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Social and Cultural History of American Medicine and Health Care: Books

Required Texts

Homosexuality and American Psychiatry by Ronald Bayer
Uninsured in America by Susan Starr Sered
The Social Transformation of Medicine by Paul Starr
Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington
Nature Cures by James Whorton

Selected Topical/Thematic Publications

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.

Selected Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Handbooks

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.

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