2009 TRAFZER, Clifford E. (1949 – ); MCCOY, Robert R.

Forgotten voices: Death records of the Yakama, 1888-1964.

"Despite a recent resurgence in studies of death and disease in native peoples of the Western Hemisphere, little work has been done on death and disease in Native Americans during the reservation period of the late 19…

GMN 12095 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14304

2009 SCHWARTZ, Louis

Milton and maternal mortality.

"All too often, childbirth in early modern England was associated with fear, suffering and death, and this melancholy preoccupation weighed heavily on the seventeenth-century mind. This landmark study examines John Mi…

GMN 14357 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16687

2012 MILLER, Franklin G. (1948 – ); TRUOG, Robert D.

Death, dying, and organ transplantation: Reconstructing medical ethics at the end of life.

GMN 10345 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12537

2013 ABEL, Emily K. (1942 – )

The inevitable hour: A history of caring for dying patients in America.

GMN 8185 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10361

2013 CLARK, David (1953 – )

Transforming the culture of dying: The work of the Project on Death in America.

"Over a period of almost 10 years, the work of the Project on Death in America (PDIA) played a formative role in the advancement of end of life care in the United States. The project concerned itself with adults and c…

GMN 10062 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12251

2014 BELKIN, Gary

Death before dying: History, medicine, and brain death.

"Brain death-the condition of a non-functioning brain, has been widely adopted around the world as a definition of death since it was detailed in a Report by an Ad Hoc Committee of Harvard Medical School faculty in 19…

GMN 10043 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12232

2015 VANDERPOOL, Harold Young (1936 – )

Palliative care: The 400-year quest for a good death.

This is a fine example of "you can't judge a book by its cover" since this study is outstanding from the bibliographical point of view and contains footnotes that are remarkable for their scholarly detail.

GMN 9968 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12157

2015 STOLBERG, Michael (1957 – )

Die Geschichte der Palliativmedizin: Medizinische Sterbebegleitung von 1500 bis heute.

Translated into English by Logan Kennedy and Leonhard Unglaub as A history of palliative care, 1500-1970: Concepts, practices, and ethical challenges (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017).

GMN 10034 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12223

2015 MORTIMER, Ian James Forrester (1967 – )

The dying and the doctors: The medical revolution in seventeenth-century England.

"From the sixteenth century onwards, medical strategies adopted by the seriously ill and dying changed radically, decade by decade, from the Elizabethan age of astrological medicine to the emergence of the general pra…

GMN 10116 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12305

2015 SCHWARTZ, David Alan (1953 – )

Maternal mortality: Risk factors, anthropological perspectives, prevalence in developing countries and preventive strategies for pregnancy-related deaths. Edited by David A. Schwartz.

"Pregnancy is a life-threatening event in many parts of the developing world. Globally, it is estimated that 289,000 women died from being pregnant in 2013. The lifetime risk for dying as a result of pregnancy is as h…

GMN 14356 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16686

2017 ROTHSTEIN, William G. (1937 – )

The coronary heart disease pandemic in the twentieth century: Emergence and decline in advanced countries.

"This book demonstrates that a pandemic of coronary heart disease occurred in North America, western and northern Europe, and Australia and New Zealand from the 1930s to about 2000. At its peak it caused more deaths t…

GMN 12372 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14597

2018 CILEK, Laura; CHOWELL, Gerardo; FARIÑAS, Diego Ramiro

Age-specific excess mortality patterns during the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic in Madrid, Spain.

Abstract "Although much progress has been made to uncover age-specific mortality patterns of the 1918 influenza pandemic in populations around the world, more studies in different populations are needed to make sense …

GMN 12103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14312

2018 KAHL, Oliver; IBN BAKHTYASHU, Abu Sa'id Ubaid Allah ( Bukhtishu, Bukhtyashu, and Bakhtshooa) (940 – 1058)

‘Ubaidallāh Ibn Buḫtīšū‘ on apparent death: The Kitāb Taḥrīm dafn al-aḥyā’, Arabic edition and English translation by Oliver Kahl.

GMN 12668 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14912