1983 EARLE, A. Scott
Surgery in America. From the colonial era to the twentieth century. Second edition.
Well-chosen readings from original published sources, with informative commentary.
GMN 5813.13 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6974
1983 GROB, Gerald N. (1931 – 2015)
Mental illness and American society, 1875-1940.
GMN 9156 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11335
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
1984 CASSEDY, James H. (1919 – 2007)
American medicine and statistical thinking, 1800-1860.
GMN 8622 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10799
1984 CAMPION, Frank D.
The AMA and U.S. health policy since 1940.
GMN 10105 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12294
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
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 PERNICK, Martin S. (1948 – )
A calculus of suffering: Pain, professionalism and anesthesia in nineteenth-century America.
GMN 10054 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12243
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
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 WARNER, John Harley (1953 – )
The therapeutic perspective: Medical practice, knowledge, and identity in America, 1820-1885.
GMN 9464 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11647
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
1987 GILLETT, Mary Caperton (1929 – )
The Army Medical Department, 1818-1865.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 2188.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1375
1987 ROSENBERG, Charles Ernest (1936 – )
The care of strangers: The rise of America’s hospital system.
GMN 6596.61 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8510
1987 FYE, W. Bruce (1946 – )
The development of American physiology: Scientific medicine in the nineteenth century.
GMN 7857 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10029
1987 REVERBY, Susan Mokotoff (1946 – )
Ordered to care: The dilemma of American nursing, 1850-1945.
GMN 8601 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10778
1987 ROTHSTEIN, William G. (1937 – )
American medical schools and the practice of medicine: A history.
GMN 10431 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12624
1987 APPLE, Rima Dombrow (1944 – )
Mothers and medicine: A social History of infant feeding, 1890–1950.
GMN 10624 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12817
1987 GEISON, Gerald Lynn (1943 – 2001)
Physiology in the American context, 1850-1940. Edited by Gerald L. Geison.
Traces the development of American physiology in the cultural context of the period. Divided into three parts: social and institutional history; physiology in relation to other fields; and instruments, materials and t…
GMN 11024 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13220
1988 –1992 RUTKOW, Ira Michael (1948 – 2026)
The history of surgery in the United States 1775-1900. Vol. 1: Textbooks, monographs and treatises. Vol. 2: Periodicals and pamphlets.
The most comprehensive annotated bibliographies of American surgical literature to 1900. Includes separate bibliographies for general surgery, ophthalmology, oto-rhino-laryngology, orthopedic surgery, gynaecology, uro…
GMN 5813.14 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8511
1988 GEVITZ, Norman (1948 – )
Other healers: Unorthodox medicine in America. Edited by Norman Gevitz.
GMN 6956 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9121
1988 D'EMILIO, John (1948 – ); FREEDMAN, Estelle B. (1947 – )
Intimate matters. A history of sexuality in America.
The first history of sexuality in America.
GMN 7077 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9244
1988 MCGUIRE, Meredith B. (1944 – )
Ritual healing in suburban America. By Meredith B. McGuire with the assistance of Debra Kantor.
GMN 8788 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10966
1988 YOUNG, James Harvey (1915 – 2006); SAVITT, Todd L. (1943 – )
Disease and distinctiveness in the American South. Edited by Todd Savitt and James Harvey Young.
GMN 10015 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12204
1989 HARVEY, Abner McGehee (1911 – 1998); BRIEGER, Gert H.; ABRAMS, Susan L.; MCKUSICK, Victor Almon (1921 – 2008)
A model of its kind. Vol. 1: A centennial history of medicine at Johns Hopkins. Vol. 2: A pictorial history of medicine at Johns Hopkins.
GMN 8667 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10844
1989 MULLAN, Fitzhugh (1942 – )
Plagues and politics: The story of the United States Public Health Service.
GMN 8727 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10905
1989 STEPSIS, Ursula (1954 – 1989); LIPTAK, Dolores
Pioneer healers: The history of women religious in American health care. Edited by Ursula Stepsis and Dolores Liptak.
GMN 8768 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10946
1990 ULRICH, Laurel Thatcher (1938 – ); BALLARD, Martha Moore (1735 – 1812)
A midwife's tale. The life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary 1785-1812.
Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine.
GMN 7883 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10055
1991 MURPHY, Lamar Riley (1953 – )
Enter the physician: The transformation of domestic medicine, 1760-1860.
GMN 9673 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11860
1991 ARMSTRONG, David; ARMSTRONG, Elizabeth Metger
The great American medicine show: Being an illustrated history of hucksters, healers, health evangelists and heroes from plymouth rock to the present.
