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1	The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 more books like this by Professor Charles E Rosenberg Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought. Rosenberg has focused his study on New York City, the most highly developed center of this new society. Carefully ... see all copies from $3.17! new only from $9.41! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Making Sense of Illness more books like this by Robert A Aronowitz, Charles Rosenberg (Editor), Colin Jones (Editor) Making Sense of Illness is a fascinating investigation into the social and clinical factors that determine what constitutes a "legitimate" illness in the twentieth century. By examining six case studies of diseases that have emerged within the past fifty years--from what we now consider to be "straightforward" diseases such as coronary heart ... see all copies from $10.74! new only from $18.46! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System more books like this by Charles E Rosenberg This widely acclaimed history traces every facet of the hospital's social and professional transformations. Many of today's obsessions with technology, rigid bureaucracy, and uncontrolled cost can be found in hospitals more than half a century ago. Illustrated. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.94! \| first editions
4	Framing Disease: Studies in Cultural History more books like this by Professor Charles E Rosenberg "In some ways disease does not exist until we have agreed that it does, by perceiving, naming, and responding to it, " writes Charles E. Rosenberg in his introduction to this stimulating set of essays. Disease is both a biological and a social phenomenon. Patient, doctor, family, and social institutions--including employers, government, and ... see all copies from $11.74! new only from $23.99! \| SVS
5	No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought more books like this by Professor Charles E Rosenberg "More than anyone else, [Rosenberg] has moved medicine from the periphery of the historical enterprise to a position much nearer the center. Around the world he is recognized as the leading medical historian of the late twentieth century."--Ronald L. Numbers, 'Isis' In its original edition, 'No Other Gods' offered a pioneering and influential ... see all copies from $4.52! new only from $13.57! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Pictures of Health: A Photographic History of Health Care in Philadelphia, 1860-1945 more books like this by Janet Lynne Golden see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and the Law in the Gilded Age more books like this by Professor Charles E Rosenberg This study uses the celebrated American trial of Charles Guiteau, who assassinated President James A. Garfield in 1881, to explore attitudes towards insanity and criminal responsibility in the the late-19th century. The author reconstructs the courtroom battle waged by 24 expert witnesses who represented the two major schools of psychiatric ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.78! \| SVS
8	Explaining Epidemics more books like this by Professor Charles E Rosenberg Medicine has always had its historians; but until recently it was a history written by and for practitioners. Charles Rosenberg has been one of the key figures in recent decades in opening up the history of medicine beyond parochial concerns and instead viewing medicine in the rich currents of intellectual and social change of the past two ... see all copies from $17.90! new only from $30.00! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Spreading Germs more books like this by Michael Worboys, Charles Rosenberg (Editor), Colin Jones (Editor) Spreading Germs discusses how modern ideas on the bacterial causes of communicable diseases were constructed and spread within the British medical profession in the last third of the nineteenth century. Michael Worboys surveys many existing interpretations of this pivotal moment in modern medicine. He shows that there were many germ theories of ... see all copies from $35.98! new only from $53.75! \| SVS
10	Sir Arthur Newsholme and State Medicine, 1885-1935 more books like this by John M Eyler, Charles Rosenberg (Editor), Colin Jones (Editor) The half century between 1885 and 1935 witnessed an unprecedented expansion of preventive and therapeutic services offered by the state through its local authorities. Behind the expansion in public services were also profound changes in attitudes toward poverty and dependency and toward the political and cultural significance of health; changes in ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $62.50! \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Science of Woman more books like this by Ornella Moscucci, Charles Rosenberg (Editor), Colin Jones (Editor) Is women's destiny rooted in their biology? Since the end of the eighteenth century the science of gynaecology has legitimised the view that women are 'naturally' fitted for activities in the private sphere of the family. This book argues that the definition of femininity as propounded by gynaecological science is a cultural product of a wider, ... see all copies from $15.88! new only from $15.88! \| SVS
12	Quality and Quantity more books like this by William H Schneider, Charles Rosenberg (Editor), Colin Jones (Editor) This book examines in detail how eugenics in early twentieth-century France provided a broad cover for a variety of reform movements that attempted to bring about the biological regeneration of the French population. Like several other societies during this period, France showed a growing interest in natalist, neo-Larmarckian, social hygiene, ... see all copies from $36.80! new only from $51.00! \| SVS
13 view cover	Preserve Your Love for Science: Life of William a Hammond, American Neurologist more books like this by Bonnie Ellen Blustein, Charles Rosenberg (Editor), Colin Jones (Editor) William Alexander Hammond, M. D. (1828-1900), one of the most successful American physicians of the nineteenth century, was first recognized in the 1850s as a natural history collector and as an original investigator in physiological chemistry. Appointed surgeon general of the United States Army in 1862, he supervised a sweeping reorganization of ... see all copies from $31.13! new only from $46.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy: Benefactors and Their Motives in Turin, 1541-1789 more books like this by Sandra Cavallo, Charles Rosenberg (Editor), Colin Jones (Editor) Through its examination of a city marginal to the Italian tradition of communes and city-states during the post-Renaissance period, the book offers an extended reassessment of what has been regarded as the typical Italian model of welfare. Acts of charity have often been interpreted either within a functionalist framework or merely as responses to ... see all copies from $13.98! new only from $34.33! \| first editions
