1975 HAMEL, Paul B.; CHILTOSKY, Mary U.
Cherokee plants their uses - a 400 year history.
GMN 9270 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11452
1975 GARLAND, Joseph Everett (1922 – 2011)
The centennial history of the Boston Medical Library 1875-1975.
GMN 10808 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13004
1976 STEERE, Allen Caruthers; MALAWISTA, Stephen Evan (1934 – 2013); SNYDMAN, David R.
A cluster of arthritis in children and adults in Lyme, Connecticut.
The first publication on Lyme Disease. Abstract from the Proceedings of the 40th Annual Scientific Session of the American Rheumatism Association. Order of authorship in the original paper was Steere, Malawista, Snydm…
GMN 10781 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12977
1977 FRANKEL, Barbara
Childbirth in the ghetto: Folk beliefs of negro women in a North Philadelphia hospital ward.
GMN 9288 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11470
1977 BROWN, Kent L.
Medicine in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County: 1810-1976. Edited by Kent L. Brown.
41 chapters that address all aspects of medical and surgical practice (arranged by specialty) in addition to studies of specific institutions and special groups (e.g. women physicians and black physicians).
GMN 10300 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12491
1977 ELLIS, John H.
Medicine in Kentucky.
GMN 10323 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12515
1977 BEECHER, Henry Knowles
Medicine at Harvard: The first three hundred years.
GMN 10956 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13152
1977 HOLLOWAY, Lisabeth M.; HENRY, Frederick P. (1844 – 1919); ANDERS, James M. (1854 – 1936); KONKLE, Burton Alva (1861 – 1944)
Standard history of the medical profession of Philadelphia by Burton A. Konkle, with the collaboration of James M. Anders ... [et al.] ; edited by Frederick P. Henry. Revised by Lisabeth M. Holloway, with an index and bibliography.
GMN 12609 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14849
1978 SAVITT, Todd L. (1943 – )
Medicine and slavery. The diseases and health care of blacks in antebellum Virginia.
GMN 7047 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9214
1979 SPIELMAN, Andrew (1930 – 2006); CLIFFORD, Carlton M.; PIESMAN, Joseph; ET AL
Human babesiosis on Nantucket Island, USA: Description of the vector, Ixodes dammini, N. Sp. (Acarina: Ixodidae)
Order of authorship in the original paper was Spielman, Clifford, Piesman. The authors identified and described the insect vector of Babesiosis. This was a new species; the same species causes Lyme disease. (Thanks to…
GMN 10888 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13084
1980 CASH, Philip (1931 – 2005); ESTES, J. Worth (1934 – 2000); CHRISTANSON, Eric H.
Medicine in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820. Edited by Philip Cash, Eric H. Christanson and J. Worth Estes.
A well-illustrated collection of essays covering medicine in Massachusetts but also applicable in some cases to the history of medicine and surgery throughout the American colonies.
GMN 6596.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8507
1980 VOGEL, Morris J.
Invention of the modern hospital: Boston, 1870-1930.
GMN 9163 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11342
1981 CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)
Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia among homosexual men--New York City and California.
The second published report on what later became the AIDS epidemic. The report described 26 homosexual men in New York and California with Kaposi's sarcoma, and 10 more Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) cases in ho…
GMN 6995 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9161
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
1981 CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC); GOTTLIEB, Michael Stuart (1947 – )
Pneumocystis pneumonia - Los Angeles.
The first paper on HIV/AIDS, reporting on June 5, 1981 on five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) seen at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) medical center. PCP was then a rare infection; ho…
GMN 9329 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11511
1981 HARVEY, Abner McGehee (1911 – 1998)
Research and discovery in medicine: Contributions from Johns Hopkins.
Essays on the history of pioneering clinical research at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
GMN 11740 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13940
1981 DIVETT, Robert T.
Medicine and the Mormons: An introduction to the history of Latter-day Saint health care.
