United States
3,553 entries published in United States. 279 publication places.
1969
#10611
Computerized mapping of disease and environmental data. A report of the Mapping of Disease (MOD) Project.
This appears to be the earliest monograph on computerized disease mapping. At the time the research was conducted both computer graphics processing and data output in mainframe computers were inadequate for drawing al…
1969
#11322
Demography in early America: Beginnings of the statistical mind 1600-1800.
Covering the period 1600–1800, the author deals with demography in its economic, political, and social aspects. The work is particularly concerned with the development of health-related and scientific aspects of demog…
1969
#11413
Transexualism and sex reassignment. Edited by Richard Green and John Money.
Probably the first scientific book on transsexuality issued by a university press. "Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment had its origins in the advisory board meetings of the Henry Benjamin Foundation. In the earliest …
1969
#11840
The Andromeda strain. A novel.
A techno-thriller novel documenting the efforts of a team of scientists investigating the outbreak of a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism in Arizona.
1969
#11990
Microneurosurgery. Edited by Robert W. Rand.
The first textbooks on microneurosurgery by the pioneering American neurosurgeon, Robert Rand, and the pioneering Turkish-Swiss neurosurgeon Gazi Yasargil, both appeared in 1969.
1969
#11992
Microsurgery applied to neurosurgery. By M. G. Yasargil. With contributions by R.M.P. Donaghy, U.P. Fisch. J. Hardy, L.L. Malis, S. J. Peerless and M. Zingg and engineers, W.J. Borer, H. Littmann and H. R. Voellmy.
Most of the chapters in this book were written by Yasargil. Chapter one: "A history of microsurgery" by R. M. P. Donaghy includes a bibliography of the earliest published references on this subject. "In 1958 RMP Donag…
1969
#13035
Medicine on stamps.
1969
#13809
Pain and the neurosurgeon.
This was the successor to an earlier work by White and Sweet: Pain. Its Mechanisms and Neurological Control. With the Assistance in the Psychiatric Sections of Chapters IV and X from Stanley Cobb and Frances J. Bonner…
1970
#4483.4
The early orthopaedic surgeons of America.
1970
#1766.608
The history of medical education: An international symposium, edited by C. D. O'Malley.
1970
#3161.2
The history of cardiac surgery.
1970
#3611.4
Hernia repair without disability.
First monograph on ambulatory hernia surgery. Second edition published by Ishiyaku Euroamerica in 1986 was retitled: Hernia repair without disability: A surgical atlas illustrating the anatomy, technique, and physiolo…
1970
#5019.9
The founders of neurology. One hundred and forty-six biographical sketches by eighty-nine authors. Compiled and 2nd edition.
Neuroanatomists, neurophysiologists, neuropathologists, clinical neurologists and neurosurgeons are included. 1st ed., 1953, had 133 biographies; 2nd ed. has 146, 34 of which have been added. Because the 2nd edition d…
1970
#5019.10
Foundations of hypnosis, from Mesmer to Freud.
Readings, including translations, from classic texts, with commentary.
1970
#6467.1
American Indian medicine.
Volume 95 of The Civililization of the American Indian Series.
1970
#6786.16
The awakening interest in science during the first century of printing 1450-1550. An annotated checklist of first editions viewed from the angle of their subject content. Astronomy. Mathematics. Medicine. Natural science. Physics. Technology.
1970
#6604.2
Western medical pioneers in feudal Japan.
Covers the influence of Western medicine on Japan from the seventeenth century through 1870.
1970
#7010
Discoveries in biological psychiatry.
Proceedings of an international symposium sponsored by the Taylor Manor Hospital in Baltimore in 1970, including first person accounts by those who discovered the original drugs in each of the major categories of psyc…
1970
#7822
Medicine and stamps.
1970 –1990
#8192
Dictionary of scientific biography. Vols. 1-16 (1-15, Supplement 1) edited by Charles Coulston Gillespie. Vols. 17-18 (Supplement 2) edited by Frederick L. Holmes.
Over 5,000 biographies, each with detailed bibliographies of primary and secondary sources. Medical biographies tend to be of physiologists and other researchers rather than clinicians. Includes an exhaustive index an…
1970
#8380
George A Sacher, Life table modification and life prolongation. IN: Handbook of the biology of aging, edited by Caleb E. Finch and Leonard Hayflick, pp. 582–638.
