1983 –1991 KOPPEL, Suzanne; LÖSCHNER, Renate; KIRCHSTEIN-GAMBER, Birgit
Brasilien-Bibliothek der Robert Bosch GmbH. 2 vols. in 3.
"Vol. I, edited by Susanne Koppel, describes 684 works dating from the discovery of Brazil to the nineteenth century, on history, politics, literature, ethnology, geography, climate, botany, zoology and medicine. The …
GMN 8945 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11124
1983 GROB, Gerald N. (1931 – 2015)
Mental illness and American society, 1875-1940.
GMN 9156 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11335
1983 DAVIS, Wade (1953 – )
Preparation of the Haitian zombi poison.
According to popular accounts, zombies are innocent victims, raised in a comatose trance from their graves by malevolent Voodoo priests (bokors), and forced to toil indefinitely as slaves. Davis traced the material ba…
GMN 9313 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11495
1983 BURNBY, Juanita "Nita" Gordon Lloyd (1923 – 2010)
A study of the English apothecary from 1660 to 1760, with special reference to the provinces.
Medical History Supplement No. 3. Digital facsimile from discovery.ucl.ac.uk at this link.
GMN 9997 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12186
1983 CRONON, William (1954 – )
Changes in the land: Indians, colonists and the ecology of New England.
"In this work, Cronon demonstrated the impact on the land of the widely disparate conceptions of ownership held by Native Americans and English colonists. English law objectified land, making it an object of which the…
GMN 10407 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12600
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
1983 REID, Janice Clare (1947 – )
Sorcerers and healing spirits: Continuity and change continuity in an Aboriginal medical system.
GMN 10868 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13064
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 LINDEBOOM, Gerrit Arie (1905 – 1986)
Dutch medical biography. A biographical dictionary of Dutch physicians and surgeons 1475-1975.
GMN 6742.11 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8114
1984 O’BRIEN, Eoin; CROOKSHANK, Anne; WOLSTENHOLME, Sir Gordon Ethelbert Ward (1913 – 2004)
A portrait of Irish medicine. An illustrated history of medicine in Ireland.
Published for the bicentenary of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
GMN 6551.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8222
1984 PECKER, André (1902 – 1994)
La médecine à Paris du XIIIe au XXe siècle.
A collective work, edited by Pecker, superbly illustrated. Includes Paul Dumaître, "La Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris,"
GMN 6556.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8238
1984 PERUTA, Franco Della (1924 – 2012)
Storia d’ltalia. Vol. 7: Malattia e medicina.
A collective work, edited by della Peruta.
GMN 6565.01 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8262
1984 –2000 ROLAND, Charles Gordon (1933 – 2009)
Secondary sources in the history of Canadian medicine: A bibliography. 2 vols.
Vol. 2 was co-edited with Jacques Bernier.
GMN 6584.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8493
1984 ROLAND, Charles Gordon (1933 – 2009)
Health, disease and medicine. Essays in Canadian history.
GMN 6584.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8494
1984 CORTÉS, Fernando Martinez (1922 – )
Historia general de medicina en México: México antiguo. Edited by Fernando Cortés. Tomo I.
GMN 6603.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8528
1984 KIPLE, Kenneth F. (1939 – 2016)
The Caribbean slave: A biological history.
GMN 7053 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9220
1984 IBN RIDWAN AL-MISRI, Abu'l Hassan Ali (988 – 1061); DOLS, Michael Walters (1942 – )
Medieval Islamic Medicine: Ibn Ridwan's Treatise "On the Prevention of Bodily Ills in Egypt". Translated and introduced by Michael W. Dols, with Arabic text by Adil S. Gamal.
GMN 8460 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10637
1984 CASSEDY, James H. (1919 – 2007)
American medicine and statistical thinking, 1800-1860.
GMN 8622 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10799
1984 BELTRÁN, Gonzalo Aguirre (1908 – 1996)
Historia general de la medicina en México: Medicina novohispana siglo XVI.
GMN 9044 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11223
1984 CAMPION, Frank D.
The AMA and U.S. health policy since 1940.
GMN 10105 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12294
1984 PARSSINEN, Terry M.
Secret passions, secret remedies: Narcotic drugs in British Society, 1820-1930.
"....The major orientation is to opium, with two chapters on its alkaloid, morphine, occasional references to cocaine, and a mention of heroin. There is an enlightening discussion of reasons for the initial acceptance…
GMN 10243 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12433
1984 BRIDGFORTH, Lucie Robertson
Medical education in Mississippi: A history of the School of Medicine.
GMN 10298 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12489
1984 CARROLL, Douglas
Medicine in Maryland, 1634-1900,
GMN 10302 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12494
1984 HARVEY, Abner McGehee (1911 – 1998)
The American Clinical and Climatological Association: 1884-1984.
GMN 10988 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13184
1984 ROZET, Claude
Bibliographie de l'homéopathie: Publications en langue française de 1824 à 1984.
GMN 14078 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16389
1985 UNSCHULD, Paul Ulrich (1943 – )
Medicine in China: A history of ideas.
The first comprehensive and analytical history of therapeutic concepts and practices in China, encompassing all aspects of Chinese medicine over 3500 years. Approximately one third of the work consists of primary text…
GMN 6495.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8014
1985 CORDASCO, Francesco (1920 – 2001)
American medical imprints, 1820-1910. 2 vols.
