United States
3,553 entries published in United States. 279 publication places.
1978
#7047
Medicine and slavery. The diseases and health care of blacks in antebellum Virginia.
1978
#7115
Contraceptive technology.
Standard work on the subject; 20th edition, New York: Arden Media, 2011. Hatcher originated the work in 1978. Collaborators on the 20th edition are Hatcher, Kowal, Nelson, Policar, and Trusell. An offshoot of the main…
1978
#7317
Histologic diagnosis of inflammatory skin diseases: A method by pattern analysis.
1978
#7697
The shows of London.
Characterized on the dust jacket as "a panomaic history of exhibitions, 1600-1862." The first two chapters are a history of museums. Chapter 24, "The waxen and the fleshy", discusses "medica" or anatomical museums.
1978
#7999
Abortion in America: The origins and evolution of national policy, 1800-1900.
1978
#8122
Graphic presentation of statistical information: Papers presented at the 136th annual meeting of the American Statistical Association, Social Statistics Section: Session of Graphical Methods for Presenting Statistical Data: Boston, Massachusetts, August 23-26, 1976, Vol. 3.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1978
#8468
Persian medical manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles. A descriptive catalogue.
1978
#8495
Disease in African history.
1978
#8775
Catalog of works in the neurological sciences collected by Cyril Brian Courville, representative of clinical neurology, neuroanatomy, and neuropathology with particular reference to head trauma.
1978
#9136
Almost persuaded: American physicians and compulsory health insurance, 1912-1920.
1978
#9434
Mind and madness in ancient Greece: The classical roots of modern psychiatry.
1978
#9720
Recombinant DNA: The untold story.
1978
#9831
Multiphasic health testing services.
'In 1968 Morris F. Collen, MD and his team at KP’s Medical Methods Research (MMR) built a medical information system that peers described in the era as the most advanced of its kind. It was an aspiration of medical in…
1978
#10168
The road to Eleusis: Unveiling the secret of the mysteries.
Argues that the psycho-active ingredient in the secret kykeion potion used in the Eleusinian mysteries was most likely the ergotism causing fungus Claviceps purpurea. Furthermore the book introduced the term "entheoge…
1978
#10869
Sorcery and healing: The meaning of illness and death to an Australian aboriginal community.
1978
#11440
Chemosurgery: Microscopically controlled surgery for skin cancer.
Mohs surgery for common types of skin cancer.
1978
#13757
The birth control movement and American society: From private vice to public virtue.
A history of contraception in the United States.
1979
#1671.9
Aging: Its history and literature.
Includes bibliographies of classic works, of the history of geriatrics, and of periodicals devoted to the subject.
1979
#2138.3
The heritage of aviation medicine. An annotated directory of early artifacts.
Descriptions and photographs of notable artifacts, including the original clothing worn by John Jeffries (No.2137.2).
1979
#2682.54
Bloodletting instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology.
Digital facsimile from Smithsonian Research Online at this link.
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
#6357.2
History of American pediatrics.
1979
#6786.21
A short title catalogue of eighteenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine.
Lists approximately 25,000 works (except dissertations) printed between 1701 and 1800.
1979
#6667
TRANSACTIONS AND STUDIES OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA. MEDICINE AND HISTORY. Series V, 1-
1979
#258.11
The eighth day of creation. Makers of the revolution in biology.
1979
#7190
Only one man died. The medical aspects of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Appendix 1 contains a listing of the many medical books in the library of Thomas Jefferson.
1979
#7324
Immunopathology of the skin.
A classic on immunofluorescence of the skin.
1979
#7464
The illustrated herbal.
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 …
1979
#8134
The emergence of Roman Catholic medical ethics in North America: An historical, methodological, bibliographical study.
1979
#8173
The growth of medical information systems in the United States.
"About a fourth of the operating cost off hospitals is expended on information handling. (p. 2).
1979
#8353
The prose Salernitan questions, edited from a Bodleian manuscript (Auct. F.3.10). An anonymous collection dealing with science and medicine written by an Englishman c. 1200, with an Appendix of ten related collections. (Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, 5).
1979
#8474
The laboratory rat, Volume 1: Biology and disease. Edited by Henry J. Baker, J. Russell Lindsey, Steven H. Weisbroth.
Chapter 1: Historical Foundations by J. Russell Lindsey.
1979
#9158
Female complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the business of women's medicine.
"The original 1875 recipe called for unicorn root, life root, blach cohosh, pleurisy root, and fenugreek seed, but alcohol (18-20 percent) gave it a longer shelf life, and shrewd advertising assured its staying power.…
1979
#10104
Harry S. Truman versus the medical lobby: The genesis of Medicare.
1979
#10208
Serial publications containing medical classics. An index to citations in Garrison/Morton (3rd edition, 1970). Compiled by Lee Ash in collaboration with Michael A. Murray. 2nd edition, revised & enlarged.
An index to periodical citations in the 1970 printed edition of this bibliography. It is, however, still useful for references to 19th century, early 20th century, and earlier citations.
1979
#11280
F. A. Davis Company 1879-1979: A very personal account.
1979
#13697
Pharmaceutical manufacturing encyclopedia.
"Descriptions of 673 major pharmaceuticals, information having been obtained from the patent literature. Alphabetical arrangement by generic names. Each entry gives therapeutic function; chemical, common, and trade na…
1979
#13796
The invisible fire: The story of mankind's victory over the ancient scourge of smallpox.
1980
#366.1
Corpus of the anatomical studies in the collection…at Windsor Castle. Edited by K.D. Keele and C. Pedretti. 3 vols.
Splendid edition reproducing all of the drawings in color, and with the original chronology and integrity of the drawings restored. Text provides transliteration of Leonardo’s notes in the original Italian plus Englis…
1980
#1588.17
Harvey and the Oxford physiologists. A study of scientific ideas.
1980
#3161.5
Blood, pure and eloquent. A story of discovery, of people, and of ideas.
A collective work by 19 authors, edited by M. M. Wintrobe. This is a detailed history of haematology, well documented and well indexed.
1980
#3161.6
The concept of heart failure from Avicenna to Alberti.
Translations of extensive selections from 19 famous and/or obscure works, with commentary and summary.
1980
#5145.2
Bubonic plague in early modern Russia: Public health & urban disaster.
1980
#6311.7
Obstetrics and gynecology in America: A history.
1980
#6596.4
Medicine in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820. Edited by Philip Cash, Eric H. Christanson and J. Worth Estes.
A well-illustrated collection of essays covering medicine in Massachusetts but also applicable in some cases to the history of medicine and surgery throughout the American colonies.
1980
#6604.31
When the twain meet. The rise of western medicine in Japan.
Suppl. to Bull. Hist. Med., new ser., 5.
1980
#7078
The Mosher survey: Sexual attitudes of 45 Victorian women, edited by James Mahood and Kristine Wenburg.
The only known survey of the sexual habits of Victorian women, published for the first time nearly 100 years after the survey was initiated. Moser, an American physician, began the survey in 1892 as an undergraduate w…
1980
#7950
Centenary of Index Medicus: 1879-1979. Edited by John B. Blake.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1980
#7970
The death of nature: Women, ecology and the scientific revolution.
Reprinted with addition of a new preface, 1990.