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Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain , 1842,
[1] by M.W. Flinn, published by Edwin Chadwick
Cannibalism in China by Key Ray Chong
Children of Lazarus : The story of the lazaretto at Tracadie by M. J Losier
A Compleat History of Druggs (please note this isn't spelling error) by Pierre Pomet. London, 1737.
History of Medicine (L.Hartley) (History Project Series) by
L. Hartley
Drugs in America : A Documentary History by David F., M.D. Musto
The Lobotomist (Jack El-Hai) : A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness by Jack El-Hai
A History of Medicine (Sigerist) by
Henry E. Sigerist
Consumption in New England : Locality One of Its Chief Cause and Is Consumption Contagious or Communicated by One Person to Another in Any Manner by Henry I. Bowditch
Diseases in Antiquity : A Survey of the Diseases, Injuries, and Surgery of Early Populations by Don Brothwell
Death in Hamburg : Society and Politics in the Cholera Years 1830-1910 (Penguin History) by
Richard J. Evans
Science in Egyptology by A. R. David
Eye Disease in the Tropics : A Practice Textbook for Developing Countries (Medicine in the tropics) by F. C. Rodger
The Black Death in the Middle East by Michael W. Dols
Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death by Millard Meiss
Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery by Michael Bliss
Another Dimension to the Black Diaspora : Diet, Disease and Racism by
Kenneth F. Kiple
Alcohol and Man : The Effects of Alcohol on Man in Health and Disease (Addiction in America) by Haven Emerson
Limits to Medicine : Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health by
Ivan Illich
Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr
The Care of Strangers : The Rise of America's Hospital System by Charles E. Rosenberg
Encyclopedia of Medical History by Roderick McGrew
Medical Practice in Modern England : The Impact of Specialization and State Medicine by Rosemary Stevens
From Paralysis to Fatigue : A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era by Edward Shorter
The Role of Medicine : Dream, Mirage, or Nemesis? by
Thomas McKeown
The Integrative Action of the Nervous System . (Classics in psychology) by Charles Scott, Sir Sherrington
Reports of Medical Cases (Library of the Medical Classics) by Richard Bright
Closing the Asylum by Peter Barham
The Origins of Human Disease by Thomas McKeown
Natural History of Infectious Disease by Macfarlane Burnet
Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine (Routledge Companion Encyclopedias) by W. F. Bynum
Growth of Scientific Physiology (History, philosophy, and sociology of science) by G. J. Goodfield
The Revolutions of Wisdom : Studies in the Claims and Practice of Ancients Greek Science (Sather Classical Lectures Vol 52 by G. E. Lloyd
Growth of Medical Thought by L.S. King
Civilization and Disease by
Henry E. Sigerist
The Rise of Surgery : From Empire Craft to Scientific Discipline by
Owen H. Wangensteen
Observations on Maniacal Disorder (Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry) by William Pargeter
The Hospital in History (Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine) by Lindsay Granshaw
American Physicians in the Nineteenth Century: From Sects to Science by William G. Rothstein
Bedside Manners : The Troubled History of Doctors and Patients by
Edward Shorter
Secret Passions, Secret Remedies : Narcotic Drugs in British Society, 1820-1930 by Terry M. Parssinen
Patients and Practitioners : Lay Perceptions of Medicine in Pre-industrial Society (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine) by Roy Porter
Medical Profession in Mid-Victorian London by M. Jeanne Peterson
Medical Theory, Surgical Practice : Studies in the History of Surgery (Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine) by Christopher Lawrence
History of General Physiology by Thomas S. Hall
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind : A Medical History of Humanity by Roy Porter
The Food Crisis in Prehistory : Overpopulation and the origins of agriculture by
Mark Nathan Cohen
The Western Medical Tradition: 800 BC-1800 AD by
Lawrence I. Conrad
The Philosophy of Medicine : Framing the Field (Philosophy and Medicine) by
H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.
The Pillar of Fire (autobiography) by Karl Stern
[2]
Hospital Life in Enlightenment Scotland : Care and Teaching at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine) by Guenter B. Risse
Princes and Peasants : Smallpox in History by Donald R. Hopkins
Before the Horror : The Population of Hawaii on the Eve of Western Contact by David E. Stannard
The Unmasking of Medicine by Ian Kennedy
Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge Studies in the History of Science) by W. F. Bynum
The History of Psychiatry : An Evaluation of Psychiatric Thought and Practice from Prehistoric Times to the Present (Master Work Series) by Franz G., MD Alexander
Illustrated History of Medicine by Jean-Charles Sournia
The Woman Beneath the Skin : A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany by Barbara Duden
Difference and Pathology : Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness by Sander L. Gilman
Health and Illness : Images of Difference (Reaktion Books - Picturing History) by Sander Gilman L.
