1869 BERCHON, Ernest (1825 – 1895)
Histoire médicale du tatouage. Anatomie - Physiologie - Médecine légale - Pathologie - Applications chirurgicales.
Médecin Principal de la Marine, Berchon based his research on the increasing numbers of tattooed sailors in the French navy. In 1861 he observed the transmission of syphilis from one sailor to another, who claimed to …
GMN 13817 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16106
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
1890 SIMON, Sir John (1816 – 1904)
English sanitary institutions, reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations.
Simon "viewed the state as provider of the basic conditions needed for subsistence (without interfering in the iron law of wages) through sanitary reform of the environment, prevention of epidemic diseases, and the re…
GMN 1650 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2163
1942 BEVERIDGE, Sir William Henry (1879 – 1963)
Social insurance and allied services.
Beveridge's "... report to Parliament on Social Insurance and Allied Services was published in November 1942. It proposed that all people of working age should pay a weekly national insurance contribution. In return, …
GMN 13615 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15895
1967 NATHAN, Carl F.
Plague prevention and politics in Manchuria, 1910-1931.
"The Chinese winter of 1910-1911 was one of death and discontent: an epidemic of pneumonic plague—the greatest since the Black Death of the fourteenth century—scourged China's three Eastern Provinces (Manchuria), and …
GMN 12581 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14820
1977 COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES UNITED STATES SENATE
Project MKUltra, The CIA's program of research in behavioral modification. Joint hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Science Research of the Committee on Human Resources United States Senate Ninety-Fifth Congress First Session August 3, 1977.
Digital facsimile from Wikipedia at this link. "Project MKUltra (or MK-Ultra) was the code name of an illegal human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).[1][2][…
GMN 13749 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16033
1982 LEAVITT, Judith Walzer (1940 – )
The healthiest city: Milwaukee and the politics of health reform.
GMN 12492 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14725
1986 FOX, Daniel M. (1938 – )
Health policies, health politics: The British and American experience, 1911-1965.
GMN 8647 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10824
1986 PARK, Bert Edward
The impact of illness on world leaders.
GMN 11123 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13319
1987 SHILTS, Randy (1951 – 1994)
And the band played on: Politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic.
Shilts, an investigative journalist, chronicled the discovery and spread of HIV / AIDS with special emphasis on government indifference and political infighting—specifically in the United States—to what was then perce…
GMN 6998 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9164
1987 RICHARDSON, Ruth
Death, dissection and the destitute: The politics of the corpse in pre-victorian Britain.
GMN 7665 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9837
1988 PORTER, Roy Sydney (1946 – 2002); PORTER, Dorothy
The politics of prevention: Anti-Vaccinationism and public health in nineteenth-century England.
Digital facsimile from semanticscholar.org at this link.
GMN 12349 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14573
1989 MULLAN, Fitzhugh (1942 – )
Plagues and politics: The story of the United States Public Health Service.
GMN 8727 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10905
1990 HUTCHINSON, John F.
Politics and public health in revolutionary Russia, 1890-1918.
GMN 9764 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11952
1991 FEE, Elizabeth (1946 – 2018); ACHESON, Roy M. (1921 – 2003)
A history of education in public health: Health that mocks doctors' rules.
"This is the first book to examine and compare the history and contemporary problems of education for public health in Britain and the United States. In Britain, education for public health has been directed solely to…
GMN 9760 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11948
1994 WRIGHT, Susan
Molecular politics: Developing American and British regulatory policy for genetic engineering, 1972-1982.
GMN 9718 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11905
1995 SLOAN, Frank Allen (1942 – )
Valuing health care: Costs, benefits, and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals and other medical technologies. Edited by Frank A. Sloan.
GMN 13317 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15584
1995 FOX, Daniel M. (1938 – )
Power and illness. The failure of American health policy.
GMN 13681 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15963
1999 PORTER, Dorothy
Health, civilization and the state: A history of public health from ancient to modern times.
GMN 7616 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9788
1999 MORAN, Michael
Governing the health care state: A comparative study of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany.
