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Browse by Publication Year 2010–2019
878 entries
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Ancient Babylonian medicine: Theory and practice.Chichester, West Sussex, England: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.The first overview of Babylonian medicine utilizing cuneiform sources, including archives of court letters, medical recipes, and commentaries written by ancient scholars. Attempts to reconcile the ways in which medicine and magic were related, and assigns authorship to various types of medical literature that were previously considered anonymous. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Mesopotamia, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Babylonia & Assyria |
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Early Medicine, from the body to the stars.Cologny, Switzerland: Fondation Martin Bodmer & Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2010.Extensively annotated, magnificently printed catalogue (590pp. in 4to) entirely illustrated in color, of an exhibition of 250 early medical manuscripts, printed books, and related objects from the ancient world to the 17th century held at the Fondation Martin Bodmer in 2010. "History, science, art and symbolic representation of the world." Exhibited items came from the collection of the Fondation Martin Bodmer and 30 other institutions. With the collaboration of Vincent Barras, Charles Méla, Sylviane Messerli, Élisabeth Macheret. Préface du Professeur Charles Méla. An edition was also published in French. Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, ISLAMIC OR ARAB MEDICINE › History of Islamic or Arab Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine, Zoology / Natural History, Islamic |
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Australopithecus sediba: A New Species of Homo-Like Australopith from South Africa.Science, 328, 195-204, 2010.Matthew Berger, the young son of Lee Berger, discovered the first specimen of Australopithecus sediba, the right clavicle of MH1, on the 15th of August in 2008. This species of Australopithecus dates to about 2 million years ago. With D. J. de Ruiter, S. E. Churchill, P. Schmid, K. J. Carlson, P.H.G.M. Dirks, and J. M. Kibii. Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Physical Anthropology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › South Africa, EVOLUTION › Human Origins / Human Evolution |
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The complete mitochondrial DNA genome of an unknown hominin from southern Siberia.Nature, 464, 894-897, 2010.Svante Pääbo and collaborators reconstructed the genome of the Denisova hominins and announced that they were a new species, that they interbred with our species, and that the DNA results suggest that they had dark hair, eyes, and skin. From the abstract: "It represents a hitherto unknown type of hominin mtDNA that shares a common ancestor with anatomically modern human and Neanderthal mtDNAs about 1.0 million years ago. This indicates that it derives from a hominin migration out of Africa distinct from that of the ancestors of Neanderthals and of modern humans. The stratigraphy of the cave where the bone was found suggests that the Denisova hominin lived close in time and space with Neanderthals as well as with modern humans." With Q Fu, J. M. Good, B. Viola, MV Shunkov, and A. P. Derevianko. Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Genomics › Paleogenomics, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Siberia, EVOLUTION › Human Origins / Human Evolution |
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The cybernetic brain: Sketches of another future.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2010.Subjects: COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology › History of Computing / Mathematics in Medicine & Biology, NEUROLOGY › History of Neurology |
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Pulse diagnosis in early Chinese medicine: The telling touch. Wih an annotated translation of the Memoir of Chunyu Yi (Canggong zhuan) in the 105th chapter of The Records of the Historian (Shi ji, ca 86 BCE) by Sima Quian, and an anthropological analysis of the first ten medical case histories.Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2010.Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › Acupressure, ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › Acupuncture (Western References) › History of Acupuncture, ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › China, People's Republic of |
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A vast machine: Computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010.Subjects: BIOLOGY › Ecology / Environment › History of Ecology / Environment, COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology › History of Computing / Mathematics in Medicine & Biology, POLICY, HEALTH |
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Seeking the cure: A history of medicine in America.New York: Scribner, 2010.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States |
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Death defied: The anatomy lessons of Frederik Ruysch. Translated by Diane Webb.Leiden: Brill, 2010.Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Biographies of Individuals, MUSEUMS › History of Museums, MUSEUMS › Medical, Anatomical & Pathological |
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Practicing medicine in a black regiment: The Civil War diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts, edited by Richard M. Reid.Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.Wilder was a Harvard-trained white physician assigned to one of the first African American regiments in the American Civil War. Subjects: American (U.S.) CIVIL WAR MEDICINE, BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology |
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Disease, health care and government in late imperial Russia: Life and death on the Volga, 1823-1914.Abingdon, Oxford: Routledge, 2010.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Russia |
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Medicine and politics in colonial Peru: Population growth and the Bourbon reforms.Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Peru, Latin American Medicine › History of Latin American Medicine, POLICY, HEALTH, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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The Oxford handbook of the history of eugenics. Edited by Alison Bashford and Philippa Levine.Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › History of Anthropology, GENETICS / HEREDITY › Eugenics, GENETICS / HEREDITY › History of Genetics / Heredity, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Medieval medicine: A reader. Edited by Faith Wallis.Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2010.Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine |
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The emperor of all maladies: A biography of cancer.New York: Scribner, 2010.Subjects: ONCOLOGY & CANCER › History of Oncology & Cancer |
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Healing the body politic: El Salvador's popular struggle for health rights from civil war to neoliberal peace.Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › El Salvador, Latin American Medicine › History of Latin American Medicine, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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A contemporary history of the U. S. Army Nurse Corps.Washington, DC: Defense Dept., Army, Office of the Surgeon General, Borden Institute, 2010.From the end of the Vietnam War to the year 2000. Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, NURSING › History of Nursing |
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Navy medicine in Vietnam: Passage to freedom to the fall of Saigon.Washington, DC: Defense Dept., Navy, Naval History & Heritage Command, 2010.Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › Navy, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › Vietnam War |
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Fictions of well-being: Sickly readers and vernacular medical writing in late medieval and early modern Spain. MichaelPhiladelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Spain, LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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Utopia's garden: French natural history from Old Regime to revolution.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2010.Subjects: BOTANY › History of Botany, NATURAL HISTORY › History of Natural History |
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The problem of nutrition: Experimental science, public health and economy in Europe 1914-1945.Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang S.A., 2010.Subjects: ECONOMICS, BIOMEDICAL › History of Biomedical Economics, NUTRITION / DIET › History of Nutrition / Diet, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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Black physicians in the Jim Crow South.Little Rock, AK: University of Arkansas Press, 2010.Subjects: BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States › American South |
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Vaccines: A biography. Edited by Andrew W. Artenstein.New York: Springer Science , 2010.Subjects: IMMUNOLOGY › History of Immunology |
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Medical Heritage Library: Opening access to seven centuries of medical history.2010.http://www.medicalheritage.org/ "The Medical Heritage Library (MHL), a digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries, promotes free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine. Our goal is to provide the means by which readers and scholars across a multitude of disciplines can examine the interrelated nature of medicine and society, both to inform contemporary medicine and strengthen understanding of the world in which we live. The MHL’s growing collection of digitized medical rare books, pamphlets, journals, and films number in the tens of thousands, with representative works from each of the past six centuries, all of which are available here through the Internet Archive." In March 2018 this library contained over 239,000 items. From the Wikipedia, (partial) accessed 12-2016: The MHL began digitization of monographs in 2010 with an initial grant from the Sloan Foundation. Work on the MHL project has continued with funding support from collaborating institutions, the National Endowment for the Humanities , and the Mellon Foundation via a program administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources. All digitized works are located at the Internet Archive. The collection includes books, pamphlets, journals, and video and audio recordings in the history of medicine and related fields. A working list of subject headings is available here. Titles have been chosen for their scholarly, educational, and research value. The MHL consults with a volunteer group of scholars in the history of medicine and related fields and surveys its users regularly. As of August 2014, the collection consists of nearly 60,000 items including monographs, journals, audio and video.... The MHL has created a full-text search tool for use by researchers.[1] The tool allows users to search the full-text of one or more items simultaneously. The tool is in an extended beta release and comments or questions are welcome! The UK Medical Heritage Library started in 2014 with nine digitisation partners in England and Scotland, including [UCL] (University College London), the [University of Leeds], the [University of Glasgow], the [London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine], [King's College London], and the [University of Bristol] - along with the libraries of the [Royal College of Physicians of London], the [Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh], and the [Royal College of Surgeons of England]. The original partnership is between the [Wellcome Library] and [Jisc]. Material digitized by the UK MHL project is also available through the MHL portal at the Internet Archive and searchable through the full-text search tool described above. MembersOriginal members of the collaborative formed in 2010 are:
Content contributors have joined the project regularly since 2011; the MHL continues to seek additional content contributors.
Timeline of the Project
Subjects: DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries |
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The Wellcome Library Digital Collections.London: Wellcome Library, 2010.http://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/ "The Wellcome Library is developing a world-class online resource for the history of medicine by digitising a substantial proportion of its holdings and making the content freely available on the web. We select material based on the strengths of our holdings and the interests of current or potential audiences. We also aim to create significant online resources that will stimulate research in the global health themes that underpin our collecting strategy. The Library’s digital collections are growing to include:
We will also strive to include important content from other institutions, which complements our own holdings, and to explore commercial partnerships for cost-effective digitisation of other parts of our collections. USING THE LIBRARY’S DIGITISED CONTENTThere are a range of tools and features to help you find and use the Library’s digitised content. You can:
Digitised material is gradually being added to the Library website and catalogue. Some access restrictions will apply. For full details, download the Library’s policy on Access personal data within our research collections [PDF 1.85MB]." (http://wellcomelibrary.org/what-we-do/digitisation/, accessed 12-2016).
Subjects: DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries |
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Atlas of science: Visualizing what we know.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010.Subjects: GRAPHIC DISPLAY of Medical & Scientific Information |
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Hunayn ibn Ishaq's "Questions on medicine for students": Transcription and translation of the oldest extant Syriac version (Vat. Syr. 192). Studi e testi, 459. By E. Jan Wilson and Samuel Dinkha.Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2010.For a critical review of this edition see Grigory Kessel, "Review Essay of Wilson, E.J. and Dinkha, S., Hunayn Ibn Ishaq’s 'Questions on Medicine for Students'. Transcription and Translation of the Oldest Extant Syriac Version (Vat. Syr. 192). Studi e testi, 459. Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2010," Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies, 15 (2010) 375-400. Subjects: ISLAMIC OR ARAB MEDICINE, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Syria and Syriac Texts |
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The medical war: British military medicine in the First World War.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › World War I |
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A history of healthcare in Istanbul: Health organizations, epidemics, infections and disease control, preventive health institutions, hospitals, medical education.Istanbul (Constantinople): Istanbul University, 2010.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Turkey, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Health and disease in Byzantine Crete (7th-12 centuries AD).Abingdon, Oxford: Ashgate, 2010.Subjects: BYZANTINE MEDICINE › History of Byzantine Medicine, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Crete |
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Healing and society in medieval England. A Middle English translation of the pharmaceutical writings of Gilbertus Anglicus. Edited by Faye Marie Getz.Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › England, PHARMACOLOGY, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines |
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Arab painting: Text and image in illustrated Arabic manuscripts. Edited by Anna Contadini.Leiden: Brill, 2010.Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology, ISLAMIC OR ARAB MEDICINE › History of Islamic or Arab Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine, Medieval Zoology › History of Medieval Zoology, NATURAL HISTORY › Art & Natural History |
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The symptom and the subject: The emergence of the physical body in ancient Greece.Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece › History of Ancient Medicine in Greece, PSYCHOLOGY › History of Psychology |
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History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium.Washington, DC: U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2010.https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/consortium/index.html "The History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium is a project that explores the feasibility of crawling, indexing, and delivering web accessible content from external institutions in a union catalog format. The site leverages NLM's enterprise search engine IBM Data Explorer. Using a variety of crawl protocols that are target-site specific, we are able to crawl, index, and provide access to finding aids that exist in a variety of data formats such as xml, html, or pdf. By crawling and indexing content locally with referring links back to an owning repository, NLM can offer a multi-institutional discovery service, but is relieved of the burden of managing external data. Crawls are currently performed on a monthly basis. Our method and tools allow for a widely-inclusive harvesting and search, but at the expense of advance-level services such as author or subject-based browsing or searching. We encourage the use of EAD, as it could provide the consortium more functionality and hope the project evolves in that direction. "We invite other repositories who focus their collecting in the history of medicine and its allied sciences to join. Partners must be able to respond to reference requests about their own collections. Please contact John Rees, Archivist and Digital Resources Manager if you are interested in joining or simply learning more about our techniques. "NLM also offers its EAD infrastructure to help institutions create finding aids if they do not already do so. We offer a free online .net application to assist in creating EAD and a search and delivery platform, DLXS, outside the consortium environment. "Current List of Participating Institutions
Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Online Access Catalogues & Bibliographic Databases |
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Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)Boston, MA: Boston Public Library, 2010."The vision of a national digital library has been circulating among librarians, scholars, educators, and private industry representatives since the early 1990s. Efforts led by a range of organizations, including the Library of Congress, HathiTrust, and the Internet Archive, have successfully built resources that provide books, images, historic records, and audiovisual materials to anyone with Internet access. Many universities, public libraries, and other public-spirited organizations have digitized materials, but these digital collections often exist in silos. The DPLA brings these different viewpoints, experiences, and collections together in a single platform and portal, providing open and coherent access to our society’s digitized cultural heritage. The DPLA planning process began in October 2010 at a meeting in Cambridge, MA. During this meeting, 40 leaders from libraries, foundations, academia, and technology projects agreed to work together to create “an open, distributed network of comprehensive online resources that would draw on the nation’s living heritage from libraries, universities, archives, and museums in order to educate, inform, and empower everyone in current and future generations.” In December 2010, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, generously supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, convened leading experts in libraries, technology, law, and education to begin work on this ambitious project. A two-year process of intense grassroots community organization, beginning in October 2011 and hosted at the Berkman Center, brought together hundreds of public and research librarians, innovators, digital humanists, and other volunteers—organized into six workstreams and led by a distinguished Steering Committee—helped to scope, design, and construct the DPLA. The DPLA is led now by Executive Director Dan Cohen and guided by a Board of Directors comprised of leading public and research librarians, technologists, intellectual property scholars, and business experts from around the country. Based in Boston in the historic Boston Public Library, DPLA has grown from an initial staff of four to nearly ten, including an in-house technical team. To read more about the DPLA team, visit our our staff page. To view materials produced during the planning initiative, visit our Historical Materials page." (https://dp.la/info/about/history/, accessed 01-2017). The Medical Heritage Library is a subset of the DPLA: https://dp.la/search?partner%5B%5D=Internet+Archive&provider%5B%5D=Medical+Heritage+Library. Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Online Access Catalogues & Bibliographic Databases, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries |
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The anatomist anatomis'd: An experimental discipline in Enlightenment Europe.Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2010.History of the practice and teaching of anatomy, and comparative anatomy, in the 18th century, mainly in Europe, but also touching on the introduction of Western methods of studying and teaching anatomy into Japan. Subjects: ANATOMY › History of Anatomy, COMPARATIVE ANATOMY › History of Comparative Anatomy |
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Addiction: A reference encyclopedia. Edited by Howard Padwa and Jacob Cunningham.Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2010.An encyclopedia with the addition of the texts of numerous primary source documents. Subjects: TOXICOLOGY › Drug Addiction, TOXICOLOGY › Drug Addiction › History of Drug Addiction |
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Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: Dalla peste nera ai giorni nostri.Rome: Laterza, 2010.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Italy, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Flea-Borne Diseases › Plague (transmitted by fleas from rats to humans) › Plague, History of, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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The origins of organ transplantation: Surgery and laboratory science 1880-1930.Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2010.Subjects: TRANSPLANTATION › History of Transplantation |
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Medicine in an age of commerce and empire: Britain and its tropical colonies 1660-1830.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology, Geography of Disease / Health Geography › History of Geography of Disease, TROPICAL Medicine › History of Tropical Medicine |
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This birth place of souls: The Civil War nursing diary of Harriet Eaton edited with an introduction by Jane E. Schultz.New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.Subjects: American (U.S.) CIVIL WAR MEDICINE, NURSING, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1800 - 1899, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Mosquito empires: Ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914.Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2010."explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. Ecological changes made these landscapes especially suitable for the vector mosquitoes of yellow fever and malaria, and these diseases wrought systematic havoc among armies and would-be settlers. Because yellow fever confers immunity on survivors of the disease, and because malaria confers resistance, these diseases played partisan roles in the struggles for empire and revolution, attacking some populations more severely than others. In particular, yellow fever and malaria attacked newcomers to the region, which helped keep the Spanish Empire Spanish in the face of predatory rivals in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In the late eighteenth and through the nineteenth century, these diseases helped revolutions to succeed by decimating forces sent out from Europe to prevent them"(publisher). Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Caribbean, EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Malaria › History of Malaria, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Yellow Fever › History of Yellow Fever |
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The illustrated Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud. Edited with an introduction and essays by Jeffrey Moussaieff Mason.New York: Sterling, 2010.Reprints selected portions of the 1913 A. A. Brill translation together essays by Masson and excerpts from Jung, Lacan, and Horney. Includes many full page or double-page color reproductions of works by modernist and surrealist artists; Masson's sidebars appear as booklets “hidden” in the full-spread artwork. Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, Psychoanalysis |
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The introduction of numerical methods to assess the effects of medical interventions during the 18th century: a brief history.JLL Bulletin: Commentaries on the history of treatment evaluation., 2010.An outstanding bibliographical survey available online from the James Lind Library at this link. Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Online Access Catalogues & Bibliographic Databases, COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology › History of Computing / Mathematics in Medicine & Biology, DEMOGRAPHY / Population: Medical Statistics › History of Demography, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries |
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Biblioteca digitale di testi latin tardoantichi.Vercelli: Università del Piemonte Orientale, 2010.http://digiliblt.lett.unipmn.it/index.php "The Digital library of late-antique Latin texts – digilibLT – publishes prose texts written in Latin in the late antiquity (from the 2nd to the 7th century AD). The library intends to make available all the works of pagan content. Only a few works of Christian authors and themes are included, by now, in order to allow the necessary comparisons of linguistic uses in late antiquity.The texts are annotated according to the XML-TEI standards, and are offered free of charge to the public for reading and research. The library also offers a complete canon of authors and works, including detailed information on the critical editions on which the digital texts are based, and listing, if the case, editorial changes which deviate from the critical editions chosen as reference. Search windows are designed to allow users to search either the entire collection of texts or a selection of them (by author, period, or type of text) or single authors and works. Texts can be downloaded freely, which allows individual scholars to work on their areas of interest with maximum flexibility. The library also provides short entries on late-antique authors and works, bibliographies, and canon entries. Finally, the library also includes some important works on late-antique Latin prose authors, offering the texts in PDF form or listing links to websites where these works can be found." Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Late Antiquity, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries , NATURAL HISTORY › Late Antiquity |
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Les metamorphoses du gras: histoire de l'obésité.Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2010.Translated into English by C. Jon Delogu as The metamorphosis of fat: A history of obesity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013). Subjects: Obesity Research › History of Obesity Research |
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Obesity: The biography.New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.Subjects: Obesity Research › History of Obesity Research |
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A companion to American environmental history. Edited by Douglas Cazaux Sackman.Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2010.Subjects: BIOLOGY › Ecology / Environment › History of Ecology / Environment, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States |
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The Royal Society: The Repository.London: The Royal Society, 2010.https://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science "INCIPIT "Hello and welcome to the Centre for History of Science. We look after the Royal Society’s amazing collections of archives, rare books, pictures and artefacts. Tracing the development of science through the ages provides a fascinating insight into the most cutting-edge developments of today, and we are proud to be able to facilitate this. This blog will feature posts from the librarians, archivists and curators who run the Centre, and from a handful of our researchers and other supporters too. We intend to show you all kinds of treasures from our collections, provide some insights into how we do things, and hopefully tell you a few things you didn’t already know" (https://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science/2010/07/26/incipit/).
