1971 GOODMAN, Neville Marriot (1898 – 1980)
International health organizations and their work. 2nd ed.
A systematic account of international health work from its beginnings to modern times. First published 1952.
GMN 1671.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2308
1972 ROSENKRANTZ, Barbara Gutman (1923 – 2014)
Public health and the state: Changing views in Massachusetts, 1842-1936.
GMN 12490 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14723
1973 MUSTO, David Franklin (1936 – 2010)
The American disease: Origins of narcotic control.
Third expanded edition (1999). "Supporting the theory that Americans' attitudes toward drugs have followed a cyclic pattern of tolerance and restraint, author David F. Musto examines the relations between public outcr…
GMN 8902 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11080
1973 QUINN, Joseph R.
Medicine and public health in the People's Republic of China. Edited by Joseph R. Quinn.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10223 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12413
1974 ROSEN, George (1910 – 1977)
From medical police to social medicine.
GMN 11327 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13525
1974 WHORTON, James C. (1942 – )
Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and public health in pre-DDT America.
GMN 12444 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14676
1974 DUFFY, John (1915 – 1996)
A history of public health in New York City.
GMN 12491 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14724
1975 HOWARD-JONES, Norman (1909 – 1985)
The scientific background of the International Sanitary Conferences, 1851-1938.
First published in WHO Chronicle, 1974. 28, 159-71, 229-47, 369-84, 414-26, 455-70, 475-508. Available from apps.who.int at this link.
GMN 1671.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2313
1978 DURAND, André (1912 – 2008)
Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. Vol. 2: De Sarajevo à Hiroshima.
English translation: History of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Volume II: From Sarajevo to Hiroshima (Geneva: Henri Dunant Institute, 1984).
GMN 8162 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10338
1978 HOWARD-JONES, Norman (1909 – 1985)
International public health between the two world wars: The organizational problems.
GMN 12121 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14330
1979 JEŽEK, Zdenēk (1932 – 2019); BASU, Rabindra Nath (1928 – ); WARD, Nicholas Anthony (1936 – )
The eradication of smallpox from India.
GMN 13788 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16075
1981 CIPOLLA, Carlo M. (1922 – 2000)
Fighting the plague in seventeenth century Italy.
GMN 8028 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10204
1981 KNAUS, William A.
Inside Russian medicine: An American doctor's first-hand report. With research assistance by Nicholas A. Petroff.
A period piece but valuable for its professional assessment of the state of Russian medicine during the period.
GMN 10222 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12412
1981 HOWARD-JONES, Norman (1909 – 1985)
The Pan-American Health Organization: Origins and Evolution.
GMN 12120 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14329
1982 LEAVITT, Judith Walzer (1940 – )
The healthiest city: Milwaukee and the politics of health reform.
GMN 12492 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14725
1982 STIKER, Henri-Jacques
Corps infirmes et sociétés : Essais d'anthropologie historique.
Translated into English by William Sayers as A history of disability. New foreward by David T. Mitchel and Sharon L. Snyder. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2019. "The first book to attempt to provide a f…
GMN 14189 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16505
1987 FEE, Elizabeth (1946 – 2018)
Disease and discovery: A history of the Johns Hopkins School Hygiene & Public Health 1916-1939.
GMN 11009 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13205
1987 PATRICK, Ross (1914 – 2005)
A history of health & medicine in Queensland 1824-1960.
GMN 12139 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14348
1987 NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820 – 1910); GOLDIE, Sue M.
"I have done my duty." Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, 1854-56. Edited by Sue M. Goldie.
Nightingale's correspondence, 1854-1856.
GMN 13165 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15424
1988 FENNER, Frank John (1914 – 2010); HENDERSON, Donald Ainslie (1928 – 2016); ARITA, Isao (1926 – ); JEŽEK, Zdenēk (1932 – 2019); LADNYJ, Ivan Danilovich ( – 1987)
Smallpox and its eradication.
The definitive archival history in 1460 pages. In 2016 a PDF of this entire book could be downloaded from the W.H.O. at this link.
GMN 7549 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9721
1988 ROSSIAUD, Jacques (1932 – )
La prostitution médiévale.
Translated into English as Medieval prostitution (1988)."In fifteenth-century France, public prostitution was condoned by all sectors of society. Clerics and municipal officials not only tolerated prostitution, but we…
GMN 9109 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11288
1988 DERICKSON, Alan (1948 – )
Worker's health, workers' democracy: The Western miners' struggle, 1891-1925.