"This book represents the first comparative study of how health policy is made in leading industrial nations. Using detailed case histories of the UK, the US and Germany, it shows that health care systems and modern s…
GMN 13315 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15581
2000 MACK, Connie III (1940 – )
The benefits of medical research and the role of the NIH.
According to Senator Mack's report, the economic costs of illness in the U.S. were approximately $3 trillion annually, representing 31% of the nation’s GDP. This included “direct” costs of public and private health ca…
GMN 13318 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15585
2001 WAILOO, Keith A. (1962 – )
Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle cell anemia and the politics of race and health.
"Set in Memphis, home of one of the nation's first sickle cell clinics, Dying in the City of the Blues reveals how the recognition, treatment, social understanding, and symbolism of the disease evolved in the twentiet…
GMN 10335 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12527
2002 MUSTO, David Franklin (1936 – 2010); KORSMEYER, Pamela (1945 – )
The quest for drug control: Politics and federal policy in a period of increasing substance abuse, 1963-1981.
GMN 12415 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14645
2003 ENGS, Ruth Clifford
The progressive era's health reform movement: A historical dictionary.
GMN 11593 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13792
2004 JOHNSTON, Robert D.
The politics of healing: Histories of alternative medicine in twentieth-century North America.
GMN 8076 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10252
2007 ZULAWSKI, Ann
Unequal cures: Public health and political change in Bolivia, 1900-1950,
GMN 7835 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10007
2007 MCHUGH, Tim
Hospital politics in seventeenth-century France: The crown, urban elites and the poor.
GMN 11465 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13664
2008 BRUNTON, Deborah
The politics of vaccination: Practice and policy in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, 1800-1874.
GMN 9878 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12066
2009 BOROWY, Iris (1962 – )
Uneasy encounters: The politics of medicine and health in China 1900-1937. Edited by Iris Borowy.
GMN 9267 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11449
2009 PANDE, Ishita (1976 – )
Medicine, race and liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of empire.
"This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in India during the age of empire. Using the powerful metaphor of ‘pathology’ - the science of the origin, nature, and course of d…
GMN 12666 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14910
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 EDWARDS, Paul N.
A vast machine: Computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming.
GMN 7510 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9682
2010 WARREN, Adam
Medicine and politics in colonial Peru: Population growth and the Bourbon reforms.
GMN 7834 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10006
2011 PRESCOTT, Catherine D.; POLAK, Dame Julia Margaret (1939 – 2014)
The delivery of regenerative medicines and their impact on healthcare. Edited by Catherine D. Prescott and Dame Julia Polak.
GMN 13319 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15586
2012 RISSE, Guenter B. (1932 – )
Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown.
GMN 7891 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10063
2013 MEMISH, Ziad A.; MISHRA, Nischay; OLIVAL, Kevin J.
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus in bats, Saudi Arabia.
Dated November 2013. The authors collected bat feces from sites in Bisha, Saudi Arabia found less than 1-12 kilometers from the place of employment or home of an index case-patient there, and performed total nucleic a…
GMN 10878 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13074
2013 GREATRAKES, Valentine [GREATOREX] (1629 – 1683); ELMER, Peter
The miraculous conformist: Valentine Greatrakes, the body politic, and the politics of healing in restoration Britain.
GMN 11519 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13718
2013 INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Science, governance, and the pursuit of cures
The California Institute for Regenerative medicine was the first state-fund institution that provided stable, in-state funding on a very large scale for biomedical research. "The California Institute for Regenerative …
GMN 13284 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15550
2014 EBRAHIMNEJAD, Hormoz
Medicine in Iran: Profession, practice, and politics, 1800-1925.
GMN 10911 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13107
2017 LAMBE, Jennifer L.
Madhouse: Psychiatry and politics in Cuban history.
GMN 10666 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12859
2020 REED, Don C.
Revolutionary therapies: How the California Stem Cell Program saved lives, eased suffering - and changed the face of medicine forever.
GMN 13332 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15600
2021 SLAVITT, Andrew M.
Preventable: The inside story of how leadership failures, politics, and selfishness doomed the U.S. coronavirus response.
GMN 13401 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15673