Subjects: DIGITAL RESOURCES › Blogs |
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Poison eaters: Snakes, opium, arsenic, and the lethal show.Boca Raton, FL: Universal-Publishers, 2010."This book is the first to explore the tradition of deliberate poison eating, its practitioners, and the substances that might nourish or kill them" (publisher). Subjects: PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Botanic Sources of Single Component Drugs › Opium, TOXICOLOGY › Drug Addiction › History of Drug Addiction, TOXICOLOGY › History of Toxicology |
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American nursing: A history of knowledge, authority, and the meaning of work.Baltimore, MD, 2010.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , NURSING › History of Nursing |
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National Institutes of Health Library Digitized Collection. Branch Chief and Information Architect: James King.Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health Library, circa 2010.https://archive.org/details/nihlibrary&tab=collection "The NIH Library is a leading biomedical research library whose collection and services are developed to support the programs of the National Institutes of Health and selected U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies. This digitized collection of NIH Annual Reports is provided as a service of the NIH Library." In March 2018 this library, housed at the Internet Archive, consisted of over 2600 items. Subjects: DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries |
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) LibraryBethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health Library, 2010.https://archive.org/details/cmslibrary&tab=collection "The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Library is a research library dedicated to supporting the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The digitized collection contains a rich history of health services research literature dating to before the implementation of the Medicare and Medicaid programs." In March 2018 this library, hosted by the Internet Archive, included more than 6100 items. Subjects: DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries , Insurance, Health › History of Health Insurance |
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The Sloane Letters Project.Saskatoon, SK, Canada: Univerisity of Saskatchewan, 2010."A pilot of this project, Sir Hans Sloane’s Correspondence Online, was first launched at the University of Saskatchewan in 2010 to coincide with the 350th anniversary of Sir Hans Sloane’s birth. The project was renamed The Sloane Letters Project when it moved to this site in 2016. The correspondence of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) consists of thirty-eight volumes held at the British Library, London: MSS 4036-4069, 4075-4078. The letters are a rich source of information about topics such as scientific discourse, collections of antiquities, curiosities and books, patients’ illnesses, medical treatments and family history. Most of the letters were addressed to Sloane, but a few volumes were addressed to others (MSS 4063-4067) or written by Sloane (MSS 4068-4069). So far, we have entered descriptions and metadata for Sloane MSS 4036-4053 and 4075, as well as several letters from each of the following: Sloane MSS 4054-4055, 4066, 4068-4069 and 4076. Several of these entries also include transcriptions. Further entries and transcriptions are being made available gradually. Please, explore the website and database. You can search through the letters, learn about Sir Hans Sloane or the letters written to him, and peruse blog posts about interesting letters!"
Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries , MUSEUMS, NATURAL HISTORY |
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Angel of death: The story of smallpox.Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox › History of Smallpox |
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The measure of America, 2010-2011: Mapping risks and resilience.New York: NYU Press, 2010."This fully illustrated report, with over 130 color images, is based on the groundbreaking American Human Development Index, which provides a single measure of the well-being for all Americans, disaggregated by state and congressional district, as well as by race, gender, and ethnicity. The Index rankings of the 50 states and 435 congressional districts reveal huge disparities in the health, education, and living standards of different groups. For example, overall, Connecticut ranked first among states on the 2008-2009 Index, and Mississippi ranked last, suggesting that there is a 30-year gap in human development between the two states. Further, among congressional districts, New York’s 14th District, in Manhattan, ranked first, and California’s 20th District, near Fresno, ranked last. The average resident of New York’s 14th District earned over three times as much as the average resident of California’s 20th District, lived over four years longer, and was ten times as likely to have a college degree" (publisher). After publication of this report in book form the Measure of America non-partisan, non-proft social science research project appears to have published its many following reports online. They are available at www.measureofamerica.org#.
Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , PUBLIC HEALTH, SOCIAL MEDICINE |
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Shadows in the valley: A cultural history of illness, death, and loss in New England, 1840-1916.Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010."...The study is organized for the most part around disease categories and the life cycle, so that the cultural framework of people's habits and values often seems secondary. Most of what we learn about illness and death in between 1840 and 1880 (the core decades of the study) will not surprise anyone familiar with these matters during this well-studied historical time. Infectious illness was rife, life expectancy at birth was low, medicine was various and largely ineffective, government was weak, and religion and community were the contexts in which families faced death and loss. Swedlund's research is deep and spans many different kinds of texts, from census reports to material objects. His chapters on childhood diseases and on tuberculosis make particularly good use of the range of sources, and add the heft of local detail to the broader perspectives of epidemiology and medical practice. Other chapters are less well formed, especially one in which discussions of pregnancy, men's industrializing labor, and the Civil War yield too many strands to be tied into a clear argument. The people of Deerfield, like those of many New England towns, managed over time to preserve not only public records but also powerful personal texts—diaries and letters—that evoke the reality of losing a child to death or struggling to relieve the suffering of a spouse. Swedlund has come up with several fine diarists, and he includes generous swatches of text that make it possible to enter into the descriptive and imaginative worlds of his subjects. Presented with respect and care, the words of these women and men more often illustrate than drive the analysis. An exception to this is the final chapter, where Swedlund looks closely at certain practices surrounding death—cemetery art, memorial rituals, and the poignant desire of families to prepare bodies for burial and keep personal mementos close. Individuals we have met earlier in the book reappear and seem more fully at home in their beliefs than at any other point in the study. Children are throughout the book, and in this final chapter, on the last page, Swedlund observes of his work, "The one persistent theme I discovered was the genuine, heartfelt grief of a parent at the loss of a child" (p. 190). It suggests a theme that might have been used in a critical way to pull together into a cultural whole all that the book has to say about Deerfield and death" (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/447551)
Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Massachusetts |
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A cultural history of sexuality. Edited by Julie Peakman. 6 vols.Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2010."Vol. 1: A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World Edited by Mark Golden, University of Winnipeg, and Peter Toohey, University of Calgary Vol. 2: A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages Edited by Ruth Evans, Saint Louis University Volume 3: A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Renaissance Edited by Bette Talvacchia, University of Connecticut Vol. 4: A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Enlightenment Edited by Julie Peakman, Birkbeck College, University of London Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters: |
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Imagining illness: Public health and visual culture. Edited by David Serlin.Minneapolis,MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2010."From seventeenth-century broadsides about the handling of dead bodies, printed during London's plague years, to YouTube videos about preventing the transmission of STDs, public health advocacy and education has always had a powerful visual component. Imagining Illness explores the diverse visual culture of public health, broadly defined, from the nineteenth century to the present.
"Contributors to this volume examine historical and contemporary visual practices-Chinese health fairs, documentary films produced by the World Health Organization, illness maps, fashions for nurses, and live surgery on the Internet-in order to delve into the political and epidemiological contexts underlying their creation and dissemination." (Publisher). Chapter 11: "Performing live surgery on television and the Internet since 1945" by David Serlin.
Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology, IMAGING, IMAGING › Cinematography, IMAGING › History of Imaging, IMAGING › Television, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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Educating physicians: A call for reform of medical school and residency.San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2010."The current blueprint for medical education in North America was drawn up in 1910 by Abraham Flexner in his report Medical Education in the United States and Canada. The basic features outlined by Flexner remain in place today. Yet with the past century's enormous societal changes, the practice of medicine and its scientific, pharmacological, and technological foundations have been transformed. Now medical education in the United States is at a crossroads: those who teach medical students and residents must choose whether to continue in the direction established over a hundred years ago or to take a fundamentally different course, guided by contemporary innovation and new understandings about how people learn. "Emerging from an extensive study of physician education by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Educating Physicians calls for a major overhaul of the present approach to preparing doctors for their careers. The text addresses major issues for the future of the field and takes a comprehensive look at the most pressing concerns in physician education today. The key findings of the study recommend four goals for medical education: standardization of learning outcomes and individualization of the learning process; integration of formal knowledge and clinical experience; development of habits of inquiry and innovation; and focus on professional identity formation. "Like The Carnegie Foundation's revolutionizing Flexner Report of 1910, Educating Physicians is destined to change the way administrators and faculty in medical schools and programs prepare their physicians for the future" (Publisher). Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Odorant reception in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae.Nature, 464, 66-71, 2010.Order of authorship in the original publication: Carey, Wang, ... Carlson. The authors showed that besides CO2, the odorant receptors in the malaria mosquistoes Anopheles gambiae are sensitive to other "mostly sweat" organic compounds like "1-octen-3-ol", which is very common in human and animal odor. These receptors play a central role in human recognition in the human host-seeking behavior of these mosquitoes. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: BIOLOGY, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Africa, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Malaria, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 -, ZOOLOGY › Arthropoda › Entomology |
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Dictionnaire des médecins, chirurgiens et pharmaciens de la marine.Paris: La Documentation Française, 2010.Concerns physicians, surgeons and pharmacists who served in the French navy. Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works), COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › France, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › Navy |
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Folk healing and health care practices in Ireland: Stethoscopes, wands and crystals.New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2010.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Ireland, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine |
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History of neurology (Vol. 95). Handbook of Clinical Neurology series). Edited by Stanley Finger, François Boller, and Kenneth L. Tyler.Edinburgh & New York: Elsevier, 2010.Subjects: NEUROLOGY › History of Neurology |
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The last plague in the Baltic Region 1709-1713.Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2010.This work "offers a thorough description and analysis of the terrible plague epidemic that ravaged the Baltic region in the years between 1709 and 1713? at the same time when the region was razed by the Great Northern War (1700-?21). Sweden under Carolus XII had lost its supremacy, and Russia under Peter the Great emerged as the new major power in the region. With the marching armies came the plague and its effects, which were particularly devastating, since it hit a population already weakened by famines and desolation caused by the war. Drawing on substantial documentation in city and state archives, the study addresses a range of important discussions touching on the far-reaching consequences of the plague across the region: including mortality rates, symptoms of the disease, treatments, how the disease spread, why some parishes, villages, houses and families were particularly hard hit, the measures taken by the authorities to confine the epidemic and the reactions of people to these measures" (publisher). Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Flea-Borne Diseases › Plague (transmitted by fleas from rats to humans) › Plague, History of |
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Evaluating and standardizing therapeutic agents, 1890-1950. Edited by C. Gradmann and J. Simon.Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.Subjects: PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals |
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Osler's bedside libraries: Great writers who inspired a great physician. Edited by Michael A. LaCombe and David J. Elpern.Philadelphia: American College of Physicians, 2010.Subjects: LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology |
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Holistic healing in Byzantium. Edited by John T. Chirban.Brookline, MA: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2010.Subjects: BYZANTINE MEDICINE › History of Byzantine Medicine, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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"Botany" and "Pharmacy" by Alain Touwaide, in: Handbook of medieval studies. Terms - methods - trends. Edited by Albrecht Classen. 3 vols.Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010.This otherwise comprehensive handbook excludes medicine, per se. Sections most directly pertinent to the life sciences are: Touwaide, Alain. "Botany". Vol. 1, pp. 145-180. This a very detailed bibliographical essay covering the history of Western and Arabic texts concerning botany and materia medica in the Middle Ages. Digital facsimile from Academia.edu at this link. Touwaide, Alain. "Pharmacy". Vol. 2, pp. 1056-1089. Touwaide, Alain. "Pharmaceutical literature." Vol. 3, pp. 1979-1999.
Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Botany / Materia Medica, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Subjects, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals |
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A short history of the seed & nursery catalogue in Europe & the U.S.Oregon State University Libraries, 2010.http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/omeka/exhibits/show/seed/introduction/collection/
"The OSU Seed and Nursery Trade catalogue collection contains over 2,000 items from 1832 to 1966. While the collection is most comprehensive in its representation of American catalogues from the 1940s, it contains many older examples from North America, Great Britain, and Holland, as well other European and Asian countries. Former agricultural librarian Laura Kelts compiled the collection from various sources in the 1960s and 1970s. At that time, it was stored in a locked room of the science area of the library, where space was at a premium. In 1986, the new Special Collections unit was formed and the collection was moved there, where it resides today. "Seed and nursery trade catalogues are lists of seeds or plants available for sale. Many of the oldest surviving printed catalogues are not much more than lists, divided into categories by plant type such as vegetables, sweet and medicinal herbs, flowers, and bulbous roots. Today, we expect a catalogue to contain much more: prices, shipping and ordering information, illustrations, product descriptions, and growing instructions. Catalogues often include pre-selected assortments, special offers, customer testimonials, and a way to contact the company to ask questions by phone, fax, or email. Rather than offering merely seeds and plants, catalogues offer garden tools, kitchen gadgets, gardening clothes and furniture. Recipes, personal notes from company owners, and evidence of companies’ charitable works are all common elements in modern retail catalogues. The study of older seed and nursery catalogues makes it possible to trace how and when these developments occurred in response to available technology and the demands of gardeners in changing times." Subjects: Agriculture / Horticulture, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Botany / Materia Medica, BOTANY › Botanical Gardens › History of Botanical Gardens, DIGITAL RESOURCES |
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Medicine in the Old West: A history, 1850–1900.Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States › American West |
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"Teaching surgery in late Byzantine Alexandria" by John Scarborough [in] Manfred Horstmanshoff, ed., Hippocrates and medical education. Selected papers presented at the XIIth International Hippocrates Colloquium, Universiteit Leiden, 24-26 August 2005.Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2010.Subjects: BYZANTINE MEDICINE › History of Byzantine Medicine |
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Cholesterol and beyond: The research on diet and coronary heart disease, 1900-2000.New York: Springer, 2010."A concise overview of the chain of evidence accumulated during the past century supporting the relationship between dietary habits and blood levels of cholesterol and the associated relationship between blood total and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and the etiology of atherosclerosis and risk of coronary heart disease (CHD)" (publisher.) Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › History of Cardiology, NUTRITION / DIET › History of Nutrition / Diet |
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The key to medicine and a guide for students, by Abū al-Faraj ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥ usayn ibn Hindū. Translated by Aida Tibi and reviewed by E. Savage-Smith [The Great Books of Islamic Civilization Series, The Center for Muslim Contribution to Civilization, Faculty of Islamic Studies, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar].Reading, England, 2010.Subjects: ISLAMIC OR ARAB MEDICINE, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine |
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Medicine in the {Veda}: Religious healing in the {Veda} with translations and annotations of medical hymns from the {Rgveda and the Atharvaveda} and renderings from the corresponding ritual texts.New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 2010.Subjects: INDIA, Practice of Medicine in › Traditional Indian Medicine, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Art et science vétérinaire à Byzance: Formes et fonctions de l’image hippiatrique.Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2010.Subjects: BYZANTINE MEDICINE › Byzantine Veterinary Medicine, BYZANTINE MEDICINE › History of Byzantine Medicine, VETERINARY MEDICINE › History of Veterinary Medicine |
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Tipologia de la literatura médica latina. Antigüedad, edad media, renacimiento.Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2010.Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine |
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Reading the book of nature in the Dutch golden age, 1575-1715.Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2010.A revised and translated version of Het Boeck der natuere. nederlandse geleerden en de wonderen van Gods schepping, 1575-1716, Leiden: Brill, 2006. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Netherlands, NATURAL HISTORY › History of Natural History |
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Bibliography on medieval women, gender, and medicine 1980-2009. (Latest update: February 2, 2010).Digital Library of Sciència.cat, February 2010, Universitat de Barcelona, 2010."This bibliography comprises all the entries that appeared in the bibliography on “Women and Medicine” that I published periodically in the Medieval Feminist Forum (formerly, Medieval Feminist Newsletter) from 1990 to 2004. The previously published entries have been merged into a single alphabetical list by author, and some editorial commentary has been updated or modified. I have added items that were previously overlooked or that date before the original dates covered, and I have added new material published up through 2009, including a few items that cross over into the early modern period since they carry forward issues that began in the late Middle Ages. Multiple entries for a single author are listed chronologically by date of publication. For cross-referencing, I have used the author’s last name and date, with multiple entries for a single year being distinguished by added alphabetical sigla (e.g., 2007a, 2007b). At the end, I have added a summary listing of all those works that include edited primary sources (noting English translations where they are included); these will be especially useful for teaching purposes. This bibliography is intended for free use, but please note that the editorial commentary should be properly credited if cited elsewhere." Green's extensive footnotes to this introductory paragraph may be found in the online publication at:
Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Subjects, DIGITAL RESOURCES, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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A cultural history of the human body. Edited by Linda Kalof and William Bynum. 6 vols.London: Berg Publishers, 2010.
