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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences (229)

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1890English sanitary institutions, reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations.
SIMON, Sir John (1816 – 1904)
SIMON, Sir John (1816 – 1904)
1902Dangerous trades: the historical, social, and legal aspects of industrial occupations as affecting health, by a number of experts.
OLIVER, Sir Thomas (1853 – 1942)
OLIVER, Sir Thomas (1853 – 1942)
1928The quacks of old London.
THOMPSON, Charles John Samuel (1862 – 1943)
THOMPSON, Charles John Samuel (1862 – 1943)
1928A medical review of Soviet Russia.
GANTT, William Andrew Horsley (1892 – 1980)
1930The infant welfare movement in the eighteenth century.
CAULFIELD, Ernest (1893 – 1972)
1936The development of modern medicine, an interpretation of the social and scientific factors involved.
SHRYOCK, Richard Harrison (1893 – 1972)
1937Socialized medicine in the Soviet Union.
SIGERIST, Henry Ernest (1891 – 1957)
SIGERIST, Henry Ernest (1891 – 1957)
1943The history of miners’ diseases. A medical and social interpretation.
ROSEN, George (1910 – 1977)
1943Civilization and disease.
SIGERIST, Henry Ernest (1891 – 1957)
SIGERIST, Henry Ernest (1891 – 1957)
1946The midwest pioneer: His ills, cures, & doctors.
PICKARD, Madge Evelyn BULEY, Roscoe Carlyle (1893 – 1968)
1947American medical research, past and present.
SHRYOCK, Richard Harrison (1893 – 1972)
1948The dawn of Scottish social welfare. A survey from medieval times to 1863.
FERGUSON, Thomas (1900 – 1977)
1951Genesis and geology: A study in the relations of scientific thought, natural theology, and social opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850.
GILLISPIE, Charles Coulston (1918 – 2015)
1955A short history of medicine.
ACKERKNECHT, Erwin Heinz (1906 – 1988)
ACKERKNECHT, Erwin Heinz (1906 – 1988)
1956Lincoln's fifth wheel: the political history of the U. S. Sanitary Commission.
MAXWELL, William Quentin
1957Medicine in Chicago, 1850-1950: A chapter in the social and scientific development of a city.
BONNER, Thomas Neville (1923 – 2003)
1959The history of nursing: An interpretation of the social and medical factors involved.
SHRYOCK, Richard Harrison (1893 – 1972)
1961Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique.
FOUCAULT, Paul-Michel (Michel Foucault) (1926 – 1984)
1961Physicians to the Presidents, and their patients: A Biobibliography.
ROOS, Charles A.
1962The cholera years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866.
ROSENBERG, Charles Ernest (1936 – )
1963Naissance de la clinique: Une archéologie du regard médical.
FOUCAULT, Paul-Michel (Michel Foucault) (1926 – 1984)
1964The hospitals, 1800-1948: A study in social administration in England and Wales.
ABEL-SMITH, Brian (1926 – 1996)
1965Epidemic disease in Mexico City 1761-1813: An administrative, social, and medical study.
COOPER, Donald B.
1966Medicine in America: historical essays.
SHRYOCK, Richard Harrison (1893 – 1972)
1967The medical messiahs. A social history of health quackery in twentieth-century America.
YOUNG, James Harvey (1915 – 2006)
1967Medical licensing in America, 1650-1965.
SHRYOCK, Richard Harrison (1893 – 1972)
1968Geschichte der Medizin. Einführung in ihre Grundzüge.
METTE, Alexander (1897 – 1985) WINTER, Irene
1968The trial of the assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and law in the gilded age.
ROSENBERG, Charles Ernest (1936 – )
1968An uneasy equilibrium: Private and public financing of health service in the United States 1875-1965.
ANDERSON, Odin Waldemar (1914 – 2003)
1969Gandhi's truth: On the origins of militant nonviolence.
ERIKSON, Erik Homburger (1902 – 1994)
ERIKSON, Erik Homburger (1902 – 1994)
1969George III and the mad business.
HUNTER, Richard Alfred (1923 – 1981) MACALPINE, Ida (1899 – 1974)
1972The trade in lunacy: A study of private madhouses in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
PARRY-JONES, William Llewelyn (1935 – 1997)
1972Public health and the state: Changing views in Massachusetts, 1842-1936.
ROSENKRANTZ, Barbara Gutman (1923 – 2014)
1973Mental institutions in America: Social policy to 1873.
GROB, Gerald N. (1931 – 2015)
1974Psychiatry for the poor. 1851 Colney Hatch Asylum: Friem Hospital 1973. A medical and social history.
HUNTER, Richard Alfred (1923 – 1981) MACALPINE, Ida (1899 – 1974)
1974From medical police to social medicine.
ROSEN, George (1910 – 1977)
1974The courage to fail: A social view of organ transplants and dialysis.
SWAZEY, Judith P. (1939 – ) FOX, Renée Claire (1928 – )
1975Antivivisection and medical science in Victorian society.
FRENCH, Richard D.
1976The naturalist in Britain: A social history.
ALLEN, David Elliston (1932 – )
1976Physician signers of the Declaration of Independence.
GIFFORD, George E. Jr.
1976Plagues and peoples.
MCNEILL, William H. (1917 – 2016)
MCNEILL, William H. (1917 – 2016)
1976​–2018Histoire de la sexualité. 4 vols.
FOUCAULT, Paul-Michel (Michel Foucault) (1926 – 1984)
1976A service to the sick: A history of the health services for Africans in Southern Rhodesia (1890-1953).
GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)
GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)
1977"Doctors wanted: No women need apply." Sexual barriers in the medical profession, 1835-1975.
WALSH, Mary Roth (1939 – 1998)
1978Medicine and pharmacy in American political prints (1765-1870).
HELFAND, William H. (1926 – 2018)
HELFAND, William H. (1926 – 2018)
1978Abortion in America: The origins and evolution of national policy, 1800-1900.
MOHR, James C.
1979Harry S. Truman versus the medical lobby: The genesis of Medicare.
POEN, Monte M. (1930 – )
1981Medieval medicus. A social history of Anglo-Norman medicine.
KEALEY, Edward J.
1981Le milieu médical en France du XIIe au XVe siècle. En annexe, 2e supplément au Dictionnaire d'Ernest Wickersheimer.
JACQUART, Danielle (1947 – )
1982The social transformation of American medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry.
STARR, Paul (1949 – )
STARR, Paul (1949 – )