1930 LIPINSKA, Mélanie (1865 – 1933)
Les femmes et la progrès des sciences médicales.
GMN 14322 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16647
1931 BROWNING, Ethel (1891 – 1969)
The vitamins.
GMN 1066 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/704
1931 WILLS, Lucy (1888 – 1964)
Treatment of “pernicious anaemia of pregnancy” and “tropical anaemia”, with special reference to yeast extract as a curative agent.
First observations of hemopoietic effect of folic acid.
GMN 3146 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3981
1933 HURD-MEAD, Kate Campbell (1867 – 1941)
Medical women of America: A short history of the pioneer medical women of America and of a few of their colleagues in England.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 11002 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13198
1935 HOSKINS, Meredith
A protective action of neurotropic against viscerotropic yellow fever virus in Macacus rhesus.
One of the first examples of an animal virus interference phenomenon was demonstrated by Hoskins.
GMN 2576.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4118
1938 HURD-MEAD, Kate Campbell (1867 – 1941)
A history of women in medicine from the earliest times to the beginning of the ninteenth century.
GMN 6650 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7787
1938 SANGER, Margaret (1879 – 1966)
Margaret Sanger: An autobiography.
GMN 7406 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9578
1939 KENDRICK, Pearl Louella (1890 – 1980); ELDERING, Grace (1900 – 1988)
A study in active immunization against pertussis.
Pertussis vaccine.
GMN 5087.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5978
1943 JENSEN, Deborah Maclurg (1900 – 1962)
History of nursing.
Second edition, History and trends of professional nursing, 1950.
GMN 6636 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7733
1943 HUGHES, Muriel Joy (1903 – )
Women healers in medieval life and literature.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 8554 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10731
1943 HAMILTON, Alice (1869 – 1970)
Exploring the dangerous trades: The autobiography of Alice Hamilton.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8590 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10767
1944 EWING, Irene Rosetta (1883 – 1959); EWING, Sir Alexander William Gordon (1896 – 1980)
The ascertainment of deafness in infancy and early childhood.
Tests of hearing in children.
GMN 3412.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5226
1947 SCHÖNFELD, Walther Heinrich Paul (1888 – 1977)
Frauen in der abendländischen Heilkunde, vom klassischen Altertum bis zum Ausgang des 19. Jahrhunderts.
GMN 6650.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7789
1951 SALMONSEN, Ella Maud (1885 – 1971); FISHBEIN, Morris (1889 – 1976); HEKTOEN, Ludvig (1863 – 1951)
A bibliography of infantile paralysis 1789-1949. With selected abstracts and annotations. 2nd edition.
An exhaustive list of books and papers.
GMN 4672.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/900
1953 FRANKLIN, Rosalind Elsie (1920 – 1958); GOSLING, Raymond (1926 – 2015)
Molecular configuration in sodium thymonucleate.
This paper reports Franklin's discovery of the existence of DNA in 2 forms, and conditions for readily and rapidly changing from one to the other. Its phosphates were on the outside.” (Maddox 195) The Watson-Crick mod…
GMN 6847 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9011
1957 STEWART, Sarah Elizabeth (1905 – 1976); ET AL
The induction of neoplasms with a substance released from mouse tumors by tissue culture.
Isolation of polymavirus (papovavirus). With B. E. Eddy, A. M. Gochenour, N. G. Borgese, and G E. Grubbs.
GMN 2660.10 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3394
1957 LOVEJOY, Esther Pohl (1869 – 1967)
Women doctors of the world.
GMN 6650.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7790
1959 PAVEY, Agnes Elizabeth (1889 – )
The story of the growth of nursing as an art, a vocation, and a profession. Fifth edition.
GMN 6637 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7735
1963 COLDEN, Jane (1724 – 1766); RICKETT, Harold William (1896 – 1989); HALL, Elizabeth Cornelia (1898 – 1989)
Botanic manuscript of Jane Colden, 1724-1766. Edited by H.W. Rickett and E.C. Hall.
Colden was the first distinguished American woman botanist. Her work is known only from an untitled manuscript by her on the flora of the lower Hudson River Valley of New York that is preserved in the Natural History …
GMN 7868 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10040
1968 LOPATE, Carol
Women in medicine.
GMN 11827 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14029
1970 HAWLEY, Nancy Miriam
Women and their bodies.
This 35-cent, 136-page book organized in 1969 by Nancy Miriam Hawley at Boston's Emmanuel College, was written by twelve Boston feminist activists. It eventually sold 250,000 copies in New England without any formal a…
GMN 10554 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12747
1972 NEEDHAM, Dorothy Mary Moyle (1896 – 1988)
Machina carnis: the biochemistry of muscular contraction in its historical development.
A definitive history of the development of knowledge on muscle biochemistry; valuable bibliography.
GMN 1588.11 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1510
1973 COHEN, Stanley Norman (1935 – ); CHANG, Annie C.Y. (1936 – ); HELLING, Robert Bruce (1936 – 2006); BOYER, Herbert Wayne (1936 – )
Construction of biologically functional bacterial plasmids in vitro.
Cohen, Boyer and associates developed the first practical method for cloning genes, by the formation of recombinant plasmids which can be used to infect plasmid-free bacteria. The authors demonstrated that if DNA is f…
GMN 257.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8715
1973 EHRENREICH, Barbara (1941 – ); ENGLISH, Deirdre (1948 – )
Witches, midwives, and nurses: A history of women healers.
