1902 OLIVER, Sir Thomas (1853 – 1942)
Dangerous trades: the historical, social, and legal aspects of industrial occupations as affecting health, by a number of experts.
A collective work edited by Oliver. Digital fascimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 2129 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2663
1926 BUER, M. C.
Health, wealth and population in the early days of the industrial revolution.
Chapters on water supply, 18th physicians and pioneers of public health, the hospital and dispensary movement, general hygiene and midwifery, rickets and scurvy, antiseptics, smallpox, anti-typhus campaign, malaria, etc.
GMN 10467 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12660
1926 GRIFFITH, Grosvenor Talbot (1899 – 1981)
Population problems of the age of Malthus.
Includes chapters on birth and marriage rates relating to conditions of employment, also the influence of the Poor Laws on these rates. Other chapters concern agriculture and food and health of towns and factores, and…
GMN 10468 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12661
1956 COHN-HAFT, Louis (1920 – 2012)
The public physicians of ancient Greece. (Smith College Studies in History, Vol. XLII.)
Re-examination of the question of whether the public physicians employed by the Greek city-states derived their entire income from their salaried positions and thus provided free medical care or whether they received …
GMN 6485 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7952
1968 ANDERSON, Odin Waldemar (1914 – 2003)
An uneasy equilibrium: Private and public financing of health service in the United States 1875-1965.
The central theme of this book is that health policy in the Unitesd States is the product of a deep ambivalence in public attitudes that on the one hand support a private, market-oriented health provision system, whil…
GMN 9134 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11313
1971 ELWOOD, Paul M. Jr. (1926 – ); ET AL
Health maintenance strategy.
Elwood is often referred to as the "father of the health maintenance organization. He not only coined the term, he also played a role in bringing about structural changes to the American health care system to simultan…
GMN 8327 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10503
1982 STARR, Paul (1949 – )
The social transformation of American medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry.
GMN 6596.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8509
1985 GRITZER, Glenn; ARLUKE, Arnold (1947 – )
The making rehabilitation: A political economy of medical specialization, 1890-1980.
GMN 10094 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12283
1993 HENDRICKS, Ricky
A model for national health care: The history of Kaiser Permanente.
GMN 8179 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10355
1999 KOOIJMAN, Jaap W.
... And the pursuit of national health: The incremental strategy toward national health insurance in the United States of America.
GMN 8078 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10254
2004 PERKINS, Barbara Bridgman
The medical delivery business: Health reform, childbirth, and the economic order.
GMN 10553 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12746
2005 COOMBS, Jan Gregoire
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.
GMN 8328 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10504
2007 ILARDI, Vincent (1926 – 2009)
Renaissance vision from spectacles to telescopes.
Through an examination of original economic documents, as well as scientific documents, Ilardi discovered that Florence rather than Venice was the 15th-century center for making eye glasses and that lenses for farsigh…
GMN 7775 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9947
2007 MURRAY, John E. (1959 – )
Origins of American health insurance: A history of industrial sickness funds.
GMN 8077 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10253
2007 DUTTON, Paul V.
Differential diagnoses: A comparative history of health care problems and solutions in the United States and France.
GMN 11575 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13774
2008 BOYCHUK, Gerald William (1967 – )
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…
GMN 8080 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10256
2009 FISHER, Jill A.
Medical research for hire: The political economy of pharmaceutical clinical trials.
GMN 8645 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10822
2010 BARONA VILAR, Josep Lluís (1955 – )
The problem of nutrition: Experimental science, public health and economy in Europe 1914-1945.
GMN 8060 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10236
2012 MARCHILDON, Gregory P. (1956 – )
Making Medicare: New perspectives on the history of Medicare in Canada.
GMN 8093 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10269
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
2014 SPARY, Emma C.
Feeding France: New sciences of food, 1760-1815.
GMN 8038 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10214
2015 COHEN, Alan B.; COLBY, David C.; WAILOO, Keith A. (1962 – ); ZELIZER, Julian E.
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.
GMN 8770 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10948
2016 LAUGESEN, Miriam J.
Fixing medical prices: How physicians are paid.
GMN 10667 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12860
2017 PERKINS, Barbara Bridgman
Cancer, radiation therapy, and the market.
GMN 10555 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12748