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 filtersGeography
Specialties & Disease
- Alternative & Fringe Medicine 6
- Anatomy & Pathology 77
- Cardiology & Blood 1
- Dentistry 6
- Diabetes 0
- ENT & Hearing 1
- Epidemiology & Demography 4
- Gastroenterology & Hepatology 0
- General Clinical Medicine 7
- Immunology & Dermatology 5
- Infectious Disease (General) 0
- Internal, Emergency & Geriatric 0
- Microbiology & Virology 1
- Military Medicine 1
- Neurology & Psychiatry 26
- Obstetrics & Reproductive 16
- Oncology & Cancer 1
- Ophthalmology & Vision 2
- Pediatrics 3
- Physiology & Embryology 6
- Plagues & Epidemics 14
- Psychology 7
- Public Health 15
- Pulmonary & Respiratory 1
- Rheumatology, Rehab & Pain 0
- Surgery & Anesthesia 10
- Urology & Nephrology 2
- Veterinary Medicine 2
Social & Historical Studies
Institutions & Culture
Reference & Scholarly Works
351 entries match Arts, Literature & Humanities [K01.090] · Zoology & Animal Sciences [K01.900.500.750]
2009
#12140
Tormented hope: Nine hypochondriac lives.
Accounts of writers, artists, and scientists: James Boswell, Charlotte Brontë, Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Alice James Daniel Paul Schreber, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould, and Andy Warhol.
2009
#13662
Art and ophthalmology: The impact of eye diseases on painters. Translated by Colin Mailer.
2009
#14357
Milton and maternal mortality.
"All too often, childbirth in early modern England was associated with fear, suffering and death, and this melancholy preoccupation weighed heavily on the seventeenth-century mind. This landmark study examines John Mi…
2010
#7248
Early Medicine, from the body to the stars.
Extensively annotated, magnificently printed catalogue (590pp. in 4to) entirely illustrated in color, of an exhibition of 250 early medical manuscripts, printed books, and related objects from the ancient world to the…
2010
#7656
Death defied: The anatomy lessons of Frederik Ruysch. Translated by Diane Webb.
2010
#8027
Fictions of well-being: Sickly readers and vernacular medical writing in late medieval and early modern Spain. Michael
2010
#8367
Arab painting: Text and image in illustrated Arabic manuscripts. Edited by Anna Contadini.
2010
#9397
The illustrated Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud. Edited with an introduction and essays by Jeffrey Moussaieff Mason.
Reprints selected portions of the 1913 A. A. Brill translation together essays by Masson and excerpts from Jung, Lacan, and Horney. Includes many full page or double-page color reproductions of works by modernist and …
2010
#11662
Osler's bedside libraries: Great writers who inspired a great physician. Edited by Michael A. LaCombe and David J. Elpern.
2011
#10360
Miraculous plagues: An epidemiology of early New England narrative.
2011
#10493
Divine machines: Leibniz and the sciences of life.
"Smith offers the first in-depth examination of Leibniz's deep and complex engagement with the empirical life sciences of his day, in areas as diverse as medicine, physiology, taxonomy, generation theory, and paleonto…
2011
#10562
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, a tale of love and fallout.
This very beautiful biographical work on the Curies is also an artist's book, with every page filled with artistic imagery drawn by the artist. It has been characterized as part history, part love story, part artwork.…
2011
#10697
Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical world: Language, context and "disegno". Edited by Alessandro Nova and Domenico Laurenza.
2012
#7751
Hidden treasure: The National Library of Medicine. Edited by Michael Sappol.
A visually spectacular collection of illustrated essays on remarkable books, manuscripts, artwork and films in the National Library of Medicine written by numerous historians and edited by Sappol. Photography by Arne …
2012
#8065
Health and illness: Images of difference.
2012
#9778
Poison, detection and the Victorian imagination.
2012
#10294
The art of medicine: Over 2000 years of images and imagination.
"The pharmaceutical magnate Henry S. Wellcome (1853-1936) sought to illumine the 'history of the Healing art' across cultures and from the ancient past to his own day through his vast historical medical collection. Th…
2013
#7651
Fritz Kahn.
Text and captions in English, French and German.
2013
#9853
Medical visions: Producing the patient through film, television, and imaging technologies.
"Kirsten Ostherr focuses on moving images produced in the United States from the early twentieth century to the present day. The types of images she considers are diverse and range from sober education films to televi…
2013
#10712
Charles Dickens and the sciences of childhood: Popular medicine, child health and victorian culture .
2014
#7664
Joseph Towne at the Gordon Museum.
2014
#8067
Seeing the insane: A visually and cultural history of our attitudes toward the mentally ill.
2014
#8160
Art of Vesalius. Edited by Robrecht Van Hee.
