UTEP Library Research Guides: Social and Cultural History of American Medicine and Health Care: Books

Required Texts

Monority Populations and Health: an introduction to health disparities in the United States
Call Number: REF RA 448.4 .L38
ISBN: 0787964131
Publication Date: 2005
Includes many charts, graphs.
Health Car Systems: major themes in health and social welfare
Call Number: REF RA418 .H3893
ISBN: 0415322049
Publication Date: 2005
4 vols. Refrom and development of health care systems over the past decades.
Medical Sociology: major themes in health and social welfare
Call Number: REF RA418 .M344
ISBN: 0415317797
Publication Date: 2005
4 vols. The relationship between medicine and social & environmental conditions.

Dictionary of the History of Medicine
Call Number: REF R121 .S398
ISBN: 1850700214
Publication Date: 1999
Over 10,000 brief entries in alphabetical format.
Encyclopedia of Medical History
Call Number: REF R133 .M34
ISBN: 0070450870
Publication Date: 1985
Somewhat dated but still informative on variety of topics.
Encyclopedia of Public Health
Call Number: REF RA423 .E53
ISBN: 0028653548
Publication Date: 2002
4 vols. Designed to offer information re important aspects of the sciences, arts, practical skills, organization, essential functions and historical traditions of the field.
Dictionary of Medical Biography
Call Number: REF R134 .D57
ISBN: 0313328773
Publication Date: 2007
5 vols. Includes introductory essay on Western medical tradition.
Biograpical Dictionary of Women Healers
Call Number: REF R692 .S38
ISBN: 157356219X
Publication Date: 2002
Includes midwives, Nurses and physicians
American National Biography
Call Number: REF CT213 .A68
ISBN: 0195206355
Publication Date: 1999,2005
26 vol. Long articles, with bibligraphies, on well known and not so well known Americans.