The work of over 40 years, this catalogue describes over 36,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides, arranged by decade, from 1820-1910, with a comprehensive index. Included is an essay: 19th century American medical lit…
GMN 6786.28 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8401
1985 –1998 WUJASTYK, Dominik
Handlist of Sanskrit and Prakrit manuscripts in the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. 2 vols.
GMN 7080 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9247
1985 TOBIAS, Phillip Valentine (1925 – 2012)
History of physical anthropology in Southern Africa.
GMN 7273 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9443
1985 BROWN, Frank Harold (1943 – 2017); HARRIS, John W. K.; LEAKEY, Richard Erskine Frere (1944 – )
Early Homo erectus skeleton from west Lake Turkana, Kenya.
The Turkana Boy, (KNM-WT 15000) now called Nariokotome Boy, a Homo erectus fossil which was in 2016 the most complete early human skeleton found. It is a nearly complete skeleton of a hominin youth believed to be 1.5 …
GMN 7284 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9454
1985 SHERIDAN, Richard B. (1918 – )
Doctors and slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies.
GMN 8820 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10998
1985 GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)
The Traditional medical practitioner in Zimbabwe: His principles of practice and pharmacopoeia.
GMN 9889 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12077
1985 PERNICK, Martin S. (1948 – )
A calculus of suffering: Pain, professionalism and anesthesia in nineteenth-century America.
GMN 10054 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12243
1985 ADELOYE, Adelola (1935 – )
African pioneers of modern medicine: Nigerian doctors of the nineteenth century.
GMN 10089 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12278
1985 MORANTZ-SANCHEZ, Regina Markell
Sympathy and science: Women physicians in American medicine.
"Tracing the participation of women in the medical profession from the colonial period to the present, Regina Morantz-Sanchez examines women's roles as nurses, midwives, and practitioners of folk medicine in early Ame…
GMN 10430 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12623
1985 KANKI, Phyllis J.; BARIN, Francis; M'BOUP, Souleymane; ET AL
Serological evidence for virus related to Simian T-Lymphotropic retrovirus III in residents of West Africa.
First report of the discovery of what became known as HIV-2 by the U.S. research group led by Kanki. This group published before the French group, but the French group had reported their data one day prior to the U.S.…
GMN 10789 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12985
1985 PARK, Katharine
Doctors and medicine in early Renaissance Florence.
GMN 11949 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14154
1985 PARSONS, Claire D. F.
Healing practices in the South Pacific. Edited by Claire D. F. Parsons
GMN 12550 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14787
1985 BRILLIANT, Lawrence Brent "Larry" (1944 – )
The management of smallpox eradication in India.
GMN 13727 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16011
1986 GOTTFRIED, Robert Steven
Doctors and medicine in medieval England 1340-1530.
A social, cultural, and intellectual history of medicine and medical practitioners between the Black Death and the foundation of the Royal College of Physicians.
GMN 6551.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8224
1986 KESHAVARZ, Fatemeh (1952 – )
A descriptive and analytical catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
GMN 6786.30 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8405
1986 ALEKSEYEV, Valery Pavlovich (ALEXEEV) (1929 – 1991)
The origin of the human race.
First publication in English by Alekseyev of Homo rudolfensis, primarily known from KNM-ER 1470, discovered in Koobi Fora in the Lake Turkana basin, Kenya. Alekseyev (Alexeev) first proposed the species in 1978, initi…
GMN 7283 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9453
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
1986 KRISTELLER, Paul Oskar (1905 – 1999)
Studi sulla Scuola medica salernitana.
GMN 8549 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10726
1986 NAHMIAS, André J. (1930 – ); WEISS, Juan E. (1952 – ); YAO, X.; KANKI, Phyllis J.; ESSEX, Myron Elmer "Max" (1939 – )
Evidence for human infection with an HTLV III/LAV-like virus in Central Africa, 1959.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Nahmias, Weiss, Yao...Kanki, Essex. The authors presented evidence for the first or earliest infection with HIV in a human. This paper reported on a patient from Kinshasa, Za…
GMN 9331 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11513
1986 WARNER, John Harley (1953 – )
The therapeutic perspective: Medical practice, knowledge, and identity in America, 1820-1885.
GMN 9464 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11647
1986 LOUDON, Irvine (1924 – 2015)
Medical care and the general practitioner 1750-1850.
GMN 9998 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12187
1986 CLAVEL, François; GUÉTARD, D.; BRUN-VEZINET, François; ET AL
Isolation of a new human retrovirus from West African patients with AIDS.
HIV-2 was discovered essentially simultaneously by French and U.S. teams. This was the first publication by the French team. Order of authorship of the original publication was Clavel, Guettard, Brun-Vezinet. See thei…
GMN 10788 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12984
1986 HARVEY, Abner McGehee (1911 – 1998)
The Association of American Physicians, 1886-1986: A century of progress in medical science.
"The Association of American Physicians is a nonprofit, professional organization founded in 1885 by seven physicians, including Dr. William Osler and Dr. William Henry Welch, for “the advancement of scientific and pr…
GMN 10986 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13182
1986 HARVEY, Abner McGehee (1911 – 1998); ABRAMS, Susan L.
"For the welfare of mankind": The Commonwealth Fund and American medicine.
GMN 10987 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13183