History of Occupational Health & Medicine

Year	Title & Tags	Author(s)
1845	Entstehung, Berlauf und Behandlung der Krankheiten der Künstler und Gewerbetreibenden. Nach dem neuesten Standpunkte der Medizin, Chemie, Mechanik und Technologie, so wie nach den Mittheilungen berühmter Gewertsärzte des In-und Auslandes und eigenen Forschungen bearbeitet. Public Health Historiography & General Works	HALFORT, A. C. L.
1926	Health, wealth and population in the early days of the industrial revolution. Plagues & Epidemics Professions & Education Historiography & General Works	BUER, M. C.
1926	Population problems of the age of Malthus. Epidemiology & Demography Professions & Education Historiography & General Works	GRIFFITH, Grosvenor Talbot (1899 – 1981)
1943	The history of miners’ diseases. A medical and social interpretation. Public Health Historiography & General Works	ROSEN, George (1910 – 1977)
1948	History of factory and mine hygiene. Public Health Historiography & General Works	TELEKY, Ludwig (1872 – 1957)
1955	The diseases of occupations. Public Health Historiography & General Works	HUNTER, Donald (1898 – 1978)
1957	Industrial medicine in western Pennsylvania, 1850-1950. United States Public Health Historiography & General Works	HAZLETT, Theodore Lyle (1885 – 1967) HUMMEL, William W
1962	Occupational health in America. United States Public Health Historiography & General Works	WHITTACKER, Alfred Heacock (1894 – 1982) SELLECK, Henry B.
1967	The origins of the National Health Service: The medical services of the New Poor Law, 1834-1871. Europe & United Kingdom Public Health Ethics & Law Historiography & General Works	HODGKINSON, Ruth G.
1971	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. Africa & Middle East Public Health Historiography & General Works	CARTWRIGHT, Alan Patrick
1988	Worker's health, workers' democracy: The Western miners' struggle, 1891-1925. Public Health Historiography & General Works	DERICKSON, Alan (1948 – )
1989	Phossy jaw and the French match workers: Occupational health and women in the Third Republic. Europe & United Kingdom Public Health Historiography & General Works	GORDON, Bonnie
1992	Miners and medicine: West Virginia memories. United States Public Health Historiography & General Works	FRAZIER, Claude Albee (1920 – 2005)
1996	The cigarette papers. Edited by Stanton A. Glantz, John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes. Public Health Diagnostics & Imaging Historiography & General Works	GLANTZ, Stanton Arnold (1945 – ) & et al.
1998	Medicine, mortality and the book trade. Public Health Bibliography & Catalogs Historiography & General Works	MYERS, Robin HARRIS, Michael
1998	Enlightenment and pathology: Sensibility in the literature and medicine of eighteenth-century France. Europe & United Kingdom Public Health Arts, Literature & Humanities Zoology & Animal Sciences Historiography & General Works	VILA, Anne C. (1961 – )
1998	Black lung: Anatomy of a public health disaster. Pulmonary & Respiratory Historiography & General Works	DERICKSON, Alan (1948 – )
2000	Brush with death: A social history of lead poisoning. Public Health Pharmacology & Therapeutics Historiography & General Works	WARREN, Christian S.
2001	Traumatic pasts: History, psychiatry, and trauma in the modern age, 1870-1930. Edited by Mark S. Micale and Paul Lerner. Military Medicine Historiography & General Works	MICALE, Mark S. (1957 – ) LERNER, Paul
2006	Death rode the rails: American railroad accidents and safety 1828-1965. United States Public Health Historiography & General Works	ALDRICH, Mark
2007	How everyday products make people sick: Toxins at home and in the workplace. Public Health Pharmacology & Therapeutics Historiography & General Works	BLANC, Paul David (1951 – )
2011	Toxic archipelago: A history of industrial disease in Japan. Asia & Pacific Public Health Historiography & General Works	WALKER, Brett L. (1967 – )
2013	Dangerously sleepy: Overworked Americans and the cult of manly wakefulness. Neurology & Psychiatry Historiography & General Works	DERICKSON, Alan (1948 – )
2016	Fake silk: The lethal history of viscose rayon. Public Health Historiography & General Works	BLANC, Paul David (1951 – )
2017	Silicosis: A world history. Edited by Paul-André Rosental. Public Health Historiography & General Works	ROSENTAL, Paul-André (1961 – )
2018	Suffering scholars: Pathologies of the intellectual in Enlightenment France. Europe & United Kingdom Public Health Historiography & General Works	VILA, Anne C. (1961 – )
2020	Disibility in industrial Britain: A cultural and literary history of impairment in the coal industry. Public Health Historiography & General Works	BOHATA, Kirsti JONES, Alexandra MANTIN, Mike THOMPSON, Steven
2021	The history of pediatric and adult hearing screening. ENT & Hearing Historiography & General Works	RUBEN, Robert J. (1933 – )

1845 HALFORT, A. C. L.

Entstehung, Berlauf und Behandlung der Krankheiten der Künstler und Gewerbetreibenden. Nach dem neuesten Standpunkte der Medizin, Chemie, Mechanik und Technologie, so wie nach den Mittheilungen berühmter Gewertsärzte des In-und Auslandes und eigenen Forschungen bearbeitet.

See Karbe, "The significance of A.C.L. Halfort's work on The development, course and treatment of diseases in artists and tradesmen (Berlin 1845)," Z. Gesamte Hyg. 21 (1975) 74-8. Digital facsimile from Google Books a…

GMN 10479 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12672

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

1943 ROSEN, George (1910 – 1977)

The history of miners’ diseases. A medical and social interpretation.

GMN 2136 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2677

1948 TELEKY, Ludwig (1872 – 1957)

History of factory and mine hygiene.

GMN 2137 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2679

1955 HUNTER, Donald (1898 – 1978)

The diseases of occupations.

A classic textbook on the subject with valuable historical chapters and references. Hunter put the text through six editions to 1978. The work was rewritten as Hunter’s Diseases of occupations, ed. by P.A.B. Raffle, W…

GMN 2137.01 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2681

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

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

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

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.