2013 REINARZ, Jonathan; SCHWARZ, Leonard
Medicine and the workhouse. Edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard Schwarz.
The first in depth study of the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Throughout this period workhouses were a…
GMN 10541 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12734
2013 HUMPHREYS, Margaret Ellen
Marrow of tragedy: The health crisis of the American Civil War.
GMN 10801 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12997
2013 MEMISH, Ziad A.; MISHRA, Nischay; OLIVAL, Kevin J.
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus in bats, Saudi Arabia.
Dated November 2013. The authors collected bat feces from sites in Bisha, Saudi Arabia found less than 1-12 kilometers from the place of employment or home of an index case-patient there, and performed total nucleic a…
GMN 10878 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13074
2013 AGNEW, Jeremy
Alcohol and opium in the Old West: Use, abuse and influence.
GMN 12102 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14311
2013 SHORTER, Edward (1941 – )
Partnership for excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and academic hospitals.
A history of medicine and medical discoveries made at these Canadian hospitals.
GMN 12219 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14430
2013 SCHOLZ, Albrecht (1940 – 2013)
Geschichte der Dermatologie in Deutschland.
GMN 12580 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14819
2013 WESTON, Robert
Medical consulting by letter in France, 1665-1789.
"Ailing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French men and women, members of their families, or their local physician or surgeon, could write to high profile physicians and surgeons seeking expert medical advice. This…
GMN 13647 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15928
2014 PÄÄBO, Svante (1955 – )
The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains.
First complete sequence of a Neanderthal genome. With more than 20 co-authors. In 2022 Pääbo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and hu…
GMN 7289 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9459
2014 HENDRICKSON, Brett
Border medicine: A transcultural history of Mexican American curanderismo.
GMN 7837 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10009
2014 SLOTTEN, Hugh Richard
The Oxford encyclopedia of the history of American science, medicine, and technology. Edited by Hugh Richard Slotten.
GMN 7889 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10061
2014 ASÚA, Miguel de
Science in the vanished arcadia: Knowledge of nature in the Jesuit missions of Paraguay and Rio de La Plata.
An overview of Jesuit scientific production in Paraguay during the 17th and 18th centuries, including natural history, medicine, cartography, astronomy, and practical science.
GMN 7936 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10110
2014 PÉRGOLA, Federico Miguel
Historia de la medicina Argentina: Desde la dominación hispánica hasta la actualidad.
GMN 7937 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10111
2014 OSBORNE, Michael A.
The emergence of tropical medicine in France.
GMN 8189 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10365
2014 DUMASY-QUEFFÉLEC, Lisa; SPENGLER, Hélène
Médecine, sciences de la vie et littérature en France et en Europe, de la révolution à nos jours. 3 vols. Edited by Lisa Dumusay-Queffélec and Hélène Spengler.
GMN 8897 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11075
2014 COYER, Megan; SHUTTLETON, David E.
Scottish medicine and literary culture, 1726-1832.
GMN 9703 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11890
2014 LANCISI, Giovanni Maria (1654 – 1720); DONATO, Maria Pia
Sudden death: Medicine and religion in eighteenth-century Rome.
"In 1705-1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession and two years after a devastating earthquake, an ’epidemic’ of mysterious sudden deaths terrorized Rome. In early modern society, a sudden death was perceived as…
GMN 9845 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12033
2014 IWU, Maurice Mmaduakolam (1950 – )
Handbook of African medicinal plants. Second edition.
"With over 50,000 distinct species in sub-Saharan Africa alone, the African continent is endowed with an enormous wealth of plant resources. While more than 25 percent of known species have been used for several centu…
GMN 9912 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12100
2014 OWSLEY, Douglas W. (1951 – ); JANTZ, Richard L.
Kennewick man: The scientific investigation of an ancient American skeleton. Edited by Douglas W. Owsley and Richard L. Jantz.
