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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

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1984

#7189

Medical travelers: Narratives from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.

SPILLANE, John David (1909 – 1985)

Anthology of selections from the writings of some of the more famous English physician travellers.

1984

#7428

DNA sequences from the quagga, an extinct member of the horse family.

HIGUCHI, Russell RYDER, Oliver Allison III

Probably the first study of DNA isolated from ancient specimens, or ancient DNA (aDNA). By Higuchi, Barbara Bowman, and Mary Freiberger from the Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley and Ryder…

1984

#9979

Culture, health and illness.

HELMAN, Cecil G. (1944 – 2009)

Revised and expanded fifth edition, London: Hodder Arnold, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Culture, Health and Illness is the leading international textbook on the role of cultural and social factors in healt…

1984

#12578

Into thin air: A history of aviation medicine in the RAF.

GIBSON, T. Michael HARRISON, Michael H.

1984

#12819

Catalogue of printed books and manuscripts (1491-1900) in the Library of St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School.

BIRD, David T.

1985

#145.91

The background of ecology: concept and theory.

MCINTOSH, Robert Patrick

1985

#6786.29

The two Sydenham Societies. A history and bibliography of the medical classics published by the Sydenham Society and the New Sydenham Society (1844-1911).

MEYNELL, Geoffrey Guy

1985 –1998

#7080

Handlist of Sanskrit and Prakrit manuscripts in the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. 2 vols.

WUJASTYK, Dominik

1985

#7558

The origins of museums: The cabinet of curiosities in sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe.

IMPEY, Oliver (1936 – 2005) MACGREGOR, Arthur (1936 – )

A collective work edited by Impey and MacGregor.

1985

#8820

Doctors and slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies.

SHERIDAN, Richard B. (1918 – )

1985

#8882

William Osler's collected papers on the cardiovascular system. Edited by W. Bruce Fye.

OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
FYE, W. Bruce (1946 – )
FYE, W. Bruce (1946 – )

Includes a previously unpublished essay by Maude Abbott, "Osler's contributions to our knowledge of heart disease."

1985

#9133

The man who mistook his wife of a hat and other clinical tales.

SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)
SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)

Describes the case histories of some of Sacks's patients. The title comes from the case study of a man with visual agnosia.[1] The book "became the basis of an opera of the same name by Michael Nyman, which premiered …

1985

#9233

An account of the foxglove and its medical uses 1785-1985.

WITHERING, William (1741 – 1799)
WITHERING, William (1741 – 1799) ARONSON, Jeffrey Kenneth (1947 – )

This work consists of a reproduction of Withering's classic text published in 1785, extensively annotated by Aronson, followed by Aronson's history of "the use of the digitalis glycosides and related compounds over th…

1985

#10430

Sympathy and science: Women physicians in American medicine.

MORANTZ-SANCHEZ, Regina Markell

"Tracing the participation of women in the medical profession from the colonial period to the present, Regina Morantz-Sanchez examines women's roles as nurses, midwives, and practitioners of folk medicine in early Ame…

1985

#11206

A bibliography of Edward Jenner, 1749-1823

JENNER, Edward (1749 – 1823)
JENNER, Edward (1749 – 1823) LEFANU, William Richard (1904 – 1995)

Revised second edition of Lefanu's A bio-bibliography of Edward Jenner (1951). The annotations in this bibliography form a kind of biographical narrative of Jenner's life and achievements.

1986

#534.42

A history of embryology. British Society for Developmental Biology Symposia 8. Edited by T. J. Horder, J. A. Wikowski and C. C. Wylie.

HORDER, T. J. WITKOWSKI, Jan A. WYLIE, Christopher Craig (1945 – )

A survey of the history of developmental biology from 1880.

1986

#2702.5

Pioneers and early years: A history of British radiology.

BURROWS, Edmund Hartford (1927 – 2002)

Well-illustrated and carefully documented, incorporating detailed biographies of pioneers. Covers the history before 1930.

1986

#3705.5

Antique dental instruments.

BENNION, Elisabeth

1986

#3726

The history of scurvy and vitamin C.

CARPENTER, Kenneth John (1923 – 2016)

1986

#4158.3

Introduction to the history of medical and veterinary mycology.

AINSWORTH, Geoffrey Clough (1905 – 1998)
AINSWORTH, Geoffrey Clough (1905 – 1998)

Authoritative and well-illustrated history with excellent chronological bibliography.

1986

#6786.30

A descriptive and analytical catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

KESHAVARZ, Fatemeh (1952 – )

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

#8213

Ecological imperialism: The biological expansion of Europe, 900-1900.

CROSBY, Alfred W. Jr. (1931 – 2018)

Revised edition, 2004.

1986

#8217

Brought to bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950.

LEAVITT, Judith Walzer (1940 – )

Focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices, their replacement by male doctors, and the movement from the home to the hospital. She explains that childbearing women and their physicians gradually…

1986

#8235

Galen on bloodletting: A study of the origins, development and validity of his opinions, with a translation of the three works

GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)
GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216) BRAIN, Peter

Bloodletting is thought to have been practiced by Greek physicians of the 5th century BCE. This study includes translation of Galeni de venae sectione adversus Erasistratum liber (162-163 CE), Galeni de venae sectione…

1986

#8606

The man behind the syndrome.

