North America
3,694 entries published in North America.
1973
#10223
Medicine and public health in the People's Republic of China. Edited by Joseph R. Quinn.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1973
#10735
Hallucinogens and Shamanism edited by Michael Harner.
Includes Harner's "The Role of Hallucinogenic Plants in European Witchcraft".
1973
#10898
Drugs and foods from little-known plants: Notes in Harvard University herbaria.
5178 field notes of health and medical interest from specimens in Harvard University herbaria.
1973
#11828
Witches, midwives, and nurses: A history of women healers.
1973
#14089
Rh: The intimate history of a disease and its conquest.
1974
#1588.14
The way in and the way out. François Magendie, Charles Bell and the roots of the spinal nerves. With a facsimile of Charles Bell’s annotated copy of his Idea of a new anatomy of the brain. Edited by Paul Cranefield.
An annotated bibliography of the literature documenting the history of this controversy together with reproductions of the texts of the crucial papers. See Nos. 1254-1259.
1974
#534.41
Foundations of experimental embryology. 2nd ed.
14 classic contributions to embryology (in English translations where appropriate) with historical commentaries.
1974
#5019.16
The roots of psychology. A sourcebook in the history of ideas.
1974
#6495.2
The theoretical foundations of Chinese medicine. Systems of correspondence.
1974
#7009
Chlorpromazine in psychiatry: A study of therapeutic innovation.
Chlorpromazine (CPZ) was the first drug in Western medicine found to have specific psychotropic effects agains a range of mental disease symtomatologies, particularly those associated with schizophrenia. It was market…
1974
#7777
Creative malady: Illness in the lives and minds of Charles Darwin, Florenece Nightengale, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
1974
#8386
Hospital computer systems: How to use computers in medical centers for better patient care. Edited by Morris F. Collen.
This is the first comprehensive book on the subject. The authors describe in detail, with numerous references, the limited hospital computer systems in operation at the time both in the United States and in Europe. Th…
1974
#8758
The Baglivi correspondence from the library of Sir William Osler. Edited by Dorothy Schullian.
Sir William Osler wrote to S. Weir Mitchell in 1908, "I buy a few good things now and again. I had a find last week, 140 original letters to Baglivi, 17th century ‑ from Redi, Malpighi, Pitcairn, Bellini, and the famo…
1974
#8769
Welfare medicine in America: A case study of Medicaid.
The first study of Medicaid. Revised edition, 2003.
1974
#8912
Darwin on man: A psychological study of scientific creativity by Howard E. Gruber. Together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett. Foreward by Jean Piaget.
In addition to a frequently original study of the development of Darwin's psychological theories, the authors publish for the first time two extremely significant manuscript notebooks by Darwin written in 1837. These …
1974
#9285
Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians.
1974
#9411
The physician and sexuality in Victorian America.
1974
#9487
"A computer-based system for the study and control of drug interactions in hospitalized patients," P. L. Morselli, S. Garattini, and S. N. Cohen, Drug interactions, 363-373.
MEDIPHOR System (Monitoring and Evaluation of Drug Interactions by a Pharmacy-Oriented Reporting System) developed by Cohen, Shortliffe and colleagues at Stanford University Medical School, published as a chapter in t…
1974
#10982
Heritage of excellence: The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions 1914-1947.
1974
#11327
From medical police to social medicine.
1974
#11371
Proceedings of the second Interdisciplinary Symposium on Gender Dysphoria Syndrome. Edited by Donald R. Laub and Patrick Gandy.
A symposium held at the Stanford University School of Medicine, February 2-4, 1973. It is probable that this is the first separate publication on the medical and surgical aspects of transsexuality -- male to female an…
1974
#11553
Corpuscles: Atlas of red blood cell shapes.
A spectacular oversize atlas reproducing 121 photographs of erythrocytes as visualized with a scanning electron microscope. The first edition was published in English, followed by an edition in French in 1976.
1974
#12343
The courage to fail: A social view of organ transplants and dialysis.
