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

2007

#11357

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

2007

#11464

The great nation in decline: Sex, modernity and health crises in revolutionary France c.1750–1850.

2007

#11465

Hospital politics in seventeenth-century France: The crown, urban elites and the poor.

2007

#11575

Differential diagnoses: A comparative history of health care problems and solutions in the United States and France.

2007

#12330

Resuscitation greats. Edited by Peter Baskett and Thomas Baskett.

2007

#12988

Les regimes de santé au Moyen Âge. 2 vols.

2007

#13577

Vernacular bodies: The politics of reproduction in Early Modern England.

"Making babies was a mysterious process in 17th-century England. Fissell uses popular sources—songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals—to recover how ordinary men and women understood t…

2008

#7569

The cure within: A history of mind-body medicine.

2008

#8080

National health insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, territory, and the roots of difference.

Explores why two countries that were very similar in many ways, struck out on radically divergent paths to public health insurance. Canada developed a universal single-payer system of national health care, while the U…

2008

#8308

Embodiments of will: Anatomical and physiological theories of voluntary animal motion from Greek antiquity to the Latin Middle Ages, 400 B.C - A.D.1300.

2008

#9006

Der Trieb zum Erzählen: Sexualpathologie und Homosexualität, 1852-1914.

2008 –2011

#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.

2008

#9600

Hippocratic recipes: Oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth-and fourth-century Greece.

"... the first extended study of the pharmacological recipes included in the Hippocratic Corpus. The recipes, found mostly in the gynaecological and nosological treatises, are here examined both from a philological an…

2008

#9683

Antimicrobial drugs: Chronicle of a twentieth century medical triumph.

Concerns the history of all anti-infectives, including antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, antiprotozoal and anthelminthic agents.

2008

#9880

The sciences of homosexuality in early modern Europe. Edited by Kenneth Borris and George S. Rousseau.

"This collection establishes that efforts to produce scientific explanations for same-sex desires and sexual behaviours are not a modern invention, but have long been characteristic of European thought. The sciences o…

2008

#10509

Cholera and nation: Doctoring the Victorian social body.

2008

#10635

Hippocrate, tome XII, 1ère partie, Nature de la femme. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Florence Boubon. (Collection des universités de France)

A gynecological treatise from the Hippocratic Collection. This one is supposed to come from the School of Cnidus or to use Cnidian material and is generally dated to mid 4th century BCE.

2008

#10732

La salud y el Estado: El movimiento sanitario internacional y la administración española (1851-1945).

2008

#13166

The making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy: Bodies, books, fortune, fame.

An exhaustive account of the creation, production, distribution and influence of this classic.

2009

#7205

Picturing medical progress from Pasteur to polio: A history of mass media images and popular attitudes in America.

2009

#7567

Dissection: Photographs of a rite of passage in American medicine 1880-1930.

2009

#7715

The discovery of hypnosis: The complete writings of James Braid, the father of hypnotherapy. Edited with detailed prefatory essays by Donald Robertson.

2009

#8164

De Budapest à Saigon: Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, 1956-1965. (Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, Vol.4.)

2009

#8317

Chocolate: History, culture and heritage. Edited by Louis Evan Grivetti and Howard-Yana Shapiro.

2009

#8617

Health and medicine on display: International expositions in the United States, 1876-1904.

2009

#8645

Medical research for hire: The political economy of pharmaceutical clinical trials.

2009

#8886

Coming to terms with world health: The League of Nations Health Organization 1921-1946.

2009

#9258

Food in medieval England: Diet and nutrition. Edited by C. M. Woolgar, D. Serjeantson and T. Waldron.

2009

#9332

The anatomy murders: Being the true and spectacular history of Edinburgh's notorious Burke and Hare and of the man of science who abetted them in the commission of their most heinous crimes.

2009

#9677

De Fasciculus medicinae opnieuv bekeken (Academia Regia Belgica Medicinae-Dissertationes, Series Historica, DSH, 11).

A detailed analysis of all the editions of Ketham's Fasciculus.

2009

#9697

Burke & Hare.

This account of the resurrection men, Burke and Hare, is the first comic book version of a history of medicine story of which I am aware.

2009

#9758

Bathing in the Roman world.

2009

#9811

The theatre of the body: Staging death and embodying life in early-modern London.

"...The book takes as its specific focus seventeenth-century London, in a significant study encompassing the period from the incorporation of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons (1540) to the staging of Edward R…

2009

#9817

Fatal thirst: Diabetes in Britain until insulin.

2009

#9830

A history of total health.

https://kaiserpermanentehistory.org/ "A History of Total Health invites you to join in a discussion of today’s health care as we draw links to relevant events in the history of Kaiser Permanente and the industrial con…

2009

#10443

Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A cultural history of cacao. Edited by Cameron L. McNeil.

2009

#10770

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

2009

#11313

The finger of God: Anatomical practice in seventeenth-century Leiden.

2009

#11412

Foul bodies: Cleanliness in early America.

2009

#12144

The evolution of obesity.

2009

#13711

The tainted gift: The disease method of frontier expansion.

2010

#8009

Healing the body politic: El Salvador's popular struggle for health rights from civil war to neoliberal peace.

2010

#8027

Fictions of well-being: Sickly readers and vernacular medical writing in late medieval and early modern Spain. Michael

2010

#8060

The problem of nutrition: Experimental science, public health and economy in Europe 1914-1945.

2010

#8275

A history of healthcare in Istanbul: Health organizations, epidemics, infections and disease control, preventive health institutions, hospitals, medical education.

2010

#8593

The anatomist anatomis'd: An experimental discipline in Enlightenment Europe.

History of the practice and teaching of anatomy, and comparative anatomy, in the 18th century, mainly in Europe, but also touching on the introduction of Western methods of studying and teaching anatomy into Japan.

2010

#8704

Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: Dalla peste nera ai giorni nostri.

2010

#8822

Medicine in an age of commerce and empire: Britain and its tropical colonies 1660-1830.

2010

#9661

Les metamorphoses du gras: histoire de l'obésité.

Translated into English by C. Jon Delogu as The metamorphosis of fat: A history of obesity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).

2010

#9662

Obesity: The biography.