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823 entries match Historiography & General Works [K01.900]
2017
#11033
Prostitution in the ancient Greek world.
2017
#11038
Hippocrate, Tome XII, 4e partie, Femmes stériles, Maladies des jeunes filles, Superfétation, Excision du foetus. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Florence Bourbon.
Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of four gynecological treatises from the Hippocratic Collection, from c. 470-350 BCE: De sterilibus = On sterility; De virginum morbis = On disea…
2017
#12372
The coronary heart disease pandemic in the twentieth century: Emergence and decline in advanced countries.
"This book demonstrates that a pandemic of coronary heart disease occurred in North America, western and northern Europe, and Australia and New Zealand from the 1930s to about 2000. At its peak it caused more deaths t…
2017
#12840
Reinventing Hippocrates. Edited by David Cantor.
"The name of Hippocrates has been invoked as an inspiration of medicine since antiquity, and medical practitioners have turned to Hippocrates for ethical and social standards. While most modern commentators accept tha…
2017
#13088
Contagionism catches on. Medical ideology in Britain, 1730-1800.
"This book shows how contagionism evolved in eighteenth century Britain and describes the consequences of this evolution. By the late eighteenth century, the British medical profession was divided between traditionali…
2018
#9959
CONTAGION: Historical views of diseases and epidemics.
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/ This was the original version of this digital library. It includes commentary. It may be available through the Internet Archive, Archive-It facility or through the Wayback Machine…
2018
#10476
Suffering scholars: Pathologies of the intellectual in Enlightenment France.
2018
#10533
Imagining Chinese medicine. Edited by Vivienne Lo and Penelope .
Finely produced and illustrated collection, with many plates in color, of 36 scholarly essays on the widest range of Chinese medical illustrations, including erotica.
2018
#10626
The fears of the rich, the needs of the poor: My years at the CDC,
Director of the Centers for Disease Control from 1977-1983, and President and Co-Founder of The Task Force for Global Heath, 1984-1999, Foege was instrumental in the eradication of smallpox, the generalization of immu…
2018
#10935
Reading contagion: The hazards of reading in the age of print.
2018
#13105
Andreas Vesalius and the Fabrica in the age of printing: Art, anatomy and printing in the Italian renaissance. Edited by R. F. Canalis and M. Ciavolella.
2018
#13584
Eros, Wollust, Sünde. Sexualität in Europa von der Antike bis in die Frühe Neuzeit.
2020
#12013
Continual raving: A history of meningitis and the people who conquered it.
2020
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Disibility in industrial Britain: A cultural and literary history of impairment in the coal industry.
2020
#12627
Appetite and its discontents: Science, medicine, and the urge to eat, 1750-1850.
2020
#12989
The body of evidence. Corpses and proofs in early modern European medicine. Edited by Francesco Paolo de Ceglia.
"When, why and how was it first believed that the corpse could reveal ‘signs’ useful for understanding the causes of death and eventually identifying those responsible for it? The Body of Evidence. Corpses and Proofs …
2020
#13128
Maimonides, commentary on Hippocrates’ aphorisms: a new parallel Arabic-English edition and translation, with critical editions of the medieval Hebrew translations by Gerrit Bos. 2 vols. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides, Vols. 14.1, 14.2.)
![HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)](/media/portraits/50)
"Hippocrates’ Aphorisms enjoyed great popularity in the ancient and medieval world and, according to Maimonides, it was Hippocrates’ most useful work as it contained aphorisms, which every physician should know by hea…
2020
#13668
In the shadow of Vesalius: An exciting series of new insights into life and work of Andreas Vesalius and his friends. Edited by Robrecht Van Hee.
2020
#13774
The science of starving in Victorian literature, medicine, and political economy.
2021
#13271
Strong hearts and healing hands: Southern California Indians and field nurses, 1920-1950.
2021
#13486
The history of pediatric and adult hearing screening.
2021
#13667
Vesaliana: An updated and annotated Vesalius Bibliography, including all known publications on Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) and his works. Compiled by Maurits Biesbrouck.
http://www.andreasvesalius.be/ A bibliography of studies about Vesalius and his works. When I added this entry in October 2021 the latest version was a 582-page PDF dated January 2021.
2022
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