United Kingdom
2,632 entries published in United Kingdom. 64 publication places.
1988
#11170
Studies in the history of alternative medicine. Edited by Roger Cooter.
1989
#18.1
Herophilus: The art of medicine in early Alexandria. Edition, translation and essays by H. von Staden.
The first comprehensive presentation of the ancient evidence for the achievements of Herophilus and his school, including edited versions of all original Greek and Latin texts plus English translations, with in-depth …
1989
#5733.41
The history of anesthesia
Proceedings of the 1987 Second International Symposium on the History of Anaesthesia at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Over 100 contributors. International Congress and Symposium Series 134.
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.
1989
#7071
Evolution of the brain: Creation of the self.
A pioneering work on the evolution of the human mind. Eccles synthesized comparative anatomy--especially brain anatomy--with evidence from paleontology and archaeology, and brain physiology (especially the physiology …
1989
#7081
Catalogue of Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs and catalogue of Thankas, banners and other paintings and drawings in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
1989
#7668
Health for sale: Quackery in England 1660-1850.
1989
#8471
An ancient Egyptian herbal.
1989
#9164
The hospital in history. Edited by Lindsay Granshaw and Roy Porter.
1989
#9805
Homicidal insanity, 1800-1985.
"Homicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change during the past 200 years. The predominant opinion today among psychiatris…
1989
#10742
A history of stroke: Its recognition and treatment.
1989
#11198
A bibliography of the writings of Dr. William Harvey 1578-1657. Third edition, revised by Gweneth Whitteridge and Christine English.
This is the definitive edition of a bibliography first published by Sir Geoffrey Keynes in 1928 on the three hundredth anniversary of De motu cordis, and revised by him for a second edition in 1953. It contains a new …
1989
#11907
The eternally wounded woman: Women, doctors, and exercise in the late nineteenth century.
1989
#11924
America's forgotten pandemic: The influenza of 1918.
First published as Epidemic and peace 1918, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976. New edition, 2003.
1989
#12552
Public health in Papua New Guinea: Medical possibility and social constraint, 1884-1984.
1989
#13311
The great age of the microscope: The collection of the Royal Microscopical Society through 150 years.
1989
#13312
God bless the microscope! A history of the Royal Microscopical Society over 150 years.
1990
#2662.5
The theory and practice on oncology. Historical evolution and present principles.
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…
1990
#7025
Plant, animal & anatomical illustration in art & science: A bibliographical guide from the 16th century to the present day.
The first comprehensive listing of primary instructional or "how to draw" books, and non-scientific iconographical "pattern" books, published for artists and designers in the widest range of subjects concerning plants…
1990
#7073
Portraits of the insane. The case of Dr. Diamond, by Adrienne Burrows and Iwan Schumacher.
Reproduces many of Diamond's photographs of psychiatric patients. Diamond was fascinated by the possible use of photography in the treatment of mental disorders; some of his many photographs depicting the expressions …
1990
#7180
From the watching of shadows. The origins of radiological tomography.
1990
#7533
A history of contraception from antiquity to the present day.
1990
#8690
The history of orthopaedics: An account of the study and practice of orthopaedics from the earliest times to the modern era.
1990
#8877
Popular medicine in thirteenth-century England: Introduction and texts.
1990
#9130
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. Canon of Greek authors and works. Third edition.
"In addition to digitizing texts, the TLG developed the Canon of Greek Authors and Works, originally a "registry" of all works included or about to be included in the corpus. Over time the Canon developed into an indi…
1990
#10173
The science of woman: Gynaecology and gender in England, 1800-1929.
1990
#11232
Nehemiah Grew: A study and bibliography of his writings
1990
#11265
Medical malpractice in nineteenth-century America: Origins and legacy.
1990
#11524
A bibliography of Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689) by Geoffrey Guy Meynell.
1990
#12077
Otolaryngology: An illustrated history.
Second edition by Weir and Albert Mudrey, Otorhinolarygngology: An illustrated history, Ashford, UK: Headley Brothers, 2013.
1990
#13514
A history of human helminthology.
1990
#13555
Sleepless souls: Suicide in early modern England.
"Sleepless Souls is a social and cultural history of suicide in early modern England. It traces the rise and fall of the crime of self-murder and explores why suicide came to be harshly punished in the sixteenth centu…
1991
#7333
Foundations of the neuron doctrine.
1991
#7718
Human cross-sectional anatomy: Atlas of body sections and CT images.
1991
#8298
Mediaeval prognosis and astrology: A working edition of the [anonymous] Aggregationes de crisi et creticis diebus, with introduction and English summary by Cornelius O'Boyle
This pre-Galenic astrological text by an unknown author from the later part of the 13th century concerns astrological prognostication. It was based upon Book III of Galen's De diebus criticis, but provided a "handy sh…
1991
#8412
Romantic medicine and John Keats.
1991
#8627
Science and empire: East Coast Fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal.
East Coast fever (theileriosis) is an animal disease in Africa caused by the protozoan parasite Theileria parva.
1991
#9096
Galen on the therapeutic method. Books I and II. Translated with an introduction and commentary by R. J. Hankinson.
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First translation into a modern language of Books ! and II of De methodo medendi. Very extensive introduction, commentary and bibliography.
1991
#9262
Bilharzia: A history of imperial tropical medicine.
1991
#9356
A history of regeneration research: Milestones in the evolution of a science. Edited by Charles E. Dinsmore.
1991
#9673
Enter the physician: The transformation of domestic medicine, 1760-1860.
1991
#9760
A history of education in public health: Health that mocks doctors' rules.
"This is the first book to examine and compare the history and contemporary problems of education for public health in Britain and the United States. In Britain, education for public health has been directed solely to…
1991
#10011
Brass plate and brazen impudence: Dental practice in the provinces 1755-1855.
1991
#11221
Women under the knife: A history of surgery.
"In the nineteenth century, major developments in internal surgery were due to operations on ovaries. Women bore the brunt of surgical experimentation and also reaped its rewards. Their need was great, but so was thei…
1991
#11712
Thomas Sydenham's observationes medicae (London, 1676) and his Medical observations (Manuscript 572 of the Royal College of Physicians of London), with new transcripts of related Locke MSS in the Bodleian Library. Edited by G. G. Meynell.
Limited to 200 copies.
1991
#12795
The Crimean doctors: A history of British Medical Services in the Crimean War. 2 vols.
1991
#13556
Witchcraft and hysteria in Elizabethan London: Edward Jorden and the Mary Glover case.
1991
#14225
Brass plate and brazen impudence: Dental practice in the provinces 1755-1855.
1992
#6953
The fabric of the body: European traditions of anatomical illustration.
An essential reinterpretation of the classics in the history of anatomical illustration, with many fine plates.