1723 JURIN, James (1684 – 1750)
A letter … containing, a comparison between the mortality of the natural small pox, and that given by inoculation.
Jurin was an enthusiastic supporter of inoculation against smallpox, and proved statistically that the fatality of inoculated smallpox is very much less than the fatality of natural smallpox. This is one of the earlie…
GMN 1689 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2406
1779 –1827 FRANK, Johann Peter (1745 – 1821)
System einer vollständigen medicinischen Polizey. 9 vols.
The first systematic treatise on public hygiene. Frank believed the ruler of a state should stand in the relation of a father to his children, among his duties being the safeguarding of the people’s health and the pre…
GMN 1599 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1718
1809 ROBERTON, John (1776 – 1840)
A treatise on medical police, and on diet, regimen, &c. In which the permanent and regularly recurring causes of disease in general, and those of Edinburgh and London in particular, are described; with a general plan of medical police to obviate them, and a particular one adapted to the local circumstances of these cities. 2 vols.
First notable work on the subject in English. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 1603 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1844
1833 GASKELL, Peter (1806 – 1841)
The manufacturing population of England, its moral, social, and physical conditions, and the changes which have arisen from the use of steam machinery; with an examination of infant labour.
Gaskell, a physician, addressed social, political and public health problems that resulted from the Industrial Revolution. Gaskell issued a revised edition of this work in 1836 under a different title: Artisans and Ma…
GMN 10389 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12581
1834 TREBUCHET, Adolphe (1801 – 1865)
Jurisprudence de la médecine, de la chirurgie, et de la pharmacie en France, comprenant la médecine légale, la police médicale, la responsabilitié des médecins, chirurgiens, pharmaciens, etc, l'exposé et la discussion des lois, ordonnances, réglemens et instructions concernant l'art de guérir, appuyé des jugemens des cours et des tribunaux.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10394 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12587
1837 TERME, Jean-François (1791 – 1847); MONFALCON, Jean-Baptiste (1792 – 1874)
Histoire statistique et morale des enfants trouvés.
A thorough analysis of the problem of foundling children from a social, medical, legal and historical standpoint. The work begins with a history of the treatment of abandoned children from antiquity to the time of wri…
GMN 11813 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14015
1848 VIRCHOW, Rudolf Ludwig Karl (1821 – 1902)
Mittheilungen über die in Oberschlesien herrschende Typhus-Epidemie.
Virchow was one of the first to identify medicine as a social science. He developed a theory of epidemics that emphasized the social circumstances permitting spread of illness. This approach has been called sociologic…
GMN 12083 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14292
1868 VIRCHOW, Rudolf Ludwig Karl (1821 – 1902)
Ueber den Hungertyphus und einige verwandte Krankheitsformen.
Virchow was instrumental in introducing into Germany an epidemiology based on the study of multiple factors – sociological as well as bacteriological. In the above report on the reappearance of typhus in Berlin and Ea…
GMN 5376 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7033
1873 –1881 SPENCER, Herbert (1820 – 1903)
Descriptive sociology: A cyclopaedia of facts; representing the constitution of every type and grade of human society, past and present, stationary and progressive; classified and tabulated for easy comparison and convenient study of the relations of social phenomena. 8 pts.
Spencer founded and edited this series.
GMN 173 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3290
1879 VIRCHOW, Rudolf Ludwig Karl (1821 – 1902)
Gesammelte Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der öffentlichen Medicin und der Seuchenlehre. 2 vols.
Virchow "articulated that the moral goal of the political role of medicine was to become an active agent in eliminating social inequality" (Dorothy Porter, Doctors, the state and the ethics of political medical practi…
GMN 12084 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14293
1906 DU BOIS, William Edward Burghardt (1868 – 1964)
The health and physique of the Negro American: report of a social study made under the direction of Atlanta University: together with the Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, on May the 29th, 1906.
