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823 entries match Historiography & General Works [K01.900]
2010
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Library
https://archive.org/details/cmslibrary&tab=collection "The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Library is a research library dedicated to supporting the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The digitized collect…
2010
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Imagining illness: Public health and visual culture. Edited by David Serlin.
"From seventeenth-century broadsides about the handling of dead bodies, printed during London's plague years, to YouTube videos about preventing the transmission of STDs, public health advocacy and education has alway…
2010
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Cholesterol and beyond: The research on diet and coronary heart disease, 1900-2000.
"A concise overview of the chain of evidence accumulated during the past century supporting the relationship between dietary habits and blood levels of cholesterol and the associated relationship between blood total a…
2010
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Magnus Hirschfeld and the quest for sexual freedom. A history of the first international sexual freedom movement
2011
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Fragonard Museum. The écorchés. The anatomical masterworks of Honoré Fragonard by Christophe Degueurce. With an essay by Laure Cadot. Translated from the French by Philip Adds.
The painter and printmaker Fragonard preserved the results of his dissections via means never divulged, but which may have been based on those of Jean-Joseph Sue. His pieces were often prepared for theatrical effect r…
2011
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The Oxford companion of the history of medicine. Edited by Mark Jackson.
2011
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History of the statistical classification of diseases and causes of death. Edited and updated by Harry M. Rosenberg and Donna L. Hoyert.
Digital facsimile available from the cdc.gov at this link.
2011
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Toxic archipelago: A history of industrial disease in Japan.
2011
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Medicine, government, and public health in Philip II's Spain: Shared interests, competing authorities.
2011
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Adventures in the Orgasmatron: Wilhelm Reich and the invention of sex.
Published in the US as Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the sexual revolution came to America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
2012
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The global history of paleopathology: Pioneers and prospects. Edited by Jane Buikstra & Charlotte Roberts.
2012
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Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown.
2012
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Historical dictionary of the World Health Organization. Second edition.
Covers the history of the WHO through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendices, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on key bodies, programs, events and p…
2012
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Making Medicare: New perspectives on the history of Medicare in Canada.
2012
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Picturing the book of nature: Image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany.
2012
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Plague, quarantines and geopolitics in the Ottoman empire.
An examination of Ottoman plague treatises and writers from the Black Death until 1923.
2012
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Social poison: The culture and politics of opiate control in Britain and France, 1821–1926.
2012
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Chocolate as medicine: A quest over the centuries.
2012
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The doctor dissected: A cultural history of the Burke and Hare murders.
2012
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Contagion: How commerce has spread disease.
2012
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Democratic governance & health: Hospitals, Politics and health policy in New Zealand.
"New Zealand is the only country in the world where elected health boards have long been a core feature of the health care system. These boards are conceptually important and aspirational for policy-makers and communi…
2012
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Dissection on display: Cadavers, anatomists and public spectacle.
2012
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Les origines de la sexologie (1850-1900).
2012
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The scars of Venus: A history of venereology.
2012
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Epidemics in context: Greek commentaries on Hippocrates in the Arabic tradition. Edited by Peter E. Pormann.
2012
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Obscenity, sex education, and medical democracy in the antebellum United States American sexual histories.
Includes a study of the trials of American sex educator Frederick Hollick for obscenity.
2013
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An environmental history of the Middle Ages: The crucible of nature.
2013
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Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the sciences in Paris, 1670-1760.
2013
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In the blink of an eye: The deadly story of epidemic meningitis.
2013
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The inevitable hour: A history of caring for dying patients in America.
2013
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Ship of death: A voyage that changed the Atlantic world.
A multi-disciplinary account from the perspectives of the history of the slave trade, the anti-slavery movement and medical history, of the voyage of the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792-…
2013
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The pleasure's all mine: A history of perverse sex.
2013
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Medicine and the workhouse. Edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard Schwarz.
The first in depth study of the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Throughout this period workhouses were a…
2013
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The Routledge history of sex and the body, 1500 to the present. Edited by Sarah Toulalan and Kate Fisher.
2013
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Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome III, 1re partie: Pronostic. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna, Anargyros Anastasiou, and Caroline Magdelaine.
![HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)](/media/portraits/50)
This treatise on prognostication in acute diseases was possibly written by Hippocrates himself; or if not, by a physician close to him, sometime during the second half of the 5th century, before 410 BCE.
2013
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Broadcasting birth control: Mass media and family planning.
Explores the films and radio and television broadcasts developed by twentieth-century birth control advocates to promote family planning at home in the United States, and in the expanding international arena of popula…
2013
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Marrow of tragedy: The health crisis of the American Civil War.
2013
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Dangerously sleepy: Overworked Americans and the cult of manly wakefulness.
The first book to track the longtime association of overwork and sleep deprivation from the nineteenth century to the present.
2014
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Madness and memory: The discovery of prions- a new biological principle of disease.
Prusiner discovered prions, the agent causing scrapie in sheep and goats, mad cow disease, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
2014
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Imperial hygiene: A critical history of colonialism, nationalism and public health.
2014
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The Oxford encyclopedia of the history of American science, medicine, and technology. Edited by Hugh Richard Slotten.
2014
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Feeding France: New sciences of food, 1760-1815.
2014
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Art of Vesalius. Edited by Robrecht Van Hee.
2014
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Food and environment in early and medieval China.
2014
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Aphrodisiacs, fertility and medicine in early modern England.
This work "... in its extensive study of gynecological treatises from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, provides an important intervention into assumptions about the subversive quality of aphrodisiacs and abor…
2014
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Female circumcision and clitoridectomy in the United States: A history of a medical treatment.
"From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, American physicians treated women and girls for masturbation by removing the clitoris (clitoridectomy) or clitoral hood (female circumcision). Durin…
2014
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The Pelvis: Structure, gender and society.
"This book offers a critical review of the pelvic sciences—past, present and future—from an anatomical and physiological perspective....The book starts with a “construction plan” of the pelvis and shows its structural…
2014
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Cholera: A worldwide history.
2014
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Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and the religion of biologic living.
"Purveyors of spiritualized medicine have been legion in American religious history, but few have achieved the superstar status of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his Battle Creek Sanitarium. In its heyday, the 'San' was …
2014
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Polio wars: Sister Kenny and the golden age of American medicine
"During World War II, polio epidemics in the United States were viewed as the country's "other war at home": they could be neither predicted nor contained, and paralyzed patients faced disability in a world unfriendly…