Facets

2012 CE

#7891

Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown.

2012 CE

#8492

Plague, quarantines and geopolitics in the Ottoman empire.

An examination of Ottoman plague treatises and writers from the Black Death until 1923.

2006 CE

#9763

Plague, SARS, and the story of medicine in Hong Kong.

1989 CE

#8727

Plagues and politics: The story of the United States Public Health Service.

1990 CE

#9764

Politics and public health in revolutionary Russia, 1890-1918.

1926 CE

#10468

Population problems of the age of Malthus.

Includes chapters on birth and marriage rates relating to conditions of employment, also the influence of the Poor Laws on these rates. Other chapters concern agriculture and food and health of towns and factores, and…

1988 CE

#9771

Problems of health care: The National Health Service before 1957.

2006 CE

#9376

Producing sexual desire: Changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900.

2002 CE

#8034

Professional and popular medicine in France 1770-1830: The social world of medical practice.

"This is the first comprehensive study on a national scale of the entire range of medical practitioners who flourished in preindustrial and early industrial societies. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, it provides…

2016 CE

#10662

Progressive mothers, better babies, race, public health, and the state in Brazil, 1850-1945.

1962 CE–1968 CE

#1671.5

Prostitution and society. A survey. 3 vols.

Vol. 1: Primitive, classical and oriental. Vol. 2: Prostitution in Europe and the New World. Vol 3: Modern sexuality.

2017 CE

#11033

Prostitution in the ancient Greek world.

2003 CE

#10215

Protecting America's health: The FDA, business, and one hundred years of regulation.

1994 CE

#12207

Protein and energy: A study of changing ideas in nutrition.

2009 CE

#10770

Public health and social justice in the age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800–1854.

2003 CE

#12371

Public health and the risk factor: A history of an uneven medical revolution.

"The acceptance of risk factors has produced changes in public health and medicine as profound as those that resulted from bacteriology and the germ theory of disease. . . . The risk factor concept has been controvers…

1972 CE

#12490

Public health and the state: Changing views in Massachusetts, 1842-1936.

1994 CE

#8802

Public health in British India: Anglo-Indian preventive medicine 1859-1914.

The first major study of public health in British India.

1989 CE

#12552

Public health in Papua New Guinea: Medical possibility and social constraint, 1884-1984.

2004 CE

#14033

Public health in Qajar Iran.

"Until Now, there have been no books and only a few articles available in English that deal with the actual practice of medicine in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Iran. Willem Floor’s Public Health in Qa…

1959 CE

#13800

Public health in the town of Boston, 1630-1822.

2008 CE–2011 CE

#9537

Public health: The development of a discipline. Edited by Dona Schneider and David E. Lilienfeld. 2 vols.

Collections of readings edited and introduced. Vol. 1: From the age of Hippocrates to the progressive era. Vol. 2: Twentieth century challenges.

2016 CE

#10669

Public opinion, public policy, and smoking: The transformation of American attitudes and cigarette use.

1989 CE

#12414

Pure food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906.

2016 CE

#11496

Quarantine: Local and global histories. Edited by Alison Bashford.

1935 CE

#5403

Rats, lice and history: being a study in biography, which, after 12 preliminary chapters indispensable for the preparation of the lay reader, deals with the life history of typhus fever.

2018 CE

#10935

Reading contagion: The hazards of reading in the age of print.

2016 CE

#9114

Remaking the American patient: How Madison Avenue and modern medicine turned patients into consumers.

"In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explo…

2003 CE

#9152

Right living: An Anglo-American tradition of self-help medicine and hygiene. Edited by Charles Rosenberg.

2001 CE

#8396

Rising life expectancy: A global history.

"Between 1800 and 2000 life expectancy at birth rose from about 30 years to a global average of 67 years, and to more than 75 years in favored countries. This dramatic change was called a health transition, characteri…

2007 CE

#11357

Routledge international encyclopedia of queer culture. Edited by David. A. Gerstner.

1992 CE

#11406

Rudolf Virchow Sämtliche Werke. Herausgegeben von Christian Andree. 71 vols. anticipated.

From the number of volumes planned we may conclude that Virchow was one of the most prolific of all physicians. According to the Wikipedia article on Christian Andree, to which I have linked, volumes in this set were …

1995 CE

#12544

Safeguarding the public health: A history of the New Zealand Department of Health.

2015 CE

#11442

Salmonella infections, networks of knowledge, and public health in Britain, 1880-1975.

2015 CE

#9705

Sanitation, latrines and intestinal parasites in past populations. Edited by Piers D. Mitchell.

2003 CE

#7427

Schooling sex: Libertine literature and erotic education in Italy, France, and England 1534-1685.

1917 CE–1922 CE

#10532

Science et dévouement: Le service de santé, la Croix-Rouge, les oeuvres de solidarité de guerre et d'après-guerre. Publie avec la colloboration de MM. J. Abadie, Jacques Bertillon, Georges Brouardel....Edited by François Albert.

A deluxe, large format, commemorative volume edited by journalist François Albert. It was published by subscription, limited to 5000 copies, and issued in fascicules from 1917-1922. Includes contributions by 50…

1994 CE

#7027

Science in the bedroom: A history of sex research.

1920 CE

#3723

Scurvy, past and present.

Includes a history and bibliography.

1992 CE

#8637

Sentinel for health: A history of the Centers for Disease Control

1998 CE

#12729

Sex and sexuality in early America. Edited by Merril D. Smith.

One of the only books on sexuality in colonial America.

1983 CE

#9095

Sex and society in Islam: Birth control before the nineteenth century.

2002 CE

#7536

Sexual blackmail: A modern history.

1930 CE

#8322

Sexual life in ancient India: A study in the comparative history of Indian Culture.

Extensively revised by the author, with additional notes by the translator (unidentified), from Das Weib im altindischen Epos. Ein Beitrag zur indischen und zur vergleichenden Kulturgeschichte. Von Johann Jacob Meyer.…

1985 CE

#8228

Sexualité et savoir médical au Moyen Âge.

Translated into English by A. Adamson as Sexuality and medicine in the Middle Ages, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1988.

1996 CE

#10174

Sexualities in Victorian Britain. Edited by Andrew H. Miller and James Eli Adams.

2005 CE

#8839

Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing unto others.

1989 CE

#7028

Sexuality: An illustrated history. Representing the sexual in medicine and culture from the Middle Ages to the age of AIDS.

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.