1982 FRUTON, Joseph Stewart (1912 – 2007)
A bio-bibliography for the history of the biochemical sciences since 1800.
An index to bio-bibliographical articles listed alphabetically by scientist. Supplement published, Philadelphia, 1985.
GMN 1588.18 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1601
1983 –1988 BRAZIER, Mary Agnes Burniston Brown (1904 – 1995)
A history of neurophysiology in the 17th and 18th centuries. From concept to experiment. A history of neurophysiology in the 19th century. 2 vols.
GMN 1588.19 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1608
1983 SCHECHTER, David Charles (1931 – )
Exploring the origins of electrical cardiac stimulation.
GMN 8755 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10933
1984 LESCH, John E. (1945 – )
Science and medicine in France. The emergence of experimental physiology, 1790-1855.
GMN 1588.20 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1613
1984 ROWBOTTOM, Margaret; SUSSKIND, Charles (1921 – 2004)
Electricity and medicine: A history of their interaction.
GMN 2068.21 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2479
1985 JEANNEROD, Marc (1935 – 2011)
The brain machine: The development of neurophysiological thought.
Translation of Le cerveau-machine: physiologie de la volonté, Paris, 1983.
GMN 1588.21 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1617
1986 ASTRUP, Poul Bjørndahl (1915 – 2000); SEVERINGHAUS, John W. (1922 – 2021)
The history of blood gases, acids and bases.
The authors were prominent investigators in the field.
GMN 1588.22 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1623
1986 STENO, Nicolas [Niels Steensen, Nicholaus Stenonis] (1638 – 1686)
Opere scientifiche. Traduzione integrale dai testi originali. Coordinatore Luciano Casella. Revisione e note a cura di Enrico Coturri. 2 vols.
Steno's collected works translated from Latin into Italian. Reproduces Steno's original engraved illustrations, plus others from the time (some in color).
GMN 7475 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9647
1987 GOTTSCHALK, Carl William (1922 – 1997); BERLINER, Robert William (1915 – 2002); GIEBISCH, Gerhard H. (1927 – 2020)
Renal physiology: People and ideas.
A collective work on the history of renal physiology with thematic chapters by the editors and other prominent investigators.
GMN 1588.23 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1636
1987 CLARKE, Edwin Sisterton (1919 – 1996); JACYNA, L. Stephen
Nineteenth century origins of neuroscientific concepts.
Detailed analysis, emphasizing first half of 19th century, with detailed bibliographies, and bibliographical notes.
GMN 1588.24 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1645
1987 FYE, W. Bruce (1946 – )
The development of American physiology: Scientific medicine in the nineteenth century.
GMN 7857 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10029
1987 GEISON, Gerald Lynn (1943 – 2001)
Physiology in the American context, 1850-1940. Edited by Gerald L. Geison.
Traces the development of American physiology in the cultural context of the period. Divided into three parts: social and institutional history; physiology in relation to other fields; and instruments, materials and t…
GMN 11024 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13220
1987 APPEL, Toby A. (1945 – ); BROBECK, John R. (1914 – 2009); REYNOLDS, Orr E. (1918 – 1991)
History of the American Physiological Society. The first century, 1887-1987. Edited by John R. Brobeck, Orr E. Reynolds, Toby A. Appel.
GMN 12193 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14403
1988 O'CONNOR, W. J. (1911 – 1994)
Founders of British physiology: A biographical dictionary, 1820-1885.
GMN 8732 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10910
1989 HARVEY, William (1578 – 1657); KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982); WHITTERIDGE, Gweneth (1910 – 1993)
A bibliography of the writings of Dr. William Harvey 1578-1657. Third edition, revised by Gweneth Whitteridge and Christine English.
This is the definitive edition of a bibliography first published by Sir Geoffrey Keynes in 1928 on the three hundredth anniversary of De motu cordis, and revised by him for a second edition in 1953. It contains a new …
GMN 11198 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13395
1992 DAVENPORT, Horace Willard (1913 – 2005)
A history of gastric secretion and digestion: Experimental studies to 1975.
GMN 10671 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12864
1992 FUCHS, Thomas (1958 – )
Mechanisierung des Herzen: Harvey und Descartes- Der Vitale und der mechanische Aspekt des Kreislaufs.
Translated into English by Marjorie Grene as The mechanization of the heart: Harvey and Descartes. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2001.
GMN 11555 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13754
1994 WILLIAMS, Elizabeth A. (1950 – )
The physical and the moral: Anthropology, physiology, and philosophical medicine in France, 1750-1850.
GMN 9890 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12078
1996 O’MALLEY, Charles Donald (1907 – 1970); CLARKE, Edwin Sisterton (1919 – 1996)
The human brain and spinal cord: A historical study illustrated by writings from antiquity to the twentieth century. Second edition, revised and enlarged with a new preface by Edwin Clarke.
Massive anthology of primary source material on neuroanatomy and neurophysiology. Excellent commentaries and bibliographies. First edition, 1968.
GMN 1588.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1478
1996 WEST, John B. (1928 – )
Respiratory physiology: People and ideas, edited by John B. West.
GMN 7779 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9951
1997 ROBINSON, Joseph D.
Moving questions: A history of membrane transport and bioenergetics.
"This book describes half a century of progress in two mainstream areas of biological research: membrane transport, initially a focus of physiologists, and oxidative phosphorylation, initially a focus of biochemists. …
GMN 8749 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10927
1997 JULIUS, David (1955 – ); CATARINA, Michael J.; SCHUMACHER, Mark A.; TOMINAGA, Makoto; ROSEN, Tobias A.; LEVINE, Jon David
The capsaicin receptor: a heat-activated ion channel in the pain pathway.