Includes chapters on the heart transplantation moratorium and the artificial heart.
1974
#12444
Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and public health in pre-DDT America.
1974
#12491
A history of public health in New York City.
1974
#13825
Historical medical classics involving new drugs. Foreward by Charles H. Best.
1975
#461.3
Studies in pre-Vesalian anatomy. Biography, translation, documents by L. R. Lind.
Includes English translations of texts by Alessandro Achillini, Alessandro Benedetti, Berengario da Carpi, Gabriele Zerbi, Niccolo Massa, Andrés de Laguna, J. Dryander and G. B. Canano.
1975
#1588.15
The neurosciences: Paths to discovery.
Thirty-one contributions to a symposium in honour of F. O. Schmitt.
1975
#1588.16
Translations in respiratory physiology.
English translations of 22 classic papers (some quite lengthy) with introductions by various experts.
1975
#2068.14
An historical account of pharmacology to the 20th century.
1975 –1978
#3911.1
Pioneers in neuroendocrinology. 2 vols.,
1975
#5019.17
World history of psychiatry. Edited by J.G. Howells.
Contributions by 42 authors.
1975
#5813.10
The healing hand: Man and wound in the ancient world.
Emphasizing surgery, this is an exceptionally imaginative and exquisitely designed and illustrated history of medicine in ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and China.
1975
#6610.11
The anatomical works of George Stubbs.
Reproduces all of the known anatomical drawings of the painter, George Stubbs (1724-1806), together with his midwifery illustrations and the text and plates for his work on anatomy of the horse. (No. 308.1).
1975
#257.6
Sociobiology: The new synthesis.
Integration of biological and evolutionary theory with the study of social behavior and social organization of animal populations.
1975
#7054
Textbook of Black-related diseases. Edited by Richard A. Williams.
The first textbook on diseases of African Americans written by African American physicians. The book set the tone for recognizing the importance of race and ethnicity in the evalutation, diagnosis, and treatment of pa…
1975
#7393
Phacoemulsification and aspiration: the Kelman technique of cataract removal.
Kelman introduced phacoemulsification in 1967.
1975
#7522
Telemedicine: Explorations in the use of telecommunications in health care.
The first book on telemedicine, with contributions by 18 authors, including Kenneth T. Bird. In the final chapter the editors summarize telemedicine programs then operational in the United States. The book also includ…
1975
#7982
Historical statistics of the United States: Colonial times to 1970. Bicentennial edition. 2 vols.
Chapter B, "Vital statistics and health and medical care." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link; from the U. S. Census Bureau at this link.
1975
#8448
Anglo-Saxon prose.
Includes translations of medical material. Third revised and enlarged edition (Gloucester, England: Choir Press, 2017).
1975
#8843
Textos de medicina nahuatl.
1975
#9135
Blue Cross since 1929: Accountability and the public trust.
1975
#9270
Cherokee plants their uses - a 400 year history.
1975
#9345
Herbal pharmacology in the People's Republic of China: A trip report of the American Herbal Pharmacology Delegation. Submitted to the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China.
Digital facsimile from swsbm.com at this link.
1975
#10252
Biomedical results of Apollo.
Full text available from history.nasa.gov at this link.
1975
#10263
Antivivisection and medical science in Victorian society.
1975
#10808
The centennial history of the Boston Medical Library 1875-1975.
1975
#11649
The Toronto General Hospital, 1819-1965: A chronicle.
1975
#11691
Heart and coronary arteries: An anatomical atlas for clinical diagnosis, radiological investigation, and surgical treatment.
With 1,098 images this is "probablly the highest quality atlas of the heart ever produced" (W. Bruce Fye). This atlas received recognition throughout the world, including a Gold Medal at the International Book Festiva…
1975
#13639
The hospital: A social and architectural history.
"This book is about the hospital ward, also called the nursing unit or inpatient unit. Part 1 gives a history of nursing unit floor plans since roman times. Part 2 reviews contemporary planning problems. Part 3 contai…