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Captain of Death
The Story of Tuberculosis
Thomas M. Daniel

A comprehensive examination of TB. CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award 1998.
 

Medicine's Moving Pictures
Medicine, Health & Bodies in American Film & Television
Edited by Leslie J. Reagan. Nancy Tomes, Paula A. Treichler


Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine that explore the rich history of health-related films.

         

Polio
Edited by Thomas M. Daniel, Frederick C. Robbins

The story of polio in the words of its victims, doctors, and research scientists concerned with the means of eradicating it.

 

Public Health and the Risk Factor
A History of an Uneven Medical Revolution
William G. Rothstein

A look at how the concept of "risk factor" has influenced public health and preventive medicine, with an emphasis upon the study of heart disease.

         

The Value of Health
A History of the Pan American Health Organization
Marcus Cueto


A multilayered analytical study that situates the Pan American Health Organization in a complex and shifting historical context and examines the internal dynamics of the organization in a probing critical fashion

 


 




 




 


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