c. 1839 ANONYMOUS
Deadly adulteration and slow poisoning unmasked; or, Disease and death in the pot and the bottle; in which the blood-empoisoning and life-destroying adulterations of wines, spirits, beer, bread, flour, tea, sugar, spices, cheese-mongery, pastry, confectionary medicines, &c. &c. &c. are laid open to the public, with tests or methods for the ascertaining and detecting the fraudulent and deleterious adulterations and the good and bad qualities of those articles: with an exposé of medical empiricism and imposture, quacks and quackery, regular and irregular, legitimate and illegitimate: and the frauds and mal-practices of the pawn-brokers and madhouse keepers. New edition
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10003 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12192
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
1913 SMITH, Sir Grafton Elliot (1871 – 1937); DAWSON, Charles (1864 – 1916); WOODWARD, Arthur Smith (1864 – 1944)
On the discovery of a palaeolithic skull and mandible in a flint-bearing gravel overlying the Wealden (Hastings Beds) at Piltdown, Fletching (Sussex). With appendix by Grafton Elliot Smith.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Dawson, Woodward. The first "scientific" report on “Piltdown man” (Eoanthropus dawsoni,) one of the longest-lasting and most influential hoaxes ever perpetrated in scie…
GMN 211 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3866
1947 MITSCHERLICH, Alexander (1908 – 1982); MIELKE, Fred (1922 – 1959)
Das Diktat der Menschenverachtung. Der Nürnberger Ärzteprozeß und seine Quellen.
English version: Doctors of infamy. The story of the Nazi medical crimes, translated from German by Heinz Norden. With statements of 3 American authorities identified with the Nuremberg medical trial and a note on med…
GMN 7892 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10065
1948 ROUGHEAD, William (1870 – 1952); BURKE, William (1792 – 1829); HARE, William
[Trials of] Burke and Hare, edited by William Roughead. Third edition.
Notable British Trials Series. Transcripts of the trials of the most famous "resurrection men", with related documents. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6992 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9158
1953 THOMAS, Dylan (1914 – 1953)
The doctor and the devils.
The great lyric poet’s screenplay based on the notorious career of Robert Knox, the anatomist who purchased bodies for dissection from the resurrectionists/murderers, Burke and Hare. This was the first screenplay that…
GMN 6623.01 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7687
1953 WEINER, Joseph Sidney (1915 – 1982)
The Piltdown Forgery.
Fiftieth anniversary edition with a new introduction and afterward by Chris Stringer (Oxford University Press, 2003).
GMN 7264 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9434
1953 CLARK, Sir Wilfrid Edward Le Gros (1895 – 1971); OAKLEY, Kenneth Page (1911 – 1981); WEINER, Joseph Sidney (1915 – 1982)
The solution of the Piltdown problem.
Exposure of the Piltdown fraud. Weiner, Oakley and Le Gros Clark found ample evidence of forgery in the Piltdown remains, including the use of artificial abrasion and staining; they also applied fluorine and nitrogen …
GMN 7301 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9471
1973 TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS STUDY AD HOC ADVISORY PANEL
Final report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel.
Digital facsimile from http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/ at this link.
GMN 8136 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10312
1981 JONES, James H. (1943 – )
Bad blood: The Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
"From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatmen…
GMN 8091 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10267
1983 RODIN, Alvin E.; KEY, Jack D.; CONAN DOYLE, Sir Arthur Ignatius (1859 – 1930)
Medical case book of Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle.
The first complete book on the medical aspects of the Sherlock Holmes stories as well as the non-fiction writings of Conan Doyle.
GMN 6623.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7694
2000 WEINDLING, Paul Julian (1953 – )
Epidemics and genocide in Eastern Europe, 1890-1945.
GMN 8061 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10237
2001 WEINDLING, Paul Julian (1953 – ); DÖRNER, Klaus (1933 – ); EBBINGHAUS, Angelika (1945 – ); LINNE, Karsten; ROTH, Karl Heinz (1942 – )
The Nuremberg medical trial, 1946/47: Transcripts, material of the prosecution and defense, related documents. On behalf of the Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Edited by Klaus Dörner, Angelika Ebbinghaus and Karsten Linne in cooperation with Karl Heinz Roth and Paul Weindling. Guide to the microfiche-edition. Compiled by Johannes Eltzschig and Michael Walter. With an introduction to the Trial's history by Angelika Ebbinghaus and short biographies of the participants.
GMN 7894 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10067
2002 DÖRNER, Klaus (1933 – ); EBBINGHAUS, Angelika (1945 – )
Vernichten und Heilen: Der Nürnberger Ärzteprozeß und seine Folgen.
GMN 7915 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10088
2004 WEINDLING, Paul Julian (1953 – )
Nazi medicine and the Nuremberg trials: From medical war crimes to informed consent.
GMN 7893 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10066
2004 WISE, Sarah
The Italian boy: A tale of murder and body-snatching in 1830s London.
GMN 9996 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12185
2004 HWANG, Woo-suk (1953 – ); RYU, Young June; PARK, Jong Hyuk; ET AL
Evidence of a pluripotent human embryonic stem cell line derived from a cloned blastocyst.
The authors in Korea, led by Woo-suk Hwang, reported the cloning of a human blastocyst using somatic cell nuclear transfer, and deriving pluripotent embryonic stem cells from that cloned blastocyst. In doing so they c…
GMN 14205 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16521
2006 WASHINGTON, Harriet A.
Medical apartheid: The dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present.
GMN 8092 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10268
2009 ROSNER, Lisa (1958 – )
The anatomy murders: Being the true and spectacular history of Edinburgh's notorious Burke and Hare and of the man of science who abetted them in the commission of their most heinous crimes.
GMN 9332 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11514