"Abstract: Capsaicin, the main pungent ingredient in ‘hot’ chilli peppers, elicits a sensation of burning pain by selectively activating sensory neurons that convey information about noxious stimuli to the central ner…
GMN 14274 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16596
1998 WEST, John B. (1928 – )
High life: A history of high-altitude physiology and medicine.
GMN 7780 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9952
1999 RATCLIFFE, Sir Peter John (1954 – ); MAXWELL, Patrick Henry; MAHER, Eamonn; PUGH, Christopher W.
The tumour suppressor protein VHL targets hypoxia-inducible factors for oxygen-dependent proteolysis.
The focus of both Peter Ratcliffe’s and William Kaelin’s work, for which they shared the Nobel Prize with Gregg Semenza, was the relationship between pVHL and HIF. This led to an increased understanding of how cells s…
GMN 14270 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16591
2001 KONDO, K; KAELIN, William G. Jr. (1957 – ); IVAN, Mircea; ET AL
HIFalpha targeted for VHL-mediated destruction by proline hydroxylation: implications for O2 sensing.
Kaelin and colleagues identified aspects of the molecular machinery in Von Hippel-Landau disease that regulates the activity of genes in response to varying levels of oxygen. In 2019 Kaelin shared the Nobel Prize in P…
GMN 14273 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16595
2003 PIANTADOSI, Claude Anthony
Human survival: Life and death in extreme environments.
GMN 12195 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14405
2005 BORCK, Cornelis
Hirnströme: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Elektroenzephalographie.
Translated into English by Ann M. Hentschel as Brainwaves: A cultural history of electroencephalography. Abingdon, Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2018.
GMN 9945 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12133
2005 LÜDERITZ, Berndt (1940 – )
Profiles in cardiac pacing and electrophysiology.
GMN 10593 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12786
2005 BLAZER, Shraga; ZIMMER, Etan Z.
The embryo: Scientific discovery and medical ethics. Edited by Shraga Blazer and Etan Z. Zimmer.
Addresses 1: The beginning of life, 2: Embryonic stem cells, 3: Societal, ethical and religious views on genetic intervention in humans, 4: Genetics-From in vitro to in vivo, 5: Fetal surgical and pharmacological inte…
GMN 12556 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14795
2006 DELBOURGO, James
A most amazing scene of wonders: Electricity and enlightenment in early America.
"By examining the lives and visions of natural philosophers, spectacular showmen, religious preachers and medical therapists, he shows how electrical experiences of wonder, terror, and awe were connected to a broad ar…
GMN 8656 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10833
2006 TUCKER, Todd (1968 – )
The great starvation experiment: Ancel Keys and the men who starved for science.
GMN 8780 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10958
2008 FRAMPTON, Michael
Embodiments of will: Anatomical and physiological theories of voluntary animal motion from Greek antiquity to the Latin Middle Ages, 400 B.C - A.D.1300.
GMN 8308 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10484
2009 KICHIGINA, Galina
The imperial laboratory: Experimental physiology and clinical medicine in Post-Crimean Russia.
GMN 10189 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12378
2011 FINGER, Stanley; PICCOLINO, Marco (1946 – )
The shocking history of electric fishes: From ancient epochs to the birth of modern neurophysiology.
The first comprehensive history of this subject.
GMN 6843 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9007
2012 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); NUTTON, Vivian (1943 – ); BOS, Gerrit
Galen: On problematical movements. Edited with introduction and commentary by Vivian Nutton, with an edition of the Arabic version by Gerrit Bos.
GMN 8257 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10433
2012 POWER, Michael L.; SCHULKIN, Jay
The evolution of the human placenta.
Chapter one is "The history of placental investigations."
GMN 12143 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14352
2013 LONGO, Lawrence D. (1926 – 2016)
The rise of fetal and neonatal physiology: Basic science to clinical care.
GMN 8697 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10874
2013 DIGBY, Sir Kenelm (1603 – 1665); MACDONALD, Paul S. (1951 – )
Kenelm Digby's Two Treatises, edited with an introduction by Paul. S. MacDonald.
GMN 11582 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13781
2014 MARANI, Enrico; KOCH, Wijnand F. R. M.
The Pelvis: Structure, gender and society.
"This book offers a critical review of the pelvic sciences—past, present and future—from an anatomical and physiological perspective....The book starts with a “construction plan” of the pelvis and shows its structural…
GMN 10629 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12822
2015 WEST, John B. (1928 – )
Essays on the history of respiratory physiology.
GMN 7781 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9953
2017 CRYLE, Peter M. (1946 – ); STEPHENS, Elizabeth
Normality. A critical genealogy.
Perhaps the first study of the history of the "normal" in medicine. Traces the concept of normal to French anatomical and physiological discourse in the 1820s and 1830s, and its dissemination in modern culture through…
GMN 9712 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11899
2017 WILLIAMS, Elizabeth A. (1950 – )
A cultural history of medical vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier.
"One of the key themes of the Enlightenment was the search for universal laws and truths that would help illuminate the workings of the universe. It is in such attitudes that we trace the origins of modern science and…
GMN 12626 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14866
2018 BENIAS, Petros C.; WELLS, Rebecca G.; CARR-LOCKE, David Leslie; THIESE, Neil D.; ET AL
Structure and distribution of an unrecognized interstitium in human tissues.
The authors described "the anatomy and histology of a previously unrecognized, though widespread, macroscopic, fluid-filled space within and between tissues, a novel expansion and specification of the concept of the h…
GMN 14352 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16682
2020 WILLIAMS, Elizabeth A. (1950 – )
Appetite and its discontents: Science, medicine, and the urge to eat, 1750-1850.
GMN 12627 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14867
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