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Addiction
  • Kushner, Howard - Addiction, the Brain, History, and Culture (2005) (pdf)
  • Kushner, Howard - Addiction, the Brain, History, & Culture (2007) (pdf)

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Biomedicine
  • Gómez, Teresa Ortiz - Ciencias biomédicas y discursos de género. Un acercamiento histórico (2003-2004) (pdf)
  • Tilley, Helen - The Rise of Modern Biomedicine: Global Trends in health and Healing, 1500-2000 (2004) (pdf)

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Colonialism/Imperialism
  • Stepan, Nancy Leys - Disease, Public Health and Empire: Comparative Perspectives (2004) (pdf)
  • Wear, Adam - Colonial and Empire Medicine (2003-2004) (pdf)

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Community Medicine
  • Brown, Theodore - Introduction to Community Medicine (2004) (pdf)

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Culture
  • Doménech, Rosa María Medina and Navarro, Alfredo Menéndez - Tecnociencia, Medicina y Cultura (2004-2005) (pdf)
  • Pemberton, Stephen - Culture and Science in the History of American Medicine (2004) (pdf)
  • Smith, David - Cultural History of Medicine (2006-2007) (pdf)
  • Smith, David - Essay Project on the History/Culture of Medicine/Health (2007) (pdf)
  • Tuchman, Arleen - The Cultural History of Disease (2007) (pdf)

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Current Issues
  • Barnes, David - Current Issues in the History of Medicine (2003) (pdf)

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Death
  • Cherry, Steve - Death, Disease and the Body: Themes in Modern Medical History (2004-2005) (pdf)
  • Wallis, Patrick - The Four Horsemen: Death, Pestilence, Famine and War in England, 1550-1700 (2002-2003) (pdf)

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Diet/Nutrition
  • Lederer, Susan E. - Fat and Thin: A History of American Bodies (2004) (pdf)

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Disease/Epidemics
  • Acker, Caroline Jean - Epidemic Disease and Public Health Responses (2007) (pdf)
  • Barnett, Richard - Disease in History (2007-2008) (pdf)
  • Bashford, Alison - Contagion: History and Culture (2004) (pdf)
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle - Urban Epidemics, Past and Present (2004) (pdf)
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle - Urban Epidemics: Past and Present (2005) (pdf)
  • Bivins, Roberta - Disease, Health and Medicine in American History (2003) (pdf)
  • Broman, Thomas - Health, Disease and Healing 1 (2003) (pdf)
  • Brown, Theodore - Changing Concepts of Disease (2004) (pdf)
  • Bynum, William and Bhattacharya, Sanjoy - Disease in History (2003-2004) (pdf)
  • Cherry, Steve - Death, Disease and the Body: Themes in Modern Medical History (2004-2005) (pdf)
  • Davis, Angela - Medicine, Disease and Society in Britain, 1750-1950 (2007) (pdf)
  • Eyler, John - Human Health, Disease, and the Environment in History (2004) (pdf)
  • Feudtner, Chris - Disease and Society (2006) (pdf)
  • Guerrini, Anita - Disease and Environment (2004) (pdf)
  • Howell, Joel and Powel, Kazanjian - Epidemic Diseases Throughout History (2004) (pdf)
  • Humphreys, Margaret - The History of Public Health and Epidemic Disease in America (2004) (pdf)
  • Jones, Colin - Culture and Disease: From the Black Death to AIDS (2002-2003) (pdf)
  • Lawrence, Christopher - Ideas of Health and Disease in Industrial Society (2005-2006) (pdf)
  • McCandless, Peter - Disease, People, and Environment (2003) (pdf)
  • McCandless, Peter - Research Seminar in Medical History (2003) (pdf)
  • McKellar, Shelley - Disease, Illness and Health in Society (2004-2005) (pdf)
  • McKiernan-Gonzalez, John - Health & Disease in American History (2003) (pdf)
  • Pemberton, Stephen - Polio to AIDS: The Politics of Disease in Recent U.S. History (2005) (pdf)
  • Stepan, Nancy Leys - Disease, Public Health and Empire: Comparative Perspectives (2004) (pdf)
  • Tuchman, Arleen - The Cultural History of Disease (2007) (pdf)
  • Wallis, Patrick - Epidemics and Economic and Social History: From the Black Death to the Present (2004-2005) (pdf)
  • Wallis, Patrick - Epidemics and Economic and Social History: From the Black Death to the Present (2005-2006) (pdf)

