Rochester, NY
18 entries published in this place. (Rochester, US)
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Medicine's moving pictures: Medicine, health, and bodies in American film and television. Edited by Leslie J. Reagan, Nacy Tomes, and Paula A. Treichler.
1854
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The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered: An address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
2001 –2008
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An annotated catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater collection of American popular medicine and health reform. 3 vols.
2001
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The royal doctors, 1485-1714: Medical personnel at the Tudor and Stuart courts.
"... investigates the influential individuals who attended England's most important patients during a pivotal epoch in the evolution of the state and the medical profession. Over three hundred men [and a handful of wo…
2002
#9815
Publishing and medicine in early modern England.
"This book examines the effects of medical publishing on the momentous theoretical and jurisdictional controversies in health care in early modern England. The simultaneous collapse of medical orthodoxy and the contro…
2003
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Public health and the risk factor: A history of an uneven medical revolution.
"The acceptance of risk factors has produced changes in public health and medicine as profound as those that resulted from bacteriology and the germ theory of disease. . . . The risk factor concept has been controvers…
2004
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Venereal disease, hospitals and the urban poor: London's "foul wards," 1600-1800.
2008
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The politics of vaccination: Practice and policy in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, 1800-1874.
2010
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The origins of organ transplantation: Surgery and laboratory science 1880-1930.
2012
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The neurological patient in history. Edited by L. Stephen Jacyna and Stephen T. Casper.
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…
2014
#10542
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…
2016
#9479
Childbirth, maternity, and medical pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880-1945.
2016
#10050
Women medical doctors in the United States before the Civil War: A biographical dictionary.
2017
#9714
Reasoning against madness: Psychiatry and the state in Rio de Janeiro, 1830-1944.
2018
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Health education films in the twentieth century. Edited by Christian Bonah, David Cantor, Anja Laukötter.
2019
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Explorations in Baltic medical history, 1850-2015. Edited by Nils Hansson and Jonatan Wistrand.
"This book explores the history of medicine in the Baltic Sea region and provides different answers to one central question: How has the circulation of knowledge in the Baltic Sea region influenced medicine as a disci…
2021
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Up against the wall: Art, activism, and the AIDS poster. Edited by Donald Albrecht and Jessica Lacher-Feldman. Medical and consulting editor William M. Valenti.
Documents the power and impact of nearly 200 examples of AIDS posters from around the world and the social activism that continues to bring awareness to a disease without vaccine or a cure. Selected from the 8000 post…