"The most dangerous work in North America at the turn of the century may have been extracting metal-bearing ore from mountains of hard rock. Beginning in the 1890s miners in the West worked through local unions both t…
GMN 13296 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15562
1989 MULLAN, Fitzhugh (1942 – )
Plagues and politics: The story of the United States Public Health Service.
GMN 8727 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10905
1989 DENOON, Donald John Noble (1940 – )
Public health in Papua New Guinea: Medical possibility and social constraint, 1884-1984.
GMN 12552 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14790
1990 DUFFY, John (1915 – 1996)
The sanitarians: A history of American public health.
GMN 7619 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9791
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
1992 ETHERIDGE, Elizabeth W.
Sentinel for health: A history of the Centers for Disease Control
GMN 8637 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10814
1992 CIPOLLA, Carlo M. (1922 – 2000)
Miasmas and disease: Public health and the environment in the pre-industrial age. Translated by Elizabeth Potter.
GMN 8804 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10982
1992 LA BERGE, Anne Elizabeth Fowler (1944 – )
Mission and method: The early-nineteenth-century French public health movement.
GMN 11134 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13330
1993 ARNOLD, David (1946 – )
Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.
An authoritative account of the way that medicine was practiced in India in adaptation to the situation faced by physicians and the state in India, focusing on three major epidemic diseases: smallpox, cholera plague.
GMN 8811 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10989
1994 HARRISON, Mark
Public health in British India: Anglo-Indian preventive medicine 1859-1914.
The first major study of public health in British India.
GMN 8802 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10980
1994 PORTER, Dorothy
The history of public health and the modern state. Edited by Dorothy Porter.
GMN 13654 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15935
1995 BARNES, David S.
The making of a social disease: Tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France.
GMN 8036 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10212
1995 WEINDLING, Paul Julian (1953 – )
International health organisations and movements, 1918-1939. Edited by Paul Weindling.
GMN 8058 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10234
1995 COSMACINI, Giorgio (1931 – )
Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: dalla peste europea alla guerra mondiale, 1348-1918.
GMN 8703 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10881
1995 DOW, Derek A.
Safeguarding the public health: A history of the New Zealand Department of Health.
GMN 12544 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14781
1995 BYNUM, William F. (1943 – ); CREESE, Richard; BEARNE, J.
The health of prisoners: Historical essays edited by Richard Creese, W. F. Bynum and J. Bearn
GMN 13655 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15936
1996 HOY, Suellen (1942 – )
Chasing dirt: The American pursuit of cleanliness.
"Americans in the early 19th century were, as one foreign traveller bluntly put it, "filthy, bordering on the beastly"--perfectly at home in dirty, bug-infested, malodorous surroundings. Many a home swarmed with flies…
GMN 9162 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11341
1996 YEGÜL, Fikret K. (1941 – )
Baths and bathing in classical antiquity.
Reviews and analyzes the structure, function, and design of baths, seeking to integrate their architecture with the wider social and cultural custom of bathing, and examining in particular the changes this custom unde…
GMN 9757 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11945
1997 CORSINI, Carlo Alberto (1935 – 2017); VIAZZO, Pier Paolo (1950 – )
The decline of infant and child mortality: The European experience, 1750-1990.
GMN 11822 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14024
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 RISSE, Guenter B. (1932 – )
Mending bodies, saving souls: A history of hospitals.
GMN 7890 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10062
1999 BERGDOLT, Klaus (1947 – )
Leib und Seele. Eine Kulturgeschichte des gesunden Lebens.
Translated into English by Jane Dewhurst as Wellbeing: A cultural history of healthy living (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008).
GMN 8511 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10688
1999 TOMES, Nancy J. (1952 – )
The gospel of germs: Men, women, and the microbe in American life.
GMN 9113 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11292
1999 DOW, Derek A.
Maori health and government policy 1840-1940.
GMN 12543 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14780
2000 WALKER, J. Samuel (1946 – )
Permissible dose: A history of radiation protection in the twentieth century.
GMN 7784 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9956
2000 MELOSI, Martin V.
The sanitary city: Urban infrastructure in America from colonial times to the present.
GMN 10516 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12709
2001 RILEY, James C. (1943 – )
Rising life expectancy: A global history.
"Between 1800 and 2000 life expectancy at birth rose from about 30 years to a global average of 67 years, and to more than 75 years in favored countries. This dramatic change was called a health transition, characteri…
GMN 8396 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10573
2001 ECHENBERG, Myron (1940 – )
Black death, white medicine: Bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945.
GMN 10091 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12280