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

1999

#10031

Histories of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Philip W, Setel, Milton J. Lewis, and Maryinez Lyons.

1999

#11925

Flu: The story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it.

1999

#12340

Rheumatic fever in America and Britain: A biological, epidemiological, and medical history.

1999

#12543

Maori health and government policy 1840-1940.

1999

#13460

A dictionary of the history of medicine.

2000

#7425

The Cambridge world history of food. 2 vols.

An encyclopedic work in 2153 pages; edited by Kiple and Ornelas.

2000

#7784

Permissible dose: A history of radiation protection in the twentieth century.

2000

#8102

Brush with death: A social history of lead poisoning.

2000

#8360

The four horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, war, famine and death in Reformation Europe.

2000

#8680

Spectacular bodies: The art and science of the human body from Leonardo to now.

2000

#9392

Something new under the sun: An environmental history of the twentieth-century world.

2000

#10516

The sanitary city: Urban infrastructure in America from colonial times to the present.

2000

#12208

Beriberi, white rice, and vitamin B: A disease, a cause, and a cure.

2000

#13753

The world of Auzoux: Models of man and beast in papier-maché.

2001

#7840

Long night's journey into day: Prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945.

2001

#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…

2001 –2013

#8477

Geschichte der Histopathologie. 2 vols.

Traces development of microscopy in disease research and diagnostics, as applied in surgical, gynecological, and dermatologic pathology in the 19th and 20th centuries.

2001

#9786

Traumatic pasts: History, psychiatry, and trauma in the modern age, 1870-1930. Edited by Mark S. Micale and Paul Lerner.

2001

#10091

Black death, white medicine: Bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945.

2001

#10193

Medicine that Walks: Disease, medicine, and Canadian Plains native people, 1880-1940.

"... Lux takes issue with the 'biological invasion' theory of the impact of disease on Plains Aboriginal people. She challenges the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with the diseases brought by Europ…

2001

#10417

The technology of orgasm: "Hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction.

2001

#10799

Malaria: Poverty, race, and public health in the United States.

2001

#10838

The scalpel and the butterfly: The war between animal research and animal protection.

2001

#10866

A history of bisexuality.

2002

#7536

Sexual blackmail: A modern history.

2002

#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…

2002

#8384

A traffic of dead bodies: Anatomy and embodied social identity in nineteenth century America.

2002

#8663

New Deal medicine: The rural health programs of the Farm Security Administration.

"Drawing on oral histories, archival records, and medical journals from the 1930s and 1940s, Grey finds the programs were both a rehearsal for more modern forms of medical organization and a lightning rod for critics …

2002

#8903

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

2002

#10040

Medical police and the history of pubic health.

Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

2002

#10175

Seeing her sex: Medical archives and the female body.

"Through a detailed analysis of exterior and interior images of the female body, this book examines the relationship between human reproduction and cultural representation from 1750-1910. With examples drawn from medi…

2003

#7427

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

2003

#7941

Disease in the history of modern Latin America: From malaria to aids. Edited by Diego Armus.

2003

#8218

Goldberger's war: The life and work of a public health crusader.

2003

#8643

Self-experimenters: Sources for study.

Grouped by category of experiment, and then by the name of the self-experimenter, this is a guide to their biographies and the articles that reported their results.

2003

#9152

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

2003

#9253

Reworking the bench: Research notebooks in the history of science. Edited by Frederic L. Holmes, Jürgen Renn and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger.

Besides the historographical consideration of the value of laboratory notebooks for studying the history of experimentation and discovery, this volume includes studies of notebooks by Galvani, Schwann, Pavlov, Carl Co…

2003

#9452

The history of tropical neurology: Nutritional disorders.

2003

#9601

Le piante medicinali dal Corpus Hippocraticum.

2003

#9885

The rise of causal concepts of disease: Case histories.

"The philosopher K Codell Carter's authoritative study of the transition from an assumption that diseases have multiple causes to the modern belief in universal, necessary causes is such a book. For decades, historian…

2003

#9898

Experimenting with humans and animals: From Galen to animal rights.

2003

#10018

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome II, 3ème partie: La maladie sacrée. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna. (Collection des universités de France).

Until Hippocrates epilepsy was believed to be religious in origin; Hippocrates provided the first medical description of the disease.

2003

#10028

The people's health: Public health in Australia, 1788-1950. Vol. 2: The people's health: Public health in Australia, 1950 to the present. 2 vols.

2003

#10210

Homosexuality and civilization.

The history of homosexuality in Europe and parts of Asia from Homer to the 18th century.

2003

#10215

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

2003

#10583

Origin of the life of a human being: Conception and the female according to ancient Indian medical and sexological literature.

2003

#10710

Nameless offences: Homosexual desire in the nineteenth century.

2003

#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…

2003

#13758

Solitary sex: A cultural history of masturbation.

2004

#7944

Making Kedjom medicine: A history of public health and well-being in Cameroon.