Age of Miracles by John Brunner
State Intervention in Medical Care : Consequences for Britain, France, Sweden, and the United States, 1890-1970 by J. Rogers Hollingsworth
Circulation of the Blood by
William Harvey
Mosquitoes, Malaria, and Man : A history of the hostilities since 1880 by
Gordon A Harrison
Information Sources in the History of Science and Medicine (Studies in Physical Geography,) by P. Corsi
Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine (2 Volume Set) by W. F. Bynum
In Sickness and in Wealth : American Hospitals in the Twentieth Century by Rosemary Stevens
The Faber Book of Madness by Roy Porter
History of Physiology by Karl E. Rothschuh
The Oxford Companion to Medicine by John, Sir Walton
American Medicine and the Public Interest by
Rosemary Stevens
Modern Methods in the History of Medicine by
Edwin Clarke
The Modern Rise of Population by Thomas McKeown
Crime or Disease by A. A Flew
Companion to the History of Modern Science (Routledge Companion Encyclopaedias) by R. C. Olby
History of Public Health by George Rosen
Disease and Representation : Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS by Sander L. Gilman
The Body and Surgery in the Middle Ages by Marie-Christine Pouchelle
A Social History of Madness by Roy Porter
Women Under the Knife :A History Of surgery by Ann Dally
A Mad People's History of Madness (Contemporary community health series) by Dale Peterson
Doctors in Science and Society : Essays of a Clinical Scientists by Christopher C. Booth
Medieval Medical Miniatures by Peter Murray Jones
Most Solitary of Afflictions : Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900 by Andrew Scull
Medicine and the Reign of Technology by Stanley Joel Reiser
The Horse and Buggy Doctor by
Arthur Emanuel Hertzler
A Political Economy of Medicine : Great Britain and the United States by Roger Hollingsworth
The Discovery of Insulin by
Michael Bliss
Health and Disease: A Reader (Health and Disease) by Basiro Davey
A History of Medicine by Lois N. Magner
Century of Surgery: 1880-1980 by Mark M. Ravitch
Introduction to the History of Medicine by F Garrison
An Introduction to the History of Medicine : With Medical Chronology, Suggestions for Study and Bibliographic Data by Fielding H. Garrison
William Hunter and the Eighteenth-Century Medical World by W. F. Bynum
Doctor of Society : Thomas Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late Enlightenment England (Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine) by Roy Porter
Psychology of Sex : A Manual for Students by
Havelock Ellis
The Medical Skills of Ancient Egypt by
J. Worth Estes
Caring and Curing: Health and Medicine in the Western Religious Traditions by Martin E. Marty
The Development of Modern Medicine : An Interpretation of the Social and Scientific Factors Involved by Richard Harrison Shryock
Concepts of Health and Disease : Interdisciplinary Perspectives by Engelhardt Caplan
Medical Power and Social Knowledge by Bryan Turner
The Languages of Psyche : Mind and Body in Enlightenment Thought : Clark Library Lectures, 1985-1986 (Publications from the Clark Library Professorship, Ucla, 12) by G. S. Rousseau
Console and Classify : The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century by Jan E. Goldstein
The Revolutions of Wisdom : Studies in the Claims and Practice of Ancients Greek Science (Sather Classical Lectures Vol 52 by G. E. Lloyd
In Dora's Case by Charles Bernheimer
In Sickness and in Health (Roy Porter) : The British Experience, 1650-1850 by Roy Porter
Science, Folklore and Ideology : Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece by G. E. R. Lloyd
The Anatomy of Madness: The Asylum and Its Psychiatry by Roy Porter
Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychology by W. F. Bynum
Perspectives on Hysteria (Johns Hopkins Series in Contemporary Medicine and Public Health) by Phillip R. Slavney
Science and Sensibility : Gender and Scientific Enquiry, 1780-1945 by Marina Benjamin
Freud's Discovery of Psychoanalysis : The Politics of Hysteria by William J. McGrath
Patient's Progress : Sickness, Health and Medical Care in England, 1650-1850 (Medicine and Society Ser. : Vol.4) by Dorothy Porter
The Body and Society by Peter Brown
On the Normal and the Pathological (Studies in the History of Modern Science) by Georges Canguilhem
The Invention of the Self : The Hinge of Consciousness in the Eighteenth Century by John O. Lyons
Magic, Reason and Experience : Studies in the Origin and Development of Greek Science by G. E. R. Lloyd
The Seductions of Psychoanalysis : Freud, Lacan and Derrida (Cambridge Studies in French) by John Forrester
Major Symptoms of Hysteria by
Pierre Janet
The Philosophy of Medicine: The Early Eighteenth Century by Lester S. King
