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Cultivating health Los Angeles women and public health reform / by Koslow, Jennifer Lisa, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Paid for by the public purse : public health nursing -- Public authority for a private program : housing reform -- Bovines, babies, and bacteriology : the problems of crafting milk reform -- Delivering the city's children: midwives and municipal maternity programs -- The challenge of constructing venereal disease programs.…”
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Health and medicine on display international expositions in the United States, 1876-1904 / by Brown, Julie K.

Subjects: “…Public health United States History Exhibitions.…”
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The rise of mental health nursing a history of psychiatric care in Dutch asylums, 1890-1920 / by Boschma, Geertje

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Florence Nightingale on health in India by Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910

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Public health and politics in the age of reform cholera, the state, and the Royal Navy in Victorian Britain / by McLean, David, 1949-

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Medicine, public health, and the Qājār state patterns of medical modernization in nineteenth-century Iran / by Ebrahimnejad, Hormoz

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The progressive era's health reform movement a historical dictionary / by Engs, Ruth Clifford

Subjects: “…Health care reform United States History 19th century Dictionaries.…”
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Yellow fever & public health in the New South / by Ellis, John H. (John Hubert), 1931-2008

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Death and survival in urban Britain : disease, pollution and environment, 1800-1950 / by Luckin, Bill

Subjects: “…Public health Great Britain History 19th century.…”
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Contagion and Enclaves : Tropical Medicine in Colonial India / by Bhattacharya, Nandini

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Intensely human : the health of the Black soldier in the American Civil War / by Humphreys, Margaret, 1955-

Subjects: “…African American soldiers Health and hygiene History 19th century.…”
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The Citizen's Body : Desire, Health, and the Social in Victorian England / by Gilbert, Pamela K.

Table of Contents: “…Producing the Public: Public Health in Private Spaces. The Public, the Private, and the Social -- Housing the Social Body -- Octavia Hill: Housing as Social Work -- pt. 3. …”
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Marrow of tragedy the health crisis of the American Civil War / by Humphreys, Margaret, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Understanding Civil War medicine -- Women, war, and medicine -- Infectious disease in the civil war -- Connecting home to hospital and camp : the work of the USSC -- The Sanitary Commission and its critics -- The Union's general hospital -- Medicine for a new nation -- Confederate medicine : disease, wounds, and shortages -- Mitigating the horrors of war -- A public health legacy -- Medicine in postwar America.…”
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Mosquito soldiers malaria, yellow fever, and the course of the American Civil War / by Bell, Andrew McIlwaine, 1970-

“…United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Health aspects.…”
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Death and dying in the working class, 1865-1920 / by Rosenow, Michael K.

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Neurasthenic nation America's search for health, happiness, and comfort, 1869-1920 / by Schuster, David G., 1969-

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The history of American homeopathy : from rational medicine to holistic health care / by Haller, John S.

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Educating the Proper Woman Reader : Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation / by Phegley, Jennifer

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Beyond the Reproductive Body : The Politics of Women's Health and Work in Early Victorian England / by Levine-Clark, Marjorie

Table of Contents: “…Pt 1: Contested body politics: women, health and social reform in the 1830s and 1840s -- The reproductive body, Part 1: Women's work and the biology of reproduction -- The reproductive body, Part 2: The tasks of social reproduction -- Gender, the Poor Law, and the ambiguity of the able-bodied worker -- pt. 2: Living in the body: women's experiences of health and illness -- The evidence of the body: poor women and medical cultures -- Testing the reproductive hypothesis: women's illnesses, the environment, and menstruation -- Health and the material conditions of home: sanitation, poverty, and domesticity -- "Rather a hard life": domestic relationships and health at home -- "She continued at her work": negotiating employment and health -- Conclusion: The politics of women's health and work.…”
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For Their Own Good : The Transformation of English Working-Class Health Culture, 1880-1970 / by Beier, Lucinda McCray

Table of Contents: “…"Every street had its lady" : working-class health culture before World War II -- "We know what's good for you" : formal health care provision in Barrow, Lancaster, and Preston -- "No fever in our house" : contagion, prevention, and the working class -- "They never told us anything" : sex and family limitation -- "With having my mother, I didn't need any advice off anybody else" : bearing and caring for children -- "By gum, we did enjoy it" : popular media and the construction of modern health culture -- "The best thing since wearing boots" : working-class health culture after 1948.…”
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