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

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2004

#8070

How sex changed: A history of transsexuality in the United States.

MEYEROWITZ, Joanne Jay (1954 – )

2004

#8321

Eros on the Nile. Translated from the Polish by Geoffrey L. Packer.

MYŚLIWIEC, Karol (1943 – )

Originally published by Eros nad Nilem (Prószyyńki i S-ka S.A, 1998).

2004

#9025

Stories in the time of cholera: Racial profiling during a medical nightmare.

BRIGGS, Charles Leslie (1953 – ) MANTINI-BRIGGS, Clara

'In 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-…

2004

#9263

To cast out disease: A history of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (1913-1951).

FARLEY, John (1936 – 2015)

2004

#9652

Anthrax: A history.

SWIDERSKI, Richard M.

2004

#9709

Hygienic modernity: Meanings of health and disease in treaty-port China.

ROGASKI, Ruth

2004

#9974

The great influenza: The epic story of the greatest plague in history.

BARRY, John M. (1947 – )

2004

#9996

The Italian boy: A tale of murder and body-snatching in 1830s London.

WISE, Sarah

2004

#10508

Mapping the Victorian social body.

GILBERT, Pamela K. (1964 – )

"The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explos…

2004

#10553

The medical delivery business: Health reform, childbirth, and the economic order.

PERKINS, Barbara Bridgman

2004

#10560

Rappresentare il corpo: Art e anatomia da Leonardo all'illuminismo.

OLMI, Giuseppe

Extensive book (324 pages, many color plates) issued in connection with an exhibition held in Bologna, December 2004 to March 2005, celebrating the fourth centenary of Ulisse Aldrovandi. A much-condensed guide to the …

2004

#13690

Venereal disease, hospitals and the urban poor: London's "foul wards," 1600-1800.

SIENA, Kevin

2004

#14033

Public health in Qajar Iran.

FLOOR, Willem Marius (1942 – )

"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 Qajar Ir…

2005

#8166

The humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross.

FORSYTHE, David P. (1941 – )

2005

#8328

The rise and fall of HMOs: An American health care revolution.

COOMBS, Jan Gregoire

A broad historical overview of HMOs with a close analysis of one institution, the Marshfield Clinic in northern Wisconsin.

2005

#8839

Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing unto others.

KARRAS, Ruth Mazo (1957 – )
KARRAS, Ruth Mazo (1957 – )

2005

#9386

Yellow Jack: How yellow fever ravaged American and Walter Reed discovered its deadly secrets.

PIERCE, John R. WRITER, James V.

2005

#9935

Fathoming the ocean: The discovery and exploration of the deep sea.

ROZWADOWSKI, Helen M.

2005

#12057

Ärzte, Ingenieure und städtische Gesundheit: medizinische Theorien in der Hygienebewegung des 19. Jahrhunderts.

HARDY, Anne

2006

#6839

Dream Anatomy... Anatomy and the artistic imagination.

SAPPOL, Michael

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Library of Medicine from October 9, 2002 to July 21, 2003. In May 2015 the website built for the exhibition was available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/dreamanatomy/.

2006

#7176

Man, medicine, and the state: The human body as an object of government sponsored medical research in the 20th century, edited by Wolfgang U. Eckart.

ECKART, Wolfgang Uwe (1952 – )

Chapters on controversial government experimental programs in Senegal, in Germany under the Nazi regime, including in concentration camps and in aerospace research, and also the Tuskegee syphilis experiment in Tuskege…

2006

#7423

Encyclopaedia anatomica: Museo la Specola Florence.

DÜRING, Monika von POGGESI, Marta

Spectacular collection of color photographs of wax models in the Museo la Specola, Florence. Text in English, French and German.

2006

#7629

Human anatomy: A visual history from the Renaissance to the digital age.

RIFKIN, Benjamin A. (1960 – ) ACKERMAN, Michael J. FOLKENBERG, Judith

A popular history, with excellent illustrations; probably the first history of anatomy to include a chapter (by Ackerman, project director for the National Library of Medicine's Digital Human Project) on "Anatomy in t…

2006

#7924

Les conquêtes de la médecine moderne en Afrique. Edited by Jean-Paul Bado.

