Search Results: Public Health from UHR Books

Providence, RI: A. Crawford Greene and Brother, State Printers, 1856 Ex-Library. Fair. Hardcover. Original Edition. Cover has light wear, is faded, and has crease marks; pages are lightly age-toned. Data on the births, marriages, and deaths for the State of Rhode Island for the year ending December 31, 1855. Note: This contains data only, and no individual names..

N Y: Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 1952 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. This monograph is the record of the contribution made by a business organization to the solution of an important medical and social problem. Appendix and Bibliography. Illustrated. Minor marks..

Baltimore, MD: Reese Press, 1970 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition. "A history of the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, Inc. and the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory." Illustrated with black and white photos. 426 pages, with index..

Various Paper. Good. Soft cover. Journal Offprint. Most of these softbound reports were previously bound together with other articles, leaving raggedness to the spine edges, some more than others, some with light soils/rubmarks, number stamps on top right corners of some; a few have ragged side edges. A unique collection of early 20th century medical journal offprints of research articles/papers on SYPHILIS by various authors. General breakdown of subjects, all as relate to syphilis: neurology 18; treatment/clinical observations 17 including 1 on Salvarsan; histopathology 14; cardiovascular 12; Wasserman /serology 10; congenital 8; etiology 4; population distribution 3; reinfection 3. Number of pages range from 2 to 76; many have illustrations including some color plates. A few are inscribed "with the author's compliments". 65 articles are in English, 21 in German, 2 in Norwegian, and 1 in French. Number of articles by years of publication are 1891 - 1; 1901-05: 5; 1906-1910: 9;… Read More

Boston: Beacon Press, 1989 Book. Very Good -. Soft cover. Focuses on the impact on private lives and public policy. 566 pages. Cover has edgewear..

Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Co., 1995 Ex-Library. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Answers questions about AIDS, written for teens. Addresses AIDS transmission, testing for HIV infection, medical effects of AIDS, prevention of AIDS, etc. Illustrated..

Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1989 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. Addresses "one of the most complex and sensitive questions of our time. . . how can people be encouraged to exchange risky behavior for safer behavior?" Early in the AIDS epidemic in the United States. From the National Research Council - Committee on AIDS Research and the Behavioral, Social, and Statistical Sciences - Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. 589 pages of research, data, and discussion. Spine is lightly faded..

NY: Macmillan Publishing Co, Inc., 1987 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition. The famed author of "Death and Dying" talks about these concepts in specific regards to AIDS. Minor edge wear on dust jacket, bookplate on flyleaf..

Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 1994 Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Delves into the issues of HIV, noting we have the mechanisms to effectively control the spread of disease "if only we have the prerequisite political will and social courage to face the disease and alter our ideas about social and moral responsibility". Beautiful color plates of medicine/pestilence through history. THIS IS A NEW AND UNUSED BOOK..

NY: UAHC Press, 2000 Book. Very Good +. Soft cover. First Edition. A study guide to the UAHC video (Union of American Hebrew Congregations). 29 pages..

Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1987 Book. Very Good -. Trade Paperback. Paperback Edition. Cover has vertical crease; minor marks. "The social, political, and psychological impact of a new epidemic.".

London: The International Bureau for the Suppression of Traffic in Women and Children, 1943 Book. Good. Soft cover. Original Edition. Cover has wear on the spine strip and is faded. RARE copy of this series of lectures "delivered on the occasion of an international meeting convened by The International Bureau for the Suppression of Traffic in Women and Children, and held at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 22nd and 23rd October, 1943". Addresses medical arguments, legal arguments, sociology and rehabilitation, future legislative action, etc. 75 pages..

Maine State Department of Health, 1923 Book. Very Good -. Pamphlet. Circular No. 36 from the State Department of Health. 36 page pamphlet covers the health laws of the state, as in effect in May, 1923. Spotting on cover..

Washington, D.C.: Census Office, 1852 Book. Fair. Hardcover. Original Edition. "Report of the Superintendent of the Census", December 1, 1852. Lacks the rear endpaper, moderate edgewear, significant foxing throughout..

Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., 1965 Ex-Library. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. "Papers given at a Convention held at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, May 1963." Includes sections on the load upon general practice, the ambulance service and the hospital; causes of accidents; accident investigation; home accidents; industrial accidents; sport accidents; etc. Illustrated. Boards very slightly bowed..

USA: Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 1973 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. "A Retrospect of Some Fifty Years" of the American Epidemiological Society. .Reprint from the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, Vol. 46, No. 1, February 1973. Foreward by the noted public health historian, George Rosen. Dust jacket has some minor foxing..

N Y: Department of Health - City of New York, 1941 Book. Very Good -. Hardcover. First Edition. Cover is faded around the edges. Very RARE copy of this report "containing the activities of the Health Department of the City of New York for 1940 with comparative vital statistics tables and a review of developments since 1934". Written during the term of Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia. 283 pages, illustrated..

Warrington: William Eyres Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Photocopy. This is a photocopy of the 1789 printing of this work on the plague, whose title continues "Together with further observations on some foreign prisons and hospitals; and additional remarks on the present state of those in Great Britain and Ireland". Please note: THIS IS A PHOTOCOPY, thus a good copy for research or a reference copy..

Stockholm, Sweden: Acta Medica Scandinavica's Forlag, 1938 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Journal Reprint. Some pages are uncut. Vol. XCIV, Fasc. I-II (1938). 42 page article on haemophilus influenzae (Pfeiffer) "as an ubiquitous cause of common acute and chronical purulent bronchitis". Illustrated..

Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 1973 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. This text covers "both prevalent concepts of work adjustment - training aspects and the adjustment to employment". Previous owner's name on flyleaf..