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823 entries match Historiography & General Works [K01.900]
1989
#12889
Phossy jaw and the French match workers: Occupational health and women in the Third Republic.
"The 1898 suppression of white phosphorous in the French match industry was a victory of organized labour. At a time when most French workers did not have the power to effect changes in the health and safety condition…
1990
#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…
1990
#6994
History of AIDS. Emergence and origin of a modern pandemic. Translated by Russell C. Maulitz and Jacalyn Duffin.
1990
#7025
Plant, animal & anatomical illustration in art & science: A bibliographical guide from the 16th century to the present day.
The first comprehensive listing of primary instructional or "how to draw" books, and non-scientific iconographical "pattern" books, published for artists and designers in the widest range of subjects concerning plants…
1990
#7513
Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.
1990
#7619
The sanitarians: A history of American public health.
1990
#9764
Politics and public health in revolutionary Russia, 1890-1918.
1990
#10636
Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome II, 1ère partie: De l'ancienne médecine. Texte établi et traduit par Jacques Jouanna.
![HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)](/media/portraits/50)
One of the most emblematic treatises of the Hippocratic Collection. The author, a physician presumably associated with Hippocrates but otherwise unidentified, illustrates the value of scientific medicine sometime betw…
1990
#11199
A commentary on the medical writings of Rudolf Virchow by L. J. Rather.
An extensively annotated bibliography of all of Virchow's medical writings, but not including his many contributions to anthropology
1991 –2007
#7415
A history of medicine. 6 vols.
Vol. 1: Primitive and Ancient Medicine (1991/1995), Vol. 2: Greek Medicine (1996), Vol. 3: Roman Medicine (1998), Vol. 4: Byzantine and Islamic Medicine (2001), Vol. 5: Medieval Medicine (2003), Vol. 6: Renaissance Me…
1991
#8627
Science and empire: East Coast Fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal.
East Coast fever (theileriosis) is an animal disease in Africa caused by the protozoan parasite Theileria parva.
1991
#8959
Le vocabulaire latin de l'anatomie.
1991
#9262
Bilharzia: A history of imperial tropical medicine.
1991
#9760
A history of education in public health: Health that mocks doctors' rules.
"This is the first book to examine and compare the history and contemporary problems of education for public health in Britain and the United States. In Britain, education for public health has been directed solely to…
1991
#11165
America's welfare state from Roosevelt to Reagan.
"Social welfare policy in the United States has gone from controversy in the 1930s, to consensus at mid-century, and back to controversy and confusion in the late twentieth century. In America's Welfare State, Edward …
1991
#11236
A bibliography of Johann Remmelin the anatomist
1992
#6953
The fabric of the body: European traditions of anatomical illustration.
An essential reinterpretation of the classics in the history of anatomical illustration, with many fine plates.
1992
#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.
1992
#7539
The history of British pathology.
1992
#8005
Enfermedad y sociedad en la crisis colonial del antiguo régimen: Nueva Granada en el tránsito del siglo XVIII al XIX, las epidemias de viruelas.
1992
#8054
The Norton history of the environmental sciences.
1992
#8637
Sentinel for health: A history of the Centers for Disease Control
1992
#8804
Miasmas and disease: Public health and the environment in the pre-industrial age. Translated by Elizabeth Potter.
1992
#9264
The colonial disease: A social history of sleeping sickness in colonial Zaire, 1900-1940.
1992
#11054
Courage under siege: Starvation, disease, and death in the Warsaw Ghetto.
1992
#11134
Mission and method: The early-nineteenth-century French public health movement.
1992
#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 …
1992
#11532
A history of medicine.
Third edition with Oliver J. Kim, Baton Rouge, FL: CRC Press, 2018.
1992
#13297
Miners and medicine: West Virginia memories.
"The coal-company doctors of Appalachia fought the health hazards of the coal fields, arguably the most dangerous and diseased working environment of the modern world. Often the doctors were held accountable for evils…
1993
#6963
The Cambridge world history of human disease. Edited by Kenneth F. Kiple [and 12 co-editors].
An encyclopedic world history of disease, incorporating a geographic approach.
1993
#8179
A model for national health care: The history of Kaiser Permanente.
1993
#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.
1993
#9448
Companion encyclopedia of the history of medicine. Edited by W. F. Bynum and Roy Porter. 2 vols.
1993
#13187
Disease transmission by insects: Its discovery and 90 years of effort to prevent it.
1994
#7027
Science in the bedroom: A history of sex research.
1994
#7201
Human sexuality: An encyclopedia, edited by Vern L. Bullough and Bonnie Bullough.
1994
#7547
La fabbrica del corpo: Libri e dissezione nel Rinascimento.
Translated into English by John Tedeschi and Anne C. Tedeschi as Books of the body: Anatomical ritual and Renaissance learning, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
1994
#8802
Public health in British India: Anglo-Indian preventive medicine 1859-1914.
The first major study of public health in British India.
1994
#9557
Science and the practice of medicine in the nineteenth century.
1994
#10849
The early homosexual rights movement (1864–1935).
Revised edition, 1995.
1994
#12207
Protein and energy: A study of changing ideas in nutrition.
1994
#13654
The history of public health and the modern state. Edited by Dorothy Porter.
1995
#7029
The facts of life: The creation of sexual knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950.
1995
#8036
The making of a social disease: Tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France.
1995
#8058
International health organisations and movements, 1918-1939. Edited by Paul Weindling.
1995
#8703
Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: dalla peste europea alla guerra mondiale, 1348-1918.
1995
#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…
1995
#9929
La nutrition préhistorique.
1995
#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…
1995
#11900