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26 entries published in this place. (Los Angeles, US)

c. 1894

#12087

A contribution to the history of medicine in Southern California. Annual address of the retiring President of the Souther California Medical Society, Delivered at San Diego, August 8, 1894.

Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1910

#10399

A history of the medical profession of Southern California with an historical sketch. Second edition. First edition destroyed in Times catastrophe.

Probably the first book on the history of medicine in the State of California. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1914

#6990

The chiropractor.

Digital facsimile from the National Library of Medicine at this link.

1937

#11797

A sex starved world.

A eugenic utopian fantasy, in which we accompany a doctor in his dream journey to the liberated land of Amor. Pritcher presents an impassioned argument for free universal health care, contraception, no-fault divorce, …

1948

#11620

Urological oddities.

1961

#10949

Japanese botany during the period of wood-block printing.

I. An essay on the development of natural history, especially botany, in Japan; on the influence of early Chinese & Western contacts; on Japanese books & wood-block illustration. II. An exhibition of Japanese books & …

1964

#10948

An index to selected Japanese medical literature of Pre-Meiji times.

This is an index to a series of 5 offprints by Mestler entitled "A galaxy of old Japanese medical books with miscellaneous notes on early medicine in Japan" published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association…

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.

1976

#10100

The Watermark. The quarterly publication of Librarians, Archivists and Museum Professionals in the History of the Health Sciences (LAMPHHS).

http://iis-exhibits.library.ucla.edu/alhhs/index.html "Librarians, Archivists, and Museum Professionals in the History of the Health Sciences (LAMPHHS) membership is open to librarians, archivists, and museum professi…

1988

#13682

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

1991

#8774

History of transplantation: Thirty-five recollections.

1991

#13683

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

1994

#10500

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

1995

#13681

Power and illness. The failure of American health policy.

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

#10534

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

2002

#13283

Cedars-Sinai: The one-hundred year history of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center: 1902-2002.

2006

#13702

Fit to be citizens? Public health and race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939.

2007

#11303

Inescapable ecologies: A history of environment, disease, and knowledge.

"Among the most far-reaching effects of the modern environmental movement was the widespread acknowledgment that human beings were inescapably part of a larger ecosystem." This book provides a "history of “ecological”…

2009

#11856

The road to Yucca Mountain: The development of radioactive waste policy in the United States,

"In The Road to Yucca Mountain, Walker covers the U.S. government's controversial attempts to address the engineering and social issues associated with high-level radioactive waste repository (HLRWR) management and sp…

2009

#14082

Icons of life: A cultural history of human embryos.

"Icons of Life tells the ... story of ... the Carnegie Institution of Washington's project to collect thousands of embryos for scientific study. Lynn M. Morgan blends social analysis, sleuthing, and humor to trace the…

2011

#10625

House on fire: The fight to eradicate smallpox.

Foege, as director of the Centers for Disease Control, is credited with "devising the global strategy that led to the eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s".[4]

2016

#9922

The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project, Published by Livingstone Online and the UCLA Digital Library Program.

http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/index.htm "The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project is a collaborative, international effort to use spectral imaging technology and digital publishing to make available a seri…

2022

#13917

Flesh and bones: The art of anatomy. By Monique Kornell. With contributions by Thisbe Gensler, Naoko Takahatake, Erin Travers.

Chapters by Monique Kornell are: 1. The Illustration of Anatomy, 2. The Living Dead: Animated Anatomy, 3. Arts and Anatomy Books, 4. Anatomy and the Antique, 5. "As Large as Nature": Life Size Anatomical Illustration,…