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348 entries match Public Health [N02.500] · Historiography & General Works [K01.900]
1974 CE
#11327
From medical police to social medicine.
1965 CE
#1671.61
Geschichte der Geriatrie. Dreitausend Jahre Physiologie, Pathologie und Therapie des alten Menschen.
1845 CE
#2421
Geschichte der Lustseuche. Erster Theil. Die Lustseuche im Alterthume.
French translation, 1847; English translation as The plague of lust, being a history of venereal disease in classical antiquity, and including: Detailed investigations into the cult of Venus, and phallic worship, brot…
1890 CE
#1650
Gesundheitspflege im Mittelalter.
2003 CE
#8218
Goldberger's war: The life and work of a public health crusader.
1996 CE
#9772
Government and health care: The British National Health Service 1958–1979.
2007 CE
#9759
Government and public health in America.
"How involved should the government be in American healthcare? Ronald Hamowy argues that to answer this pressing question, we must understand the genesis of the five main federal agencies charged with responsibility f…
1996 CE
#7040
Handbook of medieval sexuality. Edited by Bullough and Brundage.
1979 CE
#10104
Harry S. Truman versus the medical lobby: The genesis of Medicare.
2010 CE
#8009
Healing the body politic: El Salvador's popular struggle for health rights from civil war to neoliberal peace.
2009 CE
#8617
Health and medicine on display: International expositions in the United States, 1876-1904.
1971 CE
#8327
Health maintenance strategy.
Elwood is often referred to as the "father of the health maintenance organization. He not only coined the term, he also played a role in bringing about structural changes to the American health care system to simultan…
1986 CE
#8647
Health policies, health politics: The British and American experience, 1911-1965.
1999 CE
#7616
Health, civilization and the state: A history of public health from ancient to modern times.
1926 CE
#10467
Health, wealth and population in the early days of the industrial revolution.
Chapters on water supply, 18th physicians and pioneers of public health, the hospital and dispensary movement, general hygiene and midwifery, rickets and scurvy, antiseptics, smallpox, anti-typhus campaign, malaria, etc.
1972 CE
#10684
Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome VI, 2e partie: Du régime des maladies aiguës, Appendice, De l'aliment, De l'usage des liquides. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.
Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises of different periods devoted to nutrition: On regimen in acute diseases (in two versions, with the second traditionally identified as th…
1982 CE
#8187
Hippocratic heritage: A history of ideas about weather and human health.
The first historical survey of human biometeorology, tracing the evolution of the Hippocratic idea that weather is one of the dterminants of health from its ancient origins to time of writing.
1875 CE
#1646
Histoire de l’habitation humaine depuis les temps préhistoriques jusqu'à nos jours.
Viollet-Le-Duc traced the history of domestic architecture among the different "races" of mankind. Translated into English by Benjamin Bucknall as Habitations of man in all ages (1876). Digital facsimile of the French…
1851 CE–1853 CE
#1654.1
Histoire de la prostitution chez tous les peuples du monde depuis l'antiquité la plus reculée jusqu'a nos jours, par Paul Dufour. 6 vols.
Dufour was a pseudonym of the writer Paul Lacroix. Translated into English by Samuel Putnam as History of prostitution among all the peoples of the world, from the most remote antiquity to the present day, 3 vols., Ch…
1976 CE–2018 CE
#9948
Histoire de la sexualité. 4 vols.
The first 3 vols. were translated into English by Robert Hurley as The history of sexuality (1978-1986).
1963 CE
#8161
Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. De Solférino à Tsoushima.
English translation: History of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Volume I: From Solferino to Tsushima. (Geneva: Henry Dunant Institute, 1985).
1978 CE
#8162
Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. Vol. 2: De Sarajevo à Hiroshima.
English translation: History of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Volume II: From Sarajevo to Hiroshima (Geneva: Henri Dunant Institute, 1984).
2012 CE
#8059
Historical dictionary of the World Health Organization. Second edition.
Covers the history of the WHO through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendices, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on key bodies, programs, events and p…
1965 CE
#1685.1
History and geography of the most important diseases.
Originally published in German, 1963.