" This volume resents the results of the most comprehensive scientific study of one of the most complete ancient human skeletons ever found in North America" (from the introduction). "Kennewick Man is the name general…
GMN 10087 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12276
2014 HOFER, Theresia
Bodies in balance: The art of Tibetan medicine. Edited by Theresia Hofer.
The first comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the triangular relationship among the Tibetan art and science of healing (Sowa Rigpa), Buddhism, and arts and crafts. Sowa Rigpa was influenced by Chinese, Ind…
GMN 10097 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12286
2014 EVANS, Jennifer
Aphrodisiacs, fertility and medicine in early modern England.
This work "... in its extensive study of gynecological treatises from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, provides an important intervention into assumptions about the subversive quality of aphrodisiacs and abor…
GMN 10422 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12615
2014 RODRIGUEZ, Sarah B.
Female circumcision and clitoridectomy in the United States: A history of a medical treatment.
"From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, American physicians treated women and girls for masturbation by removing the clitoris (clitoridectomy) or clitoral hood (female circumcision). Durin…
GMN 10542 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12735
2014 LEMEY, Phillippe; FARIA, Nuno R.; RAMBAUT, Andrew; SUCHARD, Marc A. (1972 – ); ET AL
The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations.
Using the viral genome isolated from the archival serum of the "Kinshasa patient", Lemey, Faria and colleagues deduced that the prototype African viral strain first crossed from monkeys to humans about 1920 in the are…
GMN 10778 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12974
2014 AZHAR, Esam I.; EL-KAFRAWY, Sherif; FARRAJ, Suma A.; ET AL
Brief report: Evidence for camel-to-human transmission of MERS coronavirus.
Dated June 26, 2014. Using viral genomics and PCR, the Saudi authors demonstrated that full genome sequences of a man, and the camel he had contact with, were identical. Available from nejm.org at this link. (Thanks t…
GMN 10879 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13075
2014 EBRAHIMNEJAD, Hormoz
Medicine in Iran: Profession, practice, and politics, 1800-1925.
GMN 10911 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13107
2014 BAIZE, Sylvain; PANNETIER, Delphine; OESTEREICH, Lisa; ET AL
Emergence of Zaire Ebola virus disease in Guinea.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Baize, Pannetier, Oestereich. The authors used PCR, viral sequencing, and phylogenetic analysis to track down the index case, a two-year-old child in Meliandou village, Guéké…
GMN 10928 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13124
2014 SCHIEFFELIN, John S.; SCHAFFER, Jeffrey G.; GOBA, Augustine; ET AL
Clinical illness and outcomes in patients with Ebola in Sierra Leone.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Schieffelin, Shaffer, Goba. The authors used "quantitative reverse-transcriptase-polymerase-chain-reaction assays to assess the load of Ebola virus (EBOV, Zaire species) in a…
GMN 10929 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13125
2014 LYON, G. Marshall; MEHTA, Aneesh K.; VARKEY, Jay B.; ET AL
Clinical care of two patients with Ebola virus disease in the United States.
Report on Ebola virus disease management from the Emory University unit and its specialists detailing the diagnosis, management, complications and expectations of this illness for infectious disease physicians. The au…
GMN 10930 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13126
2014 KIM, Hoi-Eun (1976 – )
Doctors of empire: Medical and cultural encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan
GMN 12296 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14518
2014 GUPTA, Pankaj; SHARMA, Vijay Kumar; SHARMA, Sushma
Healing traditions of the Northwestern Himalayas.
"This book discusses the perception of disease, healing concepts and the evolution of traditional systems of healing in the Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh, India. The chapters cover a diverse range issues: people and k…
GMN 12722 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14968
2014 BHATTACHARYA, Sudip
Unseen enemy: The English, disease, and medicine in colonial Bengal, 1617–1847.
GMN 12839 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15085
2014 ELKINGTON, Bethany Gwen; SOEJARTO, Djala Djendoel; SYDARA, Kongmany
Ethnobotany of tuberculosis in Laos.
GMN 13213 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15476
2014 GILADI, Avner
Muslim midwives: The craft of birthing in the premodern Middle East.