"A Cultural History of The Human Body presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers 2800 years of the human body as a physical, social, spiritual and cultural object.
"Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters: "Volume 1: A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity (750 BCE - 1000 CE) Subjects: Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Il Museo di storia naturale dell'Università degli studi di Firenze. Volume 3, Le collezioni geologiche e paleontologiche.Florence: Firenze University Press, 2010.Subjects: MUSEUMS › Natural History Museums / Wunderkammern |
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Magnus Hirschfeld and the quest for sexual freedom. A history of the first international sexual freedom movement. By Elena Mancini.New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works), SEXUALITY / Sexology › History of Sexuality / Sexology, SEXUALITY / Sexology › Homosexuality |
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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach: Bibliographie seiner Schriften. By Claudia Kroke and Wolfgang Böker.Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2010.Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Individual Authors |
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Die Mineralien in Der Arabischen Pharmakognosie: Eine Konkordanz Zur Mineralischen Materia Medica Der Klassischen Arabischen Heilmittelkunde Nebst ... Kommission (Vok) der A).Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010.Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine, Minerals and Medicine, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals |
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Medicine after the Holocaust: From the master race to the human genome and beyond. Edited by Sheldon Rubenfeld.New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010."Rubenfeld and the contributors to this collection posit that German physicians betrayed the Hippocratic Oath when they chose knowledge over wisdom, the state over the individual, a führer over God, and personal gain over professional ethics" (publisher). Subjects: Ethics, Biomedical, Ethics, Biomedical › History of Biomedical Ethics |
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Cambodians and their doctors: A medical anthropology of colonial and postcolonial Cambodia.Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2010.Digital facsimile from diva-portal.org at this link. Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Cambodia |
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Joseph Hooker Correspondence Project. Digitising the personal and scientific correspondence of the 19th century botanist and explorer Joseph Hooker.London: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2010.https://www.kew.org/science/our-science/projects/joseph-hooker-correspondence-project "During his career he was also a prolific correspondent, writing to family, friends and colleagues, including Charles Darwin, and we are fortunate to hold an extensive archival collection at Kew. The Joseph Hooker Correspondence project is working to make his letters held in Kew’s archive, and other institutions’, available online. The project originally began with a partnership between Kew and the University of Sussex to produce digital images and full transcriptions of Hooker's Indian letters. Staff at Kew are continuing the project with the digitisation and transcription of further series of Hooker's correspondence. A team of expert remote volunteers transcribe the letters. "The formation of this online repository, comprised largely of previously unpublished archive material, is intended to facilitate academic research in such fields as botany and other natural sciences, horticulture, British imperialism, garden history, the history of science and the history of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Kew also hopes to bring knowledge of Joseph Hooker to a wider audience and to extend awareness of the extent and significance of his work." Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Biographies of Individuals › Edited Correspondence & Archives, BOTANY, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries , EVOLUTION, VOYAGES & Travels by Physicians, Surgeons & Scientists |
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The double helix and the law of evidence.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010."... Kaye weaves together molecular biology, population genetics, the legal rules of evidence, and theories of statistical reasoning as he describes the struggles between prosecutors and defense counsel over the admissibility of genetic proof of identity. Combining scientific exposition with stories of criminal investigations, scientific and legal hubris, and distortions on all sides, Kaye shows how the adversary system exacerbated divisions among scientists, how lawyers and experts obfuscated some issues and clarified others, how probability and statistics were manipulated and misunderstood, and how the need to convince lay judges influenced the scientific research. Looking to the future, Kaye uses probability theory to clarify legal concepts of relevance and probative value, and describes alternatives to race-based DNA profile frequencies..." (publisher). Subjects: Forensic Medicine (Legal Medicine) › History of Forensic Medicine , LAW and Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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The smallpox eradication saga: An insider's view.Hyderabad, Telangana, India: Orient Blackswan, 2010.Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox › History of Smallpox |
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Missing links: In search of human origins.New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.An entertaining and superbly illustrated, but carefully documented account of the major fossil finds from Neanderthal to Ardipithecus ramidus. Subjects: EVOLUTION › Human Origins / Human Evolution › History of |
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The shocking history of electric fishes: From ancient epochs to the birth of modern neurophysiology.New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.The first comprehensive history of this subject. Subjects: BIOLOGY › History of Biology, Neurophysiology, PHYSIOLOGY › Electrophysiology › History of Electrophysiology |
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Fragonard Museum. The écorchés. The anatomical masterworks of Honoré Fragonard by Christophe Degueurce. With an essay by Laure Cadot. Translated from the French by Philip Adds.New York: Blast Books, 2011.The painter and printmaker Fragonard preserved the results of his dissections via means never divulged, but which may have been based on those of Jean-Joseph Sue. His pieces were often prepared for theatrical effect rather than scientific exhibition, as can be seen in the surviving pieces in the Musée Fragonard d'Alfort. Subjects: ANATOMY › 19th Century, ANATOMY › Anatomy for Artists, ANATOMY › History of Anatomical Illustration, MUSEUMS › Medical, Anatomical & Pathological , VETERINARY MEDICINE › History of Veterinary Medicine |
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A world of beasts: A thirteenth-century illustrated Arabic book on animals (the Kitāb Na't al-Hayawān) in the Ibn Bakhtīshū' Tradition.Leiden: Brill, 2011.Bakhtshooa Gondishapoori (also spelled Bukhtishu and Bukht-Yishu in literature) were Persian or Assyrian Nestorian Christian physicians from the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries, spanning 6 generations and 250 years. The Kitāb Na't al-Hayawān (British Library Or. 2784) is the earliest of extant illustrated Arab and Persian manuscripts on animals. Subjects: Medieval Zoology, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 -, ZOOLOGY › Illustration, Zoology / Natural History, Islamic, Zoology, Natural History, Persian (Iranian) |
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A guide to obesity and the metabolic syndrome: Origins and treatment.Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2011.Subjects: Metabolism & Metabolic Disorders, Obesity Research |
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Scottish Medicine: An Illustrated History.Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 2011.Subjects: Scottish Medicine |
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Science and technology in Islam: Catalogue of the collection of instruments of the Institute for the History of Arabic and Islamic Sciences. 4, 7. Medicine, 8. Chemistry, 9. Mineralogy.Frankfurt: Inst. für Geschichte der Arab.-Islam. Wiss., 2011.Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › History of Biomedical Instrumentation, ISLAMIC OR ARAB MEDICINE › History of Islamic or Arab Medicine |
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A history of British sports medicine.Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011.Subjects: PHYSICAL MEDICINE / REHABILITATION › Exercise / Training / Fitness › History of Exercise / Training / Fitness |
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Morbid curiosities: Medical museums in nineteenth-century Britain.New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), MUSEUMS › History of Museums, MUSEUMS › Medical, Anatomical & Pathological |
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Chevalier John Taylor, England's early oculist: Pretender or pioneer?Madison, WI: Parallel Press, University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, 2011.The unusually colorful career of the pioneer oculist, notorious for his flamboyant behavior, self-promotion, proflific writings, and for blinding both Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel. The authors discuss Taylor's productive contributions to ocular surgery which typically have been overshadowed by the sensational nature of his reputation. Includes a well-illustrated discussion of Taylor's principal works and medical contributions. Subjects: OPHTHALMOLOGY › History of Ophthalmology, Quackery |
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Model experts: Wax anatomies and enlightenment in Florence and Vienna, 1775-1815.Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011.Subjects: MUSEUMS › History of Museums, MUSEUMS › Medical, Anatomical & Pathological |
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Holophusicon: The Leverian Museum, an eighteenth-century English institution of science, curiosity and art.Altenstadt: ZKF Publishers, 2011.A history of the Leverian Museum with discussion of other contemporary institutions. Includes an inventory tracing the current location of thousands of items from the Leverian Museum since its dispersal. Many illustrations in color. Subjects: MUSEUMS › History of Museums, NATURAL HISTORY › Art & Natural History, NATURAL HISTORY › History of Natural History |
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Knowing nature: Art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840. Edited by Amy R. W. Meyers with the assistance of Lisa L. Ford.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011.Large format, finely produced with excellent color plates. Subjects: BOTANY › History of Botany, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , NATURAL HISTORY › Art & Natural History, NATURAL HISTORY › History of Natural History, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Pennsylvania, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 -, ZOOLOGY › History of Zoology |
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Famous personalities honored on stamps: Links to medicine.New York: Vantage Press, 2011.Subjects: Philately, Medical |
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The Oxford companion of the history of medicine. Edited by Mark Jackson.Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.Subjects: History of Medicine: General Works |
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A history of endometriosis.London: Springer-Verlag London Limited, 2011.Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY › History of Gynecology, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › History of Obstetrics |
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Historia de la medicina en el Paraguay.Asunción, Paraguay: Servilibro, 2011.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Paraguay, Latin American Medicine › History of Latin American Medicine |
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The ailing city: Health, tuberculosis, and culture in Buenos Aires, 1870-1950.Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Argentina, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Tuberculosis › History of Tuberculosis, Latin American Medicine › History of Latin American Medicine |
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Healing the nation: Soldiers and the culture of caregiving in Britain during the Great War.Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › World War I |
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Attack on the Pentagon: The medical response to 9/11.Washington, DC: Defense Dept., Army, Borden Institute, Office of the Surgeon General, U.S. Army Medical Department Center and School, 2011.Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine |
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The social history of health and medicine in colonial India. Edited by Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison.London: Routledge, 2011.Subjects: INDIA, Practice of Medicine in › History of Practice of Medicine in India, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: An annotated translation of Huang Di's inner classic- Basic questions. 2 vols.Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011.Subjects: Chinese Medicine |
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History of the statistical classification of diseases and causes of death. Edited and updated by Harry M. Rosenberg and Donna L. Hoyert.Hyattville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics, 2011.Digital facsimile available from the cdc.gov at this link. Subjects: DEMOGRAPHY / Population: Medical Statistics › History of Demography, Nosology |
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A Cretan healer's handbook in the Byzantine tradition: Text, translation and commentary.Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2011.Subjects: BYZANTINE MEDICINE, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Crete, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine |
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Medical synonym lists from medieval Provence: Shem Tov ben Isaac of Tortosa: Sefer ha - Shimmush. Book 29. Part 1: Edition and commentary of List 1 (Hebrew-Arabic- Romance /Latin).Leiden: Brill, 2011.The first critical edition of Book 29 of Shem Tov ben Isaac's Sefer ha-Shimmush, and a lexicological analysis of the medico-botanical terms in the first of the two synonym lists of this book. The Sefer ha-Shimmush was compiled in Southern France in the middle of the thirteenth century. The list edited in this volume consists of Hebrew or Aramaic lemmas, which are glossed by Arabic, Latin and Romance (Old Occitan and, in part, Old Catalan) synonyms written in Hebrew characters. Containing over 700 entries, this edition is one of the most extensive glossaries of its kind. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › France, Dictionaries, Biomedical › Lexicography, Biomedical, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Jewish Medicine |
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Childbirth in republican China: Delivering modernity.Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011.Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › China, People's Republic of, China, History & Practice of Medicine in, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › History of Obstetrics |
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Genentech: The beginnings of biotech.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2011.Subjects: Biotechnology › History of Biotechnology |
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Disease maps: Epidemics on the ground.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2011.Well-written and beautifully illustrated in color. Unfortunately the bibliography contains many errors. Subjects: Cartography, Medical & Biological › History of Medical Cartography, EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology |
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An anatomy of addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and the miracle drug, cocaine.New York: Random House, 2011.Subjects: PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Botanic Sources of Single Component Drugs › Coca, TOXICOLOGY › Drug Addiction › History of Drug Addiction |
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Innovations médicales en situations humanitaires: La travail de Médecins Sans Frontières.Paris: L'Harmattan, 2011.Translated into English as Medical innovations in humanitarian situations: The work of Médecins San Frontières (20). Subjects: Global Health |
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Printing and the brain of man.New York: The Grolier Club, 2011.Annotated catalogue of an exhibition of rare books in the history of neuroanatomy and neurosurgery from Eugene Flamm's library, including many great classics. Subjects: ANATOMY › Neuroanatomy › History of Neuroanatomy, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Physicians' / Scientists' Libraries, NEUROSURGERY › History of Neurosurgery |
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Galen: On the anomalous dyskrasia (De inaequali intemperie). Editio maior. Edition, translation and commentary by Elsa Garcia Novo.Madrid: Editorial Complutense, 2011.First critical edition and translation of this text by Galen which became a bestseller in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (translations into Syrian, Arabic, Latin 8 versions and Hebrew; 14 commentaries from 1290 to 1567). Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE |
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Galen, De diebus decretoriis, from Greek into Arabic. A critical edition, with translation and commentary of Hunayn ibn Ishāq, Kitāb ayyām al-buhrān, by Glen M. Cooper.New York: Routledge, 2011.First printed edition of Hunayn ibn Ishaq's Arabic translation of Galen's Critical Days (De diebus decretoriis), a founding text of astrological medicine, together with the first translation of the text into a modern language. Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › Medical Astrology, ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire |
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Speaking of epidemics in Chinese medicine: Disease and the geographic imagination in late imperial China.New York: Routledge, 2011.Subjects: Chinese Medicine › History of Chinese Medicine, EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology |
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Benvenutus Grassus’ On the well-proven art of the eye: Practica oculorum & De probatissima arte oculorum. Synoptic edition and philological Studies. Edited by Antonio Miranda-García and Santiago González Fernández-Corugedo.Bern: Peter Lang, 2011."This book contains the extant tradition of Benvenutus Grassus’ Treatise on the eye and six philological related studies. The tradition in Latin (Metz, Bibliothèques- Médiatèques, MS 176) is displayed with the four known versions in Middle English (Glasgow, Glasgow University Library, Hunter MSS 503 and 513); London, British Library, Sloane MS 661, and Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole MS 1468) along with one in Provençal (Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität, MS D.II.11). The diplomatic transcriptions of the manuscripts are synoptically arranged to ease the researchers’ consultation and comparison. The philological studies deal with the versions of the Latin tradition and with the common and diverging features of the English vernacular tradition, mainly in the Hunter MSS. Both the synoptic edition and the philological studies are the result of a collaborative edition and joint research on Hunter MSS providing a state-of-the-art approach to the treatises" (Publisher). Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , OPHTHALMOLOGY |
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The Middle English version of "De Viribus Herbarum (GUL MS Hunter 497, ff. 1r-92r): Edition and philological study by Javier Calle Martín and Antonio Miranda Garcia.Bern: Peter Lang, 2011."Odo de Meung’s De Viribus Herbarum was one of the most widely known pieces of Fachliteratur in the latter part of Middle English, corroborated on account of the number of translations hitherto preserved in the different European vernacular languages such as French, German and Danish. In Middle English, there are up to nine complete versions of Macer Floridus’ rendering, together with a number of fragmentary pieces. Still, Glasgow University Library, MS Hunter 497 (ff. 1r-92r) is the only English version of the text which remains so far unedited. The present edition offers the diplomatic transcription of MS Hunter 497, also accompanied by a glossary, notes and introduction. The latter has been conceived as a state of the art of the Hunterian witness, containing the textual transmission of the text, a codicological/palaeographic description together with a comprehensive analysis of its linguistic provenance and scribal practices" (Publisher). Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › England, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines |
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Galen: Method of medicine. Books 1-4, Books 5-9, Books 10-14. Edited and translated by Ian Johnston and G. H. R. Horsley. 3 vols.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire |
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Body and soul: The Black Panther Party and the fight against medical discrimination.Minneapolis,MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.Subjects: BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Bedouin ethnobotany: Plant concepts and uses in a desert pastoral world.Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2011.Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Cultural Anthropology, BOTANY › Ethnobotany |
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Toxic archipelago: A history of industrial disease in Japan.Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2011.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Japan, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & MEDICINE › History of Occupational Health & Medicine |
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Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé, Paris: Université Paris Descartes. Guy Cobolet, Curator General.Paris: Bibliotheque interuniversitaire de Santé, 2011.http://www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/histoire/index.php One of the most comprehensive portals and digital libraries for the history of medicine and dentistry. History of health Digital librariesCatalogsBibliographical resourceseditionsServicesConnectionsCatalogs of other librariesNational Library of France - National Academy of Medicine - National Library of Medicine - IndexCat- Wellcome Library
