1983 HARDY, Harriet Louise (1906 – 1993)
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…
GMN 10472 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12665
1983 ANDERSON, M. J.; JONES, S. E.; FISHER-HOCH, Susan P.; ET AL
Human parvovirus, the cause of erythema infectiosum (Fifth disease)?
This single page document was published as a Letter to the Editor of The Lancet. Order of authorship of the letter: Anderson, Jones, Fisher-Hoch.... Identification of human parvovirus as the cause of "Fifth disease". …
GMN 11191 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13388
1984 BRIDGFORTH, Lucie Robertson
Medical education in Mississippi: A history of the School of Medicine.
GMN 10298 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12489
1984 MONTAGNIER, Luc Antoine (1932 – ); BARRÉ-SINOUSSI, Françoise (1947 – ); DAUGUET, C.; ET AL
A new type of retrovirus isolated from patients presenting with lymphadenopathy and acquired immune deficiency syndrome: Structural and antigenic relatedness with equine infectious anemia virus.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Montagnier, Dauguet,... Barré-Sinoussi. In this paper Montagnier and colleagues showed that, contrary to the views of Gallo and his group, LAV (Lymphadenopathy Associat…
GMN 11059 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13255
1985 DONAHUE, Mary Patricia (1925 – )
Nursing: the finest art. An illustrated history.
The most elaborately illustrated history available.
GMN 6639.11 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7742
1985 BLACKBURN, Elizabeth Helen (1948 – ); GRIEDER, Carolyn Widney (1961 – )
Identification of a specific telomere terminal transferase activity in Tetrahymena extracts.
Blackburn and Grieder discovered telomerase in the ciliate Tetrahymena. In 2009 Blackburn and Grieder shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jack W. Szostak "for the discovery of how chromosomes are pro…
GMN 8388 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10565
1985 MORANTZ-SANCHEZ, Regina Markell
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…
GMN 10430 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12623
1985 KARMALI, Mohamed A.; PETRIC, Martin; LIM, Corazon; ET AL
The association between idiopathic hemolytic uremic syndrome and infection by Verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Karmali, Petric, Lim. The authors discovered that a hemolytic uremic syndrome, associated with E. coli 0157-H7 (first described in No. 11376), and which could not be cu…
GMN 11377 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13576
1986 CARNEGIE, Mary Elizabeth (1916 – 2008)
The path we tread: Blacks in nursing, 1854-1984.
GMN 8088 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10264
1986 CLAVEL, François; GUÉTARD, D.; BRUN-VEZINET, François; ET AL
Isolation of a new human retrovirus from West African patients with AIDS.
HIV-2 was discovered essentially simultaneously by French and U.S. teams. This was the first publication by the French team. Order of authorship of the original publication was Clavel, Guettard, Brun-Vezinet. See thei…
GMN 10788 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12984
1986 HARVEY, Abner McGehee (1911 – 1998); ABRAMS, Susan L.
"For the welfare of mankind": The Commonwealth Fund and American medicine.
GMN 10987 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13183
1987 DUDEN, Barbara (1942 – )
Geschichte unter der Haut. Ein Eisenacher Arzt und seine Patientinnen um 1730.
A study of cultural representations of women patients as recorded in the case records of Johann Storch (1681-1751), a physician who lived and worked in the town of Eisenach, Germany during the first half of the 18th c…
GMN 8048 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10224
1987 ORELLANA, Sandra L.
Indian Medicine in highland Guatemala: The Pre-Hispanic and colonial periods .
GMN 8842 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11020
1987 FILDES, Valerie A.
Breasts, bottles and babies: A history of infant feeding.
GMN 9106 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11285
1987 APPLE, Rima Dombrow (1944 – )
Mothers and medicine: A social History of infant feeding, 1890–1950.
GMN 10624 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12817
1987 FEE, Elizabeth (1946 – 2018)
Disease and discovery: A history of the Johns Hopkins School Hygiene & Public Health 1916-1939.
GMN 11009 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13205
1987 O'RAHILLY, Ronan (1921 – 2018); MÜLLER, Fabiola
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 .