1891 CE
#11124
History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present. Moral and physical reasons for its performance with a history of eunuchism, hermaphrodism, etc., and of the different operations practiced upon the prepuce.
Digital edition from Gutenberg.org at this link.
1948 CE
#2137
History of factory and mine hygiene.
1905 CE
#8689
History of the Philadelphia almshouses and hospitals from the beginning of the eighteenth to the ending of the nineteenth centuries, covering a period of nearly two hundred years. showing the mode of distributing public relief through the management of the Boards of Overseers of the Poor, Guardians of the Poor and the Directors of the Department of Charities and Correction.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2003 CE
#10210
Homosexuality and civilization.
The history of homosexuality in Europe and parts of Asia from Homer to the 18th century.
2007 CE
#11465
Hospital politics in seventeenth-century France: The crown, urban elites and the poor.
2007 CE
#8985
How everyday products make people sick: Toxins at home and in the workplace.
An eloquent historical approach, written for a semi-popular audience, to everyday problems in occupational medicine and toxicology.
2004 CE
#8070
How sex changed: A history of transsexuality in the United States.
1994 CE
#7201
Human sexuality: An encyclopedia, edited by Vern L. Bullough and Bonnie Bullough.
1986 CE
#9798
Hygiène et médecine: Histoire et actualités des maladies nosocomiales.
History of nosocomial or hospital-acquired infections.
1999 CE
#9748
Hygiene in the early modern medical tradition.
2004 CE
#9709
Hygienic modernity: Meanings of health and disease in treaty-port China.
1988 CE
#8494
I Modi: The sixteen pleasures, an erotic album of the Italian Renaissance. Giulio Romano, Marcantonio Raimondi, Pietro Aretino and Count Jean-Fréderick-Maximilien de Waldeck. Edited, translated from the Italian and with a commentary by Lynne Lawner.
An edition and reconstruction of the only 16th century book of erotic engravings and poetry, surviving in a unique copy the original edition. For a summary of the history of this work of art, associated with several a…
2018 CE
#10533
Imagining Chinese medicine. Edited by Vivienne Lo and Penelope .
Finely produced and illustrated collection, with many plates in color, of 36 scholarly essays on the widest range of Chinese medical illustrations, including erotica.
2010 CE
#10612
Imagining illness: Public health and visual culture. Edited by David Serlin.
"From seventeenth-century broadsides about the handling of dead bodies, printed during London's plague years, to YouTube videos about preventing the transmission of STDs, public health advocacy and education has alway…
2014 CE
#7846
Imperial hygiene: A critical history of colonialism, nationalism and public health.
2007 CE
#7534
Impotence: A cultural history.
1957 CE
#8669
Industrial medicine in western Pennsylvania, 1850-1950.
Probably the first history of occupational medicine in any part of the United States. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
2016 CE
#14068
Influenza encyclopedia: The American influenza epidemic of 1918 - 1919: A digital encyclopedia. Second edition.
ABOUT "Historians, journalists, and the public at large have long been interested in the 1918 “Spanish flu” epidemic, a dramatic chapter in American life that has spawned an impressive body of books, artic…
1981 CE
#10222
Inside Russian medicine: An American doctor's first-hand report. With research assistance by Nicholas A. Petroff.
A period piece but valuable for its professional assessment of the state of Russian medicine during the period.
2016 CE
#8165
International Committee of the Red Cross: History.
https://www.icrc.org/en/who-we-are/history. Extensive background, videos, links to the ICRC archives, etc., etc. Accessed 12-2016
1995 CE
#8058
International health organisations and movements, 1918-1939. Edited by Paul Weindling.
1971 CE
#1671.7
International health organizations and their work. 2nd ed.
A systematic account of international health work from its beginnings to modern times. First published 1952.
1978 CE
#12121
International public health between the two world wars: The organizational problems.
1988 CE
#7077
Intimate matters. A history of sexuality in America.
The first history of sexuality in America.
1939 CE
#11239
John Howard (1726-1790) hospital and prison reformer: A bibliography
1943 CE
#8180
Kaiser wakes the doctors.
The first book on what became the Kaiser Permanente health plan, initially set up by Henry J. Kaiser to provide health care for his 200,000 workers.