2015 KELTON, Paul; CAMERON, Catherine M.; SWEDLUND, Alan C.
Beyond germs: Native depopulation in North America. Edited by Catherine M. Cameron, Paul Kelton, and Alan C. Swedlund.
This book "challenges the “virgin soil” hypothesis that was used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous people of North America. This hypothesis argues that the massive depopulation of the New World w…
GMN 10341 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12533
2015 PEALE, Titian Ramsay (1799 – 1885)
The butterflies of North America: Titian Peale's lost manuscript. Foreward by Ellen V. Futter. Preface and scientific captions by David A. Grimaldi. Introduction by Kenneth Haltman.
GMN 10442 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12635
2015 GUERINI, Anita (1953 – )
The courtiers' anatomists: Animals and humans in Louis XIV's Paris.
GMN 10620 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12813
2015 MCCANN, James C. (1950 – )
The historical ecology of malaria in Ethiopia: Deposing the spirits.
GMN 10800 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12996
2015 LUO, Li-Mei; ZHAO, Li; WEN, Hong-Ling; ET AL
Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks as reservoir and vector of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus in China.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Luo, Zhao, Wen. Discovery that the tick H longicornis can transmit the SFTSV transstadially and transovarially, and could potentially be both the reservoir and vector of the …
GMN 10919 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13115
2015 WEISSER, Olivia
Ill composed: Sickness, gender, and belief in early modern England.
A cultural history of illness from the standpoint of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.
GMN 10969 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13165
2015 RIAUD, Xavier
Chirurgie dentaire et nazisme.
GMN 11068 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13264
2015 HARDY, Anne
Salmonella infections, networks of knowledge, and public health in Britain, 1880-1975.
GMN 11442 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13641
2015 AKIRA, Hayami (1929 – )
The influenza pandemic in Japan, 1918-1920: The first world war between humankind and a virus. Translation by Lynne E. Riggs and Takechi Manbu.
GMN 11923 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14128
2015 SOWELL, David (1952 – )
Medicine on the periphery: Public health in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870-1960.
GMN 12130 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14339
2015 GREENWOOD, Anna
Beyond the state: The colonial medical service in British Africa.
GMN 12408 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14638
2015 CURTIS, Scott
The shape of spectatorship. Art, science, and early cinema in Germany.
"Focusing on the nontheatrical use of motion picture technology in Germany between the 1890s and World War I....Staging a brilliant collision between the moving image and scientific or medical observation, visual inst…
GMN 12531 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14767
2015 SAINSBURY, Richard
A history of the Medical Council of New Zealand. Compiled by Richard Sainsbury.
Available only as a PDF from ncnz.org at this link.
GMN 12545 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14782
2015 MILLER, Barbara Helen (1932 – 2019)
Idioms of Sámi health and healing. Edited by Barbara Helen Miller.
"The Sámi—Indigenous people of northernmost Europe—have relied on Traditional Healing methods over generations. This pioneering volume documents, in accessible language, local healing traditions and demonstrates the e…
GMN 12548 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14785
2015 TOMIC, Zlata Blažina (1926 – ); BLAŽINA, Vesna
Expelling the plague: The Health Office and the implementation of quarantine in Dubrovnik, 1377-1533.
GMN 13531 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15808
2016 CAVERT, William M.
The smoke of London: Energy and environment in the early modern city.
GMN 8106 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10282
2016 STOBART, Anne
Household medicine in seventeenth-century England.
GMN 8550 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10727
2016 CARTWRIGHT, Anthony C.
The British Pharmacopoeia, 1864 to 2014: Medicines, international standards and the state.
"The British Pharmacopoeia has provided official standards for the quality of substances, medicinal products and articles used in medicine since its first publication in 1864. It is used in over 100 countries and rema…
GMN 8977 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11156
2016 TOMES, Nancy J. (1952 – )
Remaking the American patient: How Madison Avenue and modern medicine turned patients into consumers.
"In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explo…
GMN 9114 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11293
2016 NGUYEN, Thuy L.
Childbirth, maternity, and medical pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880-1945.
GMN 9479 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11663
2016 NORRI, Juhani
Dictionary of medical vocabulary in English, 1375–1550: Body parts, sicknesses, instruments, and medicinal preparations. 2 vols.
Based on a detailed analysis of 11,397 pages from medical manuscripts and early printed books.It includes information on the spelling variants, origins, and meanings of the terms. A wealth of quotations from the texts…
GMN 9795 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11983
2016 LYNTERIS, Christos
Ethnographic plague: Configuring disease on the Chinese-Russian frontier.
"Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to…
GMN 9895 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12083
2016 LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)
The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project, Published by Livingstone Online and the UCLA Digital Library Program.
http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/index.htm "The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project is a collaborative, international effort to use spectral imaging technology and digital publishing to make available a seri…
GMN 9922 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12110
2016 CAYLEFF, Susan E. (1954 – )
Nature's path: A history of naturopathic healing in America.
GMN 10048 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12237
2016 GROSS, Miriam
Farewell to the god of plague: Chairman Mao's campaign to deworm China.
