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3,553 entries published in United States. 279 publication places.

1981

#13583

Medicine and the Mormons: An introduction to the history of Latter-day Saint health care.

1981

#13902

The family book about sexuality.

1982

#1588.18

A bio-bibliography for the history of the biochemical sciences since 1800.

An index to bio-bibliographical articles listed alphabetically by scientist. Supplement published, Philadelphia, 1985.

1982

#3979.1

The discovery of insulin.

1982

#3910

A history of endocrinology.

A detailed illustrated history, tracing the development of knowledge from ancient times to the present. Includes biographical notes on the important pioneers in the field and chronological tables. Revised and updated …

1982

#6623.4

Literature and medicine: an annotated bibliography. Revised edition.

Annotated bibliography of medical references in Western literature from the ancient world to time of writing. Emphasis is on summaries of the medical content. Editions cited are usually modern and always in English,

1982

#6596.6

The social transformation of American medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry.

1982

#258.12

The growth of biological thought. Diversity, evolution, and inheritance.

An interpretive history of what Mayr calls “ultimate” explanations in biology, reflecting Mayr’s expertise in systematics, evolution, and genetics.

1982

#7431

A history of the National Library of Medicine: The nation's treasury of medical knowledge.

Digital facsimile from the National Library of Medicine at this link; from the Internet Archive at this link. Chapter XX is "Evolution of Computerized Bibliographies."

1982

#8187

Hippocratic heritage: A history of ideas about weather and human health.

The first historical survey of human biometeorology, tracing the evolution of the Hippocratic idea that weather is one of the dterminants of health from its ancient origins to time of writing.

1982

#8737

Health science books, 1876-1982. 4 vols.

One of the last very large printed works of this type: "Over 132,000 English-language titles classified by some 28,000 Library of Congress subject headings. 'A unique feature ... is that, where possible, equivalent Na…

1982

#9227

Dust off: Army aeromedical evacuation in Vietnam.

Digital text available from U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.

1982

#9365

The web that has no weaver: Understanding Chinese medicine.

1982

#9775

Dark paradise: Opiate addiction in America before 1940.

Enlarged edition retitled: Dark paradise: A history of opiate addiction in America (2002).

1982

#10046

Splicing life: A report on the social and ethical issues of genetic engineering with human beings.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1982

#10254

Space physiology and medicine. Edited by Arnauld E. Nicogossian and James F. Parker, Jr.

1982

#10403

The history of medicine in Alabama.

1982

#10816

The physician in literature, edited by Norman Cousins.

Sections are devoted to research and serendipity, the role of the physician, quacks and clowns, clinical descriptions in literature, doctors and students, the practice, women and healing, madness, dying, and the patie…

1982

#11037

Origins of clinical chemistry: The evolution of protein analysis.

1982

#11217

Fitzpatrick's Rafinesque: A sketch of his life with bibliography [of his writings]. Revised and enlarged by Charles Boewe.

See also Boewe's The life of C.S. Rafinesque a man of uncommon zeal. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2011.

1982

#11328

Literature and medicine, vol. 1- . Edited by Anne Hudson Jones.

"Founded in 1982, Literature and Medicine is a peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarship that explores representational and cultural practices concerning health care and the body. Areas of interest include disease,…

1982

#11769

The emergence of ornithology as a scientific discipline.

1982 –2012

#12213

Women scientists in America. 3 vols. Vol. 1: Struggles and strategies to 1940. Vol. 2: Before affirmative action, 1940-1972. Vol. 3: Forging a new world since 1972.

1982

#12244

Doppler ultrasound in cardiology: Physical principles and clinical applications.

1982

#12368

Congenital heart disease: Benchmark papers in human physiology.

1982

#12492

The healthiest city: Milwaukee and the politics of health reform.

1982

#13179

John Gould, the bird man. A chronology and bibliography by Gordon C. Sauer.

1982

#13614

Health/medicine and the faith traditions: An inquiry into religion and medicine. Edited by Martin E. Marty and Kenneth L. Vaux.

1983 –1988

#1588.19

A history of neurophysiology in the 17th and 18th centuries. From concept to experiment. A history of neurophysiology in the 19th century. 2 vols.

1983

#214.91

The establishment of human antiquity.

The most complete historical treatment of the pre-1900 literature.

1983

#5813.13

Surgery in America. From the colonial era to the twentieth century. Second edition.

Well-chosen readings from original published sources, with informative commentary.

1983

#5436.2

Princes and peasants: Smallpox in history.

Reissued in 2002 with a new introduction as The greatest killer: Smallpox in history.

1983

#6623.5

Medical case book of Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle.

The first complete book on the medical aspects of the Sherlock Holmes stories as well as the non-fiction writings of Conan Doyle.

1983

#272

History of staining by Harold J. Cohn. 3rd edition by George C. Lusk and Frederick H.Kasten.

1983

#8082

Educating black doctors: A history of Meharry Medical College.

1983

#8146

The visual display of quantitative information.

1983

#8612

Catalogue of the Maurice M. and Jean H. Tinterow collection of works on mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnotism.

1983

#8670

A catalogue of the manuscripts and archives of the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Edited by Rudolf Hirsch.

1983

#8755

Exploring the origins of electrical cardiac stimulation.

1983

#9156

Mental illness and American society, 1875-1940.

1983

#9219

The demands of humanity: Army medical disaster relief.

Digital facsimile from history.army.mil at this link.

1983

#10217

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

1983

#10407

Changes in the land: Indians, colonists and the ecology of New England.

"In this work, Cronon demonstrated the impact on the land of the widely disparate conceptions of ownership held by Native Americans and English colonists. English law objectified land, making it an object of which the…

1983

#10472

Challenging man-made disease.

Hardy's "studies on beryllium began in 1945 when she started working for the Massachusetts Division of Occupational Medicine. She studied factories that produced fluorescent bulbs in Lynn, Salem, and Ipswich, Massachu…

1983 –1998

#10797

Pictorial encyclopedia of Civil War medical instruments and equipment. 3 vols.

1983

#11531

Exploring the heart: Discoveries in heart disease and high blood pressure.

1983

#11814

U.S. cancer mortality rates and trends, 1950-1979. 4 vols.

Riggan supervised this long-term project of calculating and publishing cancer mortality rates and trends for every county in the United States over several decades. The last 30 of the 40 years of the underlying data b…

1983

#12061

Differential equations and mathematical biology.

"This textbook shows how first-order ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are used to model the growth of a population, the administration of drugs, and the mechanism by which living cells divide. The authors presen…

1983

#12658

Trichinella and trichinosis. Edited by William C. Campbell.

The first chapter of this authoritative study is a very detailed historical introduction by William C. Campbell, with a comprehensive bibliography. Campbell also authored Chapter 10: Chemotherapy and Chapter 13: Epide…

1983

#12852

The dentist and the empress: The adventures of Dr. Tom Evans in gas-lit Paris.

"Dr. Thomas W. Evans, a Philadelphia dentist of pioneering skill and great charm, moved in the highest circles of France's Second Empire. His expertise gave American dentistry a special distinction, while his discreti…