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1985

#8498

Encyclopaedia of Indian medicine. Volume one: Historical perspective.

RAMACHANDRA RAO, Saligrama Krishna (1925 – 2006)

1985

#8958

Les noms de plantes dans la Rome antique.

ANDRÉ, Jacques

1985

#11949

Doctors and medicine in early Renaissance Florence.

PARK, Katharine

1986

#6810

The Oxford companion to medicine. 2 vols.

WALTON, Sir John Nicholas (1922 – 2016) BEESON, Paul Bruce (1908 – 2006) SCOTT, Sir Ronald Bodley (1906 – 1982)

A dictionary, biographical dictionary, and encyclopedia covering selected aspects of the theory, practice and profession of medicine, including history, by the editors and 150 notable contributors. Produced in the sty…

1986

#8088

The path we tread: Blacks in nursing, 1854-1984.

CARNEGIE, Mary Elizabeth (1916 – 2008)

1986

#9419

Medicine in China: A history of pharmaceutics.

UNSCHULD, Paul Ulrich (1943 – )

1987

#6565.02

Avicenna in Renaissance Italy. The Canon and medical teaching in Italian Universities after 1500.

SIRAISI, Nancy G. (1932 – )

1987

#7358

Studies on Indian medical history, edited by G. Jan Meulenbeld and Dominik Wujastyk.

WUJASTYK, Dominik
MEULENBELD, Gerrit Jan (1928 – 2017)
MEULENBELD, Gerrit Jan (1928 – 2017)

1987

#8601

Ordered to care: The dilemma of American nursing, 1850-1945.

REVERBY, Susan Mokotoff (1946 – )

1987

#13165

"I have done my duty." Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, 1854-56. Edited by Sue M. Goldie.

NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820 – 1910)
NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820 – 1910) GOLDIE, Sue M.

Nightingale's correspondence, 1854-1856.

1988 –2000

#6639.12

American nursing: A biographical dictionary. 3 vols.

BULLOUGH, Vern Leroy (1928 – 2006)

Edited with O.M. Church and A.P. Stein.

1988

#6639.13

Dictionary of American nursing biography.

KAUFMAN, Martin (1940 – )

Edited with J.W. Hawkins, L.P. Higgins, and A.H. Friedman.

1988

#8640

Critical care nursing: A history

FAIRMAN, Julie A. (1954 – ) LYNAUGH, Joan E.

1988

#9707

Histoire de la médecine chinoise.

HOIZEY, Dominique HOIZEY, Marie-Joseph

1989

#8087

Black women in white: Racial conflict and cooperation in the nursing profession, 1890-1950.

HINE, Darlene Clark (1947 – )

1989

#9730

Approaches to traditional Chinese medical literature. Proceedings of an international symposium on translation methodologies and terminologies. Edited by Paul U. Unschuld.

UNSCHULD, Paul Ulrich (1943 – )

1989

#10340

Cancer mapping, edited by Peter Boyle, Calum S. Muir, and Ekkehard Grundmann.

BOYLE, Peter (1951 – )
BOYLE, Peter (1951 – ) MUIR, Calum S. GRUNDMANN, Ekkehard (1921 – )

The first chapter, by G. M. Howe is "Historical evolution of disease mapping in general and specifically of cancer mapping." The book as a whole discusses the wide range of cancer maps and atlases in U.S., Europe and …

1989

#13311

The great age of the microscope: The collection of the Royal Microscopical Society through 150 years.

TURNER, Gerard l'Estrange

1989

#13312

God bless the microscope! A history of the Royal Microscopical Society over 150 years.

TURNER, Gerard l'Estrange

1990

#8049

Medieval & Early Renaissance medicine: An introduction to knowledge and practice.

SIRAISI, Nancy G. (1932 – )

1990

#9802

Dictionary of protopharmacology: Therapeutic practices, 1700-850.

ESTES, J. Worth (1934 – 2000)

1990

#12453

Dictionary of protopharmacology: Therapeutic practices, 1700-1850.

ESTES, J. Worth (1934 – 2000)

1991 –2007

#7415

A history of medicine. 6 vols.

PRIORESCHI, Plinio (1930 – 2014)

Vol. 1: Primitive and Ancient Medicine (1991/1995), Vol. 2: Greek Medicine (1996), Vol. 3: Roman Medicine (1998), Vol. 4: Byzantine and Islamic Medicine (2001), Vol. 5: Medieval Medicine (2003), Vol. 6: Renaissance Me…

1991

#8959

Le vocabulaire latin de l'anatomie.

ANDRÉ, Jacques

1991

#10265

Botany in medieval and renaissance universities.

REEDS, Karen M.

Reprints Reeds, "Publishing scholarly books in the sixteenth century," Scholarly Publishing (April, 1983), 259-274.

1991

#12938

Mapping the brain and its functions: Integrating enabling technologies into neuroscience research. Edited by Constance M. Pechura and Joseph B. Martin. Committee on a National Neural Circuitry Database....

PECHURA, Constance M. MARTIN, Joseph Boyd (1938 – )

The digital edition is available from nap.edu at this link.

1992

#7043

Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance.

RIDDLE, John M. (1937 – )

Riddle argued that the ancient world possessed effective and safe contraceptives and abortifacients; however this knowledge about fertility control, widely held in the ancient world, was gradually lost over the course…

1992

#7354

Brain maps: Structure of the rat brain.