"The building of a connection between the Gompertz equation and the biology of ageing owes much to the work of biophysicist George Sacher [10] of the Argonne National Laboratory, whose introduction to ageing stemmed f…
1970
#8496
A history of the British medical administration of East Africa, 1900-1950.
Concerns modernization and development of scientific health services in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika (now Tanzania) during the first half of the twentieth century.
1970
#9122
Migraine: Evolution of a common disorder.
Revised edition, 1990.
1970
#10059
The Patient as person: Explorations in medical ethics.
Second edition with a new foreword by Margaret Farley and essays by Albert R. Jonsen and William F. May, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
1970
#10554
Women and their bodies.
This 35-cent, 136-page book organized in 1969 by Nancy Miriam Hawley at Boston's Emmanuel College, was written by twelve Boston feminist activists. It eventually sold 250,000 copies in New England without any formal a…
1970
#11527
A biographical history of medicine: Excerpts and essays on the men and their work.
1970
#11564
Clinical electrocardiography and computers.
"The definitive text of the emerging field of computerized electrocardiography" (W. Bruce Fye).
1970
#12341
Surgical treatment of coronary arteriosclerosis.
The history of the coronary artery bypass technique by the inventor of the procedure.
1970
#14216
Hammond's wall atlas of human anatomy.
With pages measuring 731 x 536 mm., this is the largest anatomical atlas ever published with plastic overlays. The covers include metal grommets so that the book could be hung on the wall. The work was undated, but is…
1971
#534.71
Congenital malformations. Notes and comments.
Warkany's contributions span all aspects of teratology, both clinical and experimental. This has been called his magnum opus. It includes 124 chapters, each with detailed bibliography, on a total of 1271 pages.
1971
#4672.5
A history of poliomyelitis.
1971
#4297.2
The history of urology.
A scholarly, detailed work. Part 1 is an adapted translation of E. Desnos: Histoire de l’urologie, in Encyclopédie française d’urologie, eds. A. Pousson & E. Desnos, 1914, 1, 1-294.
1971
#5019.11
The classical brain stem syndromes. Translations of the original papers with notes on the evolution of clinical neuroanatomy.
1971
#6007.1
A history of the ophthalmoscope.
1971
#6467.2
Medicine and ethnology. Selected essays by Erwin Ackerknecht. Edited by H. M. Koelbing and H. H. Walser.
See also No. 6448
1971
#6501.2
Through the Bible with a physician.
1971
#6786.17
Medicine: A bibliography of bibliographies.
Extracted from A world bibliography of bibliographies (4th ed., 1965-66)
1971
#6786.18
A catalogue of incunabula and sixteenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine. First supplement.
Supplements Nos. 6783 and 6786.12. Records 27 15th century imprints and 272 16th century imprints acquired by the library since publication of those two catalogues.
1971
#6809
Dictionary of medical syndromes.
Second edition with E. Scrasia, 1981.
1971
#258.7
The origins of theoretical population genetics.
1971
#6880
Homeopathy in America: The rise and fall of the medical heresy.
A history of homeopathy in America, including its demise during the early to mid-20th century.
1971
#7353
Atlas of the mouse brain and spinal cord.
"This is an exceptionally systematic, beautifully produced atlas of the mouse central nervous system in the three standard planes, with alternating cell-stained (Nissl method with cresyl violet) sections and myelin-st…
1971
#7405
Histology of the human eye.
Hogan and Alvarado's work was the first book on histology of the eye to include electron microscopy. It also reproduced spectacular three-dimensional representations of ocular ultrastructures by Joan Esperson Weddell.
1971
#8364
The cyrurgie of Guy de Chauliac. I Text (E.E.T.S., 265) Edited by Margaret S. Ogden.
Middle English text of Guy de Chauliac's surgery.
1971
#9439
Chaucer's physician: Medicine and literature in fourteenth-century England.
1971
#9469
Outcasts from evolution: Scientific attitudes of racial inferiority, 1859 - 1900.
1971
#10449
Medicine on the Santa Fe Trail.
1971
#10765
Freud and the Americans: The beginnings of psychoanalysis in the United States, 1876–1917.
1971
#10857
Peyote: an account of the origins and growth of the Peyote religion.
"The Peyote religion is a medico-religious cult. In considering native American medicines, one must always bear in mind the difference between the aboriginal concept of a medicinal agent and that of our modern Western…
1971
#10858