Aldershot, England
18 entries published in this place. (Aldershot, GB)
1989
#6742.12
A bibliography of medical and biomedical biography.
Collective and individual biographies. Confined to books in English published in the 19th-20th centuries. Revised and enlarged version of J.L. Thornton, A select bibliography of medical biography. 2nd ed., London, 1970.
1990
#6786.34
Thornton’s medical books, libraries and collectors. A study of bibliography and the book trade in relation to the medical sciences.
A highly useful work, originally published by John L. Thornton (b. 1913) in 1949. This new edition includes the following fully-documented historical essays: P. Jones, Medical books before the invention of printing. D…
1992
#11942
Quid pro quo: Studies in the history of drugs.
"All too often ancient herbal and other remedies have been dismissed as ’simply’ folklore, of no relevance to medical science. John Riddle’s approach, however, has been to explore the history of drugs with the hypothe…
1997
#7370
Scientists and the sea 1650-1900. A study of marine science.
1999
#7153
Herbs and herbalism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
1999
#8874
Pristina medicamenta: Ancient and medieval medical botany
2000
#11893
Women's healthcare in the Medieval West: Texts and contexts.
The Appendix is Medieval gynecological texts: A handlist. This is "a list of all gynecological texts currently known to me from western Europe written between the 4th and 15th centuries. It includes gynecological exce…
2001
#7654
Five hundred years of medicine in art: An illustrated catalogue of prints and drawings from the Clements C. Fry collection in the Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library.
2002
#12378
The irritable heart of soldiers and the origins of Anglo-American cardiology: The U.S. Civil War (1861) to World War I (1918).
2005
#8831
A new world of animals: Early modern Europeans on the creatures of Iberian America.
2006
#7154
Visualizing medieval medicine and natural history, 1200-1550.
Avista Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art Volume 5.
2007
#8481
Midwifery, obstetrics and the rise of gynaecology: The uses of a sixteenth century compendium.
The compendium that King studied is Caspar Wolff's Gynaeciorum (1566, 1586-1588; Nos. 6011 and 6022). She concentrated on its reception, looking at a range of different uses of the book in the history of medicine from…
2007
#13634
The medieval hospital and medical practice. Edited by Barbara S. Bowers.
2007
#13645
Women, medicine and theatre, 1500-1750: Literary mountebanks and performing quacks.
2011
#8439
A Cretan healer's handbook in the Byzantine tradition: Text, translation and commentary.
2011
#10576
Medicine, government, and public health in Philip II's Spain: Shared interests, competing authorities.
2013
#13647
Medical consulting by letter in France, 1665-1789.
"Ailing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French men and women, members of their families, or their local physician or surgeon, could write to high profile physicians and surgeons seeking expert medical advice. This…
2015
#7203