2013 SCHNEIDER, William H.

The history of blood transfusion in Sub-Saharan Africa.

GMN 7843 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10015

2014 LANCISI, Giovanni Maria (1654 – 1720); DONATO, Maria Pia

Sudden death: Medicine and religion in eighteenth-century Rome.

"In 1705-1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession and two years after a devastating earthquake, an ’epidemic’ of mysterious sudden deaths terrorized Rome. In early modern society, a sudden death was perceived as…

GMN 9845 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12033

2014 MAHMOOD, Syed S.; LEVY, Daniel; RAMACHANDRAN, Vasan S.; WANG, Thomas J.

The Framingham Heart Study and the epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases: A historical perspective.

Full text available from PubMedCentral at this link.

GMN 10214 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12403

2014 SWANSON, Kara W.

Banking on the body: The market in blood, milk, and sperm in modern America.

GMN 11513 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13712

2014 STEPHANOU, Aspasia

Reading vampire gothic through blood: Bloodlines.

GMN 11745 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13945

2015 FYE, W. Bruce (1946 – )

Caring for the heart: Mayo Clinic and the rise of specialization.

The history of cardiology and cardiac surgery from the perspective of the history of the Mayo Clinic. Of special interest for details of the history of cardiac surgery in Minnesota. The book may be most remembered for…

GMN 7855 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10027

2016 PIERCE, Stephen R.; REID, Marion E.

Bloody brilliant! A history of blood groups and blood groupers.

GMN 8859 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11037

2017 ROTHSTEIN, William G. (1937 – )

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…

GMN 12372 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14597

2018 MCKELLAR, Shelley (1967 – )

Artificial hearts: The allure and ambivalence of a controversial medical technology.

GMN 10186 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12375

2018 MOSS, Sandra W.

Writing the pulse: The origins and career of the sphygmograph and its American masters.

"The definitive history of a technology that was used in research and practice in Europe and America beginning with the invention of the sphygmograph by German physiologist Karl Vierordt in 1854" (W. Bruce Fye).

GMN 12362 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14586

2019 ZIMMERMANN, Michael B.; SIMMERMAN-KOGADEEVA, Maria; WEGMANN, Rebekka; ET AL

Mapping human microbiome drug metabolism by gut bacteria and their genes.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Zimmermann, Simmerman-Kogadeeva, Wegmann....The authors looked at 271 drugs and 68 different species from the main taxonomic microbiome groups. Of the 271 drugs, 176 un…

GMN 11482 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13681

2020 FEDER, Henry M. Jr.; REZUKE, William N.

Infectious mononucleosis diagnosed by Downey cells: Sometimes the old ways are better.

The Downey cell method for the diagnosis of infectious mononucleosis remains effective and cost-effective nearly 100 years after it was discovered: "An 18-year-old woman visited her physician because she had a fever, …

GMN 12117 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14326

2020 BERNER, Boel (1945 – )

Strange blood: The rise and fall of lamb blood transfusion in 19th century medicine and beyond.

eBook version available at no cost from play.google.com at this link.

GMN 13267 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15533

2021 FRANGOUL, Haydar A.; ALTSHULER, David Matthew (1964 – ); CAPPELLINI, Maria Domenica; ET AL

CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing for sickle cell disease and ß-thalassemia.

First application of CRISPR gene editing in the successful cure of diseases. Order of authorship in the original publication: Frangoul, Altshuler, Cappellini. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpret…

GMN 13478 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15752