GMN 11828 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14030
1977 CHAFF, Sandra L.; ET AL
Women in medicine: A bibliography of the literature on women physicians.
Lists over 4,000 items published between 1750 and 1975. With R. Haimbach, C. Fenichel and N. B. Woodside.
GMN 6650.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7792
1977 WALSH, Mary Roth (1939 – 1998)
"Doctors wanted: No women need apply." Sexual barriers in the medical profession, 1835-1975.
GMN 8782 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10960
1979 STAGE, Sarah
Female complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the business of women's medicine.
"The original 1875 recipe called for unicorn root, life root, blach cohosh, pleurisy root, and fenugreek seed, but alcohol (18-20 percent) gave it a longer shelf life, and shrewd advertising assured its staying power.…
GMN 9158 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11337
1980 MOSHER, Clelia Duel (1863 – 1940)
The Mosher survey: Sexual attitudes of 45 Victorian women, edited by James Mahood and Kristine Wenburg.
The only known survey of the sexual habits of Victorian women, published for the first time nearly 100 years after the survey was initiated. Moser, an American physician, began the survey in 1892 as an undergraduate w…
GMN 7078 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9245
1980 ROPES, Hannah (1809 – ); BRUMGARDT, John R.
Civil war nurse: The diary and letters of Hannah Ropes. Edited with an introduction and commentary by John R. Brumgardt.
GMN 8999 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11178
1982 RUDOLPH, Emanuel David (1927 – 1992)
Women in nineteenth century American botany; a generally unrecognized constituency.
Digital facsimile from jstor.org at this link.
GMN 11414 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13613
1982 –2012 ROSSITER, Margaret W. (1944 – )
Women scientists in America. 3 vols. Vol. 1: Struggles and strategies to 1940. Vol. 2: Before affirmative action, 1940-1972. Vol. 3: Forging a new world since 1972.
GMN 12213 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14423
1985 DONAHUE, Mary Patricia (1925 – )
Nursing: the finest art. An illustrated history.
The most elaborately illustrated history available.
GMN 6639.11 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7742
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
1987 DUDEN, Barbara (1942 – )
Geschichte unter der Haut. Ein Eisenacher Arzt und seine Patientinnen um 1730.
A study of cultural representations of women patients as recorded in the case records of Johann Storch (1681-1751), a physician who lived and worked in the town of Eisenach, Germany during the first half of the 18th c…
GMN 8048 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10224
1988 KAUFMAN, Martin (1940 – )
Dictionary of American nursing biography.
Edited with J.W. Hawkins, L.P. Higgins, and A.H. Friedman.
GMN 6639.13 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7748
1988 FILDES, Valerie A.
Wet nursing: A history from antiquity to the present.
GMN 9105 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11284
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
1989 VERTINSKY, Patricia A.
The eternally wounded woman: Women, doctors, and exercise in the late nineteenth century.
GMN 11907 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14112
1990 KASS-SIMON, Gabriele; FARNES, Patricia (1931 – 1985)
Women of Science. Righting the record. Edited by G. Kass-Simon and Patricia Farnes.
GMN 7165 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9332
1991 DALLY, Ann (1926 – 2007)
Women under the knife: A history of surgery.
"In the nineteenth century, major developments in internal surgery were due to operations on ovaries. Women bore the brunt of surgical experimentation and also reaped its rewards. Their need was great, but so was thei…
GMN 11221 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13418
1992 RIDDLE, John M. (1937 – )
Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance.
Riddle argued that the ancient world possessed effective and safe contraceptives and abortifacients; however this knowledge about fertility control, widely held in the ancient world, was gradually lost over the course…
GMN 7043 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9210
1992 BONNER, Thomas Neville (1923 – 2003)
To the ends of the earth: Women's search for education in medicine.
GMN 10283 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12474
1994 FRIEDMAN, Jeffrey M. (1954 – ); ZHANG, Yiying
Positional cloning of the mouse obese gene and its human homologue.
Discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in regulating body weight. Friedman and associates subsequently found that injections of the encoded protein, leptin, decrease body weight of mice by reducing food intake a…
GMN 7066 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9233
1995 SMITH, Susan L.
Sick and tired of being sick and tired: Black women's health activism in America, 1890-1950.
GMN 8089 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10265
1996 SHEARER, Benjamin F. (1949 – ); SHEARER, Barbara S.
Notable women in the life sciences: A biographical dictionary.
GMN 13829 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16119
1997 GRINSTEIN, Louise S.; BIERMANN, Carol A.; ROSE, Rose K.
Women in the biological sciences. A biobibliographic sourcebook.
GMN 7166 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9333
1997 RAYNER-CANHAM, Geoffrey W.; RAYNER-CANHAM, Marelene F.
A devotion to their science: Pioneer women of radioactivity.
GMN 12326 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14550
1998 HILDEGARD OF BINGEN, (Hildegard von Bingen; Hildegardis Bingensis) (1098 – 1179); THROOP, Priscilla B. (1946 – 2016)
Hildegard von Bingen's Physica: The complete English translation of her classic work on health and healing. Translated from the Latin by Priscilla Throop. Illustrations by Mary Elder Jacobsen.
GMN 8458 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10635
1999 MORE, Ellen S.
Restoring the balance: Women physicians and the profession of medicine.
GMN 8721 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10899
1999 FURTH, Charlotte (1934 – )
A flourishing Yin: Gender in China's medical history: 960-1665.
GMN 10092 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12281