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Digital Bodeian. Judith Siefring, Head of Digital Research.Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2011.https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ "The Bodleian Libraries’ collections are extraordinary and significant—both from a scholarly point of view and as material that has an historic and aesthetic richness that holds value for non-academic users. Each year the Libraries serve more than 65,000 readers, over 40% of them from beyond the University, while its critically-acclaimed exhibitions attract almost 100,000 visitors annually. In an effort to make portions of our collections open to a wide variety of users from around the world for learning, teaching and research, the Bodleian Libraries have been digitizing library content for nearly twenty years. The result is over 650,000 freely available digital objects and almost another 1 million images awaiting release. Like many academic libraries, though, our freely available digital collections have been placed online in project-driven websites, with content stored in discrete ‘silos’, each with their own metadata format, different user interfaces, and no common search interface enabling users to discover content or navigate across collections. Some of our collections are linked at portal pages, but each collection remains, with a few exceptions, isolated and difficult to search. In addition, only a few collections offer a machine-readable interface, or any way to link their data with similar data in other Bodleian collections, or with collections at other institutions. Digital.Bodleian aims to solve these problems by:
All of these tasks have been carried out using standards-compliant file formats and methods and with a view to future expansion, scalability and robustness. The Digital.Bodleian project was initially funded by the JISC as part of the Resource Discovery programme, and began in November 2011" (https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about.html). Subjects: DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries |
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A short history of mathematical population dynamics.London: Springer Science , 2011.Subjects: COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology › History of Computing / Mathematics in Medicine & Biology, DEMOGRAPHY / Population: Medical Statistics › History of Demography |
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La storia della medicina nel Mezzogiorno d'Italia. Vol. I: I Antichita', Medioevo, Rinascimento. Vol. 2: Il '500 e l'età moderna. 2 vols. By Gioanni Iacovelli. Edited by Martino De Cesare, Antonio Tramonte, and Ileana Iacovelli.Massafra, Italy: Antonio Dellisanti Editore, 2011 – 2014.Collected articles on aspects of medicine in Mezzorgiorno or Southern Italy. Vol. 1 includes papers on Magna Graecia, the Melfi Constitution by Frederick II regulating the practice of medicine and pharmacy, the Jewish physician Shabbatai Donnolo, schools of medicine, alchemy, hospitals and the treatment of plague. Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Italy |
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Database of Scientific Illustrators 1450-1950.Stuttgart: Universität Stuttgart, 2011.http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/hi/gnt/dsi2/index.php? "Welcome to the Database of Illustrators! Courtesy of the Section for History of Science and Technology, University of Stuttgart !Our online database, fully functioning since 2011, now already covers more than 12100 illustrators in natural history, medicine, technology and various sciences in more than 100 countries, active between c.1450 and 1950! Please note that we explicitly exclude still living illustrators. Our extensive search options across the whole database are freely available! Please click on Browse DSI to browse the database. The Quick Search Field provides a single keyword search across the entire reference. Search for "contains georg" will retrieve all entries that mention Georg, Georgie, georgian, etc. anywhere within the dataset whereas a search for "is equal to Georg" will only yield entries with exactly this word. If you want to combine different search terms, select Advanced Search to get a wide array 20 different search fields that can also be combined.:
Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Online Access Catalogues & Bibliographic Databases, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries , Illustration, Biomedical |
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Mixed medicines: Health and culture in French colonial Cambodia.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2011.Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Cambodia |
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Aves: A survey of the literature of neotropical ornithology.Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2011.Written and beautifully designed and produced by Tom Taylor in an edition limited to 500 copies. Includes many fine color plates. Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Natural History, ZOOLOGY › Ornithology |
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Invasion of the body: Revolutions in surgery.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.Subjects: SURGERY: General › History of Surgery |
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Animal inside out: A Body Worlds production.Heidelberg: Arts & Sciences, 2011.Applying the technique and theatricality of plastination to the anatomy of animals including animals as large as elephants. Subjects: ANATOMY › 21st Century, COMPARATIVE ANATOMY |
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Biographical dictionary of American physicians of African ancestry, 1800-1920.Cherry Hill, NJ: Africana Homestead Legacy Publishers, 2011.Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works), BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology |
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Miraculous plagues: An epidemiology of early New England narrative.New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States › American Northeast, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Flea-Borne Diseases › Plague (transmitted by fleas from rats to humans) › Plague, History of, LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology |
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Greco-Arab and Islamic herbal medicine: Traditional system, ethics, safety, efficacy, and regulatory issues.Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2011.Subjects: Ethics, Biomedical, ISLAMIC OR ARAB MEDICINE › History of Islamic or Arab Medicine, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines › History of Materia Medica |
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Divine machines: Leibniz and the sciences of life.Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011."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 paleontology. He shows how these wide-ranging pursuits were not only central to Leibniz's philosophical interests, but often provided the insights that led to some of his best-known philosophical doctrines. "... Divine Machines takes seriously the philosopher's own repeated claims that the world must be understood in fundamentally biological terms. Here Smith reveals a thinker who was immersed in the sciences of life, and looked to the living world for answers to vexing metaphysical problems. He casts Leibniz's philosophy in an entirely new light, demonstrating how it radically departed from the prevailing models of mechanical philosophy and had an enduring influence on the history and development of the life sciences. Along the way, Smith provides a fascinating glimpse into early modern debates about the nature and origins of organic life, and into how philosophers such as Leibniz engaged with the scientific dilemmas of their era" (publisher). Subjects: LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology |
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Hot flushes, cold science: A history of the modern menopause.London: Granta Books, 2011.Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY › History of Gynecology, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY › Menopause, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Books & babies: Communicating reproduction.Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Library, 2011.http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitions/Babies/index.html "The London underground displays posters for fertility clinics, directed at both women and men. Picture books teach children the facts of life. We are always reading about reproduction. Reproduction also describes what communication media do—multiply images, sounds and text for wider consumption. This exhibition is about these two senses of reproduction, about babies and books, and the ways in which they have interacted in the past and continue to interact today. Before reproduction there was generation, a broader view of how all things come into being than passing on the blueprint of a particular form of life. Before electronic media there were clay figurines, papyrus, parchment, printed books and journals. The interactions between communication media and ideas about reproduction have transformed the most intimate aspects of our lives."  Subjects: BIOLOGY › Reproduction, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Exhibition Catalogues, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, a tale of love and fallout.New York: HarperCollins, 2011.This very beautiful biographical work on the Curies is also an artist's book, with every page filled with artistic imagery drawn by the artist. It has been characterized as part history, part love story, part artwork. It has also been characterized as "visual non-fiction." Most of the images in the book are cyanotypes in a wide variety of colors. Another remarkable feature of the book is that it was typeset in Eusapia LR, a typeface created by the artist. Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Biographies of Individuals, RADIOLOGY › History of Radiology, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Visual complexity: Mapping patterns of information.New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2011.An exceptionally beautiful graphic work with many historical examples showing how data in many fields, including medicine and biology, can be mapped and visualized. Subjects: COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology › Visualization, Cartography, Medical & Biological, DEMOGRAPHY / Population: Medical Statistics › Graphic Display of |
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Medicine, government, and public health in Philip II's Spain: Shared interests, competing authorities.Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2011.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Spain, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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House on fire: The fight to eradicate smallpox.Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011.Foege, as director of the Centers for Disease Control, is credited with "devising the global strategy that led to the eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s".[4] Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology, Global Health, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox › History of Smallpox |
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Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical world: Language, context and "disegno". Edited by Alessandro Nova and Domenico Laurenza.Padua: Marsilio Publishers, 2011.Subjects: ANATOMY › Anatomy for Artists, ART & Medicine & Biology |
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Consilioque manuque: La chirurgia nei manoscritti della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. Edited by Donatella Lippi.Florence: Mandragora, 2011.Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology, SURGERY: General › History of Surgery, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Emergence of a new pathogenic Ehrlichia species, Wisconsin and Minnesota, 2009.New Eng. J. Med., 365, 422-429, 2011.Order of authorship in the original publication: Pritt, Sloan, Johnson. Discovery of a new species of Ehrlichia, initially denoted as "Wisconsin and Minnesota, 2009," that was not related to E. chaffeensiis or E. ewingii but is similar to E.muris. Digital text from PubMedCentral at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this entry and its interpretation.) Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › BACTERIA (mostly pathogenic; sometimes indexed only to genus) › Rickettsiales › Ehrlichia, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Tick-Borne Diseases › Ehrlichiosis, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Minnesota, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Wisconsin, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Fever with thrombocytopenia associated with a novel Bunyavirus in China.New Eng. J. Med., 364, 1523-1532., 2011.Order of authorship in the original paper: Yu, Liang, Zhang. Discovery of a new virus, suspected by the authors to be tick-borne. The authors named the virus, "severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus" (SFTSV Bunyavirus). Digital facsimile from nejm.org at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › China, People's Republic of, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Tick-Borne Diseases › SFTSV Bunyavirus Disease, VIROLOGY |
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The bleeding disease: Hemophilia and the unintended consequences of medical progress.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.Subjects: GENETICS / HEREDITY › HEREDITARY / CONGENITAL DISEASES OR DISORDERS › Blood Disorders › Hemophilia, GENETICS / HEREDITY › History of Genetics / Heredity |
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A woman's disease: A history of cervical cancer.Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY › History of Gynecology, ONCOLOGY & CANCER › History of Oncology & Cancer, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Adventures in the Orgasmatron: Wilhelm Reich and the invention of sex.London: 4th Estate, 2011.Published in the US as Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the sexual revolution came to America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. Subjects: PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry, SEXUALITY / Sexology › History of Sexuality / Sexology |
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The Japanese pharmaceutical industry: Its evolution and current challenges.Oxford & New York: Routledge, 2011.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Japan, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals |
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Percursos na história do livro médico, 1450-1800. Edited by Palmira Fontes da Costa and Adelino Cardoso.Lisbon: Colibri, 2011.Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY , COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Portugal |
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Stitches in time: Two centuries of surgery in Papua New Guinea.Xlibris Corporation, 2011.Covers the period from 1800 to about 2005. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Papua New Guinea, SURGERY: General › History of Surgery |
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La Campagne d’Egypte: Une affaire de santé.Paris: Editions Glyphe, 2011.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Egypt, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › Napoleon's Campaigns & Wars |
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The origin and antiquity of syphilis revisited: An Appraisal of Old World pre‐Columbian evidence for treponemal infection.Yrbk Phys. Athropol., 54, 99-133, 2011.Order of authorship in the original publication: Harper, Zuckerman, Harper, Kingston, Armelagos. Abstract: "For nearly 500 years, scholars have argued about the origin and antiquity of syphilis. Did Columbus bring the disease from the New World to the Old World? Or did syphilis exist in the Old World before 1493? Here, we evaluate all 54 published reports of pre‐Columbian, Old World treponemal disease using a standardized, systematic approach. The certainty of diagnosis and dating of each case is considered, and novel information pertinent to the dating of these cases, including radiocarbon dates, is presented. Among the reports, we did not find a single case of Old World treponemal disease that has both a certain diagnosis and a secure pre‐Columbian date. We also demonstrate that many of the reports use nonspecific indicators to diagnose treponemal disease, do not provide adequate information about the methods used to date specimens, and do not include high‐quality photographs of the lesions of interest. Thus, despite an increasing number of published reports of pre‐Columbian treponemal infection, it appears that solid evidence supporting an Old World origin for the disease remains absent." Full text and references from onlinelibrary.wiley.com at this link. Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES › Syphilis › History of Syphilis |
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Invasion of the body: Revolutions in surgery.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.Subjects: SURGERY: General › History of Surgery |
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The last slave market: Dr. John Kirk and the struggle to end the East African slave trade.London: Constable, 2011.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Africa, Slavery and Medicine › History of Slavery & Medicine, VOYAGES & Travels by Physicians, Surgeons & Scientists › History of Voyages & Travels by Physicians.... |
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Using a pan-viral microarray assay (Virochip) to screen clinical samples for viral pathogens.J. Vis. Exp., (50): 2536, 2011.Direct link to the Journal of Visualized Experiments, JOVE.com: https://www.jove.com/video/2536/using-pan-viral-microarray-assay-virochip-to-screen-clinical-samples "Abstract (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology › Computing / Mathematics in Medicine & Biology, COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology › Visualization, INFECTIOUS DISEASE, VIROLOGY |
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A new catalogue of Arabic manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Vol. 1: Medicine.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Institutional Medical Libraries, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology › Translations to and from Arabic, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine |
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The healing landscapes of Central and Southeastern Siberia. Edited by David G. AndersonEdmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2011."This volume documents healing traditions in Eastern Siberia in an area extending from Lake Baikal to the Arctic Ocean. The region shows an interesting unity in healing traditions across a wide range of landscape types and culture areas: from the taiga-steppe borderlands influenced by Tibetan and Russian practices in the south, to the north where regional shamanic traditions prevail. There are broad similarities in using unrefined natural materials for healing, as well as in a concern over the 'spiritual' foundations of health, with an accent upon the land as an important dimension. Due to this diversity, this region provides a strong point of comparison to ecologies in other parts of the circumpolar North. The chapters document a blossoming of autonomous healing traditions in post-Soviet Siberia resulting from a social crisis in the aftermath of the collapse of the previous centralized health system. It is a type of 'medical pluralism' marked by a popularity of alternate, non-clinical treatments. But, the sudden upsurge in autonomous cures also speaks to the silent survival of these knowledge traditions in a context where the official medical practice dominated the public sphere for seventy years" (publisher). Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Siberia, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine › Shamanism / Neoshamanism |
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Ultrastructural, immunofluorescence, and RNA evidence support the hypothesis of a "new" virus associated with Kawasaki disease.J. infect. Dis., 203, 1021-1030, 2011.The authors concluded that a very common infectious agent, one that usually results in an asymptomatic infection, causes Kawasaki disease in a subset of genetically predisposed children. They argued that the available data supported the theory of a new RNA virus, without substantial homology to known viruses, will eventually be shown to be the infectious agent of Kawasaki disease. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Kawasaki Disease (MLNS), PEDIATRICS |
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Lexique des terms de la pharmacopée syriaque. (Studia Iranica, Cahier 47; Chrétiens en terre d'Iran, 5)Paris: Peeters, 2011.A dictionary of Syriac names for plants used to make botanic drugs. Subjects: Dictionaries, Biomedical › Lexicography, Biomedical, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Syria and Syriac Texts, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACY › History of Pharmacy |
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Historia cultural del dolor.Madrid: Taurus, 2011.Translated into English as Pain: A cultural history by Sarah Thomas and Paul House. Houndsmills, Basingsgoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Subjects: PAIN / Pain Management |
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Novel medical and general Hebrew terminology from the 13th century. Translations by Hillel Ben Samuel of Verona, Moses Ben Samuel Ibn Tibbon, Shem Tov Ben Isaac of Tortosa, Zeraḥyah Ben Isaac Ben She’altiel Ḥen. Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement 27.Oxford: Oxford University Press on behalf of the University of Manchester, 2011.Subjects: Dictionaries, Biomedical, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Jewish Medicine |
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The delivery of regenerative medicines and their impact on healthcare. Edited by Catherine D. Prescott and Dame Julia Polak.Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2011.Subjects: ECONOMICS, BIOMEDICAL, POLICY, HEALTH, Regenerative Medicine |
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Novel medical and general Hebrew terminology from the Middle Ages. 5 vols.Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2011 – 2021.Subjects: Dictionaries, Biomedical, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Jewish Medicine |
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Correction of the 508del-CFTR protein processing defect in vitro by the investigational drug VX-809.Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA), 108, 18843-18848, 2011.Negulescu and colleagues published a "proof of concept" experiment showing that the novel molecule called VX-809 could correct in vitro the very common and critical 508del-CFTR mutation identified by Collins. (See GM 13570). When undergoing trials in humans this drug, manufactured under the trade name Lumacaftor by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, failed to perform as well as expected. Vertex then developed other combination drugs that enhanced the in vivo effect of VX-809, leading to the duel combination drug they called Orkambi. These drugs led to long term remissions, greatly improved quality of life, and a longer life span for CF patients. Regrettably, in 2018 the cost of Orkambi for a single CF patient was around $275,000 per year. Order of authorship in the original publication: Van Goor, Hadida, Grottenhuis, et al, Negulescu. Digital text from pnas.org at this link. Subjects: GENETICS / HEREDITY › GENETIC DISORDERS › Cystic Fibrosis, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Anti-Cystic Fibrosis Drugs |
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Linnaeus Link.London: Linnean Society of London, 2011.
