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986 entries match Professions & Education [M01 / N02]
1999
#13513
Physicians and surgeons in Glasgow, 1599-1858: The history of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
1999
#13585
Sexual cultures in Europe: National histories.
"... brings together for the first time studies of the sexual cultures of all the major European countries--including France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Spain, Britain and the Netherlands--to focus on their commonalities…
2000 –2002
#8081
An American health dilemma: A medical history of African Americans and the problem of race. Vol. 1: Beginnings to 1900. Vol. 2: Race, medicine and health care in the United States 1900-2000.
2000
#8504
Indigenous theories of contagious disease.
2000
#10033
A Plague of paradoxes: Aids, culture, and demography in Northern Tanzania.
2000
#10339
Science, race, and religion in the American South. John Bachman and the Charleston circle of naturalists, 1815-1895.
2000
#12373
Devices and desires: Gender, technology, and American nursing.
"Nursing and technology have been inexorably linked since the beginnings of trained nursing in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Whether or not they thought of the devices they used as technology, nurs…
2000
#13223
A new and untried course: Woman's Medical College and Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1850-1998.
2000
#13318
The benefits of medical research and the role of the NIH.
According to Senator Mack's report, the economic costs of illness in the U.S. were approximately $3 trillion annually, representing 31% of the nation’s GDP. This included “direct” costs of public and private health ca…
2000
#13883
NDA II. The story of America's second National Dental Association.
2001
#7275
'Millennium Ancestor', a 6-million-year-old bipedal hominid from Kenya - Recent discoveries push back human origins by 1.5 million years.
Living around 6 million years ago, in the Tugen hills region of central Kenya, this species, named Orrorin tugenensis, had small teeth with thick enamel similar to modern humans. It climbed trees, but also probably wa…
2001
#7279
New hominin genus from eastern Africa shows diverse middle Pliocene lineages.
In 1998 and 1999, working in the Lake Turkana region of northern Kenya, Meave Leakey and her team found a cranium and other fossil remains of a 3.5 million year old hominin with a mixture of features unseen in other e…
2001 –2008
#7524
An annotated catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater collection of American popular medicine and health reform. 3 vols.
2001
#9932
No place like home: A history of nursing and home care in the United States.
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.
2001
#12071
Encylopedia of death and dying. Edited by Glennys Howarth and Oliver Leaman.
2001
#12145
Aristotle on life and death
2002
#7274
A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, central Africa.
The first paper on Sahelanthropus tchadensis, dating from between 7 and 6 million years ago in West Central Africa (northern Chad). This species had a combination of ape-like and human-like features. Ape-like elements…
2002
#8011
African American alternative medicine: Using alternative medicine to prevent and control chronic diseases.
2002
#8034
Professional and popular medicine in France 1770-1830: The social world of medical practice.
"This is the first comprehensive study on a national scale of the entire range of medical practitioners who flourished in preindustrial and early industrial societies. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, it provides…
2002
#8384
A traffic of dead bodies: Anatomy and embodied social identity in nineteenth century America.
2002
#8542
Edited ancestors, inventible traditions: Essays toward a more inclusive history of anthropology. Edited by Richard Handler.
2002
#8706
Darwin Online. The complete works of Charles Darwin, edited by John van Wyhe.
http://darwin-online.org.uk/AboutUs.html Darwin's Complete Publications Books Origin of Species, Voyage of the Beagle, Descent of Man... Articles Volcanic, Darwin-Wallace paper... Published Letters Life and letters, D…
2002
#10194
Meaning, medicine and the "placebo effect".
"Moerman places the words "Placebo effect" in quotations because he believes that the placebo effect should be redefined. A placebo, he explains is inert. It has no causal effect. A more appropriate definition of the …
2002
#10955
A history of Yale's School of Medicine: Passing torches to others.
2002 –2005
#11243
The human fossil record. 4 vols.
Vol. 1: Terminology and Craniodental Morphology of Genus Homo (Europe). Vol. 2: Craniodental morphology of Genus Homo (Africa and Asia). Vol. 3: Brain endocasts—the paleoneurological evidence. Vol. 4: Crandiodental mo…
2002
#12320
Stanford University School of Medicine and the predecessor schools: An historical perspective.
Digital format only, available from lane.stanford.edu at this link: https://lane.stanford.edu/med-history/wilson/chap01.html
2002
#12530
A sourcebook of dental medicine: Being a documentary history of dentistry and stomatology from the earliest times to the middle of the twentieth century.
2002
#13598
Stem cells and the future of regenerative medicine.
In 2001 this report cited the following diseases with high prevalence in the United States as likely candidates for stem cell research: Cardiovascular Disease: 58 million U.S. patients Automimmune Disease: 30 million …
2003
#7261
The bony labyrinth of Neanderthals.
Computed tomography of the inner ear of 20 Neanderthal specimens directed by Spoor showed that the Neanderthal semicircular canal is subtly distinct in size, shape, and orientation from that of modern humans. With Mar…
2003
#9152
Right living: An Anglo-American tradition of self-help medicine and hygiene. Edited by Charles Rosenberg.
2003
#9966
A merciful end: The euthanasia movement in modern America.
2003
#10010
Dental practice in Europe at the end of the 18th century. Edited by Christine Hillam. (Clio Medica 72).
2003
#10025
Palliative care perspectives.
2003
#11118
History of periodontology.
2003
#11903
Labeling people: French scholars on society, race, and empire, 1815-1848.
2003
#13646
Against the spirit of system: The French impulse in nineteenth-century American medicine.
"... the first in-depth study of a powerful intellectual and social influence: the radical empiricism of the Paris Clinical School. After the French Revolution, Paris emerged as the most vibrant center of Western medi…
2003
#13895
Saving lives, training caregivers, making discoveries: A centennial history of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
2003
#14226
Dental practice in Europe at the end of the 18th century. Edited by Christine Hilliam.
2004
#7286
A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia.
In 2003 a joint Indonesian-Australian research team led by Michael Morwood found LB-1—a nearly complete female skeleton of a tiny human that lived about 80,000 years ago—in Liang Bua cave on the island of Flores, Indo…
2004
#8351
Questions and answers for physicians: A medieval Arabic study manual by 'Abd al- 'Azīz al-Sulamī. Translated, edited and with an introduction by Gary Leiser and Noury Al-Khaledy.
"....a translation and edition of the medieval Arabic medical work entitled Imtiḥān al-alibbā' li-kāffat al-aṭibbā' ("The Experts' Examination for All Physicians"). It is a study guide for students of medicine prepare…
2004
#9899
Jamaican folk medicine: A source of healing.
2004
#10553
The medical delivery business: Health reform, childbirth, and the economic order.
2005
#8328
The rise and fall of HMOs: An American health care revolution.
A broad historical overview of HMOs with a close analysis of one institution, the Marshfield Clinic in northern Wisconsin.
2005
#8700
The cultivation of whiteness: Science, health and racial destiny in Australia.
2005
#9548
Significant events in the history of operative dentistry.
Digital facsimile from Fauchard.org at this link.
2005
#9965
A concise history of euthanasia: Life, death, god, and medicine.
2005
#10026