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142 entries match Public Health [N02.500] · Professions & Education [M01 / N02]
1986
#10986
The Association of American Physicians, 1886-1986: A century of progress in medical science.
"The Association of American Physicians is a nonprofit, professional organization founded in 1885 by seven physicians, including Dr. William Osler and Dr. William Henry Welch, for “the advancement of scientific and pr…
1987
#13165
"I have done my duty." Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, 1854-56. Edited by Sue M. Goldie.
Nightingale's correspondence, 1854-1856.
1991
#9673
Enter the physician: The transformation of domestic medicine, 1760-1860.
1991
#9760
A history of education in public health: Health that mocks doctors' rules.
"This is the first book to examine and compare the history and contemporary problems of education for public health in Britain and the United States. In Britain, education for public health has been directed solely to…
1992
#11406
Rudolf Virchow Sämtliche Werke. Herausgegeben von Christian Andree. 71 vols. anticipated.
From the number of volumes planned we may conclude that Virchow was one of the most prolific of all physicians. According to the Wikipedia article on Christian Andree, to which I have linked, volumes in this set were …
1993
#8179
A model for national health care: The history of Kaiser Permanente.
1994
#8538
The history and geography of human genes.
The first full-scale attempt to reconstruct where human populations originated and the paths by which they spread throughout the world, using genetic data integrated with data from geography, ecology, archaeology, phy…
1995
#13317
Valuing health care: Costs, benefits, and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals and other medical technologies. Edited by Frank A. Sloan.
1996
#10120
The health consequences of 'modernisation': Evidence from circumpolar peoples.
"What are the health consequences of switching from an active 'hunter-gatherer' lifestyle to that of sedentary modern living? Here, the impact of 'modernisation' in circumpolar peoples is assessed. The hazards to huma…
1998
#8032
Food in antiquity: A survey of the diet of early peoples
Originally published in 1969.
1998
#9642
"Every man his own doctor." Popular medicine in early America: An exhibition drawn from the collections of Charles E. Rosenberg, William H. Helfand and the Library Company of Philadelphia.
1999
#8078
... And the pursuit of national health: The incremental strategy toward national health insurance in the United States of America.
1999
#13585
Sexual cultures in Europe: National histories.
"... brings together for the first time studies of the sexual cultures of all the major European countries--including France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Spain, Britain and the Netherlands--to focus on their commonalities…
2000
#13318
The benefits of medical research and the role of the NIH.
According to Senator Mack's report, the economic costs of illness in the U.S. were approximately $3 trillion annually, representing 31% of the nation’s GDP. This included “direct” costs of public and private health ca…
2001 –2008
#7524
An annotated catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater collection of American popular medicine and health reform. 3 vols.
2001
#10799
Malaria: Poverty, race, and public health in the United States.
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…
2003
#9152
Right living: An Anglo-American tradition of self-help medicine and hygiene. Edited by Charles Rosenberg.
2005
#8328
The rise and fall of HMOs: An American health care revolution.
A broad historical overview of HMOs with a close analysis of one institution, the Marshfield Clinic in northern Wisconsin.
2006
#13702
Fit to be citizens? Public health and race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939.
2007
#8077
Origins of American health insurance: A history of industrial sickness funds.
2007
#11575
Differential diagnoses: A comparative history of health care problems and solutions in the United States and France.
2007
#12505
The physiology of love and other writings. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Nicoletta Pireddu. Translated by David Jacobson.
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
#13515
Cultural encyclopedia of the body. Edited by Victoria Pitts-Taylor. 2 vols.
2009
#8617
Health and medicine on display: International expositions in the United States, 1876-1904.
2009
#8973
Vulgariser la medecine: Du style medical en France et en Italie (XVIe et XVIIe siecles). Edited by Andrea Carlino and Michel Jeanneret.
2010
#8060
The problem of nutrition: Experimental science, public health and economy in Europe 1914-1945.
2011
#13319
The delivery of regenerative medicines and their impact on healthcare. Edited by Catherine D. Prescott and Dame Julia Polak.
2012
#8093
Making Medicare: New perspectives on the history of Medicare in Canada.
2012
#8799
Chocolate as medicine: A quest over the centuries.
2013
#8185
The inevitable hour: A history of caring for dying patients in America.
2013
#13284
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Science, governance, and the pursuit of cures
The California Institute for Regenerative medicine was the first state-fund institution that provided stable, in-state funding on a very large scale for biomedical research. "The California Institute for Regenerative …
2014
#8038
Feeding France: New sciences of food, 1760-1815.
2015
#8770
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.
2016
#8550
Household medicine in seventeenth-century England.
2016
#10421
Vanishing America: Species extinction racial peril, and the origins of conservation.
"Nineteenth-century citizens of European descent widely believed that Native Americans would eventually vanish from the continent. Indian society was thought to be tied to the wilderness, and the manifest destiny of U…
2017
#9973
Teeth: The story of beauty, inequality, and the struggle for oral health in America.
2017
#12372
The coronary heart disease pandemic in the twentieth century: Emergence and decline in advanced countries.
"This book demonstrates that a pandemic of coronary heart disease occurred in North America, western and northern Europe, and Australia and New Zealand from the 1930s to about 2000. At its peak it caused more deaths t…
2020
#13039
Clean: The new science of skin.
"A preventative medicine physician and staff writer for The Atlantic explains the surprising and unintended effects of our hygiene practices in this informative and entertaining introduction to the new science of skin…
2020
#13670
Global health and the new world order: Historical and anthropological approaches to a changing regime of governance. Edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Claire Beaudevin, Christoph Gradmann, Anne M. Lovell, Laurent Pordié and David Cantor.
2021
#13271