http://www.linnaeuslink.org/search/ "The Linnaeus Link Project is an international collaboration between libraries with significant holdings of Linnaean material. It is funded, maintained and co-ordinated by the Linnean Society of London. Its main aim is to be a comprehensive, online Union Catalogue of Linnaean publications, facilitating research for scholars worldwide by enabling them to identify locations of titles with a single internet search. "It also acts as the official bibliography of works by and relating to Linnaeus and his legacy by using and continuing the bibliographic work of Basil Soulsby." Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Natural History, BOTANY › Bibliographies of Botany / Materia Medica, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Libraries & Databases, History of |
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The history and future of bioethics.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.Subjects: Ethics, Biomedical › History of Biomedical Ethics |
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A first rate madness: Uncovering the links between leadership and mental illness.New York: Penguin Books, 2011.Subjects: PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Barbed wire disease: British & German prisoners of war, 1914-19.Stroud, England: History Press, 2011."By the time of the Armistice in 1918, around 6.5 million prisoners of war were held by the belligerents. Little has been written about these prisoners, possibly because the story is not one of unmitigated suffering and cruelty. Nevertheless, hardships did occur and the alleged neglect and ill-treatment of prisoners captured on the Western Front became the subject of major propaganda campaigns in Britain and Germany as the war progressed. "Barbed Wire Disease" looks at the conditions facing those British and German prisoners, and the claims and counter-claims relating to their treatment. At the same time, it sets the story in the wider context of the commitment by both governments to treat prisoners humanely in accordance with the recently agreed Hague and Geneva Conventions. The political and diplomatic efforts to abide by the new rules are examined in detail, along with the use of reprisals against prisoners, Britain's voluntary relief effort and the effect of face-to-face negotiations at the height of the war. This comprehensive analysis, using unpublished official files and cabinet papers, concludes by documenting the first ever efforts to bring war criminals to justice before international tribunals." (Nielsen Book Data). Subjects: LAW and Medicine & the Life Sciences, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › World War I, PSYCHOLOGY › Applied |
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Chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cells in chronic lymphoid leukemia.New Eng. J. Med., 365, 725-733, 2011.Carl H. June and colleagues proved that the ‘concept’ of CAR T-cell therapy developed by them, was a very promising and viable alternative in specific recalcitrant cancers. They showed that their novel in-vitro-created molecular cocktail of agents including T-cells, chimeric antigen receptors and other esoteric ingredients (T-cells engineered in the lab to target the specific CD19 in cancerous B cells delivered into the patient in a HIV lentiviral vector), met the following requirements: Subjects: ONCOLOGY & CANCER › Leukemia |
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Crystal structure of the β2 adrenergic receptor–Gs protein complex.Nature, 477, 549-555, 2011.Kobilka (Nobel Prize 2012) and colleagues published the crystal structure of a beta-2 receptor forming a complex with the G protein coupled receptor. This was the first time that a complete complex of an active receptor and it's Gs protein partner were crystallized.They also described some’of the basic molecular interactions of a beta receptor and G protein coupled receptors. The image of this crystallographic complex that they published was described by more romantic molecular biologists as “the first image of the receptor locked in an embrace with its protein partner.” Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Protein Receptors |
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Conformational changes in the G protein Gs induced by the β2 adrenergic receptor.Nature, 477, 611-615, 2011.Using X ray crystallographic techniques and electron microscopy, Kobilka (Nobel Prize 2012) and colleagues described the very complex nucleotide exchange and interactions at the molecular level of the alpha subunit of a Gs at the moment of its activation by an adrenergic receptor. Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Protein Receptors |
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Remedy and reaction: The peculiar American struggle over health care reform.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011."Winner of the 2011 American Publishers Awards and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in the Government and Politics category, as given by the Association of American Publishers. Read an interview with Paul Starr on the Yale Press Log. In no other country has health care served as such a volatile flashpoint of ideological conflict. America has endured a century of rancorous debate on health insurance, and despite the passage of legislation in 2010, the battle is not yet over. This book is a history of how and why the United States became so stubbornly different in health care, presented by an expert with unsurpassed knowledge of the issues. Tracing health-care reform from its beginnings to its current uncertain prospects, Paul Starr argues that the United States ensnared itself in a trap through policies that satisfied enough of the public and so enriched the health-care industry as to make the system difficult to change. He reveals the inside story of the rise and fall of the Clinton health plan in the early 1990s-and of the Gingrich counterrevolution that followed. And he explains the curious tale of how Mitt Romney's reforms in Massachusetts became a model for Democrats and then follows both the passage of those reforms under Obama and the explosive reaction they elicited from conservatives. Writing concisely and with an even hand, the author offers exactly what is needed as the debate continues-a penetrating account of how health care became such treacherous terrain in American politics" (publisher). Subjects: Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Efficacy of intravitreal Bevacizumab for state 3+ retinopathy of prematurity.New Eng. J. Med., 364, 603-615, 2011.The authors, representatives of the "BEAT-ROP Cooperative Group," showed that intravitreal bevacizumab monoclonal antibody therapy in infants with stage 3+ retinopathy of prematurity showed a significant benefit for zone one disease compared to conventional laser therapy, and led to a recurrence rate of 6% versus 42% with conventional laser therapy. Digital facsimile from New Engl. J. Med. at this link. Subjects: OPHTHALMOLOGY , PEDIATRICS, PEDIATRICS › Neonatology |
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Headache: Through the centuries.New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.The most comprehensive history to date. Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Chronic Pain › Headache, NEUROLOGY › History of Neurology, PAIN / Pain Management |
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Anglicus ortus. A verse herbal of the twelfth century. Edited and translated by Winston Black.Toronto, Canada: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2012.Written in Latin verse, the Anglicus ortus describes in considerable detail the medicinal uses of 160 plants. Edition based on collation of the five extant manuscripts of the text, plus parallel Latin text and English translation, plus detailed commentary. Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › England, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines |
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Dissent with modification. Human origins, palaeolithic archaeology and evolutionary anthropology in Britain 1859-1901Oxford: Archaeopress, 2012.Subjects: EVOLUTION › Human Origins / Human Evolution › History of |
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ALPHABET OF GALENThe alphabet of Galen. Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. A critical edition of the Latin text with English translation and commentary by Nicholas EverettToronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2012.An edition and translation of Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 187, a late seventh or early eighth century codex, which represents the earliest surviving manuscript of the text. Not written by Galen of Pergamon, the Alphabet of Galen was a handbook of ancient Greek pharmacy, describing 300 natural products (or "simples"), arranged in alphabetical order, transmitted in Latin to the Middle Ages under Galen's name. Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , PHARMACOLOGY, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines |
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Medicine, sport and the body: A historical perspective.London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012.Subjects: PHYSICAL MEDICINE / REHABILITATION › Exercise / Training / Fitness › History of Exercise / Training / Fitness |
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Mapping the nation: History and cartography in nineteenth-century America.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2012.Includes medical, statistical cartography. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , Cartography, Medical & Biological › History of Medical Cartography |
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The global history of paleopathology: Pioneers and prospects. Edited by Jane Buikstra & Charlotte Roberts.New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.Subjects: PATHOLOGY › Paleopathology › History of Paleopathology |
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Hidden treasure: The National Library of Medicine. Edited by Michael Sappol.Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine & New York: Blast Books, 2012.A visually spectacular collection of illustrated essays on remarkable books, manuscripts, artwork and films in the National Library of Medicine written by numerous historians and edited by Sappol. Photography by Arne Svenson. Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Institutional Medical Libraries, Illustration, Biomedical |
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Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.Subjects: Chinese Medicine › History of Chinese Medicine, Chinese-Americans and Medicine, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Flea-Borne Diseases › Plague (transmitted by fleas from rats to humans) › Plague, History of, POLICY, HEALTH, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › California |
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Roots of ecology: Antiquity to Haeckel.Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2012.Subjects: BIOLOGY › Ecology / Environment › History of Ecology / Environment |
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Historical dictionary of the World Health Organization. Second edition.Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2012.Covers the history of the WHO through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendices, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on key bodies, programs, events and people. Pages 447-500 are an analytical bibliography of WHO publications. Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Subjects, Global Health, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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Health and illness: Images of difference.London: Reaktion Books, 2012.Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, IMAGING › History of Imaging |
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Making Medicare: New perspectives on the history of Medicare in Canada.Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2012.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Canada, ECONOMICS, BIOMEDICAL › History of Biomedical Economics, Insurance, Health › History of Health Insurance, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Man and wound in the ancient world: A history of military medicine from Sumer to the fall of Constantinople.Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2012.Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine |
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The sick child in early modern England, 1580-1720.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.The first book on children's health and illness in early modern England. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), PEDIATRICS › History of Pediatrics, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Sex, sickness, and slavery: Illness in the antebellum South.Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2012.Subjects: BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States › American South, Slavery and Medicine › History of Slavery & Medicine |
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Histoire de la médecine Arabe en Tunisie durant dix siècles. Traduit de l'Arabe par Abdelkader Klibi.Carthage, Tunisia: Editions Cartaginoiseries, 2012.First published in 1980; second edition, 1999. The 2012 edition is further supplemented. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Tunisia |
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Galen: On problematical movements. Edited with introduction and commentary by Vivian Nutton, with an edition of the Arabic version by Gerrit Bos.Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire, Neurophysiology, PHYSIOLOGY |
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Maimonides On hemorrhoids. A new parallel Arabic-English edition and translation, edited and translated by Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh.Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2012.Subjects: Colon & Rectal Diseases & Surgery, Jews and Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Jewish Medicine |
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Mamluks and animals: Veterinary medicine in medieval Islam.Leiden: Brill, 2012.The first comprehensive study of veterinary medicine, its practitioners and patients, in the medieval Islamic world. Subjects: ISLAMIC OR ARAB MEDICINE › History of Islamic or Arab Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences, VETERINARY MEDICINE › History of Veterinary Medicine |
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Hospitals in Iran and India, 1500-1950s. Edited by Fabrizio Speziale.Leiden: Brill, 2012.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › India, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Iran (Persia), HOSPITALS › History of Hospitals, Iranian Medicine |
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Handbook of religion and health. 2nd edition.Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.Subjects: RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Picturing the book of nature: Image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2012.Subjects: ANATOMY › Anatomical Illustration, ANATOMY › History of Anatomy, BOTANY › Botanical Illustration › History of Botanical Illustration, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines › History of Materia Medica |
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La chirurgie en Égypte ancienne. À propos des instruments médico-chirurgicaux métalliques égyptiens conserves au musée du Louvre.Paris: Édition Cybele, 2012.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Egypt › History of Ancient Medicine in Egypt, INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › History of Biomedical Instrumentation, SURGERY: General › History of Surgery |
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Plague, quarantines and geopolitics in the Ottoman empire.Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012.An examination of Ottoman plague treatises and writers from the Black Death until 1923.
Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Turkey, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Flea-Borne Diseases › Plague (transmitted by fleas from rats to humans) › Plague, History of, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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Bibliography of ancient Mesopotamian medicine.Rome: Università di Roma, 2012.This electronic resource is available at this link: http://lorenzoverderame.site.uniroma1.it/materiali/bibliography-of-ancient-mesopotamian-medicine. Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Mesopotamia, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Cuneiform, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Online Access Catalogues & Bibliographic Databases |
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X-ray vision: The evolution of medical imaging and its human significance.New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.Subjects: IMAGING › History of Imaging, RADIOLOGY › History of Radiology |
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Social poison: The culture and politics of opiate control in Britain and France, 1821–1926.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.Subjects: PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences, TOXICOLOGY › Drug Addiction › History of Drug Addiction |
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Wallace online, directed by John van Wyhe.Singapore: National University of Singapore , 2012."Wallace Online is the first complete edition of the writings of naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, including the first compilation of his specimens. The project is directed by John van Wyhe, assisted by Kees Rookmaaker, at the National University of Singapore, in collaboration with the Wallace Page by Charles H. Smith. Quick links: Wallace's books, book chapters, articles Subjects: BIOLOGY, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Singapore, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries , EVOLUTION, NATURAL HISTORY, VOYAGES & Travels by Physicians, Surgeons & Scientists |
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Irish women in medicine, c. 1880s -1920s.Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Ireland, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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A history of organ transplantation: Ancient legends to modern practice.Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.Subjects: TRANSPLANTATION › History of Transplantation |
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Chocolate as medicine: A quest over the centuries.Cambridge, England: The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012.Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, BOTANY › Ethnobotany, NUTRITION / DIET › History of Nutrition / Diet, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines › History of Materia Medica |
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Simon Online. Edited by Barbara Zipser.2012.http://www.simonofgenoa.org/index.php?title=Aims_of_the_project&oldid=12132 "Simon Online is a collaborative edition of Simon of Genoa's clavis sanationis, a medical dictionary from the late thirteenth century. More on Simon...
