Facets
Browse across eight MeSH (opens in new tab) facets — era, geography, science, specialty, technology, history, culture, and reference. Select one tag per group; counts update across the others. What’s new in facet browse how facets relate to subjects and MeSH.
Clear filtersFacet filters
Geography
Specialties & Disease
- Alternative & Fringe Medicine 1
- Anatomy & Pathology 1
- Cardiology & Blood 0
- Dentistry 2
- Diabetes 0
- ENT & Hearing 0
- Epidemiology & Demography 0
- Gastroenterology & Hepatology 0
- General Clinical Medicine 29
- Immunology & Dermatology 0
- Infectious Disease (General) 0
- Internal, Emergency & Geriatric 0
- Microbiology & Virology 0
- Military Medicine 13
- Neurology & Psychiatry 1
- Obstetrics & Reproductive 3
- Oncology & Cancer 1
- Ophthalmology & Vision 0
- Pediatrics 2
- Physiology & Embryology 0
- Plagues & Epidemics 1
- Psychology 1
- Public Health 10
- Pulmonary & Respiratory 0
- Rheumatology, Rehab & Pain 1
- Surgery & Anesthesia 1
- Urology & Nephrology 0
- Veterinary Medicine 0
Social & Historical Studies
Institutions & Culture
Reference & Scholarly Works
Drugs & Technology
60 entries match Professions & Education [M01 / N02] · Women & Gender [K01.700.500]
1465
#6819
Cerrahiyyetu'l-Haniyye (Imperial Surgery)
In 1465, at the age of 80, Ottoman surgeon and physician Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu published in manuscript an illustrated atlas of surgery and dentistry. This was also the first medical textbook written in Turkish, proba…
1837
#10411
The family nurse; or companion of the frugal housewife. Revised by a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society.
Child was was an abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Her journals, both fiction and domestic manuals, reached wide audie…
1851
#10416
Ladies' indispensable assistant: Being a companion for the sister, mother, and wife ... Here are the very best directions for the behavior and etiquette of ladies and gentlemen ... ; also, safe directions for the management of children ... a great variety of valuable recipes, forming a complete system of family medicine ... : to which is added one of the best systems of cookery ever published ....
In spite of the verbose title, the Table of Contents of this work indicates that roughly the first half of the book concerns home remedies for the widest range of complaints and illnesses, and medical properties of pl…
1856
#7809
Eastern hospitals and English nurses; the narrative of twelve months' experience in the hospitals of Koulali and Scutari by a lady volunteer. 2 vols.
Taylor accompanied Florence Nightingale to Scutari, and worked as nurse in the military hospitals. She provided one of the first eye-witness acounts of military hospitals at Scutari and Koulali, and wrote about the ma…
1860
#1612
Notes on nursing: what it is, and what it is not.
After receiving training in Germany and France, Florence Nightingale had some nursing experience in England. The Crimean war gave her an opportunity to demonstrate the value of trained nurses. Within a few months of h…
1864
#8994
The female spy of the union army. The thrilling adventures, experiences, and escapes of a woman nurse, spy, and scout, in hospitals, camps and battlefields.
Digital facsimile of a reprint of the 1864 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Reissued in 1865 as Nurse and spy in the Union Army: Containing the adventures and experience of a woman in hospitals, camps, …
1866
#13706
A journal of hospital life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee from the Battle of Shiloh to the end of the war: With sketches of life and character, and brief notices of current events during that period.
"[B]y far the fullest and most informative of narratives of the Confederate women who served as nurses" (In Tall Cotton). Cumming responded to calls for volunteers and worked as a field nurse from 1862 through the end…
1867
#13345
Three years in field hospitals of the Army of the Potomac.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1872
#6649.91
Medical women: Two essays. I. Medicine as a profession for women. II. Medical education for women
From the time of her admission to medical school Jex-Blake became virtually the leader of the movement in Great Britain to open the medical profession to women. Greatly expanded second edition, Edinburgh, 1886.
1881
#11022
The college story: Valedictory address to the twenty-ninth graduating class of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.
"Bodley sought to survey all the graduates of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania from its founding 1850 through 1880. Of the total 276 graduates, 244 were alive. Her survey is based on the 186 graduates who r…
1887
#9121
Ten days in a mad-house.
By newspaper reporter Nellie Bly, this book was initially published as a series of articles for the New York World newspaper. The book collected Bly's reportage while on an undercover assignment in which she feigned i…
1888
#8996
My story of the war: The Civil War memories of the famous nurse, relief organizer and suffragette.
1893
#14364
Nursing: Its principles and practice for hospital and private use.
Isabel Hampton Robb was the first Superintendent of Nurses at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Her textbook standardized the education of nursing in the U.S. and abroad. It included an outline for a 3-year long nu…
1895
#9001
Our army nurses. Interesting sketches, addresses, and photographs of nearly one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our civil war.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1897
#14308
De Vrouw: Haar bouw en haar inwendige organen. Een populaire schets.