The Mind Has No Sex? : Women in the Origins of Modern Science by Londa Schiebinger
Language, Self, and Society : A Social History of Language by Peter Burke
Seeing the Insane by
Sander L. Gilman
Disease and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS by Sander L. Gilman
Witchcraft and Hysteria in Elizabethan London : Edward Jorden and the Mary Glover Case (Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry) by Michael MacDonald
Tropics of Discourse : Essays in Cultural Criticism by Hayden White
Education of the Senses : The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud, Volume 1 by Peter Gay
Sentiment and Sociability : The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century (Clarendon Paperbacks) by John Mullan
Idols of Perversity : Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-De-Siecle Culture (Oxford Paperbacks) by Bram Dijkstra
From Paralysis to Fatigue : A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era by Edward Shorter
The British School of Psychoanalysis : The Independent Tradition by Gregorio Kohon
Science, Folklore, and Ideology : Studies in the Life Sciences of Ancient Greece by G. E. R. Lloyd
Observations on Maniacal Disorder (Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry) by William Pargeter
Fits and Starts (Martha Noel Evans) : A Genealogy of Hysteria in Modern France by Martha Noel Evans
The Mind-Body Problem: An Opinionated Introduction (Focus Series (Westview Press).) by D. M. Armstrong
Sexuality and Medicine in the Middle Ages by Danielle Jacquart
Psychoanalysis and Women : Contemporary Reappraisals by Judith L. Alpert
Melancholia and Depression : From Hippocratic Times to Modern Times by Stanley Jackson
Medical Profession in Mid-Victorian London by M. Jeanne Peterson
Lovesickness in the Middle Ages : The Viaticum and Its Commentaries (Middle Ages Series) by Mary Frances Wack
Letters of Sigmund Freud by Sigmund Freud
Face of Madness : Hugh W. Diamond and the Origin of Psychiatric Photography by Sander L. Gilman
Birth of Neurosis : Myth, Malady, and the Victorians by George Drinka
Reason and Experience : The Representation of Natural Order by L. Larson
Subjectivity and Representation in Descartes : The Origins of Modernity (Cambridge Studies in French) by Dalia Judovitz
Prostitution and prejudice : The Jewish fight against white slavery, 1870-1939 by Edward J Bristow
Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System (Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry) by
J. M. Charcot
Genuine Works of Hippocrates by Francis Adams
Masters of Madness : Social Origins of the American Psychiatric Profession by Constance M. McGovern
Sexual Relations of Mankind by
Paolo Mantegazza
Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory by Nancy Chodorow
The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria : Edition, Translation and Essays by
Herophilus
The Culture of Pain by
David B. Morris
Eroticism and the Body Politic (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society) by Lynn Hunt
Political Anatomy of the Body : Medical Knowledge in Britain in the Twentieth Century : Medical Knowledge in Britain in the Twentieth Century by David Armstrong
Science and Society in Restoration England by Michael Hunter
Expectations of Life : A Study in the Demography, Statistics, and History of World Mortality by H.O. Lancaster
Murders and Madness : Medicine, Law, and Society in the Fin De Siecle (Oxford Historical Monographs) by
Ruth Harris
Fat and Blood: And How to Make Them by S. Weir Mitchell
Essay on the Demoniacs of the New Testament by Hugh Farmer
Madness, Morality and Medicine : A Study of the York Retreat, 1796-1914 (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine) by Anne Digby
Nervous Acts : Essays on Literature and Sensibility by George S. Rousseau
Women and Madness : The Incarceration of Women in Nineteenth-century France (Feminist perspectives) by Yannick Ripa
The Fall of Public Man by Richard Sennett
Literature and Science (Stuart Peterfreund) : Theory and Practice by Stuart Peterfreund
Introduction to the History of Medicine by F Garrison
The Woman in the Body : A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction by Emily Martin
The Scientific Revolution in Victorian Medicine by A. J. Youngson
Melancholy and Society by Jeremy Gaines
Witches, Devils, and Doctors in the Renaissance : Johann Weyer,
De Praestigiis Daemonum (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies) by
Johann Weyer
Health and the Rise of Civilization by Mark Nathan Cohen
The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language by Michel Foucault
The Construction of Homosexuality by David F. Greenberg
Faces of Degeneration : A European Disorder, c. 1848-1918 (Ideas in Context) by Daniel Pick