GMN 13528 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15805
2014 JOUVE MARTÍN, José R.
The black doctors of colonial Lima: Science, race, and writing in colonial and early Republican Peru.
"In this groundbreaking study on the intersection of race, science, and politics in colonial Latin America, José Jouve Martín explores the reasons why the city of Lima, in the decades that preceded the wars of indepen…
GMN 13530 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15807
2015 SKAARUP, Bjørn Okholm
Anatomy and anatomists in early modern Spain.
GMN 7203 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9370
2015 HAGELIN, Ove; COLTHAM, Deborah
Odontologia: Rare & important books in the history of dentistry. An illustrated and annotated catalogue.
Outstanding descriptions, with beautiful color illustrations, of some of the greatest classics in the history of dentistry in the library of the Svenska Tandläkare-Sällskapet (Swedish Dental Society).
GMN 7209 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9376
2015 KELTON, Paul
Cherokee medicine, colonial germs: An indigenous nation’s fight against smallpox, 1518–1824.
GMN 7504 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9676
2015 BURNHAM, John Chynoweth (1929 – 2017)
Health care in America: A history.
GMN 7854 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10026
2015 CUETO, Marcos (1959 – ); PALMER, Steven
Medicine and public health in Latin America: A history.
GMN 7942 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10117
2015 FEW, Martha
For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and colonial medicine in enlightenment Guatemala.
GMN 8007 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10183
2015 THOMPSON, C. Michele
Vietnamese traditional medicine: A social history.
Reception of foreign medical ideas and techniques through the case study of smallpox.
GMN 8042 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10218
2015 VARLIK, Nükhet
Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world: The Ottoman experience, 1347-1600.
GMN 8274 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10450
2015 BAHĀDUR KHĀN, Subḥān-qulī Muḥammad (1624 – 1702); KÁROLY, László (1974 – )
A Turkic medical treatise from Islamic Central Asia: A critical edition of a seventeenth-century Chagatay work by Subḥān Qulï Khan. Edited, translated and annotated by Lásló Károly.
"...the first serious study on seventeenth-century Central Asian medicine that provides a major resource for the linguistic and cultural history of Central Asia.... The author offers a critical edition of a seventeent…
GMN 8583 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10760
2015 ABU-RABIA, Aref
Indigenous medicine among the Bedouin in the Middle East.
GMN 8790 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10968
2015 MÉTAILIÉ, Georges
Science and civilisation in China: Vol. 6, biology and biological technology, Part 4, traditional botany: An ethnobotanical approach.
GMN 9706 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11893
2015 MELTZER, David J. (1955 – )
The great paleolithic war: How science forged an understanding of America's ice age past.
A masterful synthesis of the history of the study of human origins in North America with a comprehensive bibliography.
GMN 9829 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12017
2015 ELLIS, John H.
Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South.
"The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878--a disaster that caused 20,000 deaths and financial losses of nearly $200 mill…
GMN 9859 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12047
2015 HENDRIKSEN, Marieka M. A.
Elegant anatomy: The eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections.
GMN 9870 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12058
2015 TRACY, Larissa; DEVRIES, Kelly (1956 – )
Wounds and wound repair in medieval culture. Edited by Larissa Tracy and Kelly DeVries.
Essays on a wide range of aspects of wounds during the Middle Ages, particularly resulting from war and violence, but also those of Christ, from ca. 1000 CE to the 15th century in the West (England, Ireland, Scotland,…
GMN 9957 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12146
2015 ADELOYE, Adelola (1935 – )
History of medical practice in Nigeria.
GMN 10088 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12277
2015 WILLIER, Russell; YOUNG, David Earl; ROGERS, Robert Dale
A Cree healer and his medicine bundle: Revelations of indigenous wisdom: Healing plants, practices, and stories.
"With the rise of urban living and the digital age, many North American healers are recognizing that traditional medicinal knowledge must be recorded before being lost with its elders. A Cree Healer and His Medicine B…
GMN 10275 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12466