L. Halfort's work on The development, course and treatment of diseases in artists and tradesmen (Berlin 1845)," Z. Gesamte Hyg. 21 (1975) 74-8. Digital facsimile from Google Books a…

2004 CE

#8321

Eros on the Nile. Translated from the Polish by Geoffrey L. Packer.

Originally published by Eros nad Nilem (Prószyyńki i S-ka S.A, 1998).

2018 CE

#13584

Eros, Wollust, Sünde. Sexualität in Europa von der Antike bis in die Frühe Neuzeit.

1927 CE

#1656

Evolution of preventive medicine.

2016 CE

#8986

Fake silk: The lethal history of viscose rayon.

2014 CE

#8038

Feeding France: New sciences of food, 1760-1815.

2014 CE

#10542

Female circumcision and clitoridectomy in the United States: A history of a medical treatment.

"From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, American physicians treated women and girls for masturbation by removing the clitoris (clitoridectomy) or clitoral hood (female circumcision). Durin…

2010 CE

#8027

Fictions of well-being: Sickly readers and vernacular medical writing in late medieval and early modern Spain. Michael

1935 CE

#1660

Fifty years in public health: a personal narrative with comments.

1981 CE

#8028

Fighting the plague in seventeenth century Italy.

2006 CE

#13702

Fit to be citizens? Public health and race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939.

2014 CE

#8584

Food and environment in early and medieval China.

2016 CE

#8047

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

1998 CE

#8032

Food in antiquity: A survey of the diet of early peoples

Originally published in 1969.

1989 CE

#7424

Food in history. Revised and updated edition

Digital version available at this link.

2009 CE

#9258

Food in medieval England: Diet and nutrition. Edited by C. M. Woolgar, D. Serjeantson and T. Waldron.

1977 CE

#1092.54

Food: The gift of Osiris. 2 vols.

Extensively illustrated history of nutrition in ancient Egypt.

2009 CE

#11412

Foul bodies: Cleanliness in early America.

1992 CE

#7195

Founders of nutrition science. Biographical articles from the Journal of Nutrition, volumes 5-120, 1932-1990. Edited by William J. Darby and Thomas H. Jukes. 2 vols.