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Environment
  • Eyler, John - Human Health, Disease, and the Environment in History (2004) (pdf)
  • Fantini, Bernardino and Walter, François - Histoire Social et Culturelle des Savoirs et des Pratiques de Santé. Santé globale, populations, environment (2004-2005) (pdf)
  • Guerrini, Anita - Disease and Environment (2004) (pdf)
  • McCandless, Peter - Disease, People, and Environment (2003) (pdf)
  • McCandless, Peter - Research Seminar in Medical History (2003) (pdf)
  • Mitman, Gregg - Environment and Health in Global Perspective (2003) (pdf)
  • Pemberton, Stephen - History of Technology, Environment & Health: Theory & Method (2005) (pdf)

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Ethics/Bioethics
  • Burney, Ian - Ethics, Politics and the Body: Medicine 1780-1914 (2002-2003) (pdf)
  • Shefer, Miri - Medicine and Medical Ethics in Muslim Societies (2003) (pdf)
  • Shefer, Miri - Medicine and Medical Ethics in Muslim Society (2004) (pdf)
  • Timmermann, Carsten and Condrau, Flurin - Bioethics: Issues in the History of Biology, Medicine and Society (2004-2005) (pdf)
  • Timmermann, Carsten and Worboys, Michael - Bioethics: Issues in the History of Biology, Medicine and Society (2003-2004) (pdf)

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Eugenics
  • Sengoopta, Chandak - Darwin, Darwinism and the Modern World (2004) (pdf)

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Evolution
  • Browne, Janet - Man's Place in Nature (2003-2004) (pdf)
  • Humphreys, Margaret - The Use and Abuse of Evolutionary Theory (2003) (pdf)
  • Sengoopta, Chandak - Darwin, Darwinism and the Modern World (2004) (pdf)

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Famine
  • Wallis, Patrick - The Four Horsemen: Death, Pestilence, Famine and War in England, 1550-1700 (2002-2003) (pdf)

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Gender
  • Bashford, Alison - Medicine, Sex and Gender (2003) (pdf)
  • Bashford, Alison - Medicine, Gender and History (2004) (pdf)
  • Cherry, Steve - Medicine and Gender (2004) (pdf)
  • Fissell, Mary E. - Historical Perspectives on Gender, Race and Medicine (2003) (pdf)
  • Gómez, Teresa Ortiz - Ciencias biomédicas y discursos de género. Un acercamiento histórico (2003-2004) (pdf)
  • Gómez, Teresa Ortiz - Mujeres, género y profesiones sanitarias, siglos XIV-XX (2003-2004) (pdf)
  • Micale, Mark S. - Science, Medicine, and Gender in Europe and America, 1870-1910 (2003) (pdf)
  • Micale, Mark S. - Science, Medicine, and Gender in Europe and America, 1870-1910 (2006) (pdf)
  • Pernick, Martin S. - Gender, Medicine and Culture in US History (2004) (pdf)

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Global Health
  • Cueto, Marcos - From International to Global Health (2004) (pdf)
  • Fantini, Bernardino and Walter, François - Histoire Social et Culturelle des Savoirs et des Pratiques de Santé. Santé globale, populations, environment (2004-2005) (pdf)
  • Tighe, Janet A. - Health and Societies: Embracing the Global Context (2003) (pdf)
  • Tilley, Helen - The Rise of Modern Biomedicine: Global Trends in health and Healing, 1500-2000 (2004) (pdf)

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Globalization
  • Molina, Natalia - Race, Medicine and Globalization (2003-2004) (pdf)

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Healing
  • Broman, Thomas - Health, Disease and Healing 1 (2003) (pdf)
  • Hinrichs, TJ - Medicine and Healing in China (2007) (pdf)
  • Mattern-Parkes, Susan P. - Medicine, Healing, and the Body in Ancient Greece and Rome (2005) (pdf)

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Health
  • Acker, Caroline Jean - Epidemic Disease and Public Health Responses (2007) (pdf)
  • Acker, Caroline Jean - Medicine and Society (2007) (pdf)
  • Beier, Lucinda McCray - Topics in American Cultural and Social History: The History of Medicine, Public Health and Suffering in Comparative Perspective (2008) (pdf)
  • Bivins, Roberta - Disease, Health and Medicine in American History (2003) (pdf)
  • Broman, Thomas - Health, Disease and Healing 1 (2003) (pdf)
  • Connolly, Cynthia A. - Nursing, Health and Social Welfare in American History (2004) (pdf)
  • Cueto, Marcos - Health and Society in Modern Latin America: A History (2004) (pdf)
  • D'Antonio, Patricia - Health, History and Social Policy (2005) (pdf)
  • Eyler, John - Human Health, Disease, and the Environment in History (2004) (pdf)
  • Fantini, Bernardino and Walter, François - Histoire Social et Culturelle des Savoirs et des Pratiques de Santé. Santé globale, populations, environment (2004-2005) (pdf)
  • Feudtner, Chris - Disease and Society (2006) (pdf)
  • McKellar, Shelley - Disease, Illness and Health in Society (2004-2005) (pdf)
  • McKiernan-Gonzalez, John - Health & Disease in American History (2003) (pdf)
  • Mitman, Gregg - Environment and Health in Global Perspective (2003) (pdf)
  • Mooney, Graham - Health, Risk and History (2005) (pdf)
  • Pemberton, Stephen - History of Technology, Environment & Health: Theory & Method (2005) (pdf)
  • Ussishkin, Daniel - Health, Medicine and the Body (2005) (pdf)

