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311 entries match Instruments & Devices [E07]

2013

#7235

The early history of the cochlear implant: A retrospective.

2013

#7501

Imaging and imagining the fetus: The development of obstetric ultrasound.

2013

#10527

The medical trade catalogue in Britain, 1870–1914.

2013

#12927

History of orthodontics.

This history covers 19th century and earlier developments but emphasizes 20th century material including "History of dental lasers and their applications in orthodontics," "History of of Invisalign," etc.

2014

#7503

The tools of Asclepius: Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times.

The first major work on the subject since Milne's Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times (1907).

2014

#10489

Die Erfindung der Ophthalmoskopie dargestellt in den Originalbeschreibungen der Augenspiegel von Helmholtz, Ruete und Giraud-Teulon. Eingeleitet und erläutert von Wolfgang Jaeger.

2016

#8847

Simulation in healthcare education: An extensive history.

The first history of this topic on the history of mannikins and the unusually wide variety of devices, including interactive software, used in the training of the different specialties in medicine and nursing.

2017

#10555

Cancer, radiation therapy, and the market.

2018

#10186

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

2018

#12362

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).

2022

#14052

The arsenal of eighteenth-century chemistry: The laboratories of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) by Marco Beretta and Paolo Brenni.

"The substantial collection of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier’s apparatus is not the only surviving collection of eighteenth-century chemical apparatus and instrumentation, but it is without question the most important. Th…