Probably the earliest sociological study of the medical problems of blacks written by a black. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7051 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9218
1908 OLIVER, Sir Thomas (1853 – 1942)
Diseases of occupation from the legislative, social, and medical points of view.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10392 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12585
1909 BRYANT, Alfred T.
Zulu medicine and medicine-men.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8797 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10975
1911 BERTILLON, Jacques (1851 – 1922)
La dépopulation de la France: Ses conséquences, ses causes, mésures à prendre pour la combattre.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 1710 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2526
1923 MADDOX, John Lee (1878 – 1946)
The medicine man: A sociological study of the character and evolution of shamanism.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6456 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7612
1932 ZUCKERMAN, Solly, Baron Zuckerman (1904 – 1993)
The social life of monkeys and apes.
A study of the relationship of Man to the other primates, from the physiological and biochemical standpoint. Zuckerman’s work is considered the first adequate interpretation of simian society. 2nd ed., 1980.
GMN 351 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/274
1932 COMMITTEE ON THE COSTS OF MEDICAL CARE
Medical care for the American people. The final report of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care.
See Gore, "A forgotten landmark medical study from 2932 by the Committee on the Cost of Medical Care," Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2013 Apr; 26 (2): 142–143. Available from PubMedCentral at this link. See also, Ross, "…
GMN 8074 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10250
1933 FALK, Isidore Sydney (1899 – 1984); ROREM, Clarence Rufus (1894 – 1988); RING, Martha D.
The costs of medical care: A summary of investigations on the economic aspects of the prevention and care of illness.
GMN 8075 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10251
1933 NEWSHOLME, Sir Arthur (1857 – 1943); KINGSBURY, John Adams (1876 – 1956)
Red medicine: Socialized health in Soviet Russia.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10308 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12500
1934 MORENO, Jacob Levy (1889 – 1974)
Who shall survive? A new approach to the problem of human interrelations.
Moreno founded psychodrama, and pioneered group psychotherapy. Apart from its psychiatric and sociological significance, this work contained some of the earliest graphic depictions of social networks— data visualizati…
GMN 7700 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9872
1939 BERNAL, John Desmond (1901 – 1971)
The social function of science.
This pioneering sociological study contained two large folding information graphics. The first was one of the first attempts at a "map of science." It divided science into physical, biological, and social sectors, and…
GMN 8120 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10296
1944 MYRDAL, Karl Gunnar (1898 – 1987); STERNER, Richard (1901 – 1978); ROSE, Arnold Marshall (1918 – 1968)
An American dilemma: The Negro problem and modern democracy. By Gunnar Myrdal with the assistance of Richard Sterner and Arnold Rose.
Includes considerable anthropological, biological, and health data. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8385 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10562
1952 SAND, René (1877 – 1953)
The advance to social medicine.
Originally published in French, 1948.
GMN 1671.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2283
1958 REITZES, Dietrich C. (1917 – 1998)
Negroes and medicine.
GMN 9297 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11479
1967 HODGKINSON, Ruth G.
The origins of the National Health Service: The medical services of the New Poor Law, 1834-1871.
GMN 10396 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12589
1970 HAWLEY, Nancy Miriam
Women and their bodies.
This 35-cent, 136-page book organized in 1969 by Nancy Miriam Hawley at Boston's Emmanuel College, was written by twelve Boston feminist activists. It eventually sold 250,000 copies in New England without any formal a…
GMN 10554 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12747
1974 STEVENS, Robert; STEVENS, Rosemary A.
Welfare medicine in America: A case study of Medicaid.
The first study of Medicaid. Revised edition, 2003.
GMN 8769 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10947
1983 KUNITZ, Stephen J. (1938 – )
Disease change and the role of medicine: The Navajo experience.
GMN 10217 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12406
1984 CAMPION, Frank D.
The AMA and U.S. health policy since 1940.
GMN 10105 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12294
1988 MCGUIRE, Meredith B. (1944 – )
Ritual healing in suburban America. By Meredith B. McGuire with the assistance of Debra Kantor.
GMN 8788 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10966
1989 RUTKOW, Ira Michael (1948 – 2026)
Socioeconomics of surgery.
Probably the first book-form study of these issues.
GMN 7763 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9935
1991 BERKOWITZ, Edward D.
America's welfare state from Roosevelt to Reagan.