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Health Care
  • Golden, Janet - Health and Society (2007) (pdf)
  • Howe, Linda - The Development and History of Nursing and Healthcare (2004) (pdf)
  • Numbers, Ronald - Society and Health Care in American History (2006) (pdf)

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Health Care Systems
  • Brown, Theodore - Politics and Policies in the U.S. Health Care System (2003) (pdf)

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Health Movements
  • Rogers, Naomi - The Women’s Health Movement in the 1970s (2003) (pdf)

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Heredity/Genetics
  • Sengoopta, Chandak - Darwin, Darwinism and the Modern World (2004) (pdf)

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Illness
  • Beier, Lucinda McCray - Topics in American Cultural and Social History: The History of Medicine, Public Health and Suffering in Comparative Perspective (2008) (pdf)
  • Feudtner, Chris - Disease and Society (2006) (pdf)
  • McKellar, Shelley - Disease, Illness and Health in Society (2004-2005) (pdf)

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Industrial Society
  • Lawrence, Christopher - Ideas of Health and Disease in Industrial Society (2005-2006) (pdf)

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International Health
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle - History of International Health (2007) (pdf)
  • Cueto, Marcos - From International to Global Health (2004) (pdf)
  • Fetter, Bruce - Topics in Historical Demography (2007) (pdf)

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Judgement
  • Weisz, George - Medical Knowledge/Medical Judgement (2003) (pdf)
  • Weisz, George - Medical Knowledge - Medical Judgement (2007) (pdf)

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Knowledge
  • Schlich, Thomas - Medicine and Objectivity. Historical Studies on Medical Knowledge and Practice (2004) (pdf)
  • Weisz, George - Medical Knowledge/Medical Judgement (2003) (pdf)
  • Weisz, George - Medical Knowledge - Medical Judgement (2007) (pdf)

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Life Science
  • Lesch, John E. - The Life Sciences since 1750 (2003) (pdf)

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Life Sciences
  • Lesch, John E. - The Life Sciences (2007) (pdf)

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Medical Practice
  • Schlich, Thomas - Medicine and Objectivity. Historical Studies on Medical Knowledge and Practice (2004) (pdf)

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Mental Illness and the Mind
  • Cherry, Steve - Madness and Medicine in Modern Britain (2004) (pdf)
  • Eghigian, Greg - History of Madness and Psychiatry in the Western World (2005) (pdf)
  • Harrington, Anne - Neurology and Narrative (2002-2003) (pdf)
  • Harrington, Anne - Madness and Medicine: Themes in the History of Psychiatry (2003) (pdf)
  • Harrington, Anne - In Search of Mind (2003) (pdf)
  • Kushner, Howard - Madness, The Brain and Culture (2005) (pdf)
  • Kushner, Howard - Mental Health & Public Health/Madness, the Brain, and Culture in Interdisciplinary Perspective (2007) (pdf)
  • Lindemann, Mary - Madness and Civilization from the Greeks to the Birth of the Asylum (2004) (pdf)
  • Micale, Mark S. - Madness and Society in the Modern World. Part One: The Nineteenth Century (2005) (pdf)
  • Micale, Mark S. - Madness and Society in the Modern World. Part Two: The Twentieth Century (Freud to Prozac) (2005) (pdf)
  • Micale, Mark S. - Madness and Society in the Modern World (2006) (pdf)
  • Neve, Michael - Madness and Society (2003-2004) (pdf)
  • Pols, Hans - History of Psychiatry (2003) (pdf)
  • Sengoopta, Chandak - Madness and Society in the Modern Age (2002-2003) (pdf)
  • Sengoopta, Chandak - Freud and Psychoanalysis (2004-2005) (pdf)
  • Waddington, Keir - Madness, Madman and the Asylum. The History of Psychiatry, 1750-1950 (2002-2003) (pdf)
  • Waddington, Keir - Madness, Madmen and the Asylum. The History of Psychiatry, 1750-1950 (2004-2005) (pdf)