15 view cover	Charitable Knowledge: Hospital Pupils and Practitioners in Eighteenth-Century London more books like this by Susan C Lawrence, Charles Rosenberg (Editor), Colin Jones (Editor) Charitable Knowledge explores the interconnections between medical teaching, medical knowledge, and medical authority in eighteenth-century London. The metropolis lacked a university until the nineteenth century, so the seven major voluntary hospitals - St Bartholomew's, St Thomas's, Guy's, the Westminster, St George's, the Middlesex, and the ... see all copies from $52.00! new only from $64.77! \| first editions \| SVS
16	The Family in history : lectures given in memory of Stephen Allen Kaplan under the auspices of the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania more books like this by Stephen Allen Kaplan, Charles E. Rosenberg, University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of History see all copies from $1.99! first editions
17 view cover	The Music of Bill Monroe more books like this by Neil V Rosenberg, Charles K Wolfe Spanning over 1,000 separate performances, "The Music of Bill Monroe" presents a complete chronological list of all of Bill Monroe's commercially released sound and visual recordings. Each chapter begins with a narrative describing Monroe's life and career at that point, bringing in producers, sidemen, and others as they become part of the story. ... see all copies from $24.50! new only from $27.50! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Scientific Enterprise in America: Readings from Isis more books like this by Professor Ronald L Numbers (Editor), Professor Charles E Rosenberg (Editor) This collection of 16 essays on the history of science in America ranges chronologically from the early 19th century to the 1990s. The essays reflect the scope of the discipline: from the pursuit of science in elite academic, industrial and governmental settings to science at home and in the movies. Such timely issues as women and science, the ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $13.75! \| first editions
19 view cover	Mission and Method: The Early Nineteenth-Century French Public Health Movement more books like this by Ann Elizabeth Fowler La Berge, Charles Rosenberg (Editor), Colin Jones (Editor) In Mission and Method Ann La Berge shows how the French public health movement developed within the socio-political context of the Bourbon Restoration and July Monarchy, and within the context of competing ideologies of liberalism, conservatism, socialism, and statism. The dialectic between liberalism, whose leading exponent was Villerme, and ... see all copies from $45.00! new only from $47.62! \| SVS
20 view cover	History and Health Policy in the United States: Putting the Past Back in more books like this by Rosemary A Stevens (Editor), Professor Charles E Rosenberg (Editor), Lawton R Burns, PH.D., MBA (Editor) In our rapidly advancing scientific and technological world, many take great pride and comfort in believing that we are on the threshold of new ways of thinking, living, and understanding ourselves. But despite dramatic discoveries that appear in every way to herald the future, legacies still carry great weight - even in swiftly developing fields ... see all copies from $28.50! new only from $28.50! \| SVS
21 view cover	Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol more books like this by Mary Elizabeth Fissell, Charles Rosenberg (Editor), Colin Jones (Editor) In early modern England, housewives, clergymen, bloodletters, herb women, and patients told authoritative tales about the body. By the end of the eighteenth century, however, medicine had begun to drown out these voices. This book uses patients' perspectives to argue that changes in the relationship between rich and poor underlay this rise in ... see all copies from $20.80! new only from $20.80! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Physical and the Moral: Anthropology, Physiology, and Philosophical Medicine in France, 1750-1850 more books like this by Elizabeth A Williams, Charles Rosenberg (Editor), Colin Jones (Editor) This book explores the tradition of the 'science of man' in French medicine of the era 1750-1850, focusing on controversies about the nature of the 'physical-moral' relation and their effects on the role of medicine in French society. Its chief purpose is to recover the history of a holistic tradition in French medicine that has been neglected ... see all copies from $40.00! new only from $46.64! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Midwives of Seventeenth-Century London more books like this by Doreen A Evenden, Charles Rosenberg (Editor), Colin Jones (Editor) This book is a comprehensive and detailed study of early modern midwives in seventeenth-century London. Until quite recently, midwives, as a group, have been dismissed by historians as being inadequately educated and trained for the task of child delivery. The Midwives of Seventeenth-Century London rejects these claims by exploring the midwives' ... see all copies from $39.66! new only from $39.66! \| first editions \| SVS
24	Gunn's Domestic Medicine more books like this by John C Gunn, Professor Charles E Rosenberg (Designer) see all copies from $10.24! new only from $12.50! \| first editions
25 view cover	Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now more books like this by Professor Charles E Rosenberg Charles E. Rosenberg, one of the world's most influential historians of medicine, presents a fascinating analysis of the current tensions in American medicine. Situating these tensions within their historical and social contexts, Rosenberg investigates the fundamental characteristics of medicine: how we think about disease, how the medical ... see all copies from $12.34! new only from $12.34! \| SVS

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