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54 entries published in this place. (Princeton, US)
1943
#1666
The conquest of epidemic diseases. A chapter in the history of ideas.
Reprinted 1980.
1949
#12634
The chemistry of penicillin.
The National Academy of Sciences arranged for the preparation of this summary, with Clarke and Johnson representing the United States on the editorial board, and Robinson representing Britain. The 1120 page book was p…
1949
#12635
X-ray crystallographic investigation of the structure of penicillin. IN: Clarke, Johnson, Robinson (eds.) Chemistry of penicillin (1949) 310-67.
Hodgkin and colleagues, including biochemist Barbara Low, solved the structure of penicillin in 1945, demonstrating, contrary to scientific opinion at the time, that it contains a β-lactam ring. The discovery was orig…
1952
#1685
Man and epidemics.
1959
#13242
Speech and brain mechanisms.
1960 –1979
#9377
The collected works of C. G. Jung. 20 vols. Edited by Gerhard Adler, Michael Fordham and Herbert Read. Translated from the German by R. F. C. Hull.
First collected edition, in English translation, published by the Bollingen Foundation created by Paul and Mary Mellon. Vol. 19, General bibliography, was revised and brought up to date for a second edition in 1990. V…
1961
#12413
The toadstool millionaires.
Chronicles the rise of the patent medicine trade from its beginnings in colonial America until passage of the first federal food and drug law. Digital text available from quackwatch.org at this link.
1964
#11422
Medicine and health in New Jersey: A history.
1966
#8992
Adaptation and natural selection: A Critique of some current evolutionary thought.
1967
#6643.2
The medical messiahs. A social history of health quackery in twentieth-century America.
1967
#8155
The theory of island biogeography.
MacArthur and Wilson showed that the species richness of an area could be predicted in terms of such factors as habitat area, immigration rate and extinction rate.
1967
#12677
The role of the Nestorians and Muslims in the history of medicine.
1974
#12444
Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and public health in pre-DDT America.
1975
#10263
Antivivisection and medical science in Victorian society.
1976
#8055
The naturalist in Britain: A social history.
1977
#5145.1
The black death in the Middle East.
1978
#13757
The birth control movement and American society: From private vice to public virtue.
A history of contraception in the United States.
1981
#6524.4
Taddeo Alderotti and his pupils. Two generations of Italian medical learning.
1982
#12492
The healthiest city: Milwaukee and the politics of health reform.
1983
#9156
Mental illness and American society, 1875-1940.
1984
#2663
Galen on respiration and the arteries. An edition with English translation and commentary of De usu respirationis, An in arteriis natura sanguis contineatur, De usu pulsuum, and De causis respirationis, by David J. Furley and J. S. Wilkie.
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Galen's system of medicine based on the minutiae of pulse variations persisted into the 18th century.
1984
#9098
The complete works of Aristotle. The revised Oxford translation. Edited by Jonathan Barnes. 2 vols.
Reprinted with corrections, 1995. "The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 and 1954. It is universally recognized as the standard English version of Aristotle. This revi…
1985
#11949
Doctors and medicine in early Renaissance Florence.
1986
#6551.4
Doctors and medicine in medieval England 1340-1530.
A social, cultural, and intellectual history of medicine and medical practitioners between the Black Death and the foundation of the Royal College of Physicians.
1986
#8647
Health policies, health politics: The British and American experience, 1911-1965.
1987
#6565.02
Avicenna in Renaissance Italy. The Canon and medical teaching in Italian Universities after 1500.
1987
#11643
Medicine, mind, and the double brain: A study in nineteenth-century thought.
1989
#9733
The discovery of the art of the insane.
"This pioneering work, the first history of the art of the insane, scrutinizes changes in attitudes toward the art of the mentally ill from a time when it was either ignored or ridiculed, through the era when major fi…
1989
#12414
Pure food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906.
1990
#6994
History of AIDS. Emergence and origin of a modern pandemic. Translated by Russell C. Maulitz and Jacalyn Duffin.
1991
#9154
From asylum to community: Mental health policy in modern America.
1992
#9300
Ethnobiological classification: Principles of categorization of plants and animals in traditional societies.
1992
#10821
Vital signs: Medical realism in 19th-century fiction.
1994
#8538
The history and geography of human genes.
The first full-scale attempt to reconstruct where human populations originated and the paths by which they spread throughout the world, using genetic data integrated with data from geography, ecology, archaeology, phy…
1995
#8714
Quantification and the quest for medical certainty.
1995
#8715
Trust in numbers: The pursuit of objectivity in science and public life.
1995
#11019
The private science of Louis Pasteur.
"His biography of Pasteur was viewed as an outstanding work of scholarship which penetrated the secrecy that had surrounded much of the legendary scientist's laboratory work. Geison used Pasteur's laboratory notebooks…
1996
#9299
Medical ethnobiology of the highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico.
1996
#9428
Masters of Bedlam: The transformation of the mad-doctoring trade.
1997
#8051
The clock and the mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine.
1998
#8560
Medicine in the English Middle Ages.
1998
#13599
The see with a better eye: A life of R. T. H. Laennec
"....relies on a vastly expanded foundation of primary source material, including thousands of pages of handwritten patient records, lecture notes, unpublished essays, and letters.... "Laennec’s famous Treatise on Med…
1999
#7032
Taking positions. On the erotic in Renaissance culture.
Of particular relevance to the history of medical literature is Chapter 8: "Mythology, Sexuality, and Science in Charles Estienne's Manual of Anatomy" (pp. 161-188). This refers to Estienne's De dissectione partium co…
1999
#10229
The Nazi war on cancer.
1999
#12754
Fits, trances, & visions: Experiencing religion and explaining experience from Wesley to James.
"Fits, Trances, and Visions (1999) charts the experience of Anglo-American Protestants and those who left the Protestant movement beginning with the transatlantic awakening in the early 18th century and ending with th…
2002
#8384
A traffic of dead bodies: Anatomy and embodied social identity in nineteenth century America.
2002
#13127
Biologists and the promise of American life: From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey.
2005
#10026
The modern art of dying: A history of euthanasia in the United States.
2006
#10366
All creatures: Naturalists, collectors, and biodiversity, 1850-1950.
2010
#8430