Jacobs was the first woman in the Netherlands to graduate from medical school. In 1882 she founded the first birth control clinic in the Netherlands and "the first clinic in the world devoted solely to dissemtinating …
1898
#7058
The Red Cross in peace and war.
Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881. Although Henry Dunant had suggested in 1864 that Red Cross societies provide disaster relief as well as wartime services, Barton became the strongest advocate for the dev…
1907 –1912
#6635
A history of nursing. The evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses [and] From the earliest times to the present day with special reference to the work of the past thirty years. 4 vols.
Vols. 3-4 by L.L Dock only.
1916
#8599
Studies in ethics for nurses.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1926
#14363
A sound economic basis for schools of nursing and other addresses.
Nutting was a member of the first graduating class of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1891, and by 1894 its superintendent of nurses and principal. She left Hopkins in 1907 for Teachers College at Columbia Univ…
1927
#7842
Certain samaritans.
A first-hand account of the American Women's Hospitals especially in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans helping to relieve the poulations uprooted by World War I and its aftermath. Lovejoy became the second woman to gradu…
1928
#10118
Coming of age in Samoa: A psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation.
Mead based her study primarily on adolescent girls on the island of Ta'u in the Samoan Islands. The book detailed the sexual life of teenagers in Samoan society in the early 20th century, and theorized that culture ha…
1939
#6465.1
Navajo medicine man. Sandpaintings and legends of Miguelito from the John Frederick Huckel Collection
Navajo sandpaintings are traditionally made only for the healing ceremony in which they are used, and then destroyed. This book contains superb reproductions on sand-colored paper of watercolor versions of the sandpai…
1943
#6636
History of nursing.
Second edition, History and trends of professional nursing, 1950.
1951
#14367
Rehabilitation nursing. Foreward by Howard A. Rusk.
The first book on rehabilitation nursing, including a historical survey of rehabilitation and a study of the incidence of disability in the U.S. Morrissey conducted her research in association with the Institute of Ph…
1953
#14369
Nursing team organization and functioning.
Lambertsen developed "team nursing," a system of integrated care distributing the care of a patient among a team working together. In team nursing the registered nurse (RN) functions as a team leader, and coordinates …
1959
#6637
The story of the growth of nursing as an art, a vocation, and a profession. Fifth edition.
1961
#8764
Doctors, patients, and health insurance: The organization and financing of medical care.
1961
#12015
No time for prejudice: A story of the integration of negroes in nursing in the United States.
Primarily a history of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses [NACGN], which existed for the express purpose of "promoting unity within the nursing profession and furthering the cause of democracy." Integ…
1968
#6639.1
A bibliography of nursing literature, 1859-1960.
Includes sections on history and biography. Supplement 1961-70, 1974.
1974
#8769
Welfare medicine in America: A case study of Medicaid.
The first study of Medicaid. Revised edition, 2003.
1976
#8778
A catalogue of the rare book collection in the Northwestern University Dental School Library. Edited by Wilma Troxel.
1980
#8999
Civil war nurse: The diary and letters of Hannah Ropes. Edited with an introduction and commentary by John R. Brumgardt.
1984
#10298
Medical education in Mississippi: A history of the School of Medicine.
1985
#6639.11
Nursing: the finest art. An illustrated history.
The most elaborately illustrated history available.
1986
#8088
The path we tread: Blacks in nursing, 1854-1984.
1986
#10987
"For the welfare of mankind": The Commonwealth Fund and American medicine.
1988
#6639.13
Dictionary of American nursing biography.
Edited with J.W. Hawkins, L.P. Higgins, and A.H. Friedman.
1988
#9105
Wet nursing: A history from antiquity to the present.
1992
#10283
To the ends of the earth: Women's search for education in medicine.
1995
#11023
Catching babies: The professionalization of childbirth, 1870-1920.
Concerns the transition in the early 20th century in the United States from women midwives delivering most babies to professional obstetricians--mostly men--delivering almost all babies by the 1950s. It researches why…
1997
#11050
Learning to heal: The medical profession in colonial Mexico, 1767-1831.
1999
#10977
Medicine in Maryland: The practice and profession, 1799-1999.
2000
#13223
A new and untried course: Woman's Medical College and Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1850-1998.
2001
#10707
Skulls and skeletons: Human bone collections and accumulations.
2001
#10799
Malaria: Poverty, race, and public health in the United States.
2001
#10934
The history of the Royal Society of Medicine.
2005
#10931
Our shared legacy: Nursing education at Johns Hopkins, 1889–2006. Edited by Mame Warren in association with the Johns Hopkins Nurses' Alumni Association.
2007
#8995
Pride of America, we're with you: The letters of Grace Anderson, U.S. Army Nurse Corps, World War I.
2008
#9004
Answering the call: The U.S. Army Nurse Corps, 1917-1919: A commemorative tribute to military nursing in World War I. edited by Lisa M. Budreau and Richard M. Prior.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
2010
#7844