GMN 13583 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15861
1982 HOLLEY, Howard Lamar (1914 – 1988)
The history of medicine in Alabama.
GMN 10403 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12596
1982 LEAVITT, Judith Walzer (1940 – )
The healthiest city: Milwaukee and the politics of health reform.
GMN 12492 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14725
1983 SUMMERVILLE, James; ELAM, Lloyd Charles (1928 – 2008)
Educating black doctors: A history of Meharry Medical College.
GMN 8082 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10258
1984 BRIDGFORTH, Lucie Robertson
Medical education in Mississippi: A history of the School of Medicine.
GMN 10298 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12489
1984 CARROLL, Douglas
Medicine in Maryland, 1634-1900,
GMN 10302 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12494
1984 RAWLS, George H. (1928 – )
History of the black physician in Indianapolis 1870 to 1980.
GMN 10327 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12519
1985 FERRIS, Sylvia van Vost; SELLERS, Eleanor
Scalpels and sabers: Nineteenth century medicine in Texas.
GMN 10306 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12498
1986 GENTLING, Scott (1942 – 2011); GENTLING, Stuart (1942 – 2006)
Of birds and Texas.
Inspired by Audubon's double elephant folios, the first edition was limited to 500 sets and 25 artists' copies, signed by Scott Gentling and John Graves. Folio (28 x 22 inches). 40 chromolithographed plates of birds a…
GMN 13784 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16071
1987 BITENSKY, Mark W. ( – 2014)
Sequencing the human genome. Summary report of the Santa Fe workshop, March 3-4, 1986.
The initial report on the Human Genome Project. For further information see the entry at HistoryofInformation.com at this link. The report is available at this link.
GMN 6927 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9092
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 HENRY, Roemol
Catalogue of the Transylvania University Medical Library.
The library of the Transylvania Medical Department, prominent in American medicine during the first half of the 19th century, but which closed in 1859.
GMN 13174 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15434
1988 FORTUINE, Robert (1934 – 2009)
The use of medicinal plants by the Alaska natives.
GMN 9291 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11473
1989 HARVEY, Abner McGehee (1911 – 1998); BRIEGER, Gert H.; ABRAMS, Susan L.; MCKUSICK, Victor Almon (1921 – 2008)
A model of its kind. Vol. 1: A centennial history of medicine at Johns Hopkins. Vol. 2: A pictorial history of medicine at Johns Hopkins.
GMN 8667 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10844
1989 FORTUINE, Robert (1934 – 2009)
Chills and fever: Health and disease in the early history of Alaska.
GMN 10079 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12268
1989 ROCKEFELLAR, Nancy M.; HAVILAND, James W.
Saddlebags to scanners: The first 100 years of medicine In Washington State. Edited by Nancy M. Rockefellar and James W. Haviland.
GMN 10331 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12523
1990 ULRICH, Laurel Thatcher (1938 – ); BALLARD, Martha Moore (1735 – 1812)
A midwife's tale. The life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary 1785-1812.
Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine.
GMN 7883 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10055
1990 LEWIS, Thomas H.
The medicine men: Oglala Sioux ceremony and healing.
GMN 10874 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13070
1990 HARVEY, Abner McGehee (1911 – 1998); MCKUSICK, Victor Almon (1921 – 2008); STOBO, John David (1941 – )
Osler's legacy: The department of medicine at Johns Hopkins 1889-1989.
GMN 10985 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13181
1991 ROCK, John A. (1890 – 1984); JOHNSON, Timothy Robert B.; WOODRUFF, J. Donald (1912 – 1996)
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins Hospital: The first 100 years. Edited by John A.Rock, Timothy R.B. Johnson, J. Donald Woodruff.
GMN 10983 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13179
1992 JOHNSTON, Stanley H. Jr. (1932 – 2013)
The Cleveland herbal, botanical, and horticultural collections: A descriptive bibliography of pre-1830 works from the libraries of the Holden Arboretum, the Cleveland Medical Library Association, and the Garden Center of Cleveland.
