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

2006

#12731

Fiber pathways of the brain

"... a comprehensive,well-illustrated study of the organization of the white matter pathways of the brain. Schmahmann and Pandya have analyzed and synthesized the corticocortical and corticosubcortical connections of …

2006

#13693

Criminels and their scientists: The history of criminology in international perspective. Edited by Richard F. Wetzell and Peter Becker.

2006

#13771

Freud's library: A comprehensive catalogue / Freuds Bibliothek: Vollständiger Katalog compiled and edited by J. Keith Davies and Gerhard Fichtner. Introductory volume and CD-ROM.

In January 2022 when I wrote this entry the English language text of this catalogue (dated 2004) was available as a PDF at this link.

2007

#7155

A Byzantine encyclopaedia of horse medicine. The sources, compilation, and transmission of the Hippiatrica.

2007

#7295

Finding time for the old stone age: A History of palaeolithic archaeology and quaternary geology in Britain, 1860-1960.

2007

#7590

William Hunter and the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, 1807-2007.

2007

#7622

A history of limb amputation.

2007

#7853

What is medical history?

2007

#8197

The Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC).

"The USTC is a collective database of all books published in Europe between the invention of printing and the end of the sixteenth century" (http://ustc.ac.uk/index.php, accessed 12-2016). It is hosted by the Universi…

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

#8609

My highest pleasure: William Hunter's art collection. Edited by Peter Black.

A beautiful book on Hunter's art collection, and how he assembled it, as well as a study of the representation of art in Hunter's library. The book also describes and illustrates Hunter's collection of anatomical art,…

2007

#9493

Alternative medicine: A history.

2007

#9687

Plague and the end of antiquity: The pandemic of 541-750. Edited by Lester K. Little.

2007

#9688

Justinian's flea: The first great plague and the end of the Roman Empire.

2007

#9704

Smallpox and the literary imagination, 1660-1820.

2007

#9777

Rabies in Britain: Dogs, disease and culture, 1830-2000.

Also published as Mad dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830-2000.

2007

#9819

Graphic Medicine. www.graphicmedicine.org

2007

#10027

Medicine and the care of the dying: A modern history.

2007

#10815

The sickroom in Victorian fiction: The art of being ill.

2007

#11348

Deadly companions: How microbes shaped our history.

2007

#11357

Routledge international encyclopedia of queer culture. Edited by David. A. Gerstner.

2007

#11361

The first man-made man: The story of two sex changes, one love affair, and a twentieth-century medical revolution.

A biography of Michael Dillon, who in the 1940s was the first successful case of female-to-male gender reassignment surgery--operations done by Sir Harold Gilles. Dillon established himself as a medical student. The b…

2007

#11370

Transsexual and other disorders of gender identity: A practical guide to management. Edited by James Barrett.

2007

#11952

History of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.

2007

#12330

Resuscitation greats. Edited by Peter Baskett and Thomas Baskett.

2007 –2010

#13034

The Linnaeus Apostles. Global science & adventure. 8 vols. in 11. General editor: Lars Hansen.

Vol. 1: Introduction Vol. 2: Europe, Arctic & Asia. Anton Rolandsson Martin, Johan Peter Falck Vol. 3: Europe, North & South America. Pehr Kalm, Pehr Löfling, Daniel Rolander Vol. 4: Europe, Middle East, North East & …

2007

#13331

A history of social psychology: From the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to the Second World War.

2007

#13577

Vernacular bodies: The politics of reproduction in Early Modern England.

"Making babies was a mysterious process in 17th-century England. Fissell uses popular sources—songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals—to recover how ordinary men and women understood t…

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.

2008

#7026

The history of natural history: An annotated bibliography. Second edition

First published, New York: Garland, 1994.

2008

#7130

Making women's medicine masculine. The rise of male authority in pre-modern gynecology.

Starting with Trotula, this study concerns medieval and early modern material up to about 1600.

2008

#7412

Ibn Baklarish's book of simples: Medical remedies between three faiths in twelfth-century Spain. Edited by Charles Burnett.

The Kitāb al-Musta'īnī by Ibn Biklarish, written in the Moorish Spain province of al-Andalus at the end of the 11th century, includes the first tables of simple medicines written in the region, "concentrating on facin…

2008

#7623

The Cambridge illustrated history of surgery.

2008

#8561

Health and healing from the medieval garden. Edited by Peter Dendle and Alain Touwaide.

2008

#9683

Antimicrobial drugs: Chronicle of a twentieth century medical triumph.

Concerns the history of all anti-infectives, including antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, antiprotozoal and anthelminthic agents.

2008

#9842

Archives and manuscripts at the Bodleian Library.

http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandmanuscripts/ "The collections held in the Western Manuscripts section of the Bodleian Libraries are a vast treasure house of historical records and literary papers from all pe…

2008

#9880

The sciences of homosexuality in early modern Europe. Edited by Kenneth Borris and George S. Rousseau.

"This collection establishes that efforts to produce scientific explanations for same-sex desires and sexual behaviours are not a modern invention, but have long been characteristic of European thought. The sciences o…

2008

#9916

The Sloane Printed Books catalogue.

http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/sloane/ "The Sloane Printed Books catalogue lists books which belonged to Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753). Bibliographical records are enhanced with Sloane's own numbers or other identifying ma…

2008

#9967

The sterilization movement and global fertility in the twentieth century.

2008

#10289

The encyclopedia of Civil War medicine.

2008

#10362

Flesh and blood: Organ transplantation and blood transfusion in twentieth-century America.

2008

#10550

Making visible embryos.

http://www.sites.hps.cam.ac.uk/visibleembryos/index.html "IMAGES OF HUMAN EMBRYOS Images of human embryos are everywhere. We see them in newspapers, clinics, classrooms, laboratories, family albums and on the internet…

2008

#11544

History of cognitive neuroscience.

2008

#11624

Liber bestiarum. MS Bodley 764. Commentary by Christopher de Hamel and translation by Richard Barber. 2 vols.

Full color facsimile of the illuminated manuscript with translation and commentary in an accompanying volume. The two volumes boxed. The translation was originally published by the Folio Society in 1992, and the Boyde…

2008

#11792

Milestones in the history of aphasia: Theories and protagonists.

2008

#12331

On the shoulders of giants: Eponyms and names in obstetrics and gynaecology. 2nd edition.

Third edition entitled Eponyms and names in obstetrics and gynaecology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

2008

#12431

Madness to mental illness: A history of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

2008

#13653

The Alfred Russel Wallace correspondence project.

http://wallaceletters.info/content/homepage "This on-going project aims to locate, digitise, catalogue, transcribe, interpret and publish the surviving correspondence and other manuscripts of the important 19th centur…

2009

#7715

The discovery of hypnosis: The complete writings of James Braid, the father of hypnotherapy. Edited with detailed prefatory essays by Donald Robertson.