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351 entries match Arts, Literature & Humanities [K01.090] · Zoology & Animal Sciences [K01.900.500.750]
1992
#8459
Medicine and Shakespeare in the English Renaissance.
1992
#8750
Conan Doyle's tales of medical humanism and values: Round the red lamp; being facts and fancies of medical life, with other medical short stories. Edited by Alvin Rodin and Jack Key.
1992
#10821
Vital signs: Medical realism in 19th-century fiction.
1992
#11855
Disorderly eaters: Texts in self-empowerment. Edited by Lillian R. Furst and Peter W. Graham.
Explores the various manifestations of eating disorders in literature, including cannibalism, the magic attributes of food, religiously motivated fasting, and children's eating problems, from the classical period to T…
1993
#8518
Medical Humanities at New York University. LITMED: Literature Arts Medicine Database.
http://medhum.med.nyu.edu/ "The Literature, Arts and Medicine Database (LitMed) is a collection of literature, fine art, visual art and performing art annotations created as a dynamic, comprehensive resource for schol…
1994
#8765
Nurturing yesterday's child: A portrayal of the Drake collection of paediatric history.
Pediatric prints, paintings, and antiques collected by Theodore G. H. Drake.
1995
#7499
Diseases in wax: A history of the medical moulage.
1995
#9681
Picturing health and illness: Images of identity and difference.
1996
#7493
The ingenious machine of nature: Four centuries of art and anatomy.
1996
#7532
Kunst & Medizin: Leonardo da Vinci, Francisco Goya, Vincent van Gogh.
1996
#7827
From Hogarth to Rowlandson: Medicine in art in eighteenth century Britain.
1997
#7463
The eye of the artist.
1997
#7530
Literatur & Medizin: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Holderlin, Heinrich Heine.
1998
#8183
Les maladies dans l'art antique.
1998
#10477
Enlightenment and pathology: Sensibility in the literature and medicine of eighteenth-century France.
1999
#7032
Taking positions. On the erotic in Renaissance culture.
Of particular relevance to the history of medical literature is Chapter 8: "Mythology, Sexuality, and Science in Charles Estienne's Manual of Anatomy" (pp. 161-188). This refers to Estienne's De dissectione partium co…
1999
#8722
The surgeon's stage: A history of the operating room.
Perhaps the only book on this special subject; numerous illustrations, mostly in color.
1999
#9810
Medicina antiqua. Codex Vindobonensis 93. Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Introduction by Peter Murray Jones, commentary by Franz Unterkircher. Manuscripts in Miniature, No. 4.
Color reproduction, reduced in size by one-third, of "a compendium of popular Late Antique texts brought together in the 6th century. It contains writings on herbs and materia medica by authors heavily reliant on the …
2000
#8676
Defining features: Scientific and medical portraits, 1660-2000.
2000
#8680
Spectacular bodies: The art and science of the human body from Leonardo to now.
2000
#9061
Creativity and disease: How illness affects literature, art and music. 4th edition.
2001
#7654
Five hundred years of medicine in art: An illustrated catalogue of prints and drawings from the Clements C. Fry collection in the Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library.
2001
#7776
Bodies politic: Disease, death and doctors in Britain, 1650-1900.
Social history emphasizing the visual depiction of disease, death and doctors.
2003
#10244
ArtandMedicine.com.
http://www.artandmedicine.com/Index.html A highly personal but in all aspects extraordinary website/blog on the history of medical photography in the form of what Rowley calls his Cabinet Journal.
2003
#10818
Chekhov's doctors: A collection of Chekhov's medical tales. Edited by Jack Coulehan.
"Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other" is a well-known quote by Anton Chekhov, the Russian physician and writer. Founder of both the modern s…
2003
#12059
Victorian detective fiction: The scientific investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle.
2004
#8068
Invention of hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière.
See No. 4558.1
2004
#10508
Mapping the Victorian social body.
"The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explos…
2004
#10560
Rappresentare il corpo: Art e anatomia da Leonardo all'illuminismo.
Extensive book (324 pages, many color plates) issued in connection with an exhibition held in Bologna, December 2004 to March 2005, celebrating the fourth centenary of Ulisse Aldrovandi. A much-condensed guide to the …
2005
#9453
Drugs and theater in early modern England.
2005
#10076
Thomas Browne and the writing of early modern science.
2006
#7423
Encyclopaedia anatomica: Museo la Specola Florence.
Spectacular collection of color photographs of wax models in the Museo la Specola, Florence. Text in English, French and German.
2006
#9820
Mom's cancer.
This book was born digital in 2004, and later published in print. See www.momscancer.com. "Winner of the 2005 Eisner Award in the category of Best Digital Comic for the original Web version" "Brian Fies is a freelance…
2006
#9926
Consumption and literature: The making of the romantic disease.
2006
#10910
Emily Dickinson's herbarium: A facsimile edition. Foreward by Leslie A. Morris. Essays, botanical catalogue and index by Richard B. Sewall, Judith Farr, and Ray Angelo.
A facsimile edition of MS Am 1118.11 in Houghton Library, Harvard University. Digital facsimile of the actual herbarium from Harvard at this link.
2006
#11650
The neurologic content of S. Weir Mitchell’s fiction.
Digital facsimile from semanticscholar.org at this link.
2007
#6977
Anatomy as art: The Dean Edell collection.
Extensively annotated and well-illustrated catalogue of books, prints, sculptures, and anatomical models from the 15th to 20th centuries, written by Jeremy Norman for the auction sale of Dean Edell's library sold at C…
2007
#8609
My highest pleasure: William Hunter's art collection. Edited by Peter Black.
A beautiful book on Hunter's art collection, and how he assembled it, as well as a study of the representation of art in Hunter's library. The book also describes and illustrates Hunter's collection of anatomical art,…
2007
#8896
Litterature et medécine: Approaches et perspectives (XVIe-XIXe siècles). Edited by Andrea Carlino and Alexandre Wenger.
2007
#9132
Musicophilia: Tales of music and the brain.
In a review for The Washington Post, Peter D. Kramer wrote, "In Musicophilia, Sacks turns to the intersection of music and neurology -- music as affliction and music as treatment." Kramer wrote, "Lacking the dynamic t…
2007
#9425
The legacy of Harvey Cushing: Profiles of patient care. Edited by Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol and Dennis D. Spencer.
"... features 800 of Cushing's surgical drawings and photographs of patients and tumor specimens. Preserved untouched for sixty years in the Yale University Library, the images provide the earliest catalog of neurolog…
2007
#9704
Smallpox and the literary imagination, 1660-1820.
2007
#10815
The sickroom in Victorian fiction: The art of being ill.
2007
#11171
Science and the imagination: Mesmerism, media, and the mind in nineteenth-century English and American literature.
2007
#12159
Textual contraception: Birth control and modern American fiction.
2007
#13645
Women, medicine and theatre, 1500-1750: Literary mountebanks and performing quacks.
2009
#7650
Fritz Kahn: Man machine / Maschine Mensch.
Text and captions in English and German.
2009
#9120
Asylum: Inside the closed world of state mental hospitals. Photographs by Christopher Payne. With an essay by Oliver Sacks.
2009
#9811
The theatre of the body: Staging death and embodying life in early-modern London.
"...The book takes as its specific focus seventeenth-century London, in a significant study encompassing the period from the incorporation of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons (1540) to the staging of Edward R…
2009
#11258
