1953 HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894); CURRIER, Thomas Franklin (1873 – 1946); TILTON, Eleanor Marguerite (1913 – 1991)
A bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes
GMN 11203 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13400
1954 KERR, John Martin Munro (1868 – 1960); ET AL
Historical review of British obstetrics and gynaecology, 1800-1950.
Edited by J. M. Munro Kerr, R. W. Johnstone, and M.H. Phillips. Supplements No. 6299.
GMN 6311.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8055
1955 GARDINER, Sir Alan Henderson (1879 – 1963)
The Ramesseum papyri. Edited by Sir Alan Gardiner. 2 vols.
A collection of ancient Egyptian medical documents from the early 18th century BCE, found in the temple of the Ramesseum. As with most ancient Egyptian medical papyri, these documents mainly concern ailments, diseases…
GMN 8391 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10568
1955 DEVEREUX, George (1908 – 1985)
A study of abortion in primitive societies. A typological, distributional, and dynamic analysis of the prevention of birth in 400 preindustrial societies.
GMN 9103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11282
1956 TEMKIN, Oswei (1902 – 2002); EDELSTEIN, Ludwig (1902 – 1965); SORANUS OF EPHESUS (ΣΩΡΑΝΌΣ) (100 – 150); GUTTMACHER, Allan Frank (1898 – 1974); EASTMAN, Nicholson Joseph (1895 – 1973)
Soranus' Gynecology. Translated by Owsei Temkin with the assistance of Nicolson J. Eastman, Ludwig Edelstein, and Alan F. Guttmacher.
GMN 9367 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11550
1958 DONALD, Ian (1910 – 1987)
Investigation of abdominal masses by pulsed ultrasound.
Donald, J. MacVicar and T. G. Brown used an ultrasound scanner to investigate the pregnant abdomen (see also No. 6235.1).
GMN 2682 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3582
1958 SPEERT, Harold (1915 – 2017)
Obstetric and gynecologic milestones: essays in eponymy.
79 essays with historical accounts, excerpts from sources, etc.
GMN 6311.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8056
1961 DONALD, Ian (1910 – 1987); BROWN, T. G.
Demonstration of tissue interfaces within the body by ultrasonic echo sounding.
Biparietal fetal cephalometry by ultrasound.
GMN 6235.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7872
1963 DIEPGEN, Paul (1878 – 1966)
Frau und Frauenheilkunde in der Kultur des Mittelalters.
A continuation of No. 6303.
GMN 6311.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8057
1964 CUTTER, Irving Samuel (1875 – 1945); VIETS, Henry Rouse (1890 – 1969)
A short history of midwifery.
Supplemented reprint of Cutter's "Historical sketch of the development of midwifery and gynecology," Obstetrics and Gynecology, edited by Arthur H. Curtis, I, 4-194 (Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Co., 1933).
GMN 9535 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11721
1965 THOMPSON, Horace E. (1921 – 2008); HOLMES, Joseph H. (1902 – 1982); GOTTESFELD, Kenneth R.; TAYLOR, E. S.
Fetal development as determined by ultrasonic pulse echo techniques.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Thompson, Holmes, Gottesfeld, Taylor. This was the first paper on the use of ultrasound in obstetrics and gynecology published in the United States.
GMN 11463 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13662
1967 JACOBSON, Cecil Bryan (1936 – ); BARTER, Robert Henry (1913 – 1999)
Intrauterine diagnosis and management of genetic defects.
Amniocentesis used to diagnose genetic disorders in utero. First detailed report. See also Fuchs, F., Genetic information from amniotic fluid contents. Lancet, 1960, 2, 180. "During the course of the criminal investig…
GMN 6235.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7874
1967 RADCLIFFE, Walter
Milestones in midwifery.
Reprinted with No. 6311, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1989.
GMN 6311.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8058
1968 THORNTON, John Leonard (1913 – 1995)
Short-title catalogue of books printed before 1851 in the library of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. 2nd ed.
GMN 8776 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10954
1970 STEWART, Alice Mary (1906 – 2002); KNEALE, George W.
Radiation dose effects in relation to obstetric X-rays and childhood cancers.
In this study of ten million children Stewart and Kneale showed that obstetric X-rays significantly increased the rate of childhood leukemia and cancer.
GMN 7783 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9955
1970 HAWLEY, Nancy Miriam
Women and their bodies.
This 35-cent, 136-page book organized in 1969 by Nancy Miriam Hawley at Boston's Emmanuel College, was written by twelve Boston feminist activists. It eventually sold 250,000 copies in New England without any formal a…
GMN 10554 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12747
1973 SPEERT, Harold (1915 – 2017)
Iconographia gyniatrica: A pictorial history of gynecology and obstetrics.
French translation, 1976.
GMN 6311.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8059
1975 STUBBS, George (1724 – 1806); DOHERTY, Terence
The anatomical works of George Stubbs.
Reproduces all of the known anatomical drawings of the painter, George Stubbs (1724-1806), together with his midwifery illustrations and the text and plates for his work on anatomy of the horse. (No. 308.1).
GMN 6610.11 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8599
1976 PEEL, Sir John Harold (1904 – 2005)
The lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 1929-1969.
