1976 BETTELHEIM, Bruno (1903 – 1990)
The uses of enchantment: The meaning and importance of fairy tales.
GMN 7519 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9691
1976 DEVEREUX, George (1908 – 1985)
Dreams in Greek tragedy: An ethno-psycho-analytical study.
GMN 9731 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11918
1978 DEWHURST, Kenneth Eastham (1919 – 1984); REEVES, Nigel
Friedrich Schiller: Medicine, psychology and literature. With the first English edition of his complete medical and psychological writings.
The medical writings of Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) and their influence on his poetry and plays.
GMN 6623.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7692
1979 SMITHERS, David Waldron Sir (1908 – 1995)
Dickens's doctors.
GMN 11028 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13224
1982 TRAUTMANN, Joanne; POLLARD, Carol
Literature and medicine: an annotated bibliography. Revised edition.
Annotated bibliography of medical references in Western literature from the ancient world to time of writing. Emphasis is on summaries of the medical content. Editions cited are usually modern and always in English,
GMN 6623.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7693
1982 COUSINS, Norman (1915 – 1990)
The physician in literature, edited by Norman Cousins.
Sections are devoted to research and serendipity, the role of the physician, quacks and clowns, clinical descriptions in literature, doctors and students, the practice, women and healing, madness, dying, and the patie…
GMN 10816 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13012
1982 JONES, Anne Hudson
Literature and medicine, vol. 1- . Edited by Anne Hudson Jones.
"Founded in 1982, Literature and Medicine is a peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarship that explores representational and cultural practices concerning health care and the body. Areas of interest include disease,…
GMN 11328 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13526
1983 RODIN, Alvin E.; KEY, Jack D.; CONAN DOYLE, Sir Arthur Ignatius (1859 – 1930)
Medical case book of Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle.
The first complete book on the medical aspects of the Sherlock Holmes stories as well as the non-fiction writings of Conan Doyle.
GMN 6623.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7694
1984 GOELLNICHT, Donald (1953 – )
The poet-physician: Keats and medical science.
For the edition of John Keats' medical and physiological notebook see No. 6622.1.
GMN 8411 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10588
1985 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919); ROLAND, Charles Gordon (1933 – 2009); MCGOVERN, John P. (1921 – 2007)
The collected essays of Sir William Osler. 3 vols. Edited by John P. McGovern and Charles G. Roland.
Vol. 1: The philosophical essays. Vol. 2: The educational essays. Vol. 3: The historical and biographical essays.
GMN 8883 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11061
1985 SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)
The man who mistook his wife of a hat and other clinical tales.
Describes the case histories of some of Sacks's patients. The title comes from the case study of a man with visual agnosia.[1] The book "became the basis of an opera of the same name by Michael Nyman, which premiered …
GMN 9133 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11312
1985 MARQUEZ, Gabriel García José de la Concordia (1927 – 2014)
El amor en los tiempos de cólera.
"Set in a country on the Caribbean coast of South America, the story ranges from the late nineteenth century to the early decades of our own, tracing the lives of three people and their entwined fates. And yet, at fir…
GMN 12147 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14357
1986 KAIL, Aubrey C.
The medical mind of Shakespeare.
GMN 6623.51 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7695
1987
The Victorian Web: Literature, history and culture in the age of Victoria.
http://www.victorianweb.org/ "The Victorian Web, which originated in hypermedia environments (Intermedia, Storyspace) that existed long before the World Wide Web, is one of the oldest academic and scholarly websites. …
GMN 10242 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12432
1989 RODIN, Alvin E.; KEY, Jack D.
Medicine, literature, and eponyms: Encyclopaedia of medical eponyms derived from literary characters.
GMN 6623.52 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7697
1989 SMITHERS, David Waldron Sir (1908 – 1995)
This idle trade: On doctors who were writers.
GMN 11027 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13223
1991 KNOEFEL, Peter Klerner (1906 – 1999); COVI, Madeleine C.
A Hellenistic treatise on poisonous animals (the "Theriaca" of Nicander of Colophon): A contribution to the history of toxicology.
"... the authors review all the ancient treatises, ranged in chronological order, that cite Nicander at greater or lesser length, from Celsus up to Paul of Aegina - not less than thirteen authors. . . . Next follows a…
GMN 8343 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10519
1991 ALMEIDA, Hermione de (1950 – )
Romantic medicine and John Keats.
GMN 8412 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10589
1991 PIHLSTROM, Irene
Le médecin et la médecine dans le théatre comique français du XVIIe siecle. (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis).
GMN 8895 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11073
1992 HOENIGER, Frederick David Julius (1921 – 2016)
Medicine and Shakespeare in the English Renaissance.
GMN 8459 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10636
1992 RODIN, Alvin E.; KEY, Jack D.; CONAN DOYLE, Sir Arthur Ignatius (1859 – 1930)
Conan Doyle's tales of medical humanism and values: Round the red lamp; being facts and fancies of medical life, with other medical short stories. Edited by Alvin Rodin and Jack Key.
GMN 8750 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10928
1992 ROTHFIELD, Lawrence
Vital signs: Medical realism in 19th-century fiction.
GMN 10821 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13017
1992 FURST, Lillian R. (1931 – 2009); GRAHAM, Peter W.
Disorderly eaters: Texts in self-empowerment. Edited by Lillian R. Furst and Peter W. Graham.