BEIGHTON, Peter H. (1934 – )
BEIGHTON, Peter H. (1934 – ) BEIGHTON, Greta

Portraits and biographies, emphasizing genetic syndromes. Followed by the authors' The person behind the syndrome (1997).

1986

#9536

A history and theory of informed consent.

FADEN, Ruth R. (1949 – ) BEAUCHAMP, Tom L. (1939 – )

"In collaboration with Nancy M. P. King."

1986

#9998

Medical care and the general practitioner 1750-1850.

LOUDON, Irvine (1924 – 2015)

1986

#10351

The end of life: Euthanasia and morality.

RACHELS, James W. (1941 – 2003)

Full text available from Jamesrachels.org at this link.

1986

#11518

The library of Dr. John Webster: The making of a seventeenth century radical. Medical History supplement no. 6. Edited by Peter Elmer.

ELMER, Peter WEBSTER, John (1610 – 1682)

1986

#11851

Plague and the poor in Renaissance Florence.

CARMICHAEL, Anne G.

"This book uses Florentine death registers to show the changing character of plague from the first outbreak of the Black Death in 1348 to the mid-fifteenth century. Through an innovative study of this evidence, Profes…

1986

#13394

Magnus Hirschfeld: A portrait of a pioneer in sexology.

HIRSCHFELD, Magnus (1868 – 1935)
HIRSCHFELD, Magnus (1868 – 1935) WOLFF, Charlotte (1897 – 1986)

1987

#461

British anatomy 1525-1800; a bibliography of works published in Britain, America, and on the Continent. 2nd edition.

RUSSELL, Kenneth Fitzpatrick (1911 – 1987)

Full descriptions, frequently annotated, of 901 items.

1987

#2319.2

Morbid appearances: the anatomy of pathology in the early nineteenth century.

MAULITZ, Russell Charles (1944 – )

1987

#7665

Death, dissection and the destitute: The politics of the corpse in pre-victorian Britain.

RICHARDSON, Ruth

1987

#8601

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

REVERBY, Susan Mokotoff (1946 – )

1987

#9106

Breasts, bottles and babies: A history of infant feeding.

FILDES, Valerie A.

1987

#10264

Vivisection in historical perspective. Edited by Nicholaas A. Rupke.

RUPKE, Nicolaas Adrianus (1944 – )
RUPKE, Nicolaas Adrianus (1944 – )

1987

#10431

American medical schools and the practice of medicine: A history.

ROTHSTEIN, William G. (1937 – )

1987

#10897

Natural science collections in Scotland: Botany, geology, zoology.

WATERSTON, Charles Dewar (1927 – ) STACE, Helen E. PETTIT, Charles William A. (1937 – )

1987

#12211

The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate: French biology in the decades before Darwin.

APPEL, Toby A. (1945 – )

"...no event better represents the contest between form and function as the chief organizing principle of life as the debate between Georges Cuvier and Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. This book presents the first comp…

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.

1987

#13470

Charles Darwin's notebooks 1836-1844. Geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries. Transcribed and edited by Paul H. Barrett, Peter J. Gautrey, Sandra Herbert, David Kohn, Sydney Smith.

SMITH, Sydney
DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882)
DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882) BARRETT, Paul H. KOHN, David GAUTREY, Peter J. HERBERT, Sandra

1988

#7912

SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE. 1-

Contents of the recent issue may be viewed at http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/content/current.

1988

#8494

I Modi: The sixteen pleasures, an erotic album of the Italian Renaissance. Giulio Romano, Marcantonio Raimondi, Pietro Aretino and Count Jean-Fréderick-Maximilien de Waldeck. Edited, translated from the Italian and with a commentary by Lynne Lawner.

ROMANO, Giulio (1499 – 1545)
ROMANO, Giulio (1499 – 1545) RAIMONDI, Marcantonio (1480 – 1534)
ARETINO, Pietro (1492 – 1556)
ARETINO, Pietro (1492 – 1556) WALDECK, Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de (1766 – 1875) LAWNER, Lynne (1935 – )

An edition and reconstruction of the only 16th century book of erotic engravings and poetry, surviving in a unique copy the original edition. For a summary of the history of this work of art, associated with several a…

1988

#8732

Founders of British physiology: A biographical dictionary, 1820-1885.

O'CONNOR, W. J. (1911 – 1994)

1988

#9105

Wet nursing: A history from antiquity to the present.

FILDES, Valerie A.

1988

#9721

Domestication of plants in the old world: The origin and spread of domesticated plants in Southwest Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean Basin.

ZOHARY, Daniel (1926 – ) HOPF, Maria (1914 – 2008) WEISS, Ehud

Revised 4th edition, 2012.

1988

#9771

Problems of health care: The National Health Service before 1957.

WEBSTER, Charles

1988

#10452

A history of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund 1902-1986.

AUSTOKER, Joan (1947 – 2010)

"The author takes a broad perspective and provides a comparative framework by discussing the changing relationship between the ICRF and the medical profession, government, and other charities, notably the Cancer Resea…