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Methods (historical)
  • Pemberton, Stephen - History of Technology, Environment & Health: Theory & Method (2005) (pdf)
  • Smith, David - History of Medicine (2003) (pdf)
  • Smith, David - History of Medicine (2007) (pdf)
  • Smith, David - Essay Project on the History/Culture of Medicine/Health (2007) (pdf)

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Modernity
  • Brosco, Jeffrey P. - The History of Modern Medicine (2005) (pdf)
  • Krementsov, Nikolai - Medicine and Modernity (2004) (pdf)
  • Lawrence, Christopher - The Rise of Modern Medicine 1650-1900 (2003) (pdf)
  • Lawrence, Christopher - The Rise of Modern Medicine 1650-1900 (2005-2006) (pdf)

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Movies
  • Golden, Janet - Health and Society: Medicine and the Movies (2004) (pdf)
  • Tercier, John - Moving Pictures: Medicine in the Movies (2005) (pdf)

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Muslim Societies
  • Shefer, Miri - Medicine and Medical Ethics in Muslim Societies (2003) (pdf)
  • Shefer, Miri - Medicine and Medical Ethics in Muslim Society (2004) (pdf)
  • Shefer, Miri - Muslim Rites of Passage from Circumcision to Euthanasia (2005) (pdf)

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Nursing
  • Connolly, Cynthia A. - Nursing, Health and Social Welfare in American History (2004) (pdf)
  • D'Antonio, Patricia - Health, History and Social Policy (2005) (pdf)
  • Howe, Linda - The Development and History of Nursing and Healthcare (2004) (pdf)

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Objectivity
  • Schlich, Thomas - Medicine and Objectivity. Historical Studies on Medical Knowledge and Practice (2004) (pdf)
  • Schlich, Thomas - The History of Objectivity in Medicine (2006) (pdf)

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Pestilence
  • Wallis, Patrick - The Four Horsemen: Death, Pestilence, Famine and War in England, 1550-1700 (2002-2003) (pdf)

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Pharmaceuticals
  • Marks, Harry M. - Curing Disease with Drugs: Physician and Society Selective Year One (2003) (pdf)

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Physicians
  • Broman, Thomas - The Physician in History (2003) (pdf)
  • Broman, Thomas - The Physician in History (2005) (pdf)

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Population
  • Fantini, Bernardino and Walter, François - Histoire Social et Culturelle des Savoirs et des Pratiques de Santé. Santé globale, populations, environment (2004-2005) (pdf)
  • Fetter, Bruce - Topics in Historical Demography (2007) (pdf)

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Public Health
  • Acker, Caroline Jean - Medicine and Society (2007) (pdf)
  • Acker, Caroline Jean - Epidemic Disease and Public Health Responses (2007) (pdf)
  • Barnes, David - Public Health in Historical Perspective (2005) (pdf)
  • Beier, Lucinda McCray - Topics in American Cultural and Social History: The History of Medicine, Public Health and Suffering in Comparative Perspective (2008) (pdf)
  • Cueto, Marcos - Historia de la Salud Pública en América Latina (2004) (pdf)
  • DeLancey, Dayle - The History of Public Health in the U.S. (18th – 20th c.) (2007) (pdf)
  • Erlen, Jonathan and Scanlon, Elizabeth Kelly - Historical and Sociological Perspectives in Public Health (2004) (pdf)
  • Hanson, Marta - History of Public Health in China (2007) (pdf)
  • Hochman, Gilberto - História e Historiografia de Saúde Pública (2004) (pdf)
  • Humphreys, Margaret - The History of Public Health and Epidemic Disease in America (2004) (pdf)
  • Kushner, Howard - The History of Public Health (2005) (pdf)
  • Kushner, Howard - Applied History of Public Health (2007) (pdf)
  • Kushner, Howard - Mental Health & Public Health/Madness, the Brain, and Culture in Interdisciplinary Perspective (2007) (pdf)
  • Mooney, Graham - A History of Modern Public Health (2005) (pdf)
  • Pemberton, Stephen - History of Technology, Environment & Health: Theory & Method (2005) (pdf)
  • Pemberton, Stephen - The History of American Medicine and Public Health (2005) (pdf)
  • Rogers, Naomi - Public Health in America 1793-2000 (2003) (pdf)
  • Rosner, David - A Social History of American Public Health (2003) (pdf)
  • Rosner, David - Social History of American Public Health (2007) (pdf)
  • Stepan, Nancy Leys - Disease, Public Health and Empire: Comparative Perspectives (2004) (pdf)
  • Toon, Elizabeth - Politics and the Public's Health (2003) (pdf)