Explores the various manifestations of eating disorders in literature, including cannibalism, the magic attributes of food, religiously motivated fasting, and children's eating problems, from the classical period to T…
GMN 11855 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14059
1993 BRUELL, Lucy
Medical Humanities at New York University. LITMED: Literature Arts Medicine Database.
http://medhum.med.nyu.edu/ "The Literature, Arts and Medicine Database (LitMed) is a collection of literature, fine art, visual art and performing art annotations created as a dynamic, comprehensive resource for schol…
GMN 8518 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10695
1997 NEUMAYR, Anton (1920 – 2017)
Literatur & Medizin: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Holderlin, Heinrich Heine.
GMN 7530 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9702
1998 VILA, Anne C. (1961 – )
Enlightenment and pathology: Sensibility in the literature and medicine of eighteenth-century France.
GMN 10477 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12670
2000 SANDBLOM, Philip (1903 – 2001)
Creativity and disease: How illness affects literature, art and music. 4th edition.
GMN 9061 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11240
2003 CHEKHOV, Anton Pavlovich (1860 – 1904); COULEHAN, Jack
Chekhov's doctors: A collection of Chekhov's medical tales. Edited by Jack Coulehan.
"Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other" is a well-known quote by Anton Chekhov, the Russian physician and writer. Founder of both the modern s…
GMN 10818 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13014
2003 FRANK, Lawrence
Victorian detective fiction: The scientific investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle.
GMN 12059 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14268
2004 GILBERT, Pamela K. (1964 – )
Mapping the Victorian social body.
"The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explos…
GMN 10508 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12701
2005 POLLARD, Tanya L.
Drugs and theater in early modern England.
GMN 9453 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11636
2005 BROWNE, Sir Thomas (1605 – 1682); PRESTON, Claire
Thomas Browne and the writing of early modern science.
GMN 10076 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12265
2006 LAWLOR, Clark (1965 – )
Consumption and literature: The making of the romantic disease.
GMN 9926 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12114
2006 DICKINSON, Emily (1830 – 1886)
Emily Dickinson's herbarium: A facsimile edition. Foreward by Leslie A. Morris. Essays, botanical catalogue and index by Richard B. Sewall, Judith Farr, and Ray Angelo.
A facsimile edition of MS Am 1118.11 in Houghton Library, Harvard University. Digital facsimile of the actual herbarium from Harvard at this link.
GMN 10910 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13106
2006 MITCHELL, Silas Weir (1829 – 1914); LOUIS, Elan D.; HORN, Stacy; ROTH, Lisa Anne
The neurologic content of S. Weir Mitchell’s fiction.
Digital facsimile from semanticscholar.org at this link.
GMN 11650 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13851
2007 CARLINO, Andrea (1960 – ); WENGER, Alexandre
Litterature et medécine: Approaches et perspectives (XVIe-XIXe siècles). Edited by Andrea Carlino and Alexandre Wenger.
GMN 8896 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11074
2007 SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)
Musicophilia: Tales of music and the brain.
In a review for The Washington Post, Peter D. Kramer wrote, "In Musicophilia, Sacks turns to the intersection of music and neurology -- music as affliction and music as treatment." Kramer wrote, "Lacking the dynamic t…
GMN 9132 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11311
2007 SHUTTLETON, David E.
Smallpox and the literary imagination, 1660-1820.
GMN 9704 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11891
2007 BAILIN, Miriam
The sickroom in Victorian fiction: The art of being ill.
GMN 10815 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13011
2007 SCHLUN, Betsy van
Science and the imagination: Mesmerism, media, and the mind in nineteenth-century English and American literature.
GMN 11171 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13368
2007 CAPO, Beth Widmaier (1973 – )
Textual contraception: Birth control and modern American fiction.
GMN 12159 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14369
2007 KATRIZKY, M. A.
Women, medicine and theatre, 1500-1750: Literary mountebanks and performing quacks.
GMN 13645 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15926
2009 CREGAN, Kate
The theatre of the body: Staging death and embodying life in early-modern London.
"...The book takes as its specific focus seventeenth-century London, in a significant study encompassing the period from the incorporation of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons (1540) to the staging of Edward R…
GMN 9811 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11999
2009 HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894); BRYAN, Charles Stone (1942 – ); PODOLSKY, Scott Harris (1970 – )
Oliver Wendell Holmes, physician and man of letters. Edited by Scott. H. Podolsky and Charles S. Bryan.
GMN 11258 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13455
2009 DILLON, Brian (1969 – )
Tormented hope: Nine hypochondriac lives.
Accounts of writers, artists, and scientists: James Boswell, Charlotte Brontë, Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Alice James Daniel Paul Schreber, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould, and Andy Warhol.
GMN 12140 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14349
2009 SCHWARTZ, Louis
Milton and maternal mortality.
"All too often, childbirth in early modern England was associated with fear, suffering and death, and this melancholy preoccupation weighed heavily on the seventeenth-century mind. This landmark study examines John Mi…
GMN 14357 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16687
2010 SOLOMON, Michael
Fictions of well-being: Sickly readers and vernacular medical writing in late medieval and early modern Spain. Michael
GMN 8027 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10203
2010 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919); LACOMBE, Michael A.; ELPERN, David J.
Osler's bedside libraries: Great writers who inspired a great physician. Edited by Michael A. LaCombe and David J. Elpern.
GMN 11662 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13863
2011 SILVA, Cristobal
Miraculous plagues: An epidemiology of early New England narrative.
GMN 10360 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12552
2011 SMITH, Justin Erik Halldór (1972 – ); LEIBNIZ, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646 – 1716)
Divine machines: Leibniz and the sciences of life.
"Smith offers the first in-depth examination of Leibniz's deep and complex engagement with the empirical life sciences of his day, in areas as diverse as medicine, physiology, taxonomy, generation theory, and paleonto…
GMN 10493 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12686