2014
#8705
Huarte y Navarro: The examination of men's wits, translated by Richard Carew. Edited by Rocío G. Sumillera. (MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations, Vol. 17).
Includes a very significant historical introduction, particularly concerning the very wide influence of this work on literature and philosophy as well as medicine.
2014
#8897
Médecine, sciences de la vie et littérature en France et en Europe, de la révolution à nos jours. 3 vols. Edited by Lisa Dumusay-Queffélec and Hélène Spengler.
2014
#9703
Scottish medicine and literary culture, 1726-1832.
2014
#10097
Bodies in balance: The art of Tibetan medicine. Edited by Theresia Hofer.
The first comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the triangular relationship among the Tibetan art and science of healing (Sowa Rigpa), Buddhism, and arts and crafts. Sowa Rigpa was influenced by Chinese, Ind…
2014
#11501
Zoology in early modern culture: Intersections of science, theology, philology, and political and religious education. Edited by Karl A. E. Enenkel and Paul J. Smith.
2014
#11745
Reading vampire gothic through blood: Bloodlines.
2015
#8800
History, sex and syphilis: Famous syphilitics and their private lives.
2015
#10424
L'invention de l'hystérie au temps des lumières (1670–1820).
Translated into English as On hysteria: The invention of a medical category between 1670 and 1820 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).
2016
#9454
Birthing bodies in early modern France: Stories of gender and reproduction.
2016
#10420
Novel medicine: Healing, literature, and popular knowledge in early modern China.
"By examining the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine, Novel Medicine demonstrates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge in China, beginning in the sixteenth ce…
2017
#8520
Osler Library Prints Collection.
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/oslerprints/index.php "This varied collection of approximately 2,500 prints offers a fascinating look into the history of medicine through popular imagery. The medium of the print, bei…
2017
#8867
The beautiful brain: The drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Edited with commentaries by Eric A. Newman, Alfonso Araque, and Janet M. Dubinsky. Essays by Larry W. Swanson, Lyndel King, and Eric Himmel.
A spectacular volume reproducing Ramón y Cajal's drawings in very high quality, and with significant commentaries.
2017
#9693
Frankenstein: Annotated for scientists, engineers, and creators of all kinds
2017
#9702
Literature and medicine in the nineteenth-century periodical press: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858.
2017
#9882
Malleable anatomies: Models, makers, and material culture in eighteenth-century Italy.
"Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modeling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy. It investigates the "mania" for anatomical displays that swept the Italian peninsula, …
2017
#12851
The smile revolution in eighteenth century Paris.
2018
#10525
The medical imagination: Literature and health in the early United States.
"... During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, doctors understood the imagination to be directly connected to health, intimately involved in healing, and central to medical discovery. In fact, for physicians and…
2018
#11382
Rhetoric, medicine, and the woman writer, 1600–1700.
"How did physicians come to dominate the medical profession? Lyn Bennett challenges the seemingly self-evident belief that scientific competence accounts for physicians' dominance. Instead, she argues that the whole e…
2018
#12532
Medieval bodies: Life, death and art in the Middle Ages.
2018
#12878
W. E. B. Du Bois's data portraits. Visualizing black America. The color line at the turn of the twentieth century. Edited by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert.
2019
#11999
Literature and nature in the English renaissance: An ecocritical anthology. Edited by Todd Andrew Borlik.
2019
#13010
Perilous chastity: Women and illness in Pre-Enlightenment art and medicine.
"Bearing such titles as The Doctor's Visit or The Lovesick Maiden, certain seventeenth-century Dutch paintings are familiar to museum browsers: an attractive young woman—well dressed, but pale and listless—reclines in…
2019
#14012
Sir William Osler's Leonardo da Vinci collection: Flight, anatomy and art.
2020
#13774
The science of starving in Victorian literature, medicine, and political economy.
2021
#13373
Up against the wall: Art, activism, and the AIDS poster. Edited by Donald Albrecht and Jessica Lacher-Feldman. Medical and consulting editor William M. Valenti.
Documents the power and impact of nearly 200 examples of AIDS posters from around the world and the social activism that continues to bring awareness to a disease without vaccine or a cure. Selected from the 8000 post…
2021
#13773
Literature and medicine. Vol. 1. The eighteenth century. Vol. 2. The nineteenth century. Edited by Clark Lawlor and Andrew Mangham.
2022
#13917
Flesh and bones: The art of anatomy. By Monique Kornell. With contributions by Thisbe Gensler, Naoko Takahatake, Erin Travers.
Chapters by Monique Kornell are: 1. The Illustration of Anatomy, 2. The Living Dead: Animated Anatomy, 3. Arts and Anatomy Books, 4. Anatomy and the Antique, 5. "As Large as Nature": Life Size Anatomical Illustration,…