GMN 11182 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13379
1987 ANAND, Aditi; GRAY, Elizabeth S.; BROWN, Thomas
Human parvovirus infection in pregnancy and hydrops fetalis.
Demonstration of the devastating effect of human parvovirus B19 on the human fetus. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
GMN 11192 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13389
1987 CARPENTER, Priscilla D.; HEPPNER, Bradley T.; GNANN, John W.
DF-2 bacteremia following cat bites. Report of two cases.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Carpenter, Heppner, Gnann. Report of two cases of infection from cat bites by the bacterium then identified by the CDC as DF-2 (later called Capnocytophaga canimorsus) in non…
GMN 11246 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13443
1988 D'EMILIO, John (1948 – ); FREEDMAN, Estelle B. (1947 – )
Intimate matters. A history of sexuality in America.
The first history of sexuality in America.
GMN 7077 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9244
1988 MCGUIRE, Meredith B. (1944 – )
Ritual healing in suburban America. By Meredith B. McGuire with the assistance of Debra Kantor.
GMN 8788 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10966
1988 FILDES, Valerie A.
Wet nursing: A history from antiquity to the present.
GMN 9105 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11284
1988 AUSTOKER, Joan (1947 – 2010)
A history of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund 1902-1986.
"The author takes a broad perspective and provides a comparative framework by discussing the changing relationship between the ICRF and the medical profession, government, and other charities, notably the Cancer Resea…
GMN 10452 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12645
1989 WINDER, Marianne (1918 – 2001)
Catalogue of Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs and catalogue of Thankas, banners and other paintings and drawings in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
GMN 7081 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9248
1989 MANNICHE, Lisa
An ancient Egyptian herbal.
GMN 8471 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10648
1989 STEPSIS, Ursula (1954 – 1989); LIPTAK, Dolores
Pioneer healers: The history of women religious in American health care. Edited by Ursula Stepsis and Dolores Liptak.
GMN 8768 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10946
1989 LEMAK, Noreen Ann (1921 – 2013); FIELDS, William S.
A history of stroke: Its recognition and treatment.
GMN 10742 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12937
1989 HARVEY, William (1578 – 1657); KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982); WHITTERIDGE, Gweneth (1910 – 1993)
A bibliography of the writings of Dr. William Harvey 1578-1657. Third edition, revised by Gweneth Whitteridge and Christine English.
This is the definitive edition of a bibliography first published by Sir Geoffrey Keynes in 1928 on the three hundredth anniversary of De motu cordis, and revised by him for a second edition in 1953. It contains a new …
GMN 11198 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13395
1989 VERTINSKY, Patricia A.
The eternally wounded woman: Women, doctors, and exercise in the late nineteenth century.
GMN 11907 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14112
1990 KASS-SIMON, Gabriele; FARNES, Patricia (1931 – 1985)
Women of Science. Righting the record. Edited by G. Kass-Simon and Patricia Farnes.
GMN 7165 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9332
1990 SAMMONS, Vivian Lucille Ovelton (1925 – 2016)
Blacks in science and medicine.
GMN 8754 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10932
1990 MOSCUCCI, Ornella
The science of woman: Gynaecology and gender in England, 1800-1929.
GMN 10173 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12362
1991 DALLY, Ann (1926 – 2007)
Women under the knife: A history of surgery.
"In the nineteenth century, major developments in internal surgery were due to operations on ovaries. Women bore the brunt of surgical experimentation and also reaped its rewards. Their need was great, but so was thei…
GMN 11221 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13418
1991 AXEL, Richard (1946 – ); BUCK, Linda Brown (1947 – )
A novel multigene family may encode odorant receptors: A molecular basis for odor recognition.
"In their landmark paper published in 1991, Buck and Axel cloned olfactory receptors, showing that they belong to the family of G protein coupled receptors. By analyzing rat DNA, they estimated that there were approxi…
GMN 13930 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16224
1992 NEEDHAM, Dorothy Mary Moyle (1896 – 1988); TEICH, Mikuláš (1918 – 2018)
A documentary history of biochemistry, 1770-1940. By Mikuláš Teich with Dorothy M. Needham.