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Race/Ethnicity
  • Fissell, Mary E. - Historical Perspectives on Gender, Race and Medicine (2003) (pdf)
  • Molina, Natalia - Race, Medicine and Globalization (2003-2004) (pdf)
  • Tilley, Helen - Racial Science, Racial Medicine: The Idea of "Race" in the History of the Biological, Medical and Human Sciences (2003) (pdf)
  • Warren, Adam - Medicine, Ethnicity and the State in Latin America (2003) (pdf)
  • Warren, Adam - Medicine, Race, and Power in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Worlds (2007) (pdf)

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Risk
  • Mooney, Graham - Health, Risk and History (2005) (pdf)

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Rites of Passage
  • Shefer, Miri - Muslim Rites of Passage from Circumcision to Euthanasia (2005) (pdf)

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Sanitary Professions
  • Gómez, Teresa Ortiz - Mujeres, género y profesiones sanitarias, siglos XIV-XX (2003-2004) (pdf)

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Science
  • Clarke, Adele - Science, Technology and Medicine Studies (2007) (pdf)
  • Doménech, Rosa María Medina and Navarro, Alfredo Menéndez - Tecnociencia, Medicina y Cultura (2004-2005) (pdf)
  • Gómez, Teresa Ortiz - Ciencias biomédicas y discursos de género. Un acercamiento histórico (2003-2004) (pdf)
  • Lesch, John E. - Scientific Medicine in American Society (2003) (pdf)
  • Micale, Mark S. - Science, Medicine, and Gender in Europe and America, 1870-1910 (2003) (pdf)
  • Nance, Brian - Early Modern Science & Medicine (2006) (pdf)
  • Pemberton, Stephen - Culture and Science in the History of American Medicine (2004) (pdf)

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Sex/Sexuality
  • Bashford, Alison - Medicine, Sex and Gender (2003) (pdf)

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Social Policy
  • D'Antonio, Patricia - Health, History and Social Policy (2005) (pdf)

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Social Reform
  • Brown, Theodore - Health, Medicine and Social Reform (2003) (pdf)
  • Connolly, Cynthia A. - Nursing, Health and Social Welfare in American History (2004) (pdf)

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Surgery
  • Schlich, Thomas - The Rise of Surgery (2004) (pdf)
  • Schlich, Thomas - The History of Surgery and the Modern Body (2006) (pdf)

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Technology
  • Bivins, Roberta - Technology and Medicine in Modern America (2003) (pdf)
  • Clarke, Adele - Science, Technology and Medicine Studies (2007) (pdf)
  • DeLancey, Dayle - U.S. Medical Technologies in Historical Perspective (2008) (pdf)

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The Body
  • Beier, Lucinda McCray - Bodies Personal and Public: Health, Freedom, and the Common Good (2007) (pdf)
  • Burney, Ian - Ethics, Politics and the Body: Medicine 1780-1914 (2002-2003) (pdf)
  • Cherry, Steve - Death, Disease and the Body: Themes in Modern Medical History (2004-2005) (pdf)
  • Durbach, Nadja - The Body and the State in Modern Britain (2007) (pdf)
  • Mattern-Parkes, Susan P. - Medicine, Healing, and the Body in Ancient Greece and Rome (2005) (pdf)
  • Schlich, Thomas - The History of Surgery and the Modern Body (2006) (pdf)
  • Schlich, Thomas - Body History (2007) (pdf)
  • Snow, Stephanie - Bodies in History: An Introduction to the History of Medicine, 1500-2000 (2003-2004) (pdf)
  • Tercier, John - Imagining the Body: Flesh, Meaning and Representation (2005) (pdf)
  • Ussishkin, Daniel - Health, Medicine and the Body (2005) (pdf)

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The State
  • Durbach, Nadja - The Body and the State in Modern Britain (2007) (pdf)
  • Warren, Adam - Medicine, Ethnicity and the State in Latin America (2003) (pdf)

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War
  • Wallis, Patrick - The Four Horsemen: Death, Pestilence, Famine and War in England, 1550-1700 (2002-2003) (pdf)

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Women
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle - Women and Health, Past and Present (2003) (pdf)
  • Green, Monica - The History of Women in Science and Medicine (2005) (pdf)
  • Green, Monica - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Women's Health (2005) (pdf)
  • Gómez, Teresa Ortiz - Mujeres, género y profesiones sanitarias, siglos XIV-XX (2003-2004) (pdf)
  • Rogers, Naomi - The Women’s Health Movement in the 1970s (2003) (pdf)

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