2007 CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939); BLISS, Michael John William (1941 – 2017)
Harvey Cushing: A life in surgery.
A less idolatrous biography of Cushing than Fulton's work of 1946.
GMN 11030 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13226
2007 KENNEDY, Pagan (1963 – )
The first man-made man: The story of two sex changes, one love affair, and a twentieth-century medical revolution.
A biography of Michael Dillon, who in the 1940s was the first successful case of female-to-male gender reassignment surgery--operations done by Sir Harold Gilles. Dillon established himself as a medical student. The b…
GMN 11361 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13560
2007 RETZIUS, Magnus Gustaf (1842 – 1919); LINDBLAD, Thomas
Gustaf Retzius: A Biography by Thomas Lindblad. With special contributions by Gunnar Grant, Björn Afzelius, Olle Johansson & Markku Virtanen, Helge Rask-Andersen, Torstein Sjøvold. Editor: Ove Hagelin.
A finely written and superbly illustrated and produced study of Retzius's life and published works, issued in the style of Retzius's magnificent publications.
GMN 14074 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16385
2008 WISPELWEY, Berend
Biographical index of the Middle Ages. 2 vols.
Contains 130,000 very brief biographical notes compiled from nearly 200 references (which are cited) on roughly 95,000 people from Europe and the Middle East during the 1000 years of the Middle Ages. The text is searc…
GMN 8234 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10410
2008 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
The Alfred Russel Wallace correspondence project.
http://wallaceletters.info/content/homepage "This on-going project aims to locate, digitise, catalogue, transcribe, interpret and publish the surviving correspondence and other manuscripts of the important 19th centur…
GMN 13653 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15934
2009 DEBSCHITZ, Uta von; DEBSCHITZ, Thilo von
Fritz Kahn: Man machine / Maschine Mensch.
Text and captions in English and German.
GMN 7650 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9822
2009 HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894); BRYAN, Charles Stone (1942 – ); PODOLSKY, Scott Harris (1970 – )
Oliver Wendell Holmes, physician and man of letters. Edited by Scott. H. Podolsky and Charles S. Bryan.
GMN 11258 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13455
2009 DILLON, Brian (1969 – )
Tormented hope: Nine hypochondriac lives.
Accounts of writers, artists, and scientists: James Boswell, Charlotte Brontë, Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Alice James Daniel Paul Schreber, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould, and Andy Warhol.
GMN 12140 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14349
2010 RUYSCH, Frederik (1638 – 1731); KOOIJMANS, Luuc
Death defied: The anatomy lessons of Frederik Ruysch. Translated by Diane Webb.
GMN 7656 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9828
2010 BRISOU, Bernard; SARDET, Michel
Dictionnaire des médecins, chirurgiens et pharmaciens de la marine.
Concerns physicians, surgeons and pharmacists who served in the French navy.
GMN 11130 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13326
2010 HIRSCHFELD, Magnus (1868 – 1935); MANCINI, Elena
Magnus Hirschfeld and the quest for sexual freedom. A history of the first international sexual freedom movement
GMN 13377 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15648
2010 HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
Joseph Hooker Correspondence Project. Digitising the personal and scientific correspondence of the 19th century botanist and explorer Joseph Hooker.
https://www.kew.org/science/our-science/projects/joseph-hooker-correspondence-project "Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817 – 1911) was a trailblazing botanist and explorer and Kew’s second Director. Detailing plant diversi…
GMN 13652 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15933
2011 BECKFORD, Geraldine Rhoades
Biographical dictionary of American physicians of African ancestry, 1800-1920.
GMN 10328 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12520
2011 CURIE, Pierre (1859 – 1906); CURIE, Marie Sklodowska (1867 – 1934); REDNISS, Lauren
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, a tale of love and fallout.
This very beautiful biographical work on the Curies is also an artist's book, with every page filled with artistic imagery drawn by the artist. It has been characterized as part history, part love story, part artwork.…
GMN 10562 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12755
2012 SCHROEDER-LEIN, Glenna R. (1951 – )
Lincoln and medicine.
GMN 10290 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12481
2013 DEBSCHITZ, Uta von; DEBSCHITZ, Thilo von
Fritz Kahn.
Text and captions in English, French and German.
GMN 7651 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9823
2014 PRUSINER, Stanley Benjamin (1942 – )
Madness and memory: The discovery of prions- a new biological principle of disease.
