The effect of the Americans with Disabilities Act on the quality of life of blind and visually impaired adults
Almost persuaded--American physicians and compulsory health insurance, 1912-1920
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Almost persuaded--American physicians and compulsory health insurance, 1912-1920 / Ronald L. Numbers.
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The HenryE. Sigerist supplements to the Bulletin of the history of medicine ; new ser. no. 1
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The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Sickness and health in America
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1977
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Sickness and health in America : readings in the history of medicine and public health / edited by Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald L. Numbers.
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Health care in America
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1978
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Health care in America : essays in social history / edited by Susan Reverby and David Rosner.
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Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1979.
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275 p.
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The Education of American physicians
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TX0000534937 / 1980-09-02
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1979
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The Education of American physicians : historical essays / edited by Ronald L. Numbers.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c1980.
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345 p.
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The Healthiest city
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TX0000916952 / 1982-04-26
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The Healthiest city : Milwaukee and the politics of health reform / Judith Walzer Leavitt.
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Wisconsin medicine
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1980
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Wisconsin medicine : historical perspectives / edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Judith Walzer Leavitt.
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Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1981.
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212 p.
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The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
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Judith Walzer Leavitt
Ronald L. Numbers
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Ronald L. Numbers
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University of Wisconsin. Board of Regents (480 documents)
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Compulsory health insurance
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October 25, 1982
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1982
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Compulsory health insurance : the continuing American debate / edited by Ronald L. Numbers.
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New Matter: adaptation of chap. 4 & additional text.
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Contributions in medical history, ISSN 0147-1058 ;
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Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1982.
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172 p.
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Contributions in medical history, ISSN 0147-1058 ; no. 11
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Department of the History of Medicine, University of Wisconsin
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Ronald L. Numbers
University of Wisconsin, Madison. Department of the History of Medicine
Department of the History of Medicine, University of Wisconsin.
University of Wisconsin, Madison. Department of the History of Medicine
Department of the History of Medicine, University of Wisconsin.
Women and health in America
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1983
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Women and health in America : historical readings / edited by Judith Walzer Leavitt.
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Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1984.
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526 p.
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Sickness and health in America
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1985
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Sickness and health in America : readings in the history of medicine and public health / edited by Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald L. Numbers.
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2nd ed., rev.
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Brought to bed
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1986
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Brought to bed : childbearing in America, 1750-1950 / Judith Walzer Leavitt.
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Caring and curing
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Caring and curing : health and medicine in the Western religious traditions / edited by Ronald L. Numbers, Darrel W. Amundsen.
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Dying for work
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1986
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Dying for work : workers' safety and health in twentieth-century America / edited by David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz.
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Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1987.
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234 p.
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Dying for work : workers' safety and health in twentieth-century America
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Medicine in the New World
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1986
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Medicine in the New World : New Spain, New France, and New England / edited by Ronald L. Numbers.
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1st ed.
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Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1987.
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175 p.
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God and nature
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1986
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God and nature : historical essays on the encounter between Christianity and science / edited by David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c1986.
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516 p.
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"Slaves of the depression," workers' letters about life on the job
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1987
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"Slaves of the depression," workers' letters about life on the job / Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner.
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Ithaca, N. Y. : Cornell University Press, 1987.
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The Disappointed
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1987
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The Disappointed : Millerism and Millenarianism in the nineteenth century / edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Jonathan M. Butler ; with ill. selected by James R. Nix.
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Religion in North America
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Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1987.
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235 p.
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Religion in North America
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Jonathan M. Butler 1945-
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Science and medicine in the old South
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1988
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Science and medicine in the old South / edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Todd L. Savitt.
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Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1989.
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370 p.
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Deadly dust
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1990
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Deadly dust : silicosis and the politics of occupational disease in twentieth-century Aamerica / David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz.
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1 v.
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Prophetess of health
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1991
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Prophetess of health : Ellen G. White and the origins of Seventh-Day Adventist health reform / Ronald L. Numbers.
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Rev. & enl. ed.
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Prev. reg. 1976.
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335 p.
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The disappointed
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The disappointed : Millerism and Millenarianism in the nineteenth century / edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Jonathan M. Butler ; with ill. selected by James R. Nix.
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2nd ed.
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Be safe, be sure
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Be safe, be sure : New York City's experience with epidemic smallpox / Judith Walzer Leavitt.
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Hives of sickness
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The healthiest city
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The healthiest city : Milwaukee and the politics of health reform / Judith Walzer Leavitt.
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Typhoid Mary
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1996
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Typhoid Mary : captive to the public's health / Judith Walzer Leavitt.
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Boston : Beacon Press, c1996.
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331 p.
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15
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Children, race, and power
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October 16, 1996
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1996
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Children, race, and power : Kenneth and Mamie Clark's Northside Center / Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner.
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Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1996.
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304 p.
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Children, race, and power : Kenneth and Mamie Clark's Northside Center
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Gerald E. Markowitz
Darwinism comes to America
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Darwinism comes to America / Ronald L. Numbers.
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Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1998.
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216 p.
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Sickness and health in America
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Sickness and health in America : readings in the history of medicine and public health / edited by Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald L. Numbers.
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3rd ed., revised.
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587 p.
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Deceit and denial
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Deceit and denial : the deadly politics of industrial pollution / Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.
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408 p.
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When science & Christianity meet
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When science & Christianity meet / edited by David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
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357 p.
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Deadly dust
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TX0006414732 / 2006-08-03
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Deadly dust : silicosis and the on-going struggle to protect workers' health.
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Are we ready? public health since 9/11
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Are we ready? public health since 9/11.
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