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1,480 entries match Zoology & Animal Sciences [K01.900.500.750]

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

#7056

Eliminating healthcare disparities in America. Beyond the IOM Report. Edited by Richard Allen Williams.

2007

#7434

A life decoded. My genome: My life.

2007

#7753

African American slave medicine: Herbal and non-herbal treatments.

2007

#7881

Culturing life: How cells became technologies.

A history of tissue culture.

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

#9976

African American folk healing.

2007

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United States Army aeromedical support to African American fliers, 1941-1949: The Tuskegee flight surgeons.

Digital facsimile from airforemedicine.af.mil at this link.

2007

#10371

Race & medicine in nineteenth and early twentieth-century America.

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

#11303

Inescapable ecologies: A history of environment, disease, and knowledge.

"Among the most far-reaching effects of the modern environmental movement was the widespread acknowledgment that human beings were inescapably part of a larger ecosystem." This book provides a "history of “ecological”…

2007

#11338

Genome sequence of Aedes aegypti, a major arbovirus vector.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Nene, Wortman, Lawson.... Sequence of the genome of the mosquito that transmits Zika, Yellow fever, Dengue, Chikungunya, etc. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference a…

2007

#11500

Early modern zoology: The construction of animals in science, literature and the visual arts. Edited by Karl A. E. Enenkel and Paul J. Smith.

2007

#11843

CRISPR provides acquired resistance against viruses in prokaryotes.

Horvath and his team provided key details of the extremely complex mechanisms involved in CRISPR's function as an immune system for bacteria against bacteriophages. Analogous to Pasteur's heroic role in saving the Fre…

2007

#12159

Textual contraception: Birth control and modern American fiction.

2007

#12584

The works of James McCune Smith: Black intellectual and abolitionist. Edited by John Stauffer. Forward by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Smith "was the first African American to hold a medical degree and graduated at the top in his class at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. After his return to the United States, he became the first African America…

2007

#13645

Women, medicine and theatre, 1500-1750: Literary mountebanks and performing quacks.

2007

#14063

Induction of pluripotent stem cells from adult human fibroblasts by defined factors.

Yamanaka (Nobel Prize 2012) and colleagues demonstrated the generation of Induced Pluripotent Stems Cells (iPS) from adult human dermal fibroblasts with the same 4 mice factors they used in GM 13287. By overexpressing…

2008

#7026

The history of natural history: An annotated bibliography. Second edition

First published, New York: Garland, 1994.

2008

#8308

Embodiments of will: Anatomical and physiological theories of voluntary animal motion from Greek antiquity to the Latin Middle Ages, 400 B.C - A.D.1300.

2008

#10798

Intensely human: The health of the black soldier in the American Civil War.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, physician and man of letters. Edited by Scott. H. Podolsky and Charles S. Bryan.

2009

#11939

Encyclopedia of ancient natural scientists: The Greek tradition and its many heirs. Edited by Paul Keyser and Georgia Irby-Massie.

2009

#12058

Environment & Society Portal.

http://www.environmentandsociety.org/ "The Environment & Society Portal is a gateway to open access resources about human participation in, and understandings of, the environment. It addresses the community of teacher…

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

#13029

Dermatology for skin of color.

"... the first comprehensive reference for this subspecialty, ranging from the historic and cultural to the clinical and basic science components....More than 600 full-color photographs of preoperative and postoperati…

2009

#13038

The good doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the struggle for social justice in health care.

"... documents the history of the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR), a group of health professionals who delivered health care to wounded protesters and victims of police violence during the Civil Rights Movem…

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

#7290

The complete mitochondrial DNA genome of an unknown hominin from southern Siberia.

Svante Pääbo and collaborators reconstructed the genome of the Denisova hominins and announced that they were a new species, that they interbred with our species, and that the DNA results suggest that they had dark ha…

2010

#7510

A vast machine: Computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming.

2010

#7656

Death defied: The anatomy lessons of Frederik Ruysch. Translated by Diane Webb.

2010

#7752

Practicing medicine in a black regiment: The Civil War diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts, edited by Richard M. Reid.

Wilder was a Harvard-trained white physician assigned to one of the first African American regiments in the American Civil War.

2010

#8027

Fictions of well-being: Sickly readers and vernacular medical writing in late medieval and early modern Spain. Michael

2010

#8085

Black physicians in the Jim Crow South.

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

#9670

A companion to American environmental history. Edited by Douglas Cazaux Sackman.

2010

#11076

Odorant reception in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Carey, Wang, ... Carlson. The authors showed that besides CO2, the odorant receptors in the malaria mosquistoes Anopheles gambiae are sensitive to other "mostly sweat" …

2010

#11662

Osler's bedside libraries: Great writers who inspired a great physician. Edited by Michael A. LaCombe and David J. Elpern.

2011

#6843

The shocking history of electric fishes: From ancient epochs to the birth of modern neurophysiology.

The first comprehensive history of this subject.