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INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES (293)

YearTitle & TagsAuthor(s)
1989Führer durch die Schausammlung Phonetisches Institut
1989The great age of the microscope: The collection of the Royal Microscopical Society through 150 years.
1990Laser in situ keratomileusis.
1994The NeuroStation--a highly accurate, minimally invasive solution to frameless stereotactic neurosurgery.
1994Roman surgical instruments and other minor objects in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. With a catalogue of the surgical instruments in the "Antiquarium" at Pompeii by Ralph Jackson.
1994A history of the origin, evolution, and impact of electrocardiography.
1995Technology in the hospital: Transforming patient care in the early twentieth century.
1996Spectacles and other vision aids: A history and guide to collecting.
1996Eye and instruments: Nineteenth-century ophthalmological instruments in the Netherlands.
1996The machine in the nursery: Incubator technology and the origins of newborn intensive care.
1996​–1997The ophthalmoscope - Der Augenspiegel. Textbook and atlas. 2 vols. Translated by Donald L. Blanchard.
1997American surgical instruments: The history of their manufacture and a directory of instrument makers to 1900.
1998Blood pressure measurement: An illustrated history.
1998The see with a better eye: A life of R. T. H. Laennec
2000The obstetrician’s armamentarium: Historical obstetric instruments and their inventors.
2000The making of the pacemaker: Celebrating a lifesaving invention. Foreward [extensive] by Seymour Furman.
2000A brief history of endoscopy.
2001Machines in our hearts: The cardiac pacemaker, the implantable defibrillator, and American health care.
2001Transatlantic robot-assisted telesurgery.
2001The technology of orgasm: "Hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction.
2002Semiotic flesh: Information and the human body. Edited by Phillip Thurtle and Robert Mitchell.
2002An ear to the chest: An illustrated history of the evolution of the stethoscope.
2004Robotic surgery: A current perspective.
2004Primer of robotic & telerobotic surgery. Edited by Garth H. Ballantyne, Jacques Marescaux, and Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti.
2005Hirnströme: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Elektroenzephalographie.
2006The evolution of surgical instruments: An illustrated history from ancient times to the twentieth century.
2006Science and technology in medicine. An illustrated account based on ninety-nine landmark publications from five centuries.
2006Robotics in surgery: History, Current and future applications. Edited by Russel A. Faust.
2008Medicine and technology in Canada, 1900-1950.
2009Technological medicine: The changing world of doctors and patients.
2011Science and technology in Islam: Catalogue of the collection of instruments of the Institute for the History of Arabic and Islamic Sciences. 4, 7. Medicine, 8. Chemistry, 9. Mineralogy.
2012La chirurgie en Égypte ancienne. À propos des instruments médico-chirurgicaux métalliques égyptiens conserves au musée du Louvre.
2012Historische phonetische Geräte. Katalog der historischen akustisch-phonetischen Sammlung (HAPS) der Technischen Universität Dresden. Erster Teil.
2013Imaging and imagining the fetus: The development of obstetric ultrasound.
2013The medical trade catalogue in Britain, 1870–1914.
2013History of orthodontics.
2014The tools of Asclepius: Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times.
2014Die Erfindung der Ophthalmoskopie dargestellt in den Originalbeschreibungen der Augenspiegel von Helmholtz, Ruete und Giraud-Teulon. Eingeleitet und erläutert von Wolfgang Jaeger.
2016Simulation in healthcare education: An extensive history.
2017Cancer, radiation therapy, and the market.
2018Artificial hearts: The allure and ambivalence of a controversial medical technology.
2018Writing the pulse: The origins and career of the sphygmograph and its American masters.
2022The arsenal of eighteenth-century chemistry: The laboratories of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) by Marco Beretta and Paolo Brenni.