1550 ANONYMOUS
Ordnung eines erbarn Raths der Statt Regenspurg, die Hebammen betreffende.
The earliest public document in the vernacular containing legislation governing midwives. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 6142 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7686
1573 LONITZER, Adam (Lonicer) (1528 – 1586)
Reformation oder Ordnung für die Hebammen.
Legislation governing the practice of midwifery was introduced in the city of Frankfurt in 1573, Digital facsimile from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek at this link.
GMN 6143 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7689
1809 COURTIN, Charles (1777 – 1855)
Recueil général des lois, réglemens, décisions et circulaires sur le service des hôpitaux militaires. 2 vols.
On the organization and administration of French military hospitals during the Napoleonic era, and probably the most comprehensive account published up to this time on the administration of military hospitals in gener…
GMN 10267 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12458
1828 GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT
Report from the select committee on anatomy. House of Commons, 22 July 1828.
In the first half of 1828, in response to increasing calls for reform, the British Parliament appointed a committee to "enquire into the manner of obtaining subjects for dissection by schools of Anatomy and the State …
GMN 7096 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9263
1829 WARREN, John Collins (1778 – 1856); MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY
Address to the community, on the necessity of legalizing the study of anatomy
The petition to the Massachusetts legislature to legalize "the procuring of subjects for anatomical dissections" (from George Hayward's printed notice on the verso of the title page). Nine members of the Massachusetts…
GMN 11760 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13961
1831 ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND
Anatomy. Copy of a letter from the council of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, to Viscount Melbourne.
On December 5, 1831, the notorious London "resurrection men" John Bishop and Thomas Williams were executed for the murder of an itinerant fourteen-year-old (known only as the "Italian Boy"), whose corpse they had then…
GMN 9995 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12184
1831 MASSACHUSETTS. GENERAL COURT. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Report of the Select Committee of the House of Representatives ... legalizing the study of anatomy.
This was the first law passed in the United States consigning the bodies of those who died in workhouses, hospitals, and similar institutions, the bodies of whom were "unclaimed," to medical schools for dissection. "S…
GMN 11759 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13960
1832 NATIONAL POLITICAL UNION
Anatomy. Proceedings at the National Political Union, respecting legislative interference in the study of anatomy, and the supply of bodies for anatomical research.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9993 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12182
1879 BAKER, Sir George Edward Dunstan Sherston (1846 – 1923)
The laws relating to quarantine of Her Majesty's dominions at home and abroad, and of the principal foreign states, including the sections of the Public health act, 1875, which bear upon measures of prevention
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9028 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11207
1896 BAILEY, James Blake ( – 1897)
The diary of a resurrectionist 1811-1812, to which are added an account of the resurrection men in London and a short history of the passing of the Anatomy Act.
First-hand account of the activities of the so-called “sack-em-up” men who flourished in England and Scotland until passage in 1832 of the Anatomy Act provided legal means for physicians to obtain cadavers for dissect…
GMN 444.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1108
1902 OLIVER, Sir Thomas (1853 – 1942)
Dangerous trades: the historical, social, and legal aspects of industrial occupations as affecting health, by a number of experts.
A collective work edited by Oliver. Digital fascimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 2129 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2663
1978 BENTHAM, Jeremy (1747 – 1832); CROMPTON, Louis (1925 – 2009)
Offenses against one's self. Edited by Louis Crompton.
This is the first publication of Jeremy Bentham's essay on "Paederasty," written about 1785. Bentham suppressed the essay during his lifetime, for fear of public outrage at his views on liberalizing the laws concernin…
GMN 10209 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12398
1981 PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION FOR THE STUDY OF ETHICAL PROBLEMS IN MEDICINE AND BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH
Defining death: A report on the medical, legal and ethical issues in the determination of death.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10045 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12234
1989 YOUNG, James Harvey (1915 – 2006)
Pure food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906.
GMN 12414 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14644
2002 MUSTO, David Franklin (1936 – 2010); KORSMEYER, Pamela (1945 – )
The quest for drug control: Politics and federal policy in a period of increasing substance abuse, 1963-1981.
GMN 12415 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14645
