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2,632 entries published in United Kingdom. 64 publication places.

1998

#12812

Catalogue of the Burmese-Pāli and Burmese Manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicince.

Digital facsimile from wellcomelibrary.org at this link.

1998

#13807

The eradication of infectious diseases. Report of the Dahlem Workshop....Berlin, March 16-22, 1997. Edited by W. R. Dowdle and D. R. Hopkins.

This Dahlem Workshop occurred on the 20th anniversary of the eradication of smallpox.

1999

#7153

Herbs and herbalism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

1999

#7535

Twentieth-century sexuality: A history.

1999

#7546

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

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

#7562

Voyages of discovery: Three centuries of natural history exploration.

Spectacular color images including many of original paintings and manuscripts.

1999

#7616

Health, civilization and the state: A history of public health from ancient to modern times.

1999

#7890

Mending bodies, saving souls: A history of hospitals.

1999

#8053

Medicine and society in early modern Europe.

Second edition, 2010.

1999

#8874

Pristina medicamenta: Ancient and medieval medical botany

1999

#9034

Cocaine: Global histories.

1999

#9277

Memory, wisdom and healing: The history of domestic plant medicine.

1999 –2000

#9573

The works of Robert Boyle. Edited by Michael Hunter and Edward B. Davis. 14 vols.

1999

#9810

Medicina antiqua. Codex Vindobonensis 93. Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Introduction by Peter Murray Jones, commentary by Franz Unterkircher. Manuscripts in Miniature, No. 4.

Color reproduction, reduced in size by one-third, of "a compendium of popular Late Antique texts brought together in the 6th century. It contains writings on herbs and materia medica by authors heavily reliant on the …

1999

#10053

The black stork: Eugenics and the death of "defective" babies in American medicine and motion pictures since 1915.

1999

#10073

The History of Phrenology on the Web.

http://www.historyofphrenology.org.uk/overview.htm This is the most comprehensive reference source available on phrenology. Van Wyhe divides it into the following following sections: Overview Organs The Phrenological …

1999

#10429

Conduct unbecoming a woman: Medicine on trial in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn.

"In the spring of 1889, Brooklyn's premier newspaper, the Daily Eagle, printed a series of articles that detailed a history of midnight hearses and botched operations performed by a scalpel-eager female surgeon named …

1999

#10579

An illustrated history of malaria.

Concentrates on 19th century developments.

1999

#12992

Anglo-Norman literature: A guide to texts and manuscripts.

This standard work catalogued nearly 1000 manuscripts, including medical texts.

1999

#13315

Governing the health care state: A comparative study of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany.

"This book represents the first comparative study of how health policy is made in leading industrial nations. Using detailed case histories of the UK, the US and Germany, it shows that health care systems and modern s…

1999

#13460

A dictionary of the history of medicine.

1999

#13513

Physicians and surgeons in Glasgow, 1599-1858: The history of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

1999

#13585

Sexual cultures in Europe: National histories.

"... brings together for the first time studies of the sexual cultures of all the major European countries--including France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Spain, Britain and the Netherlands--to focus on their commonalities…

2000

#7193

Medieval herbals: The illustrative traditions.

A study of illuminated medieval herbals from 512-1450 CE.

2000

#7265

Science and Civilisation in China. Volume 6: Biology and Biological Technology. Part VI: Medicine. By Joseph Needham with the collaboration of Lu Gwei-Djen, edited and with an introduction by Nathan Sivin.

2000

#7425

The Cambridge world history of food. 2 vols.

An encyclopedic work in 2153 pages; edited by Kiple and Ornelas.

2000

#7976

A population history of the United States. Edited by Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel.

From Pre-Columbian times to the present.

2000

#7985

A short history of medical ethics.

2000

#8061

Epidemics and genocide in Eastern Europe, 1890-1945.

2000

#8181

Medical geography in historical perspective. (Medical History, Supplement No. 20). Edited by Nicolaas A. Rupke.

2000

#8294

Medicine and the making of Roman women: Gender, nature, and authority from Celsus to Galen.

2000

#8360

The four horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, war, famine and death in Reformation Europe.

2000

#8530

Ya qūb ibn Ishaq al'Irail's "Treatise on the errors of the physicians in Damascus." Edited and translated by Oliver Kahl. Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement 10.

c. 2000

#9036

Philosophical Transactions - the world's first science journal.

rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org "In 1662, the newly formed 'Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge' was granted a charter to publish by King Charles II and on 6 March 1665, the first issue of Philosop…

2000

#9061

Creativity and disease: How illness affects literature, art and music. 4th edition.

2000

#9094

The measure of multitude: Population in medieval thought.

Chapters 6-8 cover "Avoidance of offspring" or aspects of contraception.

2000

#9743

Early English charms, plant lore, and healing.

2000

#9789

Disease & geography: The history of an idea.

2000

#9790

Music as medicine: The history of music therapy since antiquity. Edited by Peregrine Horden.

2000

#10433

Knowledge and practice in English medicine, 1550–1680.

"The book vividly maps out some central areas: remedies (and how they were made credible), notions of disease, advice on preventive medicine and on healthy living, and how surgeons worked upon the body and their under…

2000

#11092

Asclepius, the god of medicine.

2000

#11184

Acupuncture, expertise and cross-cultural medicine.

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…

2000

#11937

Plants in archeology: Identification manual of vegetative plant materials used in Europe and Southern Mediterranean to c. 1500.

"This is a practical guide to the identification of vegetative plant materials used from the early prehistoric to c.1500 AD in Europe and the southern Mediterranean. Geographic distribution and archaic names are inclu…

2000

#12206

The demography of Victorian England and Wales.

2000

#12728

Science, technology and medicine in Colonial India, 1760-1947. The new Cambridge history of India, Vol. 3, pt. 5.

2000

#13017

The English parson-naturalist: A companionship between science and religion.

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.

2001

#7776

Bodies politic: Disease, death and doctors in Britain, 1650-1900.

Social history emphasizing the visual depiction of disease, death and doctors.

2001

#8396

Rising life expectancy: A global history.

"Between 1800 and 2000 life expectancy at birth rose from about 30 years to a global average of 67 years, and to more than 75 years in favored countries. This dramatic change was called a health transition, characteri…