SWANSON, Larry William (1945 – )

The first computer graphics atlas of the brain of any species, with the illustration files also available separately (1993). The work included a complete and systematic, hierarchically organized set of annotated nomen…

1992

#11539

The laboratory revolution in medicine. Edited by Andrew Cunningham and Perry Williams.

CUNNINGHAM, Andrew WILLIAMS, Perry

Laboratory medicine developed in the nineteenth century, principally in Germany, France, Britain, and the United States. While a number of scholars have studied various aspects of laboratory medicine in the nineteenth…

1993

#8811

Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.

ARNOLD, David (1946 – )

An authoritative account of the way that medicine was practiced in India in adaptation to the situation faced by physicians and the state in India, focusing on three major epidemic diseases: smallpox, cholera plague.

1993

#9963

A dictionary of medical terms in Galen.

GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)
GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216) DURLING, Richard Jasper (1932 – 1999)

1994

#7547

La fabbrica del corpo: Libri e dissezione nel Rinascimento.

CARLINO, Andrea (1960 – )

Translated into English by John Tedeschi and Anne C. Tedeschi as Books of the body: Anatomical ritual and Renaissance learning, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

1994

#8802

Public health in British India: Anglo-Indian preventive medicine 1859-1914.

HARRISON, Mark

The first major study of public health in British India.

1994

#13823

A history of the origin, evolution, and impact of electrocardiography.

FYE, W. Bruce (1946 – )
FYE, W. Bruce (1946 – )

1995

#8129

Medical ethics in the Renaissance.

SCHLEINER, Winfried

The first comprehensive examination of medical ethics in the Renaissance.

1996

#6985

Views of the cell. A pictorial history.

GALL, Joseph Grafton (1928 – )

Sixty images (reproduced in color where appropriate) with detailed commentary and bibliographical references, arranged in chronological order, from the first images viewed through the microscope to electron micrographs.

1996

#8766

Fritz Spiegl's sick notes: An alphabetical browsing book of medical derivations, abbreviations mnemonics and slang for amusement and edification of medics, nurses, patients and hypochondriacs.

SPIEGL, Fritz (1926 – 2003)

Both serious and humorous; illustrated with cartoons.

1996

#9201

The microscope in the Dutch Republic: The shaping of discovery.

RUESTOW, Edward G.

Focusing on Jan Swammerdam and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the author demonstrates that their uneasiness with their social circumstances spurred their discoveries. Ruestow argues that while aspects of Dutch culture impede…

1997

#8051

The clock and the mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine.

SIRAISI, Nancy G. (1932 – )

1997

#9364

The illustrated Yellow Emperor's canon of medicine. Compiled and illustrated by Zhou Chuncai and Han Yazhou.

ZHOU, Chuncai HAN, Yazhou

Text in Chinese and English. A very accessible illustrated popularization— almost in the style of a comic book— of the Yellow Emperor's classic.

1997

#13678

Attorney's illustrated medical dictionary.

DOX, Ida G.

1997

#14365

Early Chinese medical literature. The Mawangdui medical manuscripts. Translation and study by Donald Harper.

HARPER, Donald J.

"Discovered in 1973, in the richest cache of ancient manuscripts ever unearthed in China, the seven medical manuscripts from Mawangdui Tomb 3 in Changsha, Hunan Province....The manuscripts were buried in 168 B.C. alon…

1998

#7143

Early Chinese medical literature. The Mawangdui medical manuscripts. Translation and Study by Donald J. Harper.

HARPER, Donald J.

Detailed historical analysis and English translation of medical manuscripts buried with their owner in 168 BCE and unearthed in Mawangdui, Hunan, in 1973, representing Chinese medical traditions from the 4th to 2nd ce…

1998

#8336

The divine farmer's materia medica: A translation of the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing by Yang Shou-zhong.

SHOU-ZHONG, Yang

1998

#12806

The roots of Ayurveda.

WUJASTYK, Dominik

Readings in English translation, with commentaries, from classical medical texts.

1999

#7032

Taking positions. On the erotic in Renaissance culture.

TALVACCHIA, Bette

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

#7153

Herbs and herbalism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

STANNARD, Jerry Willmert (1926 – 1988) STANNARD, Katherine E. KAY, Richard

1999 –2002

#7216

A history of Indian medical literature. 5 vols.

MEULENBELD, Gerrit Jan (1928 – 2017)
MEULENBELD, Gerrit Jan (1928 – 2017)

Comprises the entire corpus of Sanskrit medical texts, from the earliest times to the present, thus covering about two millennia.

1999

#7546

Paper bodies: A catalogue of anatomical fugitive sheets 1538-1687. (Medical History, Supplement No. 19)

CARLINO, Andrea (1960 – )

Describes bibliographically and illustrates the approximately 60 different surviving fugitive sheets together with essays on "The visual culture of Renaissance anatomy," "Anatomical fugitive sheets: Printing, prints a…

1999

#8337

Shāng Hán Lùn: On cold damage. Translation and commentaries by Craig Mitchell, Chung-Ching Chang, and Feng Ye.

MITCHELL, Craig CHANG, Chung-Ching YE, Feng