Prusiner discovered prions, the agent causing scrapie in sheep and goats, mad cow disease, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
GMN 7624 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9796
2014 KELLOGG, John Harvey (1852 – 1943); WILSON, Brian C.
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and the religion of biologic living.
"Purveyors of spiritualized medicine have been legion in American religious history, but few have achieved the superstar status of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his Battle Creek Sanitarium. In its heyday, the 'San' was …
GMN 11195 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13392
2014 COOPER, David K. C. (1939 – )
Doctors of another calling: Physicians who are best known in fields other than medicine. Edited by David K. C. Cooper.
GMN 11786 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13988
2015 SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)
On the move: A life.
GMN 12684 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14929
2015 LISTER, Martin (1639 – 1712); ROOS, Anna Marie
The correspondence of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712). Volume one: 1662-1677. Edited and translated by Anna Marie Roos.
GMN 12980 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15228
2016 ATWATER, Edward Congdon (1926 – 2019)
Women medical doctors in the United States before the Civil War: A biographical dictionary.
GMN 10050 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12239
2016 LORIAUX, D. Lynn
A biographical history of endocrinology.
GMN 10185 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12374
2018 FOEGE, William Herbert (1936 – )
The fears of the rich, the needs of the poor: My years at the CDC,
Director of the Centers for Disease Control from 1977-1983, and President and Co-Founder of The Task Force for Global Heath, 1984-1999, Foege was instrumental in the eradication of smallpox, the generalization of immu…
GMN 10626 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12819
2019 GALL, Franz Joseph (1758 – 1828); FINGER, Stanley; ELING, Paulus Alphons Theresia Maria (Paul) (1951 – )
Franz Joseph Gall: Naturalist of the mind, visionary of the brain
GMN 11274 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13471
2019 RAYNER-CANHAM, Geoffrey W.; RAYNER-CANHAM, Marelene F.
Pioneering British women chemists: Their lives and contributions.
GMN 12325 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14549
2019 JAUSSAUD, Philippe
Pharmaciens au Muséum: Chimistes et naturalistes.
"When it was created in 1626 le Jardin royal des plantes medicinales had three chairs: those of Demonstateur des plantes, Pharmacy, and Pharmaceutical Operations. Apothecaries at the Jardin challenged the Sorbonne by …
GMN 12464 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14697
2019 POLAK, Jakob Eduard (1818 – 1891); GÄCHTER, Afsaneh
Deer Leibarzt des Schah Jacob E. Polak 1818-1891. Eine west-östliche Lebensgeschichte.
GMN 14040 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16348
2020 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919); BRYAN, Charles Stone (1942 – )
Sir William Osler: An encyclopedia. Edited by Charles S. Bryan.
The definitive reference on Sir William Osler, his life, his times, his friends, and his influence. Osler was voted "the most influential physician in history" in a 2016 survey of North American doctors, but his inter…
GMN 12042 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14250
2020 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); NUTTON, Vivian (1943 – )
Galen: A thinking doctor in Imperial Rome
A very readable and relatively brief, but comprehensive, biography. The appendix provides a complete list of Galen's works with their titles in Latin, also in English translation, correlated to the best editions and t…
GMN 13497 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15772
2021 RECHCIGL, Miloslav Jr.
American men and women in medicine, applied sciences and engineering with roots in Czechoslovakia.
GMN 13273 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15539
2021 CABANÈS, Augustin (1862 – 1928); HUTIN, Jean-François
Augustin Cabanès (1862-1928): Clinicien de l'histoire ou vulgaire anecdotier?
GMN 14122 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16433
2022 MORE, Ellen S.; CALDERONE, Mary Steichen (1904 – 1998)
The transformation of American sex education: Mary Calderone and the fight for sexual health.
GMN 13903 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16195
2023 FREUD, Sigmund (1856 – 1939)
Freud's antiquity: Object / Idea / Desire. Exhibition catalogue 25/02/2023 -16/07/2023. Edited by Richard Armstrong, Miriam Leonard, Daniel Orrells, Tom DeRose & Karolina Heller.
An interpretive exhibition catalogue explaining the relationship of Freud's large collection of antiquities preserved in the Freud Museum to ideas that Freud developed in psychoanalysis.
GMN 14158 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16473
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