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64 entries published in this place. (Berkeley, US)

1934

#11358

Exhibition of first editions of epochal achievements in the history of science.

Briefly annotated listings of 114 classics under the headings of Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Botany, Zoology, and the Hearst Medical Papyrus. Strangely, several major medical and biological cl…

1939

#2525

The anaerobic bacteria and their activities in nature and disease. A subject bibliography. 2 vols.

Supplements were published: 1938-1975, 8 vols., 1941-82.

1955

#10852

The epidemic of 1830-1833 in California and Oregon.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1964

#4509.1

A short history of the gout and the rheumatic diseases.

1964

#12693

Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564.

1967

#10396

The origins of the National Health Service: The medical services of the New Poor Law, 1834-1871.

1970

#1766.608

The history of medical education: An international symposium, edited by C. D. O'Malley.

1970

#9122

Migraine: Evolution of a common disorder.

Revised edition, 1990.

1976

#8497

Asian medical systems: A comparative study, edited by Charles Leslie.

1976

#9731

Dreams in Greek tragedy: An ethno-psycho-analytical study.

1976

#11035

Hallucinogenic plants of North America.

1978

#1766.610

The medical profession in mid-Victorian London.

1978

#6623.3

Friedrich Schiller: Medicine, psychology and literature. With the first English edition of his complete medical and psychological writings.

The medical writings of Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) and their influence on his poetry and plays.

1979

#2682.53

Antique medical instruments

Well-illustrated work coving the history of medical and surgical instruments from the Middle Ages to 1870, with emphasis on pre-19th century material. Includes useful information on instrument makers.

1979

#8128

Medical ethics in imperial China: A study in historical anthropology.

The first comprehensive history of explicity medical ethics in pre-modern China, spans the period from 500 BCE through the 19th century and provides literal translations of all accessible codes of ethics in the known …

1980

#1588.17

Harvey and the Oxford physiologists. A study of scientific ideas.

1980

#9747

Magical medicine: The folkloric component of medicine in the folk belief, custom, and ritual of the peoples of Europe and America. Seleced essays of Wayland D. Hand.

1983

#10217

Disease change and the role of medicine: The Navajo experience.

1984

#258.13

Evolution: The history of an idea.

Fourth edition, revised and enlarged, 2009.

1984

#8460

Medieval Islamic Medicine: Ibn Ridwan's Treatise "On the Prevention of Bodily Ills in Egypt". Translated and introduced by Michael W. Dols, with Arabic text by Adil S. Gamal.

1985

#6495.4

Medicine in China: A history of ideas.

The first comprehensive and analytical history of therapeutic concepts and practices in China, encompassing all aspects of Chinese medicine over 3500 years. Approximately one third of the work consists of primary text…

1985

#10094

The making rehabilitation: A political economy of medical specialization, 1890-1980.

1986

#9419

Medicine in China: A history of pharmaceutics.

1986

#10095

Who goes first? The story of self-experimentation in medicine.

1987

#1588.24

Nineteenth century origins of neuroscientific concepts.

Detailed analysis, emphasizing first half of 19th century, with detailed bibliographies, and bibliographical notes.

1987

#9883

The making of the modern body: Sexuality and society in the nineteenth century. Edited by Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur.

1988

#13682

Aids: The burdens of history. Edited by Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox.

1989

#7044

"A dirty, filthy book." The writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant on reproductive physiology and birth control and an account of the Bradlaugh-Besant trial, by S. Chandrasekhar. With the definitive texts of Fruits of Philosophy by Charles Knowlton, The Law of Population by Annie Besant, Theosophy and the Law of Population by Annie Besant.

1991

#13683

Aids: The making of a chronic disease. Edited by Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox.

1992

#8414

The social basis of health and healing in Africa. Edited by Steven Feierman and John M. Janzen.

The essays in this book concern disease, health and healing practices on the African continent. The contributors all emphasize the social conditions linked to ill health and the development of local healing traditions…

1992

#8637

Sentinel for health: A history of the Centers for Disease Control

1993

#8811

Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.

An authoritative account of the way that medicine was practiced in India in adaptation to the situation faced by physicians and the state in India, focusing on three major epidemic diseases: smallpox, cholera plague.

1993

#10872

Rio Tigre and beyond: The Amazon jungle medicine of Manual Cordova-Rios

1994

#7239

Jews, medicine and medieval society.

1994

#7561

Possessing nature: Museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy.

1994

#10500

Inventing the feeble mind: A history of mental retardation in the United States.

1995

#8036

The making of a social disease: Tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France.

1995

#13681

Power and illness. The failure of American health policy.

1996

#8660

The cigarette papers. Edited by Stanton A. Glantz, John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes.

Analysis and selective reproduction of 4000 pages of internal tobacco industry documents proving that a tobacco company was fully aware that it was promoting and marketing a highly addictive carcinogenic substance. El…

1998

#8646

When abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973.

1999

#10092

A flourishing Yin: Gender in China's medical history: 960-1665.

1999

#10093

Essential subtleties on the silver sea: The Yin-Hai Jing-Wei: A Chinese classic on ophthalmology.

Provides detailed descriptions of the etiology, symptomatology, and therapy of every eye disease known to fifteenth-century Chinese practitioners. The translators' introduction also provides the first in-depth analysi…

2000

#7784

Permissible dose: A history of radiation protection in the twentieth century.

2000

#8680

Spectacular bodies: The art and science of the human body from Leonardo to now.

2000

#10670

The Aurelian legacy: British butterflies and their collectors. By Michael A. Salmon with additional material by Peter Marren and Basil Harley.

2000

#12208

Beriberi, white rice, and vitamin B: A disease, a cause, and a cure.

2001

#10256

Spacefaring: The human dimension.

2001

#10534

Contagious divides: Epidemics and race in San Francisco's Chinatown.

2003

#6879

Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: Nature, knowledge, imagery in an ancient Chinese medical text.

2004

#9025

Stories in the time of cholera: Racial profiling during a medical nightmare.

'In 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-…