GMN 10096 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12285
2016 BURST, Helen Varney; THOMPSON, Joyce E.
A history of midwifery in the United States: The midwife said fear not.
GMN 10419 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12612
2016 SCHOENBAUM, Andrew
Novel medicine: Healing, literature, and popular knowledge in early modern China.
"By examining the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine, Novel Medicine demonstrates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge in China, beginning in the sixteenth ce…
GMN 10420 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12613
2016 POWELL, Miles A.
Vanishing America: Species extinction racial peril, and the origins of conservation.
"Nineteenth-century citizens of European descent widely believed that Native Americans would eventually vanish from the continent. Indian society was thought to be tied to the wilderness, and the manifest destiny of U…
GMN 10421 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12614
2016 OTOVO, Okezi T.
Progressive mothers, better babies, race, public health, and the state in Brazil, 1850-1945.
GMN 10662 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12855
2016 LAUGESEN, Miriam J.
Fixing medical prices: How physicians are paid.
GMN 10667 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12860
2016 MARSHALL, Thomas R.
Public opinion, public policy, and smoking: The transformation of American attitudes and cigarette use.
GMN 10669 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12862
2016 BREMAN, Joel G.; HEYMANN, David L.; LLOYD, Graham; ET AL
Discovery and description of Ebola Zaire virus in 1976 and relevance to the West African epidemic during 2013-2016.
A first hand account of events as they occurred in Yambuku in 1976, including the causes and reasons for the spread of Ebola within the Yambuku Mission hospital, the probable index event/patient (not identified), and …
GMN 10925 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13121
2016 DUTRA, Heverton Leandor Carneiro; ROCHA, Marcele Neves; MOREIRA, Luciano Andrade; ET AL
Wolbachia blocks currently circulating Zika virus isololates in Brazilian Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Dutra, Rocha, Moreira. The authors infected lab populations of mosquitos with Wolbachia pipientis, a common parasitic microbe that infects a high proportion of insects. They …
GMN 10942 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13138
2016 HANAWAY, Joseph (1933 – ); BURGESS, John H.
The General: A history of the Montreal General Hospital.
GMN 11013 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13209
2016 AMAR, Zohar (1960 – ); LEV, Efraim
Arabian drugs in early medieval Mediterranean medicine.
GMN 11049 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13245
2016 MULANGU, Sabue; CORTI, Davide; MISASI, John; ET AL
Protective monotherapy against lethal Ebola virus infection by a potently neutralizing antibody.
The cited paper was immediately followed in the same issue of Science by: John Misasi, Morgan A. Gilman, Masaru Kanekiyo et al, "Structural and molecular basis for Ebola virus neutralization by protective human antibo…
GMN 11375 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13574
2016 DIOKNO, Maria Serena Icasiano
Hidden lives, concealed narratives: A history of leprosy in the Philippines. Edited by Maria Serena I. Diokno.
GMN 11437 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13636
2016 LEBLANC, Richard; FEINDEL, William (1918 – 2014)
The wounded brain healed: The golden age of the Montreal Neurological Institute, 1934–1984.
GMN 11794 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13996
2016 BARNARD, Timothy P.
Nature's colony: Empire, nation and environment in the Singapore Botanic Gardens.
GMN 11956 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14163
2016 LIRA SAADE, Rafael (1955 – ); BLANCAS VAZQUEZ, José; CASAS, Alejandro
Ethnobotany of Mexico: Interactions of people and plants in Mesoamerica. Edited by Rafael Lira, Alejandro Casas, José Blancas.
GMN 12803 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15049
2016 ARNOLD, David (1946 – )
Toxic histories: Poison and pollution in modern India.
GMN 13782 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16069
2017 DIVISION OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY
Balm of America: Patent medicine collection.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/balm-of-america-patent-medicine-collection "The Smithsonian Institution began to collect objects related to health and medicine in 1881. It first obtained exampl…
GMN 8517 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10694
2017 COYER, Megan
Literature and medicine in the nineteenth-century periodical press: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858.
GMN 9702 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11889
2017 MEYER, Manuella
Reasoning against madness: Psychiatry and the state in Rio de Janeiro, 1830-1944.
GMN 9714 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11901
2017 DACOME, Lucia
Malleable anatomies: Models, makers, and material culture in eighteenth-century Italy.
"Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modeling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy. It investigates the "mania" for anatomical displays that swept the Italian peninsula, …
GMN 9882 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12070
2017 OTTO, Mary
Teeth: The story of beauty, inequality, and the struggle for oral health in America.
GMN 9973 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12162
2017 MORE, Ellen S.
Beating the odds: The University of Massachusetts Medical School, a history, 1962–2012.
The University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA was founded as recently as 1962.
GMN 10272 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12463
2017 NEWSON, Linda A. (1946 – )
Making medicines in early colonial Lima, Peru: Apothecaries, science and society.
GMN 10539 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12732
2017 KELLY, Laura
Irish medical education and student culture, c. 1850-1950.
GMN 10661 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12854
2017 GÓMEZ, Pablo F.
The experiential Caribbean: Creating knowledge and healing in the early modern Atlantic.
"Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gómez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially ba…
GMN 10665 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12858