GMN 10409 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12602
1992 LINK, Eugene Perry (1907 – 1993)
The social ideas of American physicians (1776-1976): Studies of the humanitarian tradition in medicine.
GMN 10077 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12266
1993 MOHR, James C.
Doctors and the law: Medical jurisprudence in nineteenth-century America.
GMN 8000 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10176
1993 –2009 NICOGOSSIAN, Arnauld E.; RUMMEL, J. D.; KOTELNIKOV, Vladimir Aleksandrovich (1908 – 2005); IVANOV, M. V.; SULZMAN, Frank M.; GENIN, A. M.; HUNTOON, Carolyn Leach (1940 – ); ANTIPOV, Vsevolod V.; GRIGORIEV, Anatoliy I.; MOHLER, Stanley R. (1927 – 2014); GAZENKO, Oleg Georgievich (1918 – 2007); SAWIN, Charles F.; HANSON, Svetlana I.; HOUSE, Nancy G.; PESTOV, Igor D.
Space biology and medicine. 5 vols. Vol. 1: Space and its exploration, edited by J. D. Rummel, V.A. Kotelnikov, and M. V. Ivanov. Vol. 2: Life support and habitability, edited by F. M. Sulzman and A. M. Genin. Vol. 3, Books 1 & 2: Humans in spaceflight, edited by Carolyn S. Leach Huntoon, Vesevolod V. Antipov, Anatoliy I. Grigoriev. Vol. 4: Health, performance, and safety of space crews, edited by Arnauld E. Nicogossian, Stanley R. Mohler, Oleg G. Gazenko, Anatoliy I. Grigoriev. Vol. 5: U.S. and Russian cooperation in space biology and medicine, edited by Charles F. Sawin, Svetlana I. Hanson, Nancy G. House, and Igor D. Pestov.
"The five-volume Space Biology and Medicine is a joint work of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Russian Academy of Sciences. In the first volume contributors describe the current status of the…
GMN 10255 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12446
1994 TOMES, Nancy J. (1952 – ); KIRKBRIDE, Thomas Story (1809 – 1883)
The art of asylum-keeping: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the origins of Ameican psychiatry.
GMN 9115 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11294
1994 HALLER, John S. Jr. (1940 – )
Medical protestants: The Eclectics in American medicine, 1825-1939.
The first modern history of the Eclectic school of American sectarian medicine. "The Eclectic school (sometimes called the "American School") flourished in the mid-nineteenth century when the art and science of medici…
GMN 9409 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11592
1994 BUMGARNER, John Reed
The health of the presidents: The 41 United States presidents through 1993 from a physician's point of view.
GMN 9742 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11930
1994 YOUNG, T. Kue
The health of Native Americans: Towards a biocultural epidemiology.
GMN 10084 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12273
1994 FONTENOT, Wonda L.
Secret doctors: Ethnomedicine of African Americans.
"Based on an ethnographic study of the traditional medicine of African Americans in the rural southern United States, this work concentrates on the original Louisiana Territory, with its Native and African American in…
GMN 10090 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12279
1994 BRODIE, Janet Farrell
Contraception and abortion in nineteenth-century America.
GMN 10299 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12490
1994 TRENT, James W. Jr.
Inventing the feeble mind: A history of mental retardation in the United States.
GMN 10500 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12693
1995 GILLETT, Mary Caperton (1929 – )
The Army Medical Department 1865-1917.
GMN 7420 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9592
1995 ANDERSON, Lee; HIGBY, Gregory J.
The spirit of voluntarism: A legacy of commitment and contribution: The United States pharmacopeia 1820-1995.
GMN 9767 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11955
1995 HALE, Nathan G. Jr. (1922 – 2013)
The rise and crisis of psychoanalysis in America: Freud and the Americans, 1917-1985.
GMN 10766 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12962
1996 FYE, W. Bruce (1946 – )
American cardiology: The history of a specialty and its college.
GMN 7856 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10028
1996 JONNES, Jill (1952 – )
Hep-cats, narcs, and pipe dreams: A history of America's romance with illegal drugs.
GMN 9787 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11975
1996 STOUT, Samuel Hollingsworth (1822 – 1903); SCHROEDER-LEIN, Glenna R. (1951 – )
Confederate hospitals on the move: Samuel H. Stout and the Army of Tennessee.
GMN 10288 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12479
1997 EDMONSON, James M. (1951 – )
American surgical instruments: The history of their manufacture and a directory of instrument makers to 1900.
GMN 6906 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9070