Subjects: DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Collaborations Online (Wikis), MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Italy, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Birds in the ancient world.Routledge, 2012.Subjects: ZOOLOGY › History of Zoology, ZOOLOGY › Ornithology |
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Biology, computing and the history of molecular sequencing: From proteins to DNA, 1945-2000.New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › History of Molecular Biology, COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology › History of Computing / Mathematics in Medicine & Biology |
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Ethnobotany of the Kondh, Poraja, Gadaba and Bonda of the Koraput region of Odisha, India.New Delhi: D.K. Printworld, 2012."This volume discusses the history and importance of ethnobotany with specific reference to four tribal communities of Odisha, India. It begins with an account of the nature of the tribes involved in the study. Based on participatory fieldwork, it presents an insider's account of the tribal culture and its relationship with plants. It provides the ethnobotanical descriptions of 210 species of plants belonging to 77 families, presenting their local names, origin and the medicinal, cultural, culinary, economic, ecological uses of the species. It takes up study of the plants used by tribes in the drug-based and spiritual healing processes elaborating the philosophies behind knowledge transmission such as divination, hereditary, discipleship and kinship. Related aspects such as disease diagnosis, diet restrictions and rituals are depicted in detail. There is a special chapter on forests and non-timber forest products (NTFPs) that details the efforts of communities in forest conservation, their land-use patterns, forest classification systems, list of NTFPs and their harvest-consumption patterns. It also deals with the role of NGOs, middlemen and government agencies in this" (Publisher). Subjects: BOTANY › Ethnobotany, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › India |
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The doctor dissected: A cultural history of the Burke and Hare murders.New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.Subjects: ANATOMY › History of Anatomy, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Scotland, Forensic Medicine (Legal Medicine) › History of Forensic Medicine |
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Atlas of human brain connections.Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.The authors combined the science of diffusion tensor imaging with the art of tractography: Spectacular color images. Subjects: ANATOMY › 21st Century, ANATOMY › Neuroanatomy, IMAGING › Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) |
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Atlas of epidemic Britain: A twentieth century picture.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.Subjects: Cartography, Medical & Biological, EPIDEMIOLOGY, EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology |
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AIDS at 30: A history.Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2012.Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS › History of HIV / AIDS |
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Index Novus Litteraturae Entomologicae : Bibliography of the entomological literature from the beginning until 1863 : online database - version 1.0 - Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut.2012.http://sdei.senckenberg.de/index/index.php "This database is a completely revised new edition of the "Index Litteraturae Entomologicae : Serie I : Die Welt-Literatur über die gesamte Entomologie bis inclusive 1863" published by Walther Horn und Sigmund Schenkling in 1928-1929. The most important new features are:
Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Online Access Catalogues & Bibliographic Databases, ZOOLOGY › Arthropoda › Entomology |
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Computer medical databases: The first six decades (1950–2010).London & New York: Springer, 2012.Subjects: COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology › History of Computing / Mathematics in Medicine & Biology |
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Poison, detection and the Victorian imagination.Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012.Subjects: LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology, TOXICOLOGY › History of Toxicology |
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Digitized Collections: Cushing/Whitney Medical LibraryNew Haven, CT: Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, 2012.Subjects: DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries |
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Dialysis: History, development and promise. Edited by Todd S. Ing, Mohamed Rahman, and Carl M. Kjellstrand.Singapore & Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2012.Subjects: NEPHROLOGY › History of Nephrology |
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An historical overview of natural products in drug discovery.Metabolites, 2, 303-336, 2012.Available from PubMedCentral at this link. Subjects: PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals |
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From melancholia to Prozac: A history of depression.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.Subjects: PSYCHIATRY › Depression, PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry |
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US National Library of Medicine Digital Library.Bethesda, MD: U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2012.https://archive.org/details/usnationallibraryofmedicine%26tab=about&tab=collection In October 2018, this collection housed at the Internet Archive had over 15,700 titles. "The National Library of Medicine (NLM), in Bethesda, Maryland, is a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Since its founding in 1836, NLM has played a pivotal role in translating biomedical research into practice. It is the world's largest biomedical library and the developer of electronic information services that deliver trillions of bytes of data to millions of users every day. Scientists, health professionals, and the public in the US and around the globe search the Library's online information resources more than one billion times each year. The NLM also supports and conducts research, development, and training in biomedical informatics and health information technology. In addition, the NLM coordinates a 6,000-member National Network of Libraries of Medicine that promotes and provides access to health information in communities across the United States. The NLM supports an extensive digitization program to preserve and make available its historical collections, which stand among the richest of any institution in the world. To this end, the NLM is a principal contributor to the Medical Heritage Library (MHL), a collaborative effort of several large medical research libraries to digitize and make available online thousands of pieces of historical medical literature. All of NLM's digitized historical content is also available through NLM's Digital Collections, and much of the content will also be available with that of other contributors on the MHL’s collections page on the Internet Archive." Subjects: DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries |
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American canopy: Trees, forests and the making of a nation.New York: Scribner, 2012.Subjects: BIOLOGY › Ecology / Environment › History of Ecology / Environment, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States |
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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 22: Science and medicine. Edited by James G. Thomas, Jr. & Charles Reagan Wilson.Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.Subjects: BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States › American South, Encyclopedias, Slavery and Medicine › History of Slavery & Medicine, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine |
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The Repository.London: The Royal Society, 2012.https://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science This is the Royal Society's History of Science blog. Subjects: DIGITAL RESOURCES › Blogs |
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Lincoln and medicine.Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012.Subjects: American (U.S.) CIVIL WAR MEDICINE › History of U.S. Civil War Medicine, BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Biographies of Individuals, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States › American Midwest, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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The art of medicine: Over 2000 years of images and imagination.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2012."The pharmaceutical magnate Henry S. Wellcome (1853-1936) sought to illumine the 'history of the Healing art' across cultures and from the ancient past to his own day through his vast historical medical collection. This large, visually arresting volume represents a studied sampling of the Wellcome collection and its ambition to encapsulate, through art and artifact, a spectrum of medical questions, remedies, and their sociocultural consequences." Messbarger. ISIS 104: 145, 2013 Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Death, dying, and organ transplantation: Reconstructing medical ethics at the end of life.Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.Subjects: DEATH & DYING, Ethics, Biomedical, TRANSPLANTATION |
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Contagion: How commerce has spread disease.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012.Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › History of Infectious Disease |
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Illustrated Suśruta Samhitā. Translated by K. R. Srikantha Murthy. 3 vols.Varanasi, India: Chaukhamba Orientalia, 2012.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › India |
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Doctored: The medicine of photography in nineteenth-century America.University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2012.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , IMAGING › Photography / Photomicrography , WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Democratic governance & health: Hospitals, Politics and health policy in New Zealand.Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago Press, 2012."New Zealand is the only country in the world where elected health boards have long been a core feature of the health care system. These boards are conceptually important and aspirational for policy-makers and communities across the world grappling with issues of how to increase public participation in health care. This book traces the development of New Zealand’s elected health boards, from the 1930s to the present District Health Board structure, analyzing the history of democratic governance of health care, how boards have functioned, the politics surrounding their reform, and the idea of local democracy in health care decision-making. Based on extensive primary research, it assesses the capacity of elected boards to effectively govern the allocation of public expenditure on behalf of taxpayers and patients. Are there alternatives to the existing District Health Board model? How might the electoral model be improved upon? The concluding chapter provides some suggestions" (publisher). Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › New Zealand, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Dissection on display: Cadavers, anatomists and public spectacle.Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012.Subjects: ANATOMY › History of Anatomy, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Comparative anatomy and phylogeny of primate muscles and human evolution.Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press & Jersey, British Isles: Science Publishers, 2012.1027pp. The most comprehensive review of the comparative anatomy, homologies and evolution of the head, neck, pectoral and upper limb muscles of primates. The format is unusual with the text occupying the first 134pp., followed by 20 pages of bibliographical references. The remainder of the book consists of Appendix 1. Tables of primate head, neck, pectoral and upper limb muscles (pp. 155-896), And Appendix 2: Photographs of primate head, neck, pectoral and upper limb muscles. This covers pp. 897-1020 and consists of over 240 color plates of dissections. Subjects: COMPARATIVE ANATOMY, EVOLUTION › Human Origins / Human Evolution, ZOOLOGY › Mammalogy › Primatology |
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Severe respiratory illness associated with a novel coronavirus - Saudi Arabia and Qatar, 2012.Morb. Mortal. Wkly. Rep. (MMWR) 61, 820., 2012.Reports on the first two patients affected by a "new" coronavirus. The first patient, hospitalized in June 2012, died, and the other was in both pulmonary and renal failure. In this paper the CDC referenced a website posting by the WHO, offering "interim case definitions" and criteria for "probable case" and "confirmed case." This paper is available from the CDC at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Qatar, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Saudi Arabia, EPIDEMIOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) , VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Coronaviruses (Coronaviridae) › MERS |
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Brief Report: Isolation of a novel coronavirus from a man with pneumonia in Saudi Arabia.New Eng. J. Med., 367, 1814-1820, 2012.This paper, dated November 8, 2012, characterized the virus up to and including its genome sequence, including radiology and imaging findings, lab findings, diagnosis and management. The authors tentatively named the virus "HCoV-EMC" for Human and the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, where the lead author, Zaki, sent the virus to be sequenced. Taxonomists later renamed the virus MERS-CoV. Available from nejm.org at this link. Remarkably, for political reasons Zaki lost his job at a private hospital in Saudi Arabia immediately after he sent the disease sample to Rotterdam. He also had to flee the country immediately. Details of this firing were reported on FluTrackers.com at this link. Further details were reported in Nature Middle East on June 2, 2014 at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Saudi Arabia, EPIDEMIOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) , VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Coronaviruses (Coronaviridae) › MERS |
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Encylopedia of the black death.Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2012.Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Flea-Borne Diseases › Plague (transmitted by fleas from rats to humans) › Plague, History of |
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A new phlebovirus associated with severe febrile illness in Missouri.New Eng. J. Med., 367, 834-841, 2012.Order of authorship in the original paper: McMullan, Folk, Kelly. Discovery of a new Phlebovirus, which the authors name the "Heartland virus" and with high probability that Amblyoma is the tick vector. Digital facsimile from nejm.org at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Tick-Borne Diseases › Heartland Virus, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Missouri, VIROLOGY, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Leading the way: A history of Johns Hopkins Medicine.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.Subjects: Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Maryland |
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Medical prescriptions in the Cambridge Genizah Collections: Practical medicine and pharmacology in medieval Egypt. Cambridge Genizah Studies Series, Volume 4.Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2012.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Egypt, Jews and Medicine › History of Jews and Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Napoleon Ier et ses médecins.Paris: Harmattan, 2012.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › France, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › Napoleon's Campaigns & Wars |
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Les origines de la sexologie (1850-1900).Paris: Payot, 2012.Subjects: SEXUALITY / Sexology › History of Sexuality / Sexology, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Children's surgery: A worldwide history.Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012.Subjects: Pediatric Surgery › History of Pediatric Surgery |
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Charcot in Morocco. Introduction, notes and translation by Toby Gelfand.Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2012.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Morocco, Travels by Physicians, Surgeons & Scientsts |
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A programmable dual RNA-guided DNA endonuclease in adaptive bacterial immunity.Science, 337, 816-821, 2012.Order of authorship in the original publication: Jinek, Chylinski, Fonfar, Hauer, Doudna, Charpentier. Doudna, Charpentier and colleagues showed for the first time that the CRISPR evolutionary immune tool of bacteria against bacteriophages could be manipulated, reprogrammed, and guided to make very specific "cuts" on desired target segments of DNA in the lab, making this a gene-targeting and genome-editing tool. This potentially allowed scientists to change or rewrite the genetic code of any organism at will. However, at this point the science was only applied to bacteria. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › CRISPR , WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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La littérature médicale de la compagne d'Égypte.Histoire des Sciences Medicales, 46, 19-30, 2012.Digital facsimile from biusante.parisdescartes.fr at this link. Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Subjects, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Egypt, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › Napoleon's Campaigns & Wars |
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Revolutionary medicine: Health and the body in post-Soviet Cuba.Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012."Until the Soviet bloc collapsed in 1989, socialist Cuba encouraged citizens to view access to health care as a human right and the state's responsibility to provide it as a moral imperative. Since the loss of Soviet subsidies and the tightening of the U.S. economic embargo, Cuba's government has found it hard to provide the high-quality universal medical care that was so central to the revolutionary socialist project. In Revolutionary Medicine, P. Sean Brotherton deftly integrates theory and history with ethnographic research in Havana, including interviews with family physicians, public health officials, research scientists, and citizens seeking medical care. He describes how the deterioration of health and social welfare programs has led Cubans to seek health care through informal arrangements, as well as state-sponsored programs. Their creative, resourceful pursuit of health and well-being provides insight into how they navigate, adapt to, and pragmatically cope with the rapid social, economic, and political changes in post-Soviet Cuba." (publisher). Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Cuba, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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The evolution of the human placenta.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.Chapter one is "The history of placental investigations." Subjects: ANATOMY › 21st Century, EVOLUTION, PHYSIOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY › Fetal Physiology |
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The scars of Venus: A history of venereology.New York: Springer, 2012.Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES › History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases |
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Ultrasound in clinical diagnosis: From pioneering developments in Lund to global application in medicine. Edited by Bo Ekloff, Kjell Lindström and Stig Persson.New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.Concerns applications in echocardiography, echoencephalography, in obsterics and gynecology, Doppler ultrasound in vascular disease, ultrasound in radiology, and development of ultrasound in ophthalmology. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Sweden, IMAGING › History of Imaging, IMAGING › Sonography (Ultrasound) |
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Vaccine: The debate in modern America.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › Anti-Vaccination, IMMUNOLOGY › Vaccines |
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British cardiology in the 20th century. Edited by Mark E. Silverman, Peter R. Fleming, Arthur Hollman, Desmond G. Julian, Dennis M. Krikler.London & New York: Springer Science , 2012."The first and only detailed history of mdoern cardiology and cardiac surgery in Britain" (W. Bruce Fye, 2020). Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › History of Cardiology |
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Cuvier’s History of the natural sciences Vol. 1: Twenty-four lessons from antiquity to the renaissance, translated from the French by A. J. Simpson. Vol. 2: Nineteen lessons from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, translated from the French by B. D. Marx. Vol. 3: Twenty lessons from the first half of the eighteenth century. Edited and annotated by T. W. Pletsch.Paris: Publications Scientifiques du Muséum and Bibliothèque Centrale, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, 2012 – 2018.Annotated English editions and translation of Cuvier's 5 volume Histoire des sciences naturelles, depuis leur origine jusqu’a nos jours, originally published in French from 1841 to 1845. Subjects: NATURAL HISTORY › History of Natural History |
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The neurological patient in history. Edited by L. Stephen Jacyna and Stephen T. Casper.Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2012.Subjects: NEUROLOGY › History of Neurology |
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Epidemics in context: Greek commentaries on Hippocrates in the Arabic tradition. Edited by Peter E. Pormann.New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2012.Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology › Translations to and from Arabic, Hippocratic Tradition, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Syria and Syriac Texts |
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Eyewire: A game to map the brain.Princeton, NJ: Sebastian Seung's Laboratory, 2012.https://eyewire.org/explore In Eyewire, the player is given a cube with a partially reconstructed neuron branch stretching through it. On the right side of the screen is a grayscale image of the cross sections of neurons. The player learns to "color" inside a gray outline of a single neuron branch, which usually extends from one side of the cube to another. As a player colors, segmentations that were generated by AI are added to the 3D section on the left of the screen. Reconstructions are compared across players as each cube is submitted, yielding a consensus reconstruction that is later checked by expert players of rank Scout and Scythe. These players have the power to extend branches, remove erroneous segments (nicknamed "mergers"), and flag cubes for further review. This end result is volumetric reconstructions of complete neurons. Subjects: ANATOMY › Neuroanatomy › Cytoarchitecture, COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Collaborations Online (Wikis), NEUROSCIENCE › Computational Neuroscience › Connectomics |
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Oswaldus Crollius und Daniel Sennert im frühneuzeitlichen Istanbul: Studien zur Rezeption des Paracelsismus im Werk des osmanischen Arztes Salih b. Nasrullāh Ibn Sallūm al-Halabī. By Natalia Bachour.Freiburg: Centaurus Verlag & Media, 2012.Study of the "Al-Ṭibb al-jadīd al-kīmiyāʼī alladhī ikhtaraʻahu Barākalsūs (The new chemical medicine invented by Paracelsus), an Arabic compendium of alchemical works from early modern Europe by Salih ibn Nasrallah al-Halabi ibn Sallum (died 1671). Ibn Sallum was a noted physician in Aleppo and subsequently chief physician in the Ottoman capital of Istanbul. Ibn Sallum’s work is on iatrochemistry and consists of translations of Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus (1493‒1541), an alchemist, physician, and medical reformer, and of alchemist and physician Oswald Crollius (circa 1563–1609). The first part of Ibn Sallum’s work is an Arabic translation of Paracelsus, which includes an introduction and four chapters (each of which are divided further into sections). The introduction, an overview of the history of alchemy, describes the invention of alchemy by “Hermes Trismegistus the Egyptian” (a legendary “thrice-great Hermes” to whom a large corpus of writing was attributed) and the subsequent transfer of alchemical knowledge to the Hellenistic and Islamic worlds. The book also discusses Paracelsus and his transformation of alchemy into a field of medicine, with a dual focus on the perfection and purification of metals and on preserving the health of the human body. Chapter one is entitled al-Juz’ al-naẓarī min ashyā’ gharība wa huwa al-ṭibb al-kīmīyā’ī fī al-umūr al-ṭabī‘īya (On the speculative part of paranormal objects, i.e., alchemical medicine regarding the affairs of nature). This chapter includes a discussion of such topics as al-Hayūlā al-ūlā wa al-sirr al-akbar (prime matter and the great secret). The second chapter is entitled Asās ṭibb al-kīmīyā (On the principles of alchemical medicine). Presented in this chapter are sections on asbāb al-amrāḍ (the causes of illness), al-nabḍ (the pulse), and al-ʻalāj al-kullī (general treatments). The third chapter, Bayān kayfīyat tadbīr al-adwīya (On an explication of the manner of managing medicines), discusses chemical procedures involving metals and minerals. The fourth chapter, Fī al-ʻamaliyāt (On operations), discusses such procedures as the distillation of water. The second part of this compendium is an Arabic rendition of Basilica Chymica, by Crollius, who was influenced by Paracelsus. The first edition of Crollius’s work was probably printed in 1609 in Frankfurt, with a French translation appearing in 1622. The Arabic version of this work, which takes up roughly the second half of the manuscript, deals with the general treatment of diseases as well as the treatment of ailments that are specific to various organs. The bismallah (in the name of God) and the invocation to God and the Prophet have been omitted from the introduction to this manuscript. Also omitted is the subsequent sentence which identifies the work, and lists Paraclesus as the inventor of the new alchemical medicine" (https://www.wdl.org/en/item/17155/). Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Turkey, Chemistry, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS |
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Well-Mannered medicine: Medical ethics and etiquette in classical Ayurveda.New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › India › History of Ancient Medicine in India, Ethics, Biomedical › History of Biomedical Ethics, INDIA, Practice of Medicine in › History of Practice of Medicine in India |
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Latin editions of Galen's Opera omnia (1490-1625) and their prefaces.Early Science and Medicine, 17, 391-412, 2012.Analysis of publishing and editorial aspects of the many editions of Galen's collected works published during the height of Galen's influence after the invention of printing. This filled a gap in Galenic bibliography since Richard Durling did not cover most of these editions in his Chronological census (1961). Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Individual Authors |
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Il Museo di storia naturale dell'Università degli studi di Firenze. Vol. 4, Le collezioni mineralogiche e litologiche.Florence: Firenze University Press, 2012.Subjects: MUSEUMS › Natural History Museums / Wunderkammern |
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Historische phonetische Geräte. Katalog der historischen akustisch-phonetischen Sammlung (HAPS) der Technischen Universität Dresden. Erster Teil.Dresden: TUD Press, 2012.Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Medical Instruments, Speech, Anatomy and Physiology of |
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Histoire de la médecine arabe en Tunisie durant dix siècles.Carthage, Tunisia: Editions Cartaginoiseries, 2012.Includes a biography and bibliography of Ben Miled as well as a reprint of his thesis, L'école médicale de Kairouan aux xe et xie siècles (1933). The 2012 work was originally published in Arabic as Ṭibb al-ʻArabī al-Tūnisī fī ʻasharat qurun̄. Tunis: Déméter, 1980. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Tunisia, ISLAMIC OR ARAB MEDICINE › History of Islamic or Arab Medicine |
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Obscenity, sex education, and medical democracy in the antebellum United States American sexual histories.Chichester, West Sussex, England: Blackwell, 2012.Includes a study of the trials of American sex educator Frederick Hollick for obscenity. Subjects: SEXUALITY / Sexology › History of Sexuality / Sexology |
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The educated eye: Visual culture and pedagogy in the life sciences. Edited by Nancy Anderson and Michael R. Dietrich.Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2012.Subjects: Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession, IMAGING › Cinematography, IMAGING › History of Imaging |
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Learning with the lights off: Educational film in the United States. Edited by Devin Orgeron, Marsha Orgeron, Dan Streible.New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.Subjects: Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession, IMAGING › Cinematography |
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A physics-based virtual simulator for cranial microneurosurgery training.Operative Neurosurgery, 71, 32-42, 2012."Abstract "BACKGROUND: "A virtual reality neurosurgery simulator with haptic feedback may help in the training and assessment of technical skills requiring the use of tactile and visual cues. "OBJECTIVE: "To develop a simulator for craniotomy-based procedures with haptic and graphics feedback for implementation by universities and hospitals in the neurosurgery training curriculum. "METHODS: "NeuroTouch was developed by a team of more than 50 experts from the National Research Council Canada in collaboration with surgeons from more than 20 teaching hospitals across Canada. Its main components are a stereovision system, bimanual haptic tool manipulators, and a high-end computer. The simulation software engine runs 3 processes for computing graphics, haptics, and mechanics. Training tasks were built from magnetic resonance imaging scans of patients with brain tumors. "RESULTS: "Two training tasks were implemented for practicing skills with 3 different surgical tools. In the tumor-debulking task, the objective is complete tumor removal without removing normal tissue, using the regular surgical aspirator (suction) and the ultrasonic aspirator. The objective of the tumor cauterization task is to remove a vascularized tumor with an aspirator while controlling blood loss using bipolar electrocautery." Subjects: COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology › Computer Simulation, COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology › Visualization, Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession, NEUROSURGERY › Neuro-oncology |
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Cardiovascular and neurological causes of sudden death after ischaemic stroke.Lancet Neurology, 11, 179-188, 2012.Hachinski and Sörös discovered that the control of the heart by the brain is asymmetric, with the fight/flight (sympathetic) response controlled by the right hemisphere and the rest and digest (parasympathetic) response controlled by the left hemisphere. Damage to one key component (the insula) can lead to heart irregularities and sudden death (Wikipedia). Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Neurovascular Disorders › Stroke |
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Medicinal plants of Central Asia: Uzbekistan and Kyrgystan.New York: Springer, 2012.