GMN 6742.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8106
1977 WERTZ, Richard W. (1933 – ); WERTZ, Dorothy C.
A history of childbirth in America.
Expanded edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
GMN 12484 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14717
1977 DONNISON, Jean
Midwives and medical men: A history of inter-professional rivalries and women's rights.
GMN 12554 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14792
1978 MOHR, James C.
Abortion in America: The origins and evolution of national policy, 1800-1900.
GMN 7999 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10175
1980 SPEERT, Harold (1915 – 2017)
Obstetrics and gynecology in America: A history.
GMN 6311.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8061
1981 ANONYMOUS; ROWLAND, Beryl Winnifred (1918 – 2003)
Medieval woman's guide to health. The first English gynecological handbook. Middle English text, with introduction and modern English translation by Beryl Rowland.
This 15th century manuscript (British Library Sloan 2463) predates by about a century The byrth of mankynde, previously considered the first work on the subject.
GMN 6981 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9147
1982 BAULIEU, Étienne-Émile (1926 – ); HERRMANN, Walter; WYSS, Rolf; RIONDEL, Anne M.; ET AL
Effet d’un stéroide anti-progestérone chez la femme: Interruption du cycle menstruel et de la grossesse au début.
"In April 1980, as part of a formal research project at the French pharmaceutical company Roussel-Uclaf for the development of glucocorticoid receptor antagonists, chemist Georges Teutsch synthesized mifepristone (RU-…
GMN 12469 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14702
1983 BECKMAN, Gary Michael (1948 – )
Hittite birth rituals. 2nd revised edition.
"Owing to a paucity of relevant sources, we know rather little about Hittite medical practice, but it is clear that native therapies relied as much on magic as upon what moderns would recognize as medicine. Practition…
GMN 10630 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12823
1985 CARRICK, Paul (1946 – )
Medical ethics in antiquity: Philosophical perspectives on abortion and euthanasia.
GMN 8123 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10299
1986 LEAVITT, Judith Walzer (1940 – )
Brought to bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950.
Focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices, their replacement by male doctors, and the movement from the home to the hospital. She explains that childbearing women and their physicians gradually…
GMN 8217 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10393
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 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
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 MOSCUCCI, Ornella
The science of woman: Gynaecology and gender in England, 1800-1929.
GMN 10173 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12362
1990 BAULIEU, Étienne-Émile (1926 – )
Génération pilule.
Translated into English as The "abortion pill": RU-486 - a woman's choice by Étienne-Émile Baulieu with Mort Rosenblum. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
GMN 12468 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14701
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
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 BARKAI, Ron (1943 – ); HA-EDOMI, Doeg (1150 – )
Les Infortunes de Dinah: Le livre de la génération. La gynécologie juive au Moyen-Age. Edited and translated by Ron Barkai.
Critical edition and French translation of Doeg ha-Edomi's late twelfth-century text, the Sefer ha-Toledet (The Book of Generation), a Hebrew translation of the Latin Gynecology of Muscio set in the form of a dialogue…
GMN 12202 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14412
1992 RIDDLE, John M. (1937 – )
Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance.
Riddle argued that the ancient world possessed effective and safe contraceptives and abortifacients; however this knowledge about fertility control, widely held in the ancient world, was gradually lost over the course…
GMN 7043 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9210
1994 OUDSHOORN, Nelly E. J. (1950 – )
Beyond the natural body. An archeology of sex hormones.
GMN 7187 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9354
1994 O'DOWD, Michael J.; PHILIP, Elliot E.
The history of obstetrics and gynecology.
GMN 8733 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10911
1994 BRODIE, Janet Farrell
Contraception and abortion in nineteenth-century America.
GMN 10299 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12490
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 WILSON, Adrian
The making of man-midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660-1770.
"In England in the seventeenth century, childbirth was the province of women. The midwife ran the birth, helped by female "gossips"; men, including the doctors of the day, were excluded both from the delivery and from…
GMN 12022 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14230
1996 KRUSE, Britta-Juliane
Verborgene Heilkünst: Geschichte Der Frauenmedizin im Spätmittelalter.
GMN 11898 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14103
1997 RIDDLE, John M. (1937 – )
Eve's herbs: A history of contraception and abortion in the West.
A history of the use of plant products, such as ergot, as abortion agents.
GMN 7722 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9894
1998 BARQÂY, Rôn
A history of Jewish gynaecological texts in the Middle Ages.
GMN 8350 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10526
1998 REAGAN, Leslie J.
When abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973.
GMN 8646 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10823
1998 BARKAI, Ron (1943 – )
A history of Jewish gynaecological texts in the Middle Ages.
"A general introduction to the history of medieval Jewish medicine, its origins in Muslim countries, the main Arabic and Judeo-Arabic texts, and the renaissance of Hebrew as a language of science in the 12th-15th cent…
GMN 11895 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14100
1998 FRASER, Gertrude Jacinta
African American midwifery in the South: Dialogues of birth, race, and memory.
GMN 12553 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14791
1999 BANKS, Amanda Carson (1965 – )
Birth chairs, midwives and medicine.
GMN 11632 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13832
2000 HIBBARD, Brian M.
The obstetrician’s armamentarium: Historical obstetric instruments and their inventors.
GMN 6904 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9068
