United Kingdom
2,632 entries published in United Kingdom. 64 publication places.
1995
#9269
Healing threads: Traditional medicines of the Highlands and Islands.
"Much of the rich store of material comes from the great legacy of medieval Gaelic manuscripts. In more recent times, papers of medical societies have shown how traditional methods and cures are still of value to mode…
1995
#9881
Green imperialism: Colonial expansion, tropical island edens and the origins of environmentalism 1600–1860.
"... the first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, concentrating especially on its hitherto unexplained colonial and global aspects. It highlights the significance of Utopian, Physiocra…
1995
#11116
The doctors in Vanity Fair. A gallery of medical men who appeared in caricature between 1870 and 1914.
1995
#11456
Charcot: Constructing neurology
An essential account of the life and contributions of Charcot.
1995
#13317
Valuing health care: Costs, benefits, and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals and other medical technologies. Edited by Frank A. Sloan.
1996
#7079
Descriptive catalogue of the Hindi manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the the History of Medicine.
1996
#7458
Bright paradise: Victorian scientific travellers.
1996
#7827
From Hogarth to Rowlandson: Medicine in art in eighteenth century Britain.
1996
#8010
Medicine and morality in Haiti: The contest for healing power.
1996
#8319
Ancient Egyptian medicine.
This is the best comparatively brief, but sufficiently detailed, survey in English.
1996
#8626
The Wellcome Trust illustrated history of tropical diseases. Edited by F. E. G. Cox.
1996
#8926
Histoire naturelle des Indes. The Drake manuscript in The Pierpont Morgan Library.... Foreward by Patrick O'Brian. Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg. Translations by Ruth Kraemer.
"In 1983, The Morgan Library & Museum received, as the bequest of Clara S. Peck, an extraordinary volume whose beautiful paintings and descriptions document the plant, animal, and human life of the Caribbean late in t…
1996
#9201
The microscope in the Dutch Republic: The shaping of discovery.
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…
1996
#9772
Government and health care: The British National Health Service 1958–1979.
1996
#10120
The health consequences of 'modernisation': Evidence from circumpolar peoples.
"What are the health consequences of switching from an active 'hunter-gatherer' lifestyle to that of sedentary modern living? Here, the impact of 'modernisation' in circumpolar peoples is assessed. The hazards to huma…
1996
#12794
A history of transplantation immunology.
Written by one of the founders of the science.
1996
#13399
Institutions of confinement: Hospitals, asylums, and prisons in Western Europe and North America, 1500-1950. Edited by Norbert Finzsch and Robert Jütte.
1996
#13550
Manuscripts and drawings in the ornithology and Rothschild libraries of The Natural History Museum at Tring. British Ornithologists' Club Occasional Publications No. 2.
The Natural History Museum at Tring, located in the grounds of the former Rothschild family home of Tring Park, was originally the private museum of Lionel Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild. The building was constructed in…
1997
#7370
Scientists and the sea 1650-1900. A study of marine science.
1997
#7969
Landmarks in cardiac surgery. By Stephen Westaby, with Cecil Bosher.
History and biographical sketches, plus reprints of key papers.
1997
#8237
Ibn Al-Jazzār on sexual diseases and their treatment: A critical edition of Zād al-musāfir wa-qūt al-hādir. Translated and edited by Gerrit Bos.
1997
#10169
Life in the balance: Emergency medicine and the quest to reverse sudden death.
1997
#11968
Gardens of empire: Botanical institutions of the Victorian British Empire.
Provides "a detailed analysis of the foundation, extent, management and achievements of the 120 botanic gardens, herbaria and botanic stations - from Hong Kong to British Honduras, Malacca to the Gold Coast, Fiji to M…
1997
#12367
A century of arterial hypertension: 1896-1996. Edited by Nicholas Postel-Vinay in collaboration with the International Society of Hypertension. Translated by Richard Edelstein and Christopher Coffin.
1997
#14365
Early Chinese medical literature. The Mawangdui medical manuscripts. Translation and study by Donald Harper.
"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.
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
#7322
An illustrated guide to skin lymphoma.
1998
#7613
Medicine, mortality and the book trade.
Seven essays, edited by Harris and Myers. Of special interest are Harris, "Printers' diseases: The human cost of a mechanical process"; Lotte Hellinga, "Medical incunabula"; John Symons, " 'These crafty dealers': Sir …
1998
#7701
The Cambridge encyclopedia of human paleopathology by Arthur C. Auderheide and Conrado Rodríguez-Martín, including a dental chapter by Odin Langsjoen.
Includes a significant historical introduction.
1998
#7960
Viruses, plagues & history: Past, present, and future.
Revised and updated edition, 2010.
1998
#7986
The birth of bioethics.
1998
#8299
Thirteenth- and fourteenth-century copies of the Ars Medicine: A checklist and contents descriptions of the manuscripts.
1998
#8434
Hippocrates' woman: Reading the female body in ancient Greece.
1998
#8486
Greek medicine from the heroic to the Hellenistic age: A sourcebook.
1998
#8558
Medicine and religion c. 1300: The case of Arnau de Vilanova
1998
#8571
Medicine of the Prophet. Translated by Penelope Johnstone.
" . . . a combination of religious and medical information, providing advice and guidance on the two aims of medicine - the preservation and restoration of health - in careful conformity with the teachings of Islam as…
1998
#9125
Galen on antecedent causes. Introduction, text, translation and commentary by R. J. Hankinson.
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1998
#9141
The Articella in the early press c. 1476-1534.
Digital facsimile from digital.csic.es at this link.
1998
#9296
Warts: Summary of Wart-cure survey for the Folklore Society.
1998
#9375
Deciphering global epidemics: Analytical approaches to the disease records of world cities, 1888-1912.
1998
#9770
National Health Service: A political history.
Revised second edition, 2002.
1998
#9980
Archives in Russia: A directory and bibliographic guide to holdings in Moscow and St.Petersburg.
". . . a comprehensive directory and bibliographic guide to Russian archives and manuscript repositories in the capital cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg. It is an essential resource for any researcher interested in…
1998
#9999
General practice under the National Health Service 1948-1997. Edited by Irvine Loudon, John Horder & Charles Webster.
1998
#10398
Centenary history of the Royal Army Medical Corps 1898-1998.
1998
#10434
Sarah Stone: Natural curiosities from the new worlds
1998
#10574
Born to die: Disease and New World conquest, 1492-1650.
"The biological mingling of the previously separated Old and New Worlds began with the first voyage of Columbus. The exchange was a mixed blessing: It led to the disappearance of entire peoples in the Americas, but it…
1998
#10933
A history of the Society of Apothecaries.
1998
#12510
Greek thought, Arabic culture: The Graeco-Arabic translation movement in Baghadad and early Abbāsid Society (2nd-4th/8th centuries).
1998
#12779
Healers and healing in early modern Europe.
"...explores the wide range of healers and forms of healing in the southern half of the Italian peninsula that was the kingdom of Naples between 1600 and 1800. By adopting the point of view of the sick people themselv…
1998
#12806
The roots of Ayurveda.
Readings in English translation, with commentaries, from classical medical texts.