"... the first English-language book detailing medicinal plant diversity in the region. More than two hundred of the most important medicinal plants of Central Asia are listed and it includes many whose medicinal uses and activities are being compiled for the first time. Information on the taxonomy, morphology, ecology, ethnobotany, chemistry, and pharmacology of plants from this region are presented with hundreds of beautiful color photographs. The book is co-authored by scientists from Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and the U.S. and draws upon a rich source of local knowledge. The extensive English-Russian linguistic glossary to ecological, botanical, chemical, and medical terms is the first of its kind for this type of book" (publisher).
Subjects: BOTANY › Medical Botany › Medical Botany |
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Chinese medicine and healing. An illustrated history.Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.Contributions from 53 scholars, edited by Hinrichs and Barnes. Subjects: Chinese Medicine › History of Chinese Medicine |
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The eye in history. Edited by Frank Joseph Goes.New Delhi: Jaypee-Highlights Medical Publishers, 2013.Explains scentific subjects and procedures for the lay person or general practitioner and then discusses the history of these topics; well-documented with bibliographical references; illustrated in color throughout. Subjects: OPHTHALMOLOGY › History of Ophthalmology |
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Naturalists at sea: Scientific travelers from Dampier to Darwin.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013.Subjects: VOYAGES & Travels by Physicians, Surgeons & Scientists › History of Voyages & Travels by Physicians.... |
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"A plaine and easie waie to remedie a horse.' Equine medicine in early modern England.Leiden: Brill, 2013.Subjects: VETERINARY MEDICINE › History of Veterinary Medicine, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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The early history of the cochlear implant: A retrospective.JAMA Otolaryngology-- Head & Neck Surgery, 139, 446-53., 2013.Subjects: OTOLOGY › History of Otology, OTOLOGY › Prostheses › Cochlear Implant |
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Imaging and imagining the fetus: The development of obstetric ultrasound.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.Subjects: IMAGING › Sonography (Ultrasound), INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › History of Biomedical Instrumentation, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › History of Obstetrics |
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La biblioteca di Avraham ben David Portaleone Secondo L'inventario della sua eredita.Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2013.An attempt to reconstruct the library of Avraham Portaleone (1542-1612) of Mantua, physician to the ducal house of Gonzaga, on the basis of two interesting inventories, including a Hebrew list of 1585 and an inventory associated with Portaleone's death in 1612, notarized and preserved in the Archivio Notarile at Mantua. Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Physicians' / Scientists' Libraries, Jews and Medicine |
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The drug book: From Arsenic to Xanax, 250 milestones in the history of drugs.New York: Sterling Publishing Company, 2013.Subjects: PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals |
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A history of geology and medicine.London: The Geological Society, 2013.Subjects: Geology, Medical & Biological, Minerals and Medicine |
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Medical museums: Past, present, future.London: Royal College of Surgeons, 2013.A collective work edited by Alberti and Hallam. Includes many fine images in color. An unusual feature of the book is the artistic reconstruction in cross-section of John Hunter's home and his anatomy school and his purpose-built building for his museum (p. 19). Subjects: MUSEUMS › History of Museums, MUSEUMS › Medical, Anatomical & Pathological |
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An environmental history of the Middle Ages: The crucible of nature.London: Routledge, 2013.Subjects: BIOLOGY › Ecology / Environment › History of Ecology / Environment, Environmental Science & Health › History of Environmental Science, Medieval Zoology › History of Medieval Zoology |
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Fritz Kahn.Cologne: Taschen, 2013.Text and captions in English, French and German. Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Biographies of Individuals, Illustration, Biomedical |
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Galen's psychological writings: Avoiding distress, Character traits, The diagnosis and treatment of the affections and errors peculiar to each person's soul, The capacites of the soul depend upon the mixtures of the body. Edited by P. N. Singer. Translated with introductions and notes by Vivian Nutton, Daniel Davies and P. N. Singer.Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2013.In 2005 a long lost treatise by Galen, entitled Περι αλυπιας (Avoiding distress), was discovered in the Monastery of the Vlatades (Moni Vlatadon) in Thessaloniki, central Macedonia, Greece. The manuscript, identified as Vlatadon 14, dates from the fifteenth century. In Peri ton idion biblio (De Libris propriis liber, On his Own Writings), Galen referred to Περι αλυπιας, but the last evidence of the text was preserved by the 13th century physician and writer Joseph ben Judah ibn Aknin, who paraphrased and/or translated extacts of it into Hebrew. Rediscovery of the complete text is considered one of the most spectacular finds ever in ancient literature. Galen was motivated to write Περι αλυπιας in 192 CE after a large portion of his library, his supply of medicines and medical instruments, and wax molds for the casting of new instruments that he had invented, and other valuable items, were destroyed when a devastating fire burned the Temple of Peace (Forum of Vespasian) and nearby storehouses on the Via Sacra, the main street of ancient Rome, where his property was kept. Galen chose to keep his library there because the storehouse also held some of the imperial archives, and was kept under military guard. The fire that destroyed Galen's library also burned all the public libraries on the Palatine Hill. Galen's Περι αλυπιας provides significant information on the use of the codex form of the book in the second century CE, on the general vulnerability of books and texts, and on the production, copying, dissemination and storage of information, including the operation of Rome's imperial public libraries and Galen's use of them. It also provides information on the "consolation genre" of writings in antiquity. For the 2013 edition Galen's Avoiding distress was edited and translated by Vivian Nutton. For further details see HistoryofInformation.com at this link. Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Physicians' / Scientists' Libraries, PSYCHOLOGY |
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The history of blood transfusion in Sub-Saharan Africa.Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2013.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Africa, THERAPEUTICS › Blood Transfusion › History of Blood Transfusion |
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Medical saints: Cosmas and Damian in a postmodern world.Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.Subjects: RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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A handbook of African traditional healing approaches & research practices. Edited by Njoki Wane and Erica Neeganagwedgin.Nairobi, Kenya: Nsemia Inc., 2013.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Africa, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine |
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Pliny and the artistic culture of the Italian Renaissance.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013.Subjects: NATURAL HISTORY › Art & Natural History, Renaissance Medicine › History of Renaissance Medicine |
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Licensed to practice: The Supreme Court defines the American medical profession.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.History of the 1889 Supreme Court case that legalized the licensing of physicians in the U.S. and the impact of that decision on the subsequent development of this nation's unique medical system. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession, LAW and Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the sciences in Paris, 1670-1760.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013.Subjects: NUTRITION / DIET › History of Nutrition / Diet, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Between flesh and steel: A history of military medicine from the Middle Ages to the war in Afghanistan.Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2013.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Afghanistan, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine |
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In the blink of an eye: The deadly story of epidemic meningitis.New York: Springer Science , 2013.Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › History of Infectious Disease, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Neuroinfectious Diseases › Meningitis, NEUROLOGY › Inflammatory Conditions › Cerebrospinal Meningitis |
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Before bioethics: A history of American medical ethics from the colonial period to the bioethics revolution.New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.Subjects: Ethics, Biomedical › History of Biomedical Ethics |
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3D printed bionic ears.Nano Letters, 13, 2634-2639, 2013.Description and illustration of the first 3D printed bionic organ: an ear. From the Abstract: "The ability to three-dimensionally interweave biological tissue with functional electronics could enable the creation of bionic organs possessing enhanced functionalities over their human counterparts. Conventional electronic devices are inherently two-dimensional, preventing seamless multidimensional integration with synthetic biology, as the processes and materials are very different. Here, we present a novel strategy for overcoming these difficulties via additive manufacturing of biological cells with structural and nanoparticle derived electronic elements.' The abstract and two color images are available from acs.org at this link. Subjects: COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology |
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The inevitable hour: A history of caring for dying patients in America.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.Subjects: DEATH & DYING › Hospice, DEATH & DYING › Palliative Care , GERIATRICS / Gerontology / Aging › History of Gerontology & Aging, HOSPITALS › History of Hospitals, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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Medicine and the saints: Science, Islam, and the colonial encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956.Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2013.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Morocco, ISLAMIC OR ARAB MEDICINE › History of Islamic or Arab Medicine, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Moses Maimonides and his practice of medicine.Haifa: Maimonides Research Institute, 2013.Subjects: Jews and Medicine, Jews and Medicine › History of Jews and Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Jewish Medicine |
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Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin's American plants: Botanical expedition to the Caribbean (1754-1759) and the publication of the Selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia.Leiden: Brill, 2013.Subjects: BOTANY › History of Botany, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Caribbean, VOYAGES & Travels by Physicians, Surgeons & Scientists › History of Voyages & Travels by Physicians.... |
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Medicine and society in Ptolemaic Egypt.Leiden: Brill, 2013.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Egypt › History of Ancient Medicine in Egypt, ANCIENT MEDICINE › Hellenistic, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Mathematical demography: Selected papers. Edited by David Smith and Nathan Keyfitz. Second, revised edition, edited by Kenneth W. Wachter and Hervé Le Bras.Heidelberg & New York: Springer, 2013.Subjects: DEMOGRAPHY / Population: Medical Statistics, DEMOGRAPHY / Population: Medical Statistics › History of Demography |
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BabMed - Babylonian medicine: CorporaBerlin: Frei Universität Berlin, 2013.http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/babmed/Corpora/index.html "On the following pages, there are several draft versions: Assyrian Medical Texts (AMT), Part 1, Tf. 1-50 Assyrian Medical Texts (AMT), Part 2, Tf. 51-107 Babylonian-Assyrian medicine I Babylonian Assyrian Medicine II Babylonian Assyrian Medicine III Old Babylonian medicine, physiognomy and related behaviors Middle Assyrian and Central Babylonian medicine, physiognomy, and related behavioral disorders
Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Mesopotamia, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Cuneiform, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Online Access Catalogues & Bibliographic Databases, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries |
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Leech.London: Reaktion Books, 2013.Published in the "Animal" series. Seemingly a definitive work on the natural history and medical application of leeches. Subjects: PARASITOLOGY › Marine Parasitology, THERAPEUTICS › Bloodletting, THERAPEUTICS › History of Therapeutics, ZOOLOGY › Annelidology |
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The rise of fetal and neonatal physiology: Basic science to clinical care.New York: Springer, 2013.Subjects: EMBRYOLOGY › History of Embryology, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › History of Obstetrics, PHYSIOLOGY › Fetal Physiology, PHYSIOLOGY › History of Physiology |
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A perfect vision: Catalogue of the William Holland Wilmer rare book collection. By Richard Semba and Kristine Smets.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Physicians' / Scientists' Libraries, OPHTHALMOLOGY › History of Ophthalmology, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Avicenna's medicine: A new translation of the 11th-century Canon with practical applications for integrative health care.Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press, 2013.A new translation of volume one of Avicenna's Qānūn (Canon), directly from the original Arabic. Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Persian Islamic Medicine |
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The Oxford handbook of women and gender in Medieval Europe. Edited by Judith M. Bennett and Ruth Mazo Karras.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.Part V "Bodies, pleasures, desires" includes much of medical and biological interest, including a remarkable chapter by Kathryn M. Ringrose on "The Byzantine body." Subjects: BYZANTINE MEDICINE › History of Byzantine Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Dispelling the darkness: Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the discovery of evolution by Wallace and Darwin.Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2013.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Singapore, EVOLUTION › History of Evolutionary Thought |
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Simon of Genoa's Medical Lexicon. Edited by Barbara Zipser.Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013."Simon of Genoa's Medical Lexicon”, an edited volume based on the conference held on March 17th, 2012, is part of the Simon Online project – a dynamically growing Wiki edition of Simon of Genoa's Clavis sanationis, a Latin-Greek-Arabic medical dictionary from the late 13th century.... The volume demonstrates the importance of the Clavis, not only for the history of pharmacology and medicine, but also for Byzantine and medieval studies, Roman, Greek, Latin and Arabic philology and lexicography" (Publisher). Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Italy, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Animals in the ancient world from A to Z.New York: Routledge, 2013."Animals were integral to ancient commerce, war, love, literature and art. Inside the city they were found as pets, pests, and parasites. They could be sacred, sacrificed, liminal, workers, or intruders from the wild. Beyond the city domesticated animals were herded and bred for profit and wild animals were hunted for pleasure and gain alike. Specialists like Aristotle, Aelian, Pliny and Seneca studied their anatomy and behavior. Geographers and travelers described new lands in terms of their animals. Animals are to be seen on every possible artistic medium, woven into cloth and inlaid into furniture. They are the subject of proverbs, oaths and dreams. Magicians, physicians and lovers turned to animals and their parts for their crafts. They paraded before kings, inhabited palaces, and entertained the poor in the arena" (Publisher).
