Search Results - "Health"

Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights : Reformers and the Politics of Maternal Welfare, 1917-1940 / by Rosen, Robyn L.

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Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues : How Microbes, War, and Public Health Shaped Animal Health / by Cheville, Norman F., 1934-

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The Workers' Health Fund in Eretz Israel : Kupat Holim, 1911-1937 / by Shvarts, Shifra

Table of Contents: “…The Workersâ€? Health Funds in the First World War -- 4. The Health System Under British Military Government -- 5. …”
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Acts of Care : Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health / by Ritchey, Sara Margaret

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Contagion and Enclaves : Tropical Medicine in Colonial India / by Bhattacharya, Nandini

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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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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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Any Friend of the Movement : Networking for Birth Control, 1920-1940 / by Meyer, Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson

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Intimate Communities : Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945 / by Barnes, Nicole Elizabeth, 1975-

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Dying to Be Beautiful : The Fight for Safe Cosmetics / by Kay, Gwen

Table of Contents: “…"A victory of the women of this country" -- "The arts and crafts of the modern flapper" -- "Marring the fair face of nature" -- "Some protection to our health, our looks and our pocketbooks" -- "The big cosmetic houses aren't sorry that the regulation has come."…”
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The politics of vaccination : A global history /

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Beyond the state : The colonial medical service in British Africa /

Table of Contents: “…Heaton -- 7 Social disease and social science: the intellectual influence of non-medical research on policy and practice in the Colonial Medical Service in Tanganyika and Uganda: Shane Doyle -- 8 Cooperation and competition: missions, the colonial state and constructing a health system in colonial Tanganyika: Michael Jennings -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire /

Plague, quarantines and geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire /

by Bulmuş, Birsen

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The Sanitary Arts : Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns by Cleere, Eileen

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Colonial caring : A history of colonial and post-colonial nursing /

Table of Contents: “…colonialism and native health nursing in New Zealand, 1900-40 /…”
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Migraine : A History / by Foxhall, Katherine

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Children and Drug Safety : Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America / by Connolly, Cynthia A. (Cynthia Anne)

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Narkomania : Drugs, HIV, and Citizenship in Ukraine / by Carroll, Jennifer J., 1981-

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