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823 entries match Historiography & General Works [K01.900]

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1995

#12544

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

DOW, Derek A.

1995

#12843

Attitudes toward dissection in medieval Islam.

SAVAGE-SMITH, Emilie (1941 – )

1995

#13655

The health of prisoners: Historical essays edited by Richard Creese, W. F. Bynum and J. Bearn

BYNUM, William F. (1943 – ) CREESE, Richard BEARNE, J.

1996

#7040

Handbook of medieval sexuality. Edited by Bullough and Brundage.

BULLOUGH, Vern Leroy (1928 – 2006)
BRUNDAGE, James A. (1929 – )
BRUNDAGE, James A. (1929 – )

1996

#7493

The ingenious machine of nature: Four centuries of art and anatomy.

ROBERTS, Kenneth Bryson (1923 – 2013) CAZORT, Mimi (1930 – 2014) KORNELL, Monique

1996

#7922

Médecine coloniale et grandes endémies en Afrique 1900-1960. Lèpre, trypanosomiase humaine et onchocercose.

BADO, Jean-Paul

1996

#8660

The cigarette papers. Edited by Stanton A. Glantz, John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes.

GLANTZ, Stanton Arnold (1945 – ) & et al.

Analysis and selective reproduction of 4000 pages of internal tobacco industry documents proving that a tobacco company was fully aware that it was promoting and marketing a highly addictive carcinogenic substance. El…

1996

#9162

Chasing dirt: The American pursuit of cleanliness.

HOY, Suellen (1942 – )

"Americans in the early 19th century were, as one foreign traveller bluntly put it, "filthy, bordering on the beastly"--perfectly at home in dirty, bug-infested, malodorous surroundings. Many a home swarmed with flies…

1996

#9757

Baths and bathing in classical antiquity.

YEGÜL, Fikret K. (1941 – )

Reviews and analyzes the structure, function, and design of baths, seeking to integrate their architecture with the wider social and cultural custom of bathing, and examining in particular the changes this custom unde…

1996

#9772

Government and health care: The British National Health Service 1958–1979.

WEBSTER, Charles

1996

#10174

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

MILLER, Andrew H. (1954 – ) ADAMS, James Eli

1996

#12748

The geography of perversion: Male-To-male sexual behavior outside the West and the ethnographic imagination, 1750-1918.

BLEYS, Rudi C.

"Recent years have seen enormous attention devoted to the history of sexuality in the Western world. But how has the West conceived of non-western societies been influenced by these other traditions? The Geography of …

1996

#14050

The great pox. The French disease in Renaissance Europe.

HENDERSON, John FRENCH, Roger Kenneth (1938 – 2002) ARRIZABALAGA, Jon

1997

#7069

The greatest benefit to mankind. A medical history of humanity.

PORTER, Roy Sydney (1946 – 2002)

1997

#7370

Scientists and the sea 1650-1900. A study of marine science.

DEACON, Margaret Elsa

1997

#8226

Corpus Hippocraticum: Verzeichnis der hippokratischen und pseudohippokratischen Schriften.

HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)
HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370) FICHTNER, Gerard

Revised edition (2013) is available online at this link: http://cmg.bbaw.de/online-publikationen/hippokrates_2013_02.pdf

1997

#8629

The blues: A history of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield system.

CUNNINGHAM, Robert III CUNNINGHAM, Robert M. Jr.

1997

#9385

A melancholy scene of devastation: The public response to the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic. Edited by J. Worth Estes and Billy G. Smith.

ESTES, J. Worth (1934 – 2000) SMITH, Billy G.

1997

#9463

The powerful placebo: From ancient priest to modern physician.

SHAPIRO, Arthur K. (1923 – 1995) SHAPIRO, Elaine (1925 – 2014)

1997

#10030

Sex, disease, and society: A comparative history of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Scott Bamber and Michael Waugh.

LEWIS, Milton James BAMBER, Scott WAUGH, Michael

1997

#10169

Life in the balance: Emergency medicine and the quest to reverse sudden death.

EISENBERG, Mickey S.

1997

#10361

Subjected to science: Human experimentation in America before the Second World War.

LEDERER, Susan E. (1955 – )
LEDERER, Susan E. (1955 – )

1997

#11822

The decline of infant and child mortality: The European experience, 1750-1990.

CORSINI, Carlo Alberto (1935 – 2017) VIAZZO, Pier Paolo (1950 – )

1997

#12172

John of Alexandria. Commentary on Hippocrates’ Epidemics VI Fragments. Edition and translation by John M. Duffy. T. A. Bell, et al, editors and translators, John of Alexandria. Commentary on Hippocrates’ on the Nature of the Child. [CMG XI 1,4].

JOHN OF ALEXANDRIA, (Iohannis Alexandrinus) (600 – 642) DUFFY, John M. BELL, T. A.

1997

#12360

Rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection: Unraveling the mysteries of a dread disease.

MASSELL, Benedict Frank (1906 – 2008)

1998

#7613

Medicine, mortality and the book trade.

