1957 HAZLETT, Theodore Lyle (1885 – 1967); HUMMEL, William W
Industrial medicine in western Pennsylvania, 1850-1950.
Probably the first history of occupational medicine in any part of the United States. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 8669 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10846
1962 WHITTACKER, Alfred Heacock (1894 – 1982); SELLECK, Henry B.
Occupational health in America.
Written under the auspices of the Industrial Medical Association, this history emphasizes 20th century achievements.
GMN 2137.02 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2683
1964 U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; TERRY, Luther (1911 – 1985)
Smoking and health: report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service.
Definitive 386-page throughly documented study of the carcinogenic and pulmonologic effects of smoking, and the addictive aspects of nicotine. It was published under the supervision of Surgeon-General Luther Terry. Di…
GMN 7385 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9557
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
1971 CARTWRIGHT, Alan Patrick
Doctors of the mines: A commemorative volume published in 1971 to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Mine Medical Officer's Association of South Africa. With a history of the work of mine medical officers.
GMN 8501 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10678
1972 RENBOURN, Edward Tobias
Materials and clothing in health and disease by E. T. Renbourn (with The biophysics of clothing materials by W. H. Rees).
GMN 13806 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16094
1983 HARDY, Harriet Louise (1906 – 1993)
Challenging man-made disease.
Hardy's "studies on beryllium began in 1945 when she started working for the Massachusetts Division of Occupational Medicine. She studied factories that produced fluorescent bulbs in Lynn, Salem, and Ipswich, Massachu…
GMN 10472 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12665
1986 WYGANT, Larry J.; BLOCKER, Truman Graves Jr. (1809 – 1984)
The Truman G. Blocker, Jr. history of medicine collections: Books and manuscripts
Describes approximately 13,000 books chiefly acquired for the Moody Medical Library by Truman G. Blocker, Jr. Includes the Alfred H. Whittacker library on the history of occupational medicine..
GMN 6786.31 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8407
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 GORDON, Bonnie
Phossy jaw and the French match workers: Occupational health and women in the Third Republic.
"The 1898 suppression of white phosphorous in the French match industry was a victory of organized labour. At a time when most French workers did not have the power to effect changes in the health and safety condition…
GMN 12889 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15136
1992 FRAZIER, Claude Albee (1920 – 2005)
Miners and medicine: West Virginia memories.
"The coal-company doctors of Appalachia fought the health hazards of the coal fields, arguably the most dangerous and diseased working environment of the modern world. Often the doctors were held accountable for evils…
GMN 13297 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15563
1996 GLANTZ, Stanton Arnold (1945 – ); ET AL
The cigarette papers. Edited by Stanton A. Glantz, John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes.
Analysis and selective reproduction of 4000 pages of internal tobacco industry documents proving that a tobacco company was fully aware that it was promoting and marketing a highly addictive carcinogenic substance. El…
GMN 8660 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10837
1996
Industry Documents Library. University of California, San Francisco.
https://www.library.ucsf.edu/industry-documents/ "The Industry Documents Library (IDL) provides public access to internal corporate documents to facilitate research about cross-industry practices that harm public heal…
GMN 8661 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10838
1998 MYERS, Robin; HARRIS, Michael
Medicine, mortality and the book trade.
Seven essays, edited by Harris and Myers. Of special interest are Harris, "Printers' diseases: The human cost of a mechanical process"; Lotte Hellinga, "Medical incunabula"; John Symons, " 'These crafty dealers': Sir …
GMN 7613 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9785
1998 VILA, Anne C. (1961 – )
Enlightenment and pathology: Sensibility in the literature and medicine of eighteenth-century France.
GMN 10477 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12670
1998 DERICKSON, Alan (1948 – )
Black lung: Anatomy of a public health disaster.
GMN 13294 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15560
2000 WARREN, Christian S.
Brush with death: A social history of lead poisoning.
GMN 8102 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10278
2001 MICALE, Mark S. (1957 – ); LERNER, Paul
Traumatic pasts: History, psychiatry, and trauma in the modern age, 1870-1930. Edited by Mark S. Micale and Paul Lerner.
GMN 9786 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11974
2006 ALDRICH, Mark
Death rode the rails: American railroad accidents and safety 1828-1965.
GMN 9749 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11937
2007 BLANC, Paul David (1951 – )
How everyday products make people sick: Toxins at home and in the workplace.
An eloquent historical approach, written for a semi-popular audience, to everyday problems in occupational medicine and toxicology.
GMN 8985 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11164
2011 WALKER, Brett L. (1967 – )
Toxic archipelago: A history of industrial disease in Japan.
GMN 9710 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11897
2013 DERICKSON, Alan (1948 – )
Dangerously sleepy: Overworked Americans and the cult of manly wakefulness.
The first book to track the longtime association of overwork and sleep deprivation from the nineteenth century to the present.
GMN 13295 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15561
2016 BLANC, Paul David (1951 – )
Fake silk: The lethal history of viscose rayon.
GMN 8986 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11165
2017 ROSENTAL, Paul-André (1961 – )
Silicosis: A world history. Edited by Paul-André Rosental.
GMN 10663 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12856
2018 VILA, Anne C. (1961 – )
Suffering scholars: Pathologies of the intellectual in Enlightenment France.
GMN 10476 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12669
2020 BOHATA, Kirsti; JONES, Alexandra; MANTIN, Mike; THOMPSON, Steven
Disibility in industrial Britain: A cultural and literary history of impairment in the coal industry.
GMN 12590 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14830
2021 RUBEN, Robert J. (1933 – )
The history of pediatric and adult hearing screening.
GMN 13486 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15760