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

YearTitle & TagsAuthor(s)
2004Medicine transformed: Health, disease and society in Europe 1800-1930.
2004Mapping the Victorian social body.
2004Venereal disease, hospitals and the urban poor: London's "foul wards," 1600-1800.
2005Must we all die? Alaska's enduring struggle with tuberculosis.
2005Exilio y depuración política: En la Facultad de Medicina de San Carlos.
2005Emblematic monsters: Unnatural conceptions and deformed births in early modern Europe.
2005Plague and fire: Battling black death and the 1900 burning of Honolulu's Chinatown.
2005Japanese American midwives: Culture, community, and health politics, 1880-1950.
2006The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs.
2006Médecins et malades de l'Egypte romaine: Étude socio-légale de la profession médicale et de ses praticiens du Ier au IVe siècle ap. J.-C.
2006The dilemma of federal mental health policy: Radical reform or incremental change?
2006The birth of development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization changed the world, 1945–1965.
2007Unequal cures: Public health and political change in Bolivia, 1900-1950,
2007Origins of American health insurance: A history of industrial sickness funds.
2007Medicine and the care of the dying: A modern history.
2007The great nation in decline: Sex, modernity and health crises in revolutionary France c.1750–1850.
2007Hospital politics in seventeenth-century France: The crown, urban elites and the poor.
2007Vernacular bodies: The politics of reproduction in Early Modern England.
2008This republic of suffering: Death and the American Civil War.
2008National health insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, territory, and the roots of difference.
2008Hippocratic recipes: Oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth-and fourth-century Greece.
2008The politics of vaccination: Practice and policy in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, 1800-1874.
2008The sterilization movement and global fertility in the twentieth century.
2008Flesh and blood: Organ transplantation and blood transfusion in twentieth-century America.
2008Cholera and nation: Doctoring the Victorian social body.
2008Prescribing by numbers: Drugs and the definition of disease.
2009The care of brute beasts: A social and cultural study of veterinary medicine in Early Modern England.
2009Health and medicine on display: International expositions in the United States, 1876-1904.
2009Uneasy encounters: The politics of medicine and health in China 1900-1937. Edited by Iris Borowy.
2009The theatre of the body: Staging death and embodying life in early-modern London.
2009The plague files: Crisis management in sixteenth-century Seville.
2009Ottoman medicine: Healing and medical institutions, 1500-1700.
2009The good doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the struggle for social justice in health care.
2010Medicine and politics in colonial Peru: Population growth and the Bourbon reforms.
2010Healing the body politic: El Salvador's popular struggle for health rights from civil war to neoliberal peace.
2010A history of healthcare in Istanbul: Health organizations, epidemics, infections and disease control, preventive health institutions, hospitals, medical education.
2010Shadows in the valley: A cultural history of illness, death, and loss in New England, 1840-1916.
2010A cultural history of the human body. Edited by Linda Kalof and William Bynum. 6 vols.
2011The social history of health and medicine in colonial India. Edited by Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison.
2011Body and soul: The Black Panther Party and the fight against medical discrimination.
2011Medicine, government, and public health in Philip II's Spain: Shared interests, competing authorities.
2011A first rate madness: Uncovering the links between leadership and mental illness.
2011Remedy and reaction: The peculiar American struggle over health care reform.
2012Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown.
2012Making Medicare: New perspectives on the history of Medicare in Canada.
2012The sick child in early modern England, 1580-1720.
2012Social poison: The culture and politics of opiate control in Britain and France, 1821–1926.
2012Democratic governance & health: Hospitals, Politics and health policy in New Zealand.
2012Revolutionary medicine: Health and the body in post-Soviet Cuba.
2013Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the sciences in Paris, 1670-1760.