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823 entries match Historiography & General Works [K01.900]

1962

#460

Anatomical eponyms: being a biographical dictionary of those anatomists whose names have become incorporated into anatomical nomenclature, with definitions of the structures to which their names have been attached and references to the works in which they are described. 2nd ed.

1962 –1968

#1671.5

Prostitution and society. A survey. 3 vols.

Vol. 1: Primitive, classical and oriental. Vol. 2: Prostitution in Europe and the New World. Vol 3: Modern sexuality.

1962

#2137.02

Occupational health in America.

Written under the auspices of the Industrial Medical Association, this history emphasizes 20th century achievements.

1962

#3978.5

The story of insulin: Forty years of success against diabetes.

With G. Hetenyi and W. R. Feasby.

1962

#7927

The cholera years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866.

Edition with new Afterword published in 1987.

1962

#13164

A bio-bibliography of Florence Nightingale.

Completed and edited for publication by Sue M. Goldie after the death of William J. Bishop.

1963

#1671.6

Contraception through the ages.

1963

#5546.7

The evolution and eradication of infectious diseases.

1963

#6451.4

Histoire de la médecine.

1963

#7947

The MEDLARS story at the National Library of Medicine.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1963

#8161

Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. De Solférino à Tsoushima.

English translation: History of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Volume I: From Solferino to Tsushima. (Geneva: Henry Dunant Institute, 1985).

1963

#9023

World health and history.

1964

#3979

The history of diabetes mellitus. 2nd ed.

1964

#12693

Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564.

1965

#1092.53

Das Vitaminbuch. Die Geschichte der Vitaminforschung.

1965

#1671.61

Geschichte der Geriatrie. Dreitausend Jahre Physiologie, Pathologie und Therapie des alten Menschen.

1965

#1685.1

History and geography of the most important diseases.

Originally published in German, 1963.

1966

#2312.5

Human palaeopathology. Edited by S. Jarcho.

Includes material on the history of paleopathology in the United States.

1966

#7120

Medical books, libraries and collectors. A study of bibliography and the book trade in relation to the medical sciences. 2nd. edition, revised and enlarged.

This contains useful information not included in the third edition (1990). See No. 6786.34.

1966 –1972

#7500

Descriptive catalogue of the pathological series in the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England: A selection of surviving specimens illustrating [John] Hunter's opinions on the nature of diseases, experiments and observations on cases in surgery. 2 vols.

1966

#9756

Contributions to the history of medicine from the Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 1925-1935.

A useful collection of Garrison's numerous historical articles published in this journal.

1967

#461.1

Die anatomische Sektion in bildlicher Darstellung.

Full descriptions and illustrations of 355 of the most important paintings, prints, sculpture, and book illustrations concerning anatomy in its widest sense.

1967 –1972

#461.2

Geschichte der medizinische Abbildung. 2nd ed. 2 vols.

A history of medical illustration, but primarily covering the history of anatomy. English translation of Vol. 1 (to 1600), London: Pitman, 1970. Vol. 2, edited by Marielene Putscher, extended the work to close to time…

1967

#1671.62

Ten centuries of European hospital architecture.

1967

#5352.5

Schistosomiasis. A bibliography of the world’s literature from 1852 to 1962. 2 vols.

1967

#6786.11

Medical reference works 1679-1966: A selected bibliography.

Contains over 2,700 items with annotations. Supplements: I (1967-68), 1970; compiled by M.V. Clark. II (1969-72), 1973; compiled by J. S. Richmond. III (1973-74), 1975; compiled by J. S. Richmond.

1967

#10396

The origins of the National Health Service: The medical services of the New Poor Law, 1834-1871.

1967

#10644

Hippocrate, Du régime. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of On regimen of the Hippocratic Collection. The treatise dates to the late 5th or early 4th century BCE.

1967

#10679

The sleeping sickness epidemic of Uganda 1900-1920: A study in historical geography.

1968

#2581.7

Selected papers on the pathogenic rickettsiae. Edited by Nicholas Hahon.

"The selected papers ... range from the sixteenth century to the modern era. A number of the papers are classics in the field and several of the selections appear in English translation for the first time. The editor …

1968

#6451.6

Geschichte der Medizin. Einführung in ihre Grundzüge.

A general history of medicine from a Marxist perspective.

1968

#7836

Medicine in Mexico: From Aztec herbs to betatrons.

In collaboration with Jose Alvarez Amezquita and Miguel E. Bustamante.

1968

#9134

An uneasy equilibrium: Private and public financing of health service in the United States 1875-1965.

The central theme of this book is that health policy in the Unitesd States is the product of a deep ambivalence in public attitudes that on the one hand support a private, market-oriented health provision system, whil…

1969 –1975

#6786.15

The Cole Library of early medicine and zoology. Catalogue of books and pamphlets. 2 parts.

The library of F.J. Cole (see No. 356). Part 1: 1472-1800 to the present day and Supplement to Part 1.

1969

#7487

Exploring the ocean world: A history of oceanography.

1970

#5546.8

Bibliography of ticks and tickborne diseases from Homer (about 800 B.C.) to 31 December, 1969. Vol. 1.

Digital facsimile from Washington State University Digital Collections at this link.

1970

#10689

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome XI: De la génération. De la nature de l'enfant. Des maladies IV. Du foetus de huit mois. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises from the Hippocratic Collection about generation or considered to be about it: On generation, and On the nature of the child, both dated…

1970

#11112

The human placenta.

An elegantly published and illustrated monograph with extensive historical material.

1970

#11527

A biographical history of medicine: Excerpts and essays on the men and their work.

1971

#4672.5

A history of poliomyelitis.

1971

#1588.8

Historical aspects of cerebral anatomy.

A highly detailed, very technical, but well-documented study.

1971

#1671.7

International health organizations and their work. 2nd ed.

A systematic account of international health work from its beginnings to modern times. First published 1952.

1971

#8327

Health maintenance strategy.

Elwood is often referred to as the "father of the health maintenance organization. He not only coined the term, he also played a role in bringing about structural changes to the American health care system to simultan…

1971

#8501

Doctors of the mines: A commemorative volume published in 1971 to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Mine Medical Officer's Association of South Africa. With a history of the work of mine medical officers.

1971

#10858

The pre-Columbian mind: A study into the aberrant nature of sexual drives, drugs affecting behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America.

1972

#2199.1

The angel of Bethesda [1724] edited, with introduction and notes by Gordon W. Jones.

The only large systematic compilation of medical knowledge prepared in the Thirteen Colonies before the American revolution. The manuscript, which Mather finished in 1724, remained unpublished in the American Antiquar…

1972 –1975

#6451.7

Historia universal de la medicina. 7 vols.

1972

#9628

The voyage of the Challenger.

1972

#10684

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome VI, 2e partie: Du régime des maladies aiguës, Appendice, De l'aliment, De l'usage des liquides. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises of different periods devoted to nutrition: On regimen in acute diseases (in two versions, with the second traditionally identified as th…

1972

#12490

Public health and the state: Changing views in Massachusetts, 1842-1936.