GMN 8773 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10951
1992 FURST, Lillian R. (1931 – 2009); GRAHAM, Peter W.
Disorderly eaters: Texts in self-empowerment. Edited by Lillian R. Furst and Peter W. Graham.
Explores the various manifestations of eating disorders in literature, including cannibalism, the magic attributes of food, religiously motivated fasting, and children's eating problems, from the classical period to T…
GMN 11855 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14059
1993 WEINER, Dora B.
The citizen-patient in revolutionary and imperial Paris.
GMN 8784 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10962
1993 ARNOLD, Frances Hamilton (1956 – ); CHEN, K. Q.
Tuning the activity of an enzyme for unusual environments: Sequential random mutagenesis of subtilisin E for catalysis in dimethylformamide.
Arnold introduced a biochemical molecule manipulating technique to mimic the process of natural selection in creating new enzymes adapted to a specific catalytic reaction. She directed evolution of subtilisin E to obt…
GMN 14341 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16670
1994 HORROX, Rosemary (1951 – )
The black death.
A collection of documents written by those who lived and died in the mid-fourteenth century, translated and accompanied with commentaries.
GMN 8453 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10630
1994 SPAULDING, Mary; WELCH, Penny; DRAKE, Theodore George Harwood (1891 – 1959)
Nurturing yesterday's child: A portrayal of the Drake collection of paediatric history.
Pediatric prints, paintings, and antiques collected by Theodore G. H. Drake.
GMN 8765 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10943
1994 BRODIE, Janet Farrell
Contraception and abortion in nineteenth-century America.
GMN 10299 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12490
1994 O'CONNOR, Bonnie Blair
Healing traditions: Alternative medicine and the health professions.
"The popularity and practice of alternative medicine continues to expand at astonishing rates. In Healing Traditions, Bonnie Blair O'Connor considers the conflicts that arise between the values and assumptions of West…
GMN 11168 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13365
1994 O'RAHILLY, Ronan (1921 – 2018); MÜLLER, Fabiola
The embryonic human brain: An atlas of developmental stages.
"The first work devoted to the staged, embryonic human brain."
GMN 11177 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13374
1995 SMITH, Susan L.
Sick and tired of being sick and tired: Black women's health activism in America, 1890-1950.
GMN 8089 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10265
1995 CADDEN, Joan (1944 – )
The meanings of sex difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, science, and culture.
"...explores the ways in which scientific ideas about sex differences in the later Middle Ages participated in the broader cultural assumptions about gender. Professor Cadden discusses how medieval natural philosophic…
GMN 9102 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11281
1995 CHANG, Yuan (1959 – ); MOORE, Patrick S. (1956 – ); CESARMAN, Ethel; ET AL
Kaposi's Sarcoma-associated herpesvirus-like DNA sequences in AIDS-related body-cavity-based lymphomas.
Chang, Moore and colleagues showed that the virus causing Kaposi's Sarcoma also causes body cavity lymphomas and lymphomatous effusions in humans. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
GMN 10914 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13110
1995 JAMISON, Kay Redfield (1946 – )
An unquiet mind: A memoir of moods and madness.
An autobiographical study of bipolar disorder by a distinguished American clinical psychologist who personally suffers from this disorder.
GMN 10979 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13175
1995 BORST, Charlotte G.
Catching babies: The professionalization of childbirth, 1870-1920.
Concerns the transition in the early 20th century in the United States from women midwives delivering most babies to professional obstetricians--mostly men--delivering almost all babies by the 1950s. It researches why…
GMN 11023 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13219
1995 HIGBY, Gregory J.; STROUD, Elaine Condouris (1950 – )
The history of pharmacy: A selected annotated bibliography.
GMN 11419 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13618
1995 TROTA OF SALERNO, (Trotula) (1150 – ); CANTALUPO, Piero
La practica secundum Trotam: Testo, traduzione, appendici e glossario
GMN 11838 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14042