"Social welfare policy in the United States has gone from controversy in the 1930s, to consensus at mid-century, and back to controversy and confusion in the late twentieth century. In America's Welfare State, Edward …
GMN 11165 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13362
1992 FEIERMAN, Steven (1940 – ); JANZEN, John M. (1937 – )
The social basis of health and healing in Africa. Edited by Steven Feierman and John M. Janzen.
The essays in this book concern disease, health and healing practices on the African continent. The contributors all emphasize the social conditions linked to ill health and the development of local healing traditions…
GMN 8414 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10591
1992 LINK, Eugene Perry (1907 – 1993)
The social ideas of American physicians (1776-1976): Studies of the humanitarian tradition in medicine.
GMN 10077 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12266
1992 KEVLES, Daniel J. (1939 – ); HOOD, Leroy Edward (1938 – )
The code of codes: Scientific and social issues in the human genome project. Edited by Daniel J. Kevles and Leroy Hood.
Chapter 1. "Out of eugenics: The historical politics of the human genome" by D. J. Kevles. Chapter 2. "A history of the science and technology behind gene mapping and sequencing" by Horace Freeland Judson. Chapter 7. …
GMN 10400 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12593
1995 YOUNG, T. Kue; WALDRAM, James B.; HERRING, D. Anne
Aboriginal health in Canada: Historical, cultural, and epidemiological perspectives.
Revised second edition, same publisher, 2006.
GMN 10083 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12272
1998 BERKOWITZ, Edward D.
To improve human health. A history of the Institute of Medicine.
Digital edition available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK230742/ .
GMN 11164 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13361
1999 BERKOWITZ, Edward D.; SANTANGELO, Mark J.
The Medical Follow-up Agency: The first fifty years 1946–1996.
"The Medical Follow-up Agency is a national treasure for veterans and for long-term studies of health. Its data resources provide incomparable opportunities to follow very important populations and to ask creative que…
GMN 11166 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13363
2002 CARROLL, Patrick Eamonn
Medical police and the history of pubic health.
Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 10040 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12229
2003 SMEDLEY, Brian D.; STITH, Adrienne Y.; NELSON, Alan R.
Unequal treatment: Confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Edited by B. D. Smedley, A. Y. Stith, and A. R. Nelson.
"Congress, in 1999, requested an IOM study to assess the extent of disparities in the types and quality of health services received by U.S. racial and ethnic minorities and non-minorities; explore factors that may con…
GMN 7057 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9224
2007 WILLIAMS, Richard Allen (1936 – )
Eliminating healthcare disparities in America. Beyond the IOM Report. Edited by Richard Allen Williams.
GMN 7056 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9223
2008 BJERREGAARD, Peter; YOUNG, T. Kue
Health transitions in Arctic populations. Edited by T. Kue Young and Peter Bjerregaard.
Concerns indigenous and non-indigenous people in five Arctic regions: Greenland, Northern Canada, Alaska, Arctic Russia, and Northern Fennoscandia (Scandinavia).
GMN 10082 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12271
2008 BURD-SHARPS, Sarah; LEWIS, Kristen; BORGES MARTINS, Eduardo
The measure of America: American human development report, 2008-2009.
" the first-ever human development report for a wealthy, developed nation. It introduces the American Human Development Index, which provides a single measure of well-being for all Americans, disaggregated by state an…
GMN 10224 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12414
2009 DITTMER, John (1939 – )
The good doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the struggle for social justice in health care.
"... documents the history of the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR), a group of health professionals who delivered health care to wounded protesters and victims of police violence during the Civil Rights Movem…
GMN 13038 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15288
2010 BURD-SHARPS, Sarah; LEWIS, Kristen
The measure of America, 2010-2011: Mapping risks and resilience.
"This fully illustrated report, with over 130 color images, is based on the groundbreaking American Human Development Index, which provides a single measure of the well-being for all Americans, disaggregated by state …
GMN 10225 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12415
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
2015 BRITNELL, Mark Douglas (1966 – )
In search of the perfect health system.
"With chapters on 25 different countries, this practical and succinct guide to the world's major health systems explores what lessons can be drawn from each to improve health worldwide. Each chapter is an essay design…
GMN 9636 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11823
2017 GAFFNEY, Adam W.
To heal humankind: The right to health in history,
GMN 10454 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12647