BADO, Jean-Paul

2006

#8035

The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs.

BARNES, David S.

2006

#8184

Locating medical history: The stories and their meanings. Edited by Frank Huisman and John Harley Warner.

WARNER, John Harley (1953 – ) HUISMAN, Frank

2006

#8251

Colonial pathologies: American tropical medicine, race, and hygiene in the Philippines.

ANDERSON, Warwick Hugh (1958 – )

2006

#8780

The great starvation experiment: Ancel Keys and the men who starved for science.

TUCKER, Todd (1968 – )

2006

#9376

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

ZE'EVI, Dror (1953 – )
ZE'EVI, Dror (1953 – )

2006

#9462

Bad medicine: Doctors doing harm since Hippocrates.

WOOTTON, David (1952 – )

The paperback edition published in 2007 included a new epilogue by the author in response to critics of the controversial hardback edition.

2006

#9749

Death rode the rails: American railroad accidents and safety 1828-1965.

ALDRICH, Mark

2006

#9763

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

HONG KONG MUSEUM OF MEDICAL SCIENCES SOCIETY

2006

#10148

A century of adventure in northern health: The Public Health Service Commissioned Corps in Alaska, 1879-1978.

FORTUINE, Robert (1934 – 2009)

2006

#13702

Fit to be citizens? Public health and race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939.

MOLINA, Natalia (1971 – )

2007

#7059

The battle of the bulge: A history of obesity research.

BRAY, George A. (1931 – )

2007

#7534

Impotence: A cultural history.

MCLAREN, Angus (1944 – )

2007

#7775

Renaissance vision from spectacles to telescopes.

ILARDI, Vincent (1926 – 2009)

Through an examination of original economic documents, as well as scientific documents, Ilardi discovered that Florence rather than Venice was the 15th-century center for making eye glasses and that lenses for farsigh…

2007

#7835

Unequal cures: Public health and political change in Bolivia, 1900-1950,

ZULAWSKI, Ann

2007

#7853

What is medical history?

BURNHAM, John Chynoweth (1929 – 2017)

2007

#7972

Experimental design for biologists.

GLASS, David J.

Explains how to establish the framework for an experimental project, how to set up all of the components of an experimental system, design experiments within that system, determine and use the correct set of controls,…

2007

#8050

History, medicine, and the traditions of Renaissance learning.

SIRAISI, Nancy G. (1932 – )

2007

#8077

Origins of American health insurance: A history of industrial sickness funds.

MURRAY, John E. (1959 – )

2007

#8101

Silent victories: The history and practice of public health in twentieth-century America. Edited by John W. Ward and Christian Warren.

WARD, John W. WARREN, Christian S.

2007

#8163

De Yalta à Dien Bien Phu: Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, 1945-1955. (Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. Vol. 3:)

REY-SCHYRR, Catherine

2007

#8609

My highest pleasure: William Hunter's art collection. Edited by Peter Black.

HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783)
HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783) BLACK, Peter

A beautiful book on Hunter's art collection, and how he assembled it, as well as a study of the representation of art in Hunter's library. The book also describes and illustrates Hunter's collection of anatomical art,…

2007

#8985

How everyday products make people sick: Toxins at home and in the workplace.

BLANC, Paul David (1951 – )

An eloquent historical approach, written for a semi-popular audience, to everyday problems in occupational medicine and toxicology.

2007

#9026

Medicina, ideología e historia en España (siglos XVI-XXI). Edited by Ricardo Campos, Luis Montiel and Rafael Huertas.

HUERTAS GARCÍA-ALEJO, Rafael CAMPOS, Ricardo MONTIEL, Luis

2007

#9759

Government and public health in America.

HAMOWY, Ronald (1937 – 2012)

"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…

2007

#9990

Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. Edited by Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil and Wolfgang Wegner. 3 vols.

KEIL, Gundolf (1932 – ) GERABEK, Werner E. HAAGE, Bernhardt Dietrich WEGNER, Wolfgang

2007

#11082

Shock and awe: The performance dimension of Galen's anatomy demonstrations. (Version 5; January 2007.)

GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)
GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216) GLEASON, Maud W.

Digital edition available from princeton.edu at this link: http://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/pdfs/gleason/010702.pdf