2013 LANG, Philippa
Medicine and society in Ptolemaic Egypt.
GMN 8300 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10476
2013 CLARK, David (1953 – )
Transforming the culture of dying: The work of the Project on Death in America.
"Over a period of almost 10 years, the work of the Project on Death in America (PDIA) played a formative role in the advancement of end of life care in the United States. The project concerned itself with adults and c…
GMN 10062 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12251
2013 REINARZ, Jonathan; SCHWARZ, Leonard
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…
GMN 10541 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12734
2013 WILSON, Adrian
Ritual and conflict: The social relations of childbirth in early modern England.
"This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to th…
GMN 12023 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14231
2013 REINARZ, Jonathan; SIENA, Kevin
A medical history of skin: Scratching the surface. Edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Kevin Siena.
GMN 13691 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15973
2014 DUMAS, Geneviève
Santé et société à Montpellier à la fin du Moyen Âge.
GMN 10171 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12360
2015 THOMPSON, C. Michele
Vietnamese traditional medicine: A social history.
Reception of foreign medical ideas and techniques through the case study of smallpox.
GMN 8042 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10218
2015 VARLIK, Nükhet
Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world: The Ottoman experience, 1347-1600.
GMN 8274 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10450
2015 KELTON, Paul; CAMERON, Catherine M.; SWEDLUND, Alan C.
Beyond germs: Native depopulation in North America. Edited by Catherine M. Cameron, Paul Kelton, and Alan C. Swedlund.
This book "challenges the “virgin soil” hypothesis that was used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous people of North America. This hypothesis argues that the massive depopulation of the New World w…
GMN 10341 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12533
2015 WEISSER, Olivia
Ill composed: Sickness, gender, and belief in early modern England.
A cultural history of illness from the standpoint of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.
GMN 10969 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13165
2015 CONIS, Elena
Vaccine nation: America's changing relationship with immunization.
GMN 12441 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14673
2016 GENTILCORE, David (1961 – )
Food and health in early modern Europe: Diet, medicine and society, 1450-1800.
GMN 8047 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10223
2016 TOMES, Nancy J. (1952 – )
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…
GMN 9114 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11293
2016 CAMPBELL, Bruce M. S.
The great transition: Climate, disease and society in the late-medieval world.
GMN 9694 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11881
2016 GROSS, Miriam
Farewell to the god of plague: Chairman Mao's campaign to deworm China.
GMN 10096 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12285
2016 MARSHALL, Thomas R.
Public opinion, public policy, and smoking: The transformation of American attitudes and cigarette use.
GMN 10669 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12862
2017 MEYER, Manuella
Reasoning against madness: Psychiatry and the state in Rio de Janeiro, 1830-1944.
GMN 9714 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11901
2017 DACOME, Lucia
Malleable anatomies: Models, makers, and material culture in eighteenth-century Italy.
"Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modeling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy. It investigates the "mania" for anatomical displays that swept the Italian peninsula, …
GMN 9882 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12070
2017 WILS, Kaat (1969 – ); BONT, Raf F. J. de (1977 – ); AU, Sokhieng
Bodies beyond borders: Moving anatomies, 1750–1950. Edited by Kaat Wils, Raf de Bont, and Sokhieng Au.
GMN 10021 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12210
2017 GAFFNEY, Adam W.
To heal humankind: The right to health in history,
GMN 10454 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12647
2017 NEWSON, Linda A. (1946 – )
Making medicines in early colonial Lima, Peru: Apothecaries, science and society.
GMN 10539 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12732
2017 LAMBE, Jennifer L.
Madhouse: Psychiatry and politics in Cuban history.
GMN 10666 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12859
2017 BERMAN, Henry (1941 – 2020); DASHEFSKY, Hannah
Teens and their doctors: The story of the development of adolescent medicine.
Traces the development of adolescent medicine from the first program, opened by Ros Gallagher at Boston Children’s Hospital, in 1951, to the creation of the Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM), in 1968. The book des…
GMN 12546 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14783
2018 TERAZAWA, Yuki
Knowledge, power, and women's reproductive health in Japan, 1690–1945.
GMN 10645 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12838
2019 MOSKALEWICZ, Marcin; CAUMANNS, Ute; DROSS, Fritz
Jewish medicine and healthcare in Central Eastern Europe: Shared identities and tangled histories. Edited by Marcin Moskalewicz, Ute Caumanns, and Fritz Dross.
GMN 10768 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12964
2019 COCK, Emily
Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture.
GMN 13671 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15953
2021 ALBRECHT, Donald; LACHER-FELDMAN, Jessica; VALENTI, William Michael
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…
GMN 13373 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15644
2021 QUINLAN, Sean M.
Morbid undercurrents: Medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France.
"During the 1790s and beyond, medicine left the somber halls of universities, hospitals, and learned societies and became profoundly politicized, inspiring a whole panoply of different—often bizarre and shocking—subcu…
GMN 14104 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16415
2022 WEHRMAN, Andrew M.
The contagion of liberty: The politics of smallpox in the American revolution.
"The Revolutionary War broke out during a smallpox epidemic, and in response, General George Washington ordered the inoculation of the Continental Army. But Washington did not have to convince fearful colonists to pro…
GMN 14090 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16401
