Médecine + Histoire -- 20e siècle
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- Elegy for a disease, a personal and cultural history of polio, Anne Finger
- Pain, a political history, Keith Wailoo
- The man he became, how FDR defied polio to win the presidency, James Tobin
- An Eakins masterpiece restored, seeing The Gross Clinic anew, edited by Kathleen A. Foster, Mark S. Tucker ; with essays by Steven Conn, Kathleen A. Foster, Mark S. Schreiner, MD, Mark S. Tucker
- The poisoner's handbook, an Apograph Productions film for American Experience ; American Experience Films presents ; story by Michelle Ferrari ; telescript by Rob Rapley ; produced and directed by Rob Rapley
- Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!, how chemistry changed the First World War, Michael Freemantle
- When the money runs out, the end of western affluence, Stephen D. King
- A plague on all our houses, medical intrigue, Hollywood, and the discovery of AIDS, Bruce J. Hillman, MD
- Margaret Sanger, a life of passion, Jean H. Baker
- Francis Crick, discoverer of the genetic code, Matt Ridley
- Out in the rural, a Mississippi health center and its war on poverty, Thomas J. Ward Jr. ; with a foreword by H. Jack Geiger
- To catch a virus, John Booss, Marilyn J. August
- Franz Boas, the emergence of the anthropologist, Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
- A good man, rediscovering my father, Sargent Shriver, Mark K. Shriver
- Power, politics, and universal health care, the inside story of a century-long battle, Stuart H. Altman and David Shactman ; foreword by John Kerry
- Unravelling the double helix, the story of DNA, Gareth Williams
- Pandemic 1918, eyewitness accounts from the greatest medical holocaust in modern history, Catharine Arnold
- Carville's cure, leprosy, stigma, and the fight for justice, Pam Fessler
- Vaccine nation, America's changing relationship with immunization, Elena Conis
- Gene jockeys, life science and the rise of biotech enterprise, Nicolas Rasmussen
- Westbrook college campus, Joyce K. Bibber
- All standing, the true story of hunger, rebellion, and survival aboard the Jeanie Johnston, by Kathryn Miles
- Murder and the making of English CSI, Ian Burney and Neil Pemberton
- Evolution and the Victorians, science, culture and politics in Darwin's Britain, Jonathan Conlin
- Bitten, the secret history of Lyme disease and biological weapons, Kris Newby
- Madness and memory, the discovery of prions--a new biological principle of disease, Stanley B. Prusiner
- The forgotten plague, American Experience Films, PBS presents ; written, produced and directed by Chana Gazit ; a Steward/Gazit Productions, Inc., film for American Experience ; WGBH Educational Foundation
- Inventing baby food, taste, health, and the industrialization of the American diet, Amy Bentley
- The discoveries, Alan Lightman
- American pandemic, the lost worlds of the 1918 influenza epidemic, Nancy K. Bristow
- Freud, the making of an illusion, Frederick Crews
- Marie Equi, radical politics and outlaw passions, Michael Helquist
- The unsettling of Europe, how migration reshaped a continent, Peter Gatrell
- Maine nursing, interviews and history on caring and competence, Valerie Hart, Susan Henderson, Juliana L'Heureux & Ann Sossong
- The pandemic century, one hundred years of panic, hysteria, and hubris, Mark Honigsbaum
- Voices of Pineland, eugenics, social reform, and the legacy of "feeblemindedness" in Maine, by Stephen T. Murphy
- Catching cancer, the quest for its viral and bacterial causes, Claudia Cornwall
- Paralysed with fear, the story of polio, Gareth Williams ; illustrations by Ray Loadman
- The substance, Albert Hofmann's LSD, Ventura Film ; producers, Elda Guidinetti, Andres Pfaffli ; written and directed by Martin Witz
- The death of cancer, after fifty years on the front lines of medicine, a pioneering oncologist reveals why the war on cancer is winnable--and how we can get there, Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., M.D., Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
- The secret of life, Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the discovery of DNA's double helix, Howard Markel
- Jonas Salk, a life, Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs
- 18 tiny deaths, the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics, Bruce Goldfarb ; introduction by Judy Melinek, MD
- Black Death at the Golden Gate, the race to save America from the bubonic plague, David K. Randall
- Extreme medicine, how exploration transformed medicine in the twentieth century, Kevin Fong, M.D
- The making of a counter culture, reflections on the technocratic society and its youthful opposition, Theodore Roszak
- The trials of psychedelic therapy, LSD psychotherapy in America, Matthew Oram
- Health care for some, rights and rationing in the United States since 1930, Beatrix Hoffman
- The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
- Cured, the people who defeated HIV, Nathalia Holt, Ph. D