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

1987

#6565.02

Avicenna in Renaissance Italy. The Canon and medical teaching in Italian Universities after 1500.

1987

#6596.61

The care of strangers: The rise of America’s hospital system.

1987

#6927

Sequencing the human genome. Summary report of the Santa Fe workshop, March 3-4, 1986.

The initial report on the Human Genome Project. For further information see the entry at HistoryofInformation.com at this link. The report is available at this link.

1987

#6998

And the band played on: Politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic.

Shilts, an investigative journalist, chronicled the discovery and spread of HIV / AIDS with special emphasis on government indifference and political infighting—specifically in the United States—to what was then perce…

1987

#7857

The development of American physiology: Scientific medicine in the nineteenth century.

1987

#8021

The Medical Department: Medical service in the Mediterranean and minor theatres. The U.S. Army in World War II: The technical services.

1987

#8502

Ethnomedical systems in Africa: Patterns of traditional medicine in rural and urban Kenya.

1987

#8671

Ross A. McFarland collection in aerospace medicine and human factors engineering. Catalogue of the library.

1987

#8842

Indian Medicine in highland Guatemala: The Pre-Hispanic and colonial periods .

1987

#9101

Law, sex and Christian society in medieval Europe.

."...explores the origin and develpment of the Christian church's sex law and the systems of belief upon which that law rested. Focusing on the Church's own legal system of canon law, James A. Brundage offers a compre…

1987

#9212

United States Army in the Korean War. The medics' war.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1987

#9883

The making of the modern body: Sexuality and society in the nineteenth century. Edited by Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur.

1987

#9900

Afro-Caribbean folk medicine.

1987

#10212

The human vocal tract: Anatomy, function, development, and evolution.

1987

#10242

The Victorian Web: Literature, history and culture in the age of Victoria.

http://www.victorianweb.org/ "The Victorian Web, which originated in hypermedia environments (Intermedia, Storyspace) that existed long before the World Wide Web, is one of the oldest academic and scholarly websites. …

1987

#10431

American medical schools and the practice of medicine: A history.

1987

#10557

The AIDS History Project.

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/aids/ "In 1987, the Archives & Special Collections initiated, in collaboration with the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society (GLBHT HS) and University of Califor…

1987

#10624

Mothers and medicine: A social History of infant feeding, 1890–1950.

1987

#11009

Disease and discovery: A history of the Johns Hopkins School Hygiene & Public Health 1916-1939.

1987

#11024

Physiology in the American context, 1850-1940. Edited by Gerald L. Geison.

Traces the development of American physiology in the cultural context of the period. Divided into three parts: social and institutional history; physiology in relation to other fields; and instruments, materials and t…

1987

#11182

Developmental stages in human embryos. Including a revision of Streeter's "Horizons" and a survey of the Carnegie Collection.

Digital facsimile from embyrology.med.unsw.edu at this link .

1987

#11585

Doctor Dock: Teaching and learning medicine at the turn of the century

"From 1899 to 1900 fourth year medical students at the University of Michigan doing their medicine and surgery rotations attended a diagnostic clinic twice a week with George Dock, A.M., M.D., professor of theory and …

1987

#11643

Medicine, mind, and the double brain: A study in nineteenth-century thought.

1987

#12124

Nature's enigma: The problem of the polyp in the letters of Bonnet, Trembley and Réaumur

1987

#12193

History of the American Physiological Society. The first century, 1887-1987. Edited by John R. Brobeck, Orr E. Reynolds, Toby A. Appel.

1987

#12211

The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate: French biology in the decades before Darwin.

"...no event better represents the contest between form and function as the chief organizing principle of life as the debate between Georges Cuvier and Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. This book presents the first comp…

1987

#12487

No magic bullet: A social history of venereal disease in the United States since 1880.

1987

#13174

Catalogue of the Transylvania University Medical Library.

The library of the Transylvania Medical Department, prominent in American medicine during the first half of the 19th century, but which closed in 1859.

1987

#13470

Charles Darwin's notebooks 1836-1844. Geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries. Transcribed and edited by Paul H. Barrett, Peter J. Gautrey, Sandra Herbert, David Kohn, Sydney Smith.

1987

#13798

CDC and the smallpox crusade.

Recounts the work toward the eradication of smallpox by the CDC, as distinct from the World Health Organization (WHO). Digital facsimile from stacks.cdc.gov at this link.

1988

#2682.56

Encyclopedia of medical devices and instrumentation. 4 vols

Some of the articles in this work include historical references, useful for the recent history of this rapidly evolving field.

1988

#2581.12

Milestones in immunology: A historical exploration.

Readings from primary sources from 1884 to 1975 with expert introductions, commentaries, and bibliographies.

1988

#3911.2

Endocrinology: people and ideas.

Thematic historical essays written by pioneers in the field, edited by McCann.

1988

#5019.21

Animal magnetism, early hypnotism, and psychical research, 1766-1925. An annotated bibliography.

Describes 1905 works, mostly with detailed annotations.

1988 –2000

#6639.12

American nursing: A biographical dictionary. 3 vols.

Edited with O.M. Church and A.P. Stein.

1988

#6639.13

Dictionary of American nursing biography.

Edited with J.W. Hawkins, L.P. Higgins, and A.H. Friedman.

1988 –1992

#5813.14

The history of surgery in the United States 1775-1900. Vol. 1: Textbooks, monographs and treatises. Vol. 2: Periodicals and pamphlets.

The most comprehensive annotated bibliographies of American surgical literature to 1900. Includes separate bibliographies for general surgery, ophthalmology, oto-rhino-laryngology, orthopedic surgery, gynaecology, uro…

1988

#6956

Other healers: Unorthodox medicine in America. Edited by Norman Gevitz.

1988

#7077

Intimate matters. A history of sexuality in America.

The first history of sexuality in America.

1988

#8066

Disease and representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS.

1988

#8640

Critical care nursing: A history

1988

#8788

Ritual healing in suburban America. By Meredith B. McGuire with the assistance of Debra Kantor.

1988

#8791

Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.

1988

#8837

The body and society: Men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity.

"A groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lif…

1988

#9105

Wet nursing: A history from antiquity to the present.

1988

#9794

A vast sea of misery: A history and guide to the Union and Confederate field hospitals at Gettysburg, July 1-November 20, 1863.

1988

#10015

Disease and distinctiveness in the American South. Edited by Todd Savitt and James Harvey Young.

1988

#10228

Racial hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis.

1988

#10674

Hausa medicine: Illness and well-being in a West African culture.

1988

#11197

Sir William Osler: An annotated bibliography with illustrations. Edited by Richard L. Golden and Charles G. Roland.

This was my first effort as a publisher. I was responsible for the illustrations, the captions, and for chosing the appendices - JMN. Richard Golden issued an Addenda to this bibliography in 1997.