MYERS, Robin HARRIS, Michael

Seven essays, edited by Harris and Myers. Of special interest are Harris, "Printers' diseases: The human cost of a mechanical process"; Lotte Hellinga, "Medical incunabula"; John Symons, " 'These crafty dealers': Sir …

1998

#7701

The Cambridge encyclopedia of human paleopathology by Arthur C. Auderheide and Conrado Rodríguez-Martín, including a dental chapter by Odin Langsjoen.

AUFDERHEIDE, Arthur C. (1922 – 2013) RODRÍGUEZ-MARTÍN, Conrado LANGSJOEN, Odin Monro (1923 – 2008)

Includes a significant historical introduction.

1998

#8032

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

BROTHWELL, Donald Reginald (1933 – 2016)

Originally published in 1969.

1998

#9770

National Health Service: A political history.

WEBSTER, Charles

Revised second edition, 2002.

1998

#9999

General practice under the National Health Service 1948-1997. Edited by Irvine Loudon, John Horder & Charles Webster.

WEBSTER, Charles LOUDON, Irvine (1924 – 2015) HORDER, John (1919 – 2012)

1998

#10477

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

VILA, Anne C. (1961 – )

1998

#10685

Oeuvres complètes, Tome VIII: Plaies, Nature des os, Coeur, Anatomie. Texte établi et traduit par Marie-Paul Duminil.

HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)
HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370) DUMINIL, Marie-Paule (1933 – )

Greek text with facing French translation and study of four short treatises of the Hippocratic Collection on anatomy and traumatology of different periods and origins: On sores (probably 5th cent. BCE), On the nature …

1998

#12729

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

SMITH, Merril D. (1956 – )

One of the only books on sexuality in colonial America.

1998

#13294

Black lung: Anatomy of a public health disaster.

DERICKSON, Alan (1948 – )

1999

#7032

Taking positions. On the erotic in Renaissance culture.

TALVACCHIA, Bette

Of particular relevance to the history of medical literature is Chapter 8: "Mythology, Sexuality, and Science in Charles Estienne's Manual of Anatomy" (pp. 161-188). This refers to Estienne's De dissectione partium co…

1999

#7104

Teaching America about sex. Marriage guides and sex manuals from the late Victorians to Dr. Ruth.

MELODY, M. E. PETERSON, Linda M.

1999

#7379

From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic sleep and the roots of psychological healing.

CRABTREE, Adam

1999

#7535

Twentieth-century sexuality: A history.

MCLAREN, Angus (1944 – )

1999

#7546

Paper bodies: A catalogue of anatomical fugitive sheets 1538-1687. (Medical History, Supplement No. 19)

CARLINO, Andrea (1960 – )

Describes bibliographically and illustrates the approximately 60 different surviving fugitive sheets together with essays on "The visual culture of Renaissance anatomy," "Anatomical fugitive sheets: Printing, prints a…

1999

#7616

Health, civilization and the state: A history of public health from ancient to modern times.

PORTER, Dorothy

1999

#7890

Mending bodies, saving souls: A history of hospitals.

RISSE, Guenter B. (1932 – )
RISSE, Guenter B. (1932 – )

1999

#8069

An American Obsession: Science, medicine, and homosexuality in modern society.

TERRY, Jennifer

1999

#8078

... And the pursuit of national health: The incremental strategy toward national health insurance in the United States of America.

KOOIJMAN, Jaap W.

1999 –2014

#8182

Histoire de la pensée médicale en Occident : Tome 1: Antiquité et Moyen Age. Tome 2: De la Renaissance aux Lumières. Tome 3: Du romantisme à la science moderne. Edited by Mirko Grmek.

GRMEK, Mirko Dražen (1924 – 2000)

1999

#8284

Ancient histories of medicine: Essays in medical doxography and historiography in classical antiquity, edited by Philip J. van der Eijk.

VAN DER EIJK, Philip J.

"...focuses on the ways in which Greek and Latin authors viewed and wrote about the history of medicine in the ancient world. Special attention is given to medical doxography, i.e. the description of the characteristi…

1999

#8511

Leib und Seele. Eine Kulturgeschichte des gesunden Lebens.

BERGDOLT, Klaus (1947 – )

Translated into English by Jane Dewhurst as Wellbeing: A cultural history of healthy living (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008).

1999

#8960

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

DONKIN, Robin Arthur (1928 – 2006)

"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 …

1999

#9113

The gospel of germs: Men, women, and the microbe in American life.

TOMES, Nancy J. (1952 – )

1999

#9468

Drugs on trial: Experimental pharmacology and therapeutic innovation in the eighteenth century.

MAEHLE, Andreas-Holger (1957 – )

"This book demonstrates that the basic methodology of the field, including chemical analysis, in vitro testing, animal experimentation and human research, was already developed in the course of the seventeenth and eig…

1999

#9748

Hygiene in the early modern medical tradition.

MIKKELI, Heikki