Scholars of Byzantium by N. G. Wilson
The Warfare of Science (Notable American Authors) by
Andrew Dickson White
The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance ;: A study in intellectual patterns by Wayne Shumaker
Reflections on Gender and Science : Tenth Anniversary Paperback Edition by Evelyn Fox Keller
Galen on the Affected Parts : Translation from the Greek Text With Explanatory Footnotes by R. E. Siegel
Politics, Poetics, and Hermeneutics in Milton's Prose by David Loewenstein
Capacity for Emotional Growth by Elizabeth R. Zetzel
The Woman Lit By Fireflies by Jim Harrison
New Perspectives on Historical Writing by Peter Burke
Freud in Germany : Revolution and Reaction in Science, 1893-1907 (Monograph 41 , Vol 11 No 1) by Hannah S. Decker
Religion and the Decline of Magic : Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England by Keith Thomas
Poisons of the Past : Molds, Epidemics, and History by Mary Kilbourne Matossian
A Treatise on Lovesickness (Iroquois & Their Neighbors (Hardcover)) by
Jacques Ferrand
Mass Psychogenic Illness (Michael J. Colligan) : A Social Psychological Analysis (Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology (Hardcover)) by Michael J. Colligan
Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis (Women in Culture and Society Series) by Elizabeth Abel
All That Summer She Was Mad : Virginia Woolf, Female Victim of Male Medicine by Stephen Trombley
Science and Speculation by Barnes
Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain by Anne Harrington
Madmen and the Bourgeoisie : A social history of insanity and psychiatry by Klaus Dörner
Holy Feast and Holy Fast : The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (The New Historicism : Studies in Cultural Poetics, 1) by Caroline Walker Bynum
Sex and Enlightenment by Goldberg
Witch Hunting, Magic, and the New Philosophy : An introduction to debates of the scientific revolution, 1450-1750 (Harvester studies in philosophy) by Brian Easlea
Illustrations of Madness (Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry) by John Haslam
Erotica and the Enlightenment (Britannia, Vol 2) by Peter Wagner
Renaissance Fictions of Anatomy by Devon L. Hodges
On Psychological Language : And the Physiomorphic Basis of Human Nature (International Library of Psychology) by Graham Richards
Treatise of Melancholie : Containing the Causes Thereof by Timothy Bright
Difference and Pathology : Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness by Sander L. Gilman
Humanism and History: Origins of Modern English Historiography by Joseph M. Levine
Edge of Objectivity by
Charles Coulston Gillispie
The Social Construction of Lesbianism (Inquiries in Social Construction series) by Celia Kitzinger
Damning the Innocent by Pierre Darmon
Sexual Practices and the Medieval Church by Vern Bullough
Medicine In The Enlightenment .(Clio Medica/The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine 29) (Clio Medica, 29) by Roy Porter
Sanity And Insanity by Charles Mercier
The Normal and the Pathological by Georges Canguilhem
Life and Work of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones
The Medical Renaissance of the Sixteenth Century by A Wear
A History of Psychiatry : From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac by Edward Shorter
Galen's Method of Healing: Proceedings of the 1982 Galen Symposium (Studies in Ancient Medicine, Vol 1) by Richard J. Durling
The Problem of Medical Knowledge : Examining the social construction of medicine
Women and Mental Health by Elizabeth Howell
The Science of Woman : Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929 (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine) by Ornella Moscucci
The Origins of European Thought : About the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time and Fate by R. B. Onians
Physics, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis : Essays in Honour of A. Grünbaum (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science) by R.S. Cohen
The God of Ecstasy : Sex Roles and the Madness of Dionysus by Arthur Evans
Wear and Tear : Or, Hints for the Overworked (Mental Illness and Social Policy: The American Experience) by S. Weir Mitchell
Magic and the millennium ;: A sociological study of religious movements of protest among tribal and third-world peoples by Bryan R Wilson
The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century (History of Medicine) by Andrew Cunningham
The Female Body in Western Culture : Contemporary Perspectives by Susan Rubin Suleiman
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent (Vintage) by Elaine Pagels
Inscribing the Other (Texts in Context) by Sander L. Gilman
Health for Sale: Quackery in England 1660-1850 by Roy Porter