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

1985

#9835

Perseus Digital Library. Gregory R. Crane, Editor-in-Chief.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ "The Perseus Digital Library Project began at Tufts University, Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts in 1985. Though the project was ostensibly about Greek and Roman literature and cu…

1985

#9854

Magnificent voyagers: The U. S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. Edited by Herman J. Viola and Carolyn Margolis.

1985

#10054

A calculus of suffering: Pain, professionalism and anesthesia in nineteenth-century America.

1985

#10094

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

1985

#10306

Scalpels and sabers: Nineteenth century medicine in Texas.

1985

#10319

In the name of eugenics: Genetics and the uses of human heredity.

1985

#10430

Sympathy and science: Women physicians in American medicine.

"Tracing the participation of women in the medical profession from the colonial period to the present, Regina Morantz-Sanchez examines women's roles as nurses, midwives, and practitioners of folk medicine in early Ame…

1985

#11279

Two hundred years of publishing: A history of the oldest publishing company in the United States - Lea & Febiger, 1785-1985.

1985

#11509

William Withering and the Foxglove: A bicentennial selection of letters from the Osler bequest to the Royal Society of Medicine, together with a transcription of 'An Account of the Foxglove' and an introductory essay. Edited by Ronald D. Mann.

Details William Osler's acquisition of the letters and his donation of them to the Royal Society of Medicine.

1985

#11949

Doctors and medicine in early Renaissance Florence.

1985

#12550

Healing practices in the South Pacific. Edited by Claire D. F. Parsons

1985

#13727

The management of smallpox eradication in India.

1986

#1716.2

The history of statistics: The measurement of uncertainty before 1900.

The first comprehensive history of statistics from about 1700 to 1900.

1986

#6551.4

Doctors and medicine in medieval England 1340-1530.

A social, cultural, and intellectual history of medicine and medical practitioners between the Black Death and the foundation of the Royal College of Physicians.

1986

#6357.9

Historical aspects of pediatric surgery. Prog. pediat. Surg., 20.

Well-documented illustrated series of historical articles by various authors.

1986

#6786.31

The Truman G. Blocker, Jr. history of medicine collections: Books and manuscripts

Describes approximately 13,000 books chiefly acquired for the Moody Medical Library by Truman G. Blocker, Jr. Includes the Alfred H. Whittacker library on the history of occupational medicine..

1986

#6786.32

The finest instruments ever made. A bibliography of medical, dental, optical and pharmaceutical company trade literature; 1700-1939.

1986

#6979

Ecce Homo: An annotated bibliographic history of physical anthropology.

1986

#7381

Mesmerism and the end of the Enlightenment in France.

1986

#7432

Caring and curing: Health and medicine in the Western religious tradition. Edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Darrel W. Amundsen.

1986

#7680

Natural history and the new world, 1524-1770. An annotated bibliography of printed materials in the library of the American Philosophical Society.

1986

#8088

The path we tread: Blacks in nursing, 1854-1984.

1986

#8217

Brought to bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950.

Focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices, their replacement by male doctors, and the movement from the home to the hospital. She explains that childbearing women and their physicians gradually…

1986

#8368

Contraception: A history of its treatment by the Catholic theologians and canonists. Enlarged edition.

1986

#8647

Health policies, health politics: The British and American experience, 1911-1965.

1986

#8666

Inventing the NIH: Federal biomedical research policy, 1887-1937.

1986

#8695

The Nazi doctors: Medical killing and the psychology of genocide.

"The first in-depth study of how medical professionals rationalized their participation in the Holocaust, from the early stages of the T-4 Euthanasia Program to the extermination camps" (Wikipedia).

1986

#9419

Medicine in China: A history of pharmaceutics.

1986

#9464

The therapeutic perspective: Medical practice, knowledge, and identity in America, 1820-1885.

1986

#9536

A history and theory of informed consent.

"In collaboration with Nancy M. P. King."

1986

#9785

Masters of madness: Social origins of the American psychiatric profession.

1986

#10095

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

1986

#10201

The Visible Human Project.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html "The Visible Human Project® is an outgrowth of the NLM's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional repre…

1986

#10351

The end of life: Euthanasia and morality.

Full text available from Jamesrachels.org at this link.

1986

#10649

Theories of human evolution: A century of debate, 1844-1944.

1986

#10986

The Association of American Physicians, 1886-1986: A century of progress in medical science.

"The Association of American Physicians is a nonprofit, professional organization founded in 1885 by seven physicians, including Dr. William Osler and Dr. William Henry Welch, for “the advancement of scientific and pr…

1986

#10987

"For the welfare of mankind": The Commonwealth Fund and American medicine.

1986

#11123

The impact of illness on world leaders.

1986

#11323

Medicine and American growth, 1800-1860.

"The interconnections between population increase, migration and immigration on the one hand, and disease and the development of medicine on the other in antebellum America are brilliantly presented" (publisher)

1986

#11635

The life and letters of Dr. Henry Vining Ogden, 1857-1931 by Leonard Weistrop.

Ogden was one of William Osler's closest life-long friends and correspondents. Weistrop was able to find and reproduce 334 letters between Ogden, Osler, and Cushing.

1986

#12356

The veins. Edited by Harold Laufman.

Reprints classic papers, some translated into English for the first time, dealing with the surgical anatomy of the venous system, diagnostic tests for venous disease, varicose veins, and thromboembolic disease, among …

1986

#12376

Pioneering research in surgical shock and cardiovascular surgery: Vivien T. Thomas and his work with Alfred Blalock. An autobiography by Vivien T. Thomas

Later retitled, Partners of the Heart: Vivien Thomas and His Work with Alfred Blalock.

1986

#13394

Magnus Hirschfeld: A portrait of a pioneer in sexology.

1986

#13784

Of birds and Texas.

Inspired by Audubon's double elephant folios, the first edition was limited to 500 sets and 25 artists' copies, signed by Scott Gentling and John Graves. Folio (28 x 22 inches). 40 chromolithographed plates of birds a…

1986

#14021

The anatomy of the infant head.

1987

#2188.4

The Army Medical Department, 1818-1865.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1987

#1588.23

Renal physiology: People and ideas.

A collective work on the history of renal physiology with thematic chapters by the editors and other prominent investigators.

1987

#1588.24

Nineteenth century origins of neuroscientific concepts.

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

1987

#197.3

Victorian anthropology.

1987

#5813.15

A century of black surgeons. The U.S.A. experience. 2 vols.,