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Health care in world cities : New York, Paris, and London / by Gusmano, Michael K., Rodwin, Victor, Weisz, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…A new approach to comparing health systems -- Comparable cities in contrasting health systems -- Overall performance of the health system : avoidable mortality -- Access to primary care : avoidable hospital conditions -- Access to specialty care : the treatment of heart disease -- Concluding observations on health systems in world cities.…”
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Differential diagnoses a comparative history of health care problems and solutions in the United States and France / by Dutton, Paul V.

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Nuclear servitude subcontracting and health in the French civil nuclear industry / by Thébaud-Mony, Annie, 1944-

Subjects: “…Nuclear industry Health aspects France.…”
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What adolescents ought to know : sexual health texts in early twentieth-century America / by Burek Pierce, Jennifer

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Creating the welfare state in France, 1880-1940 by Smith, Timothy B. (Timothy Beresford)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The French social service landscape prior to World War I : localism vs. centralization -- The crucible of war -- Building mini-welfare states, 1920-1940 -- The decline of traditional charitable medicine, the emergence of limited national health insurance -- Unemployment policy, 1914-1940 : from the local to the national.…”
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Filth dirt, disgust, and modern life /

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Hospital politics in seventeenth-century France the crown, urban elites, and the poor / by McHugh, Tim

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Treating the trauma of the Great War soldiers, civilians, and psychiatry in France, 1914-1940 / by Thomas, Gregory Mathew

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Cadaverland inventing a pathology of catastrophe for Holocaust survival : the limits of medical knowledge and memory in France / by Dorland, Michael

Subjects: “…Prisoners of war Mental health France.…”
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The pathology of democracy a letter to Bernard Accoyer and to enlightened opinion / by Miller, Jacques-Alain

Subjects: “…Public health laws France.…”
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Networks in tropical medicine internationalism, colonialism, and the rise of a medical specialty, 1890-1930 /

Table of Contents: “…Building networks in tropical medicine -- Creating the cadre : teachers, students, and the culture of tropical medicine -- From training to practice : medical experts and public health in Duala and Brazzaville -- Contagions and camps : the sleeping sickness campaigns, 1900-1910 -- Sleeping sickness campaigns in German Cameroon and French Equatorial Africa -- Paul Ehrlich's colonial connections : sleeping sickness drug therapy research, 1903-1914 -- A legacy of embitterment : World War I and its impact on transnational tropical medicine.…”
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Human remains medicine, death, and desire in nineteenth-century Paris / by Strauss, Jonathan

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Colonial pathologies, environment, and Western medicine in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1867-1920 by Ngalamulume, Kalala J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Setting, themes, and conceptual perspectives -- The making of a colonial city -- "The white man's disease": the great yellow fever epidemics, 1867-1900 -- "The black man's disease": cholera and social inequality, 1868-1899 -- A conflict of interests among commerce, competing conceptions of public health, and civil liberties, 1882-1901 -- The scientific missions to Senegal and Brazil and the new paradigm, 1901-1912 -- Plague and violence in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1917-1920 -- Conclusion.…”
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Mad like Artaud / by Lotringer, Sylvère

Subjects: “…Artaud, Antonin, 1896-1948 Mental health.…”
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Cadaverland Inventing a Pathology of Catastrophe for Holocaust Survival [The Limits of Medical Knowledge and Historical Memory in France] / by Dorland, Michael

Subjects: “…Prisoners of war Mental health France.…”
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Syphilis : Medicine, Metaphor, and Religious Conflict in Early Modern France / by Losse, Deborah N., 1944-

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Local hospitals in Ancien Régime France rationalization, resistance, renewal, 1530-1789 / by Hickey, Daniel

“…McGill-Queen's/Hannah Institute studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ;…”
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Infection of the Innocents wet nurses, infants, and syphilis in France, 1780-1900 / by Sherwood, Joan

“…McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ;…”
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Medieval Communities and the Mad : Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France / by Pfau, Aleksandra

“…Premodern health, disease, and disability…”
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Globalizing tobacco control anti-smoking campaigns in California, France, and Japan / by Reid, Roddey, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Global and local strategies: state and NGO initiatives, community mobilization, and social marketing -- The dynamics of collaboration and community input in the media campaign -- The campaign against secondhand smoke: family, ethical subjects, and the social body -- Revising late modernity: smoking as icon of industrialism and the cold war in public health and media culture -- France: unexceptional exceptionalism? …”
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