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823 entries match Historiography & General Works [K01.900]
2015
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Neuroanatomical terminology: A lexicon of classical origins and historical foundations.
The first global, historically documented, hierarchically organized parts list of the human nervous system. "This defined vocabulary accurately and systematically describes every human nervous system structural featur…
2015
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Anatomy and anatomists in early modern Spain.
2015
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The fate of anatomical collections.
A collective work, edited by Knoeff and Zwijenberg, which includes several chapters of great interest. Relevant to the history of John Hunter's museum see Andrew Cunningham, "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Or, what Ri…
2015
#7854
Health care in America: A history.
2015
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Another person's poison: A history of food allergy.
2015
#8274
Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world: The Ottoman experience, 1347-1600.
2015
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The Hippocratic Corpus: Content and context.
![HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)](/media/portraits/50)
2015
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Medicare and Medicaid at 50: America's entitlement programs in the age of affordable care. Edited by Alan B. Cohen, David C. Colby, Keith A. Wailoo, and Julian E. Zelizer.
2015
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The Rockefeller Foundation, public health and international diplomacy, 1920–1945.
The role of the Rockefeller Foundation and the League of Nations in improving public health during the interwar period. Barona argues that the Foundation applied a model of business efficiency to its ideology of sprea…
2015
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Confronting contagion: Our evolving understanding of disease.
2015
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Sanitation, latrines and intestinal parasites in past populations. Edited by Piers D. Mitchell.
2015
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Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South.
"The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878--a disaster that caused 20,000 deaths and financial losses of nearly $200 mill…
2015
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Elegant anatomy: The eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections.
2015
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The courtiers' anatomists: Animals and humans in Louis XIV's Paris.
2015
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Salmonella infections, networks of knowledge, and public health in Britain, 1880-1975.
2015
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The influenza pandemic in Japan, 1918-1920: The first world war between humankind and a virus. Translation by Lynne E. Riggs and Takechi Manbu.
2015
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Medicine on the periphery: Public health in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870-1960.
2015
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Insects, hygiene and history.
2016
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The Anatomical Venus: Wax / Sex / God / Death.
2016
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Wombs with a view: Illustrations of the gravid uterus from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth century.
2016
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Food and health in early modern Europe: Diet, medicine and society, 1450-1800.
2016
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WHO Historical collection.
Background Disease classifications and nomenclature documents History of international health organizations documents League of Nations malaria documents Rare books on plague, smallpox and epidemiology
2016
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Wikipedia Timeline of global health.
1.Big picture 1.1Late 1700s–1930s (pre-WWII era) 1.21940s–early 1960s (post-WWII era) 1.3Late 1960s–1970s 1.41980s–2000 1.52000s and beyond 2.Full timeline 2.1Inclusion criteria 2.2Timeline 3.See also 3.1General 3.2Di…
2016
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International Committee of the Red Cross: History.
https://www.icrc.org/en/who-we-are/history. Extensive background, videos, links to the ICRC archives, etc., etc. Accessed 12-2016
2016
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Fake silk: The lethal history of viscose rayon.
2016
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Remaking the American patient: How Madison Avenue and modern medicine turned patients into consumers.
"In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explo…
2016
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A history of global health: Interventions into the lives of other peoples.
2016
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The culture of food in England 1200-1500.
2016
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Anatomy museum: Death and the body displayed.
2016
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Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome IV, 1ère partie: Epidémies I et III. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna. (Collection des universités de France.)
Greek text with facing French translation. Epidemics I and III, by a physician of Hippocrates' milieu, possibly by Hippocrates himself, sometime around 410 BCE
2016
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Farewell to the god of plague: Chairman Mao's campaign to deworm China.
2016
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Amatory pleasures: Explorations in eighteenth-century sexual culture.
2016
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Progressive mothers, better babies, race, public health, and the state in Brazil, 1850-1945.
2016
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Fixing medical prices: How physicians are paid.
2016
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Public opinion, public policy, and smoking: The transformation of American attitudes and cigarette use.
2016
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Anatomy: An encyclopedic reference to the language of anatomy and neuroanatomy. It provides the fascinating origin of terms and biographies of anatomists/physicians who originated them.
2016
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Quarantine: Local and global histories. Edited by Alison Bashford.
2016
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The germ of an idea: Contagionism, religion, and society in Britain, 1660-1730.
"Contagionism is an old idea, but gained new life in Restoration Britain. The Germ of an Idea considers British contagionism in its religious, social, political and professional context from the Great Plague of London…
2016
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Influenza encyclopedia: The American influenza epidemic of 1918 - 1919: A digital encyclopedia. Second edition.
ABOUT "Historians, journalists, and the public at large have long been interested in the 1918 “Spanish flu” epidemic, a dramatic chapter in American life that has spawned an impressive body of books, articles, and mul…
2017
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History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Research Portal.
http://medhumanities.mcmaster.ca/ "The History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Research Web Portal is designed to gather resources in medical humanities for students, scholars, physicians, and the general public fo…
2017
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Pale Rider: The Spanish flu of 1918 and how It changed the world.
2017
#9712
Normality. A critical genealogy.
Perhaps the first study of the history of the "normal" in medicine. Traces the concept of normal to French anatomical and physiological discourse in the 1820s and 1830s, and its dissemination in modern culture through…
2017
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Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome XVI: Problèmes hippocratiques. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna et Alessia Guardasole. (Collection des universités de France).
Greek text with facing French translation of 130 problems (some in the way of Hippocratic medicine and others not) compiled by an anonymous Christian author from the Byzantine period, 7th to 10th/11th century.
2017
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Visualizing disease: The art and history of pathological illustrations.
2017
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HIV / AIDS Collected by: National Library of Medicine, Christine Wenc, curator.
https://archive-it.org/collections/8400 HIV/AIDS "A collection of websites selected and archived by the National Library of Medicine on biomedical, clinical, cultural, and social aspects of HIV/AIDS in the early 21st …
2017
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Bodies beyond borders: Moving anatomies, 1750–1950. Edited by Kaat Wils, Raf de Bont, and Sokhieng Au.
2017
#10231
Anti-vivisection and the profession of medicine in Britain: A social history.
2017
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Cancer, radiation therapy, and the market.
2017
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Silicosis: A world history. Edited by Paul-André Rosental.
2017
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