1973 ROTHSCHUH, Karl Eduard (1908 – 1984); RISSE, Guenter B. (1932 – )
History of physiology. Edited and translated by G. B. Risse
A revised and expanded translation of Geschichte der Physiologie, Berlin, 1953.
GMN 1588.12 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1520
1973 HARRIS, Charles Reginald Schiller (1896 – 1979)
The heart and the vascular system in ancient Greek medicine from Alcmaeon to Galen.
GMN 1588.13 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1523
1974 BELL, Sir Charles (1774 – 1842); MAGENDIE, François (1783 – 1855); CRANEFIELD, Paul Frederick (1925 – 2003)
The way in and the way out. François Magendie, Charles Bell and the roots of the spinal nerves. With a facsimile of Charles Bell’s annotated copy of his Idea of a new anatomy of the brain. Edited by Paul Cranefield.
An annotated bibliography of the literature documenting the history of this controversy together with reproductions of the texts of the crucial papers. See Nos. 1254-1259.
GMN 1588.14 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1538
1975 WORDEN, Frederic Garfield (1918 – 1995); SWAZEY, Judith P. (1939 – ); ADELMAN, George (1926 – )
The neurosciences: Paths to discovery.
Thirty-one contributions to a symposium in honour of F. O. Schmitt.
GMN 1588.15 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1544
1975 WEST, John B. (1928 – )
Translations in respiratory physiology.
English translations of 22 classic papers (some quite lengthy) with introductions by various experts.
GMN 1588.16 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1564
1980 FRANK, Robert G.
Harvey and the Oxford physiologists. A study of scientific ideas.
GMN 1588.17 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1593
1980 MAREY, Étienne Jules (1830 – 1904); SNELLEN, Hermann A.
Marey and cardiology: physiologist and pioneer of technology (1830-1904).
GMN 11689 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13890
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
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
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
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
1998 WEST, John B. (1928 – )
High life: A history of high-altitude physiology and medicine.
GMN 7780 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9952
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
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
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
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