GMN 9568 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11754
1992 FRAZIER, Claude Albee (1920 – 2005)
Miners and medicine: West Virginia memories.
"The coal-company doctors of Appalachia fought the health hazards of the coal fields, arguably the most dangerous and diseased working environment of the modern world. Often the doctors were held accountable for evils…
GMN 13297 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15563
1993 KAY, Lily E. (1947 – 2000)
The molecular vision of life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the rise of the new biology.
GMN 12429 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14660
1994 BAKKEN, Johan S.; DUMLER, John Stephen; CHEN, Sheng-Min; ET AL
Human granulocytic Ehrlichiosis in the Upper Midwest United States. A new species emerging?
Order of authorship in the original paper: Bakken, Dumler, Chen. First description of the Ehrlichia ewingii species of Ehrlichiosis (HGE) from a patient in Duluth, Minnesota, though the infectious agent was not yet na…
GMN 10901 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13097
1994 HOWELL, Joel D.
Medical lives and scientific medicine at Michigan, 1891-1969. Edited by Joel D. Howell.
GMN 11785 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13986
1995 MORAN, Martin (1936 – )
Tincture of time: The story of 150 years of medicine in Atlanta, 1845-1994.
GMN 10325 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12517
1995 PERSING, David H.; HERWALDT, Barbara L.; GLASER, Carol; ET AL
Infection with a Babesia-like organism in Northern California.
Order of authorship in the original paper was Persing, Herwaldt, Glaser. First report of a Basisa duncani infection in humans (4 patients). The authors designated the infection as Babesia (WA1) strain transmitted by I…
GMN 10889 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13085
1998 BANKOLE-MEDINA, Katherine
Slavery and medicine: Enslavement and medical practices in antebellum Louisiana.
GMN 8205 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10381
1998 ROGERS, Naomi (1958 – )
An alternative Path: The making and remaking of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital.
"When Hahnemann Medical College was founded in Philadelphia in 1848, it was the only institution in the world to offer an M. D. degree in homeopathy, a therapeutic and intellectual alternative to orthodox medicine. Th…
GMN 10332 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12524
1998 ROLAND, William E.; EVERETT, E. Dale; CYR, Tracy L.; ET AL
Ehrlichia chaffeensis in Missouri ticks.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Roland, Everett, Cyr. Using PCR, the authors demonstrated that the tick Amblyoma americanum (the Lone Star Tick) was the insect vector of Ehrlichia chaffeensis. Digital facsi…
GMN 10900 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13096
1999 GARIBALDI, Ann
Medicinal flora of the Alaska natives. A compilation of knowledge from literary sources of Aleut, Alutiiq, Athabascan, Eyak, Haida, Inupiat, Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Yupik traditional healing methods using plants.
Digital facsimile from uaa.alaska.edu at this link.
GMN 9292 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11474
1999 SANDERS, Albert E.; ANDERSON, William D. Jr.
Natural history investigations in South Carolina from colonial times to the present.
GMN 10338 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12530
1999 MORANTZ-SANCHEZ, Regina Markell; JONES, Mary Amanda Dixon (1828 – 1908)
Conduct unbecoming a woman: Medicine on trial in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn.
"In the spring of 1889, Brooklyn's premier newspaper, the Daily Eagle, printed a series of articles that detailed a history of midnight hearses and botched operations performed by a scalpel-eager female surgeon named …
GMN 10429 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12622
1999 BULLER, Richard; ARENS, Max; HMIEL, S. Paul; ET AL
Ehrlichia ewingii, a newly recognized agent of human Ehrlichiosis.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Buller, Arens, Hmiel. The authors confirmed that the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE), is Ehrlichia ewingii, a pathogen carried by dogs and known in that …
GMN 10903 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13099
