Books and articles on Medical History

Books

• W F Bynum, Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
• Diana B Dutton, Worse than the Disease; Pitfalls of Medical Progress (Cambridge University Press,1988)
• Lawrence I Conrad, Michael Neve, Vivian Nutton, Roy Porter and Andrew Wear, The Western Medical Tradition; 800 BC to 1800 AD (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
• Roger Cooter, Mark Harrison and Steve Sturdy (eds), War, Medicine and Modernity (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1998)
• Harris L Coulter, Divided Legacy: The Conflict between Homoeopathy and the American Medical Association (Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1982)
• Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel; The Fates of Human Societies (New York: W W Norton and Company, 1999)
• Steve Jones, The Language of the genes; Biology, History and the Evolutionary Future (London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1993)
• Arno Karlen, Plague’s Progress; a social history of man and disease (London: Orion Books, 2001)
• James Le Fanu, The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine (London: Abacus Books, 1999)
• William H McNeill, Plagues and Peoples (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979)
• Sharon Ruston, Shelley and Vitality (Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
• Dana Ullman, The Homeopathic Revolution: Why Famous People & Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy (Berkley: North Atlantic Books, 2007)

 

Articles

• Michael Dean, 'Comparative evaluation of homeopathy and allopathy within the Parisian hospital system, 1849–1851', Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 103 (2010), 34-36
• Mary Wilson, Richard Levins and Andrew Spielman (eds), 'Disease in Evolution; Global changes and emergence of infectious diseases', Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences  740 (1994)