Subjects: ZOOLOGY › History of Zoology |
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História da medicina portuguesa durante a expansão.Lisbon: Temas e Debates, 2013.A history of medicine in Portugal and its colonies during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Portugal |
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Life atomic: A history of radioisotopes in science and medicine.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013.Subjects: Nuclear Medicine, ONCOLOGY & CANCER › Radiation (Radiotherapy) |
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Ship of death: A voyage that changed the Atlantic world.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013.A multi-disciplinary account from the perspectives of the history of the slave trade, the anti-slavery movement and medical history, of the voyage of the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792-93, causing a pandemic of yellow fever. The voyage was originated by a group of high-minded British colonists who planned to establish a colony free of slavery in West Africa. When the colony failed the ship set sail from Africa for the Caribbean and the North America, carrying, as was later understood, mosquitoes from Africa infected with yellow fever virus. The Hankey traveled from one port to the next, spreading yellow fever, leading to the death of tens of thousands of people in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and Charleston. Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology, EPIDEMIOLOGY › Pandemics, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › History of Infectious Disease, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Yellow Fever › History of Yellow Fever, Slavery and Medicine › History of Slavery & Medicine |
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The history of American homeopathy: From rational medicine to holistic health care.Rutherford, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2013.Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › Homeopathy › History of Homeopathy, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States |
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Medical visions: Producing the patient through film, television, and imaging technologies.New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013."Kirsten Ostherr focuses on moving images produced in the United States from the early twentieth century to the present day. The types of images she considers are diverse and range from sober education films to television documentaries and fictionalized accounts of medical life. She also considers briefly at the end of the book more recent forms, including “reality” television and such virtual worlds as Second Life. The core of Medical Visions consists of six case studies, arranged in chronological order, that include close readings of specific films and programs. Ostherr is alert to the texts’ ideological dimensions as well as their aesthetic properties, often showing the close relationships between visual techniques associated with cinema and those deployed in medical contexts. The volume is rich in detail about the conditions under which works were made and received; especially telling are the ways in which medical organizations attempted to, and often succeeded in, controlling content and audiences" (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/548082, accessed 02-2018).
Subjects: Graphic Medicine, IMAGING › Cinematography, IMAGING › Photography / Photomicrography , LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology |
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Landmark papers in nephrology. Edited by John Freehally, Christopher McIntyre and J. Stewart Cameron.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.Subjects: NEPHROLOGY › History of Nephrology |
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Routledge handbook on the global history of nursing. Edited by Patricia D'Antonio, Julie A. Fairman and Jean C. Whelan.Abingdon, Oxford & New York: Routledge, 2013.Subjects: NURSING › History of Nursing |
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US Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Office of Medical History Collection.Falls Church, VA: U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED), 2013.https://archive.org/details/usnavybumedhistoryoffice&tab=collection "A historical component has existed at the US Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery since May 1907 with the establishment of the Publications Office. In addition to producing The Naval Medical Bulletin, the Publications Office was responsible for producing occasional historical monographs, and maintaining a historical archive. Today the Office of Medical History's mission has evolved to preserve and promote the history and heritage of the Navy Medical Department while serving the needs of our customers. The collection consists of publications, public records, manuscripts, personal papers, hospital plans, Navy Hygiene Museum records, biographical files, subject files, facility files, films, videos, photographs, prints, drawings, and artifacts. The OMH currently consists of over 100 collections covering over 1,000 linear feet and is staffed by a historian and an archivist." In March 2018 this digital library, housed at the Internet Archive, had over 5300 items online. Subjects: DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries , MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › Navy |
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Circulating Now: From the Historical Collections of the National Library of Medicine. Elizabeth A. Mullen, Managing Editor.Bethesda, MD: U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2013.https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/
"Free things like air, Vital things like blood, Living things like ideas… "For over 175 years the National Library of Medicine’s historical collections have circulated to generations within the reading rooms of its various locations in and around Washington, DC. Now, these collections—as part of the trillions of bytes of data produced and delivered by the world’s largest biomedical library—circulate daily to millions of people around the world, including scientists, health professionals, scholars, educators, students, and the general public. Circulating Now sustains the tradition and commitment of the NLM, and libraries everywhere, to provide knowledge and expertise freely and to inspire people and enrich lives. Circulating Now conveys the vitality of medical history in our 21st-century world: its relevance and importance for research, teaching, and learning about the human condition. Circulating Now evokes the living quality of the NLM’s historical collections and the stories they offer about the experience of health and disease across ten centuries and around the world."
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Transforming the culture of dying: The work of the Project on Death in America.Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2013."Over a period of almost 10 years, the work of the Project on Death in America (PDIA) played a formative role in the advancement of end of life care in the United States. The project concerned itself with adults and children, and with interests crossing boundaries between the clinical disciplines, the social sciences, arts and humanities. PDIA engaged with the problems of resources in poor communities and marginalized groups and settings, and it attempted to foster collaboration across a range of sectors and organizations. Authored by medical sociologist David Clark, whose research career has focused on mapping, archiving and analyzing the history and development of hospice, palliative care and related end of life issues, this book examines the broad, ambitious conception of PDIA - which sought to 'transform the culture of dying in America' - and assesses PDIA's contribution to the development of the palliative care field and to wider debates about end of life care within American society. Chapters consider key issues and topics tackled by PDIA grantees which include: explorations of the meanings of death in contemporary American culture; the varying experiences of care at the end of life (in different settings, among different social and ethnic groups); the innovations in service development and clinical practice that have occurred in the US in response to a growing awareness of and debate about end of life issues; the emerging evidence base for palliative and end of life care in the US; the maturation of a field of academic and clinical specialization; the policy and legal issues that have shaped development, including the ethical debate about assisted suicide and the Oregon experience; the opportunities and barriers that have been encountered; and the prospects for future development. A final chapter captures developments and milestones in the field since PDIA closed in 2003, and some of the challenges going forward" (publisher). Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , DEATH & DYING, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Paralysed with fear: The story of polio.Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Neuroinfectious Diseases › Poliomyelitis (Infantile Paralysis), NEUROLOGY › Inflammatory Conditions › Poliomyelitis, VIROLOGY › History of Virology, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Picornaviridae › Poliovirus |
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Pharmacy in World War II.New York & London: Pharmaceutical Products Press, 2013.Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › World War II, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACY › History of Pharmacy |
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"Good tuberculosis men": The Army Medical Department's stuggle with tuberculosis.Fort Sam Houston, TX: Defense Dept., Army, Office of the Surgeon General, Borden Institute, 2013.Digital facsimile from cs.amedd.army.mil at this link. Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Tuberculosis › History of Tuberculosis, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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The pleasure's all mine: A history of perverse sex.London: Reaktion Books, 2013.Subjects: SEXUALITY / Sexology › History of Sexuality / Sexology, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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The medical trade catalogue in Britain, 1870–1914.London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › History of Biomedical Instrumentation |
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Medicine and the workhouse. Edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard Schwarz.Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2013.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 key provider of medical care to the poor. Workhouse beds in Britain far outnumbered beds provided by charitable hospitals, and a high percentage of inmates were elderly and infirm, needing not only accommodation and work, but also medical relief.
Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), ECONOMICS, BIOMEDICAL › History of Biomedical Economics, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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The Routledge history of sex and the body, 1500 to the present. Edited by Sarah Toulalan and Kate Fisher.Abingdon, Oxford & New York: Routledge, 2013.Subjects: SEXUALITY / Sexology › History of Sexuality / Sexology, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Design for information: An introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices behind effective information visualizations.Beverly, MA: Rockport Publishers, 2013.Visually splendid; includes frequent comparisons of modern computer representations with historical examples. Subjects: COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology › Visualization, Cartography, Medical & Biological, DEMOGRAPHY / Population: Medical Statistics › Graphic Display of |
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Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome III, 1re partie: Pronostic. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna, Anargyros Anastasiou, and Caroline Magdelaine.Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2013.This treatise on prognostication in acute diseases was possibly written by Hippocrates himself; or if not, by a physician close to him, sometime during the second half of the 5th century, before 410 BCE. Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece, Hippocratic Tradition |
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Medicina per animalia.Bologna: CLUEB, 2013.Subjects: VETERINARY MEDICINE › History of Veterinary Medicine |
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Charles Dickens and the sciences of childhood: Popular medicine, child health and victorian culture .London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.Subjects: LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology › Fiction, PEDIATRICS › History of Pediatrics, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Smallpox: A history.Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013.Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox › History of Smallpox |
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Broadcasting birth control: Mass media and family planning.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.Explores the films and radio and television broadcasts developed by twentieth-century birth control advocates to promote family planning at home in the United States, and in the expanding international arena of population control. Subjects: Contraception › History of Contraception, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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Marrow of tragedy: The health crisis of the American Civil War.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.Subjects: American (U.S.) CIVIL WAR MEDICINE › History of U.S. Civil War Medicine, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus in bats, Saudi Arabia.Emerg. Infect. Dis., 19, 1819-1823, 2013.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 acid extraction, and used PCR to amplify a chosen segment that showed 100% nucleotide identity correlation between human and bat virus. Available from PubMedCentral at this link. Remarkably, it was reported by Reuters on June 3, 2014, that Memish, who was Deputy Health Minister in Saudi Arabia when the paper was published, later lost his position for political reasons, after he was criticized by international organizations for failure to collaborate with international laboratories on MERS research. The Reuters article reported that 575 people in the kingdom were then infected with MERS, and that the disease had "spread around the world." (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this entry and its interpretation.) Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Saudi Arabia, EPIDEMIOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) , POLICY, HEALTH, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Coronaviruses (Coronaviridae) › MERS |
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De materia medica. Il Discoride di Napoli (Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli - Ms ex-Vindobonense Greco 1, VI-VII sec d. C. 2 vols.Sansepolcro: Aboca Museum Edizioni, 2013.Translation into Italian of the text of the Naples Dioscorides, a 6-7th century illustrated manuscript. With color facsimiles of the original paintings in the manuscript, 243 modern drawings in color. Foreword by Mauro Giancaspro and Valentino Mercati. Essays by Paolo Caputo, Paolo De Luca, Roberto De Lucia, Roberto Romano and Manuela De Matteis Tortora, Hans Walter Lack, Pietro Baraldi, Paolo Bensi and Alessandro Menghini. Afterword by Alain Touwaide. 243 Modern botanical images by Luca Massenzio Palermo. Subjects: BOTANY, BOTANY › Botanical Illustration, BOTANY › Medical Botany, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines |
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A novel prion disease associated with diarrhea and autonomic neuropathy.New Eng. J. Med., 369, 1904-1914, 2013.Order of authorship in the original paper: Mead, Gandhi, Beck, Collinge. Collinge was the main author. Digital facsimile from nejm.org at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this entry and its interpretation.) Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Prion Diseases, NEUROLOGY › Neuropathology, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Reconstructing faces: The art and wartime surgery of Gillies, Pickerill, McIndoe and Mowlem.Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago Press, 2013.Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › World War I, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › World War II, PLASTIC & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY › History of Plastic Surgery |
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Duodenal infusion of donor feces for recurrent Clostridium difficile.New Eng. J. Med., 368, 407-415, 2013.Order of authorship in the original publication: Nood, Vrieze, Nieuwdorp....This research provided convincing evidence that fecal donation (faecal microbiota transplantation) is more effective therapy for virulent C. difficile infections than the previous drug of choice, Vancomycin. Digital facsimile from NEJM.org at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › BACTERIA (mostly pathogenic; sometimes indexed only to genus) › Gram-Positive Bacteria › Clostridium, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Clostridium Difficile (C. difficile) Infections, MICROBIOLOGY › Microbiome |
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The miraculous conformist: Valentine Greatrakes, the body politic, and the politics of healing in restoration Britain.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.Subjects: POLICY, HEALTH, PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry |
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Kenelm Digby's Two Treatises, edited with an introduction by Paul. S. MacDonald.Lexington, KY: The Gresham Press, 2013.Subjects: EMBRYOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY |
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RNA-programmed genome editing in human cells.eLIFE, 2, e00471, 2013.Order of authorship in the original publication: Jinek, East, Cheng...Doudna. Doudna and colleagues presented the first demonstration that the CRISPR Cas/Cas9 bacterial editing tool functions could be applied in human cells. The DNA of cells modified in this research were human embryonic kidney cells called HEK-293. The authors summarized the consequences of this paper in the last sentence of their Abstract, which read, "These results show that RNA-programmed genome editing is a facile strategy for introducing site-specific genetic changes in human cells." Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › CRISPR Gene Editing, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Multiplex genome engineering using CRISPR/Cas systems.Science, 339, 819-823, 2013.Order of authorship in the original publication: Cong, Ran, Cox....Zhang. Zhang and colleagues edited the genome of human and mouse cells (mammalian cells). Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › CRISPR Gene Editing |
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RNA-guided human genome engineering via Cas9.Science, 339, 823-826, 2013.Order of authorship in the original publication: Mali, Yang, Esvelt....Church. Church and colleagues reported genome editing in human cells. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › CRISPR Gene Editing, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Biologics. A history of agents made from living organisms in the twentieth century. Edited by Alexander von Schwerin, Heiko Stoff and Bettina Wahrig.London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013.Subjects: PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Biological Medical Product (Biologic) |
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The NCBI handbook, 2nd edition.Bethesda, MD: U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2013.Available online from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov at this link. "The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, is a leader in the field of bioinformatics; it studies computational approaches to fundamental questions in biology and provides online delivery of biomedical information and bioinformatics tools. NCBI hosts approximately 40 online literature and molecular biology databases—including PubMed, PubMed Central, and GenBank—that serve millions of users around the world. The second edition of the NCBI Handbook, released in November 2013 in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of NCBI, aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the breadth of informatics resources at NCBI, and an in-depth account of the scope, data, infrastructure, processing, and access for each major database or resource. The databases and resources are organized here into seven concept areas: literature, genomes, variation, health, genes and gene expression, nucleotide, proteins, and small molecules and biological assays. Three additional categories encompass tools, infrastructure, and metadata. Each concept area begins with an overview chapter that provides a contextual framework for the resources discussed under that concept; the overview is followed by separate chapters that cover individual databases or resources. As with the first edition, The NCBI Handbook 2nd Edition is geared towards advanced users of NCBI resources to provide an understanding of how bioinformatics resources at NCBI work. It is not a step-by-step user manual but complements NCBI user guides, tutorials, help information, and other existing documentation. It is our intent that the handbook will reflect, to the extent possible, the current state of databases, resources, and tools at NCBI, with information updated periodically." Subjects: Biomedical Informatics, COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology, DIGITAL RESOURCES |
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Ritual and conflict: The social relations of childbirth in early modern England.Abingdon, Oxford & New York: Ashgate, 2013."This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to the wider gender-order and so to the ’ceremony of childbirth’, the popular ritual through which women collectively controlled this, the pivotal event in their lives. Focussing on the seventeenth century, but ranging from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, this study offers a new viewpoint on such themes as the patriarchal family, the significance of illegitimacy, and the structuring of gender-relations in the period" (publisher). Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › History of Obstetrics, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Midwives, PEDIATRICS › History of Pediatrics, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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The duke and the stars: Astrology and politcs in renaissance Milan.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.Explores science and medicine as studied and practiced in fifteenth-century Italy, including how astrology was taught in relation to astronomy. It illustrates how the “predictive art” of astrology was often a critical, secretive source of information for Italian Renaissance rulers, particularly in times of crisis. Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › Medical Astrology |
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Alcohol and opium in the Old West: Use, abuse and influence.Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States › American West, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Botanic Sources of Single Component Drugs › Opium, TOXICOLOGY › Drug Addiction › Alcoholism, TOXICOLOGY › Drug Addiction › History of Drug Addiction |
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Cholera in Detroit: A history.Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013.Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Cholera, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Michigan |
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Mankind beyond earth: The history, science, and future of human space exploration.New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.Subjects: AVIATION Medicine › Aerospace Medicine, AVIATION Medicine › History of Aviation / Aerospace Medicine |
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Partnership for excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and academic hospitals.Toronto, Canada & Buffalo, NY: University of Toronto Press, 2013.A history of medicine and medical discoveries made at these Canadian hospitals. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Canada, HOSPITALS › History of Hospitals |
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Medical books in the Byzantine world. Edited by Barbara Zipser.Bologna: Eikasmós Online II, 2013.Subjects: BYZANTINE MEDICINE › History of Byzantine Medicine |
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Landmark papers in allergy. Seminal papers in allergy with expert commentaries. Edited by Aziz Sheikh, Thomas Platts-Mills, and Allison Worth.Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.Subjects: ALLERGY › History of Allergy |
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Landmark papers in anaesthesia. Edited by Nigel Webster and Helen Galley.Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.Subjects: ANESTHESIA › History of Anesthesia |
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Medicine on screen: Films and essays from NLM.Bethesda, MD: U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2013.
https://medicineonscreen.nlm.nih.gov/
"NLM holds a world-renowned historical audiovisual collection of nearly 10,000 titles from the silent era to the present. These films cover a broad range of medical and health-related topics, from public health, surgery, and nursing to mental health, cancer, tuberculosis, child development, tropical medicine, genetics, and substance abuse. Some are public education films, some are professional training films, and some document scientific or medical research. The collection does not generally include Hollywood-type entertainment films, though the occasional celebrity name does appear, for example, Gene Kelly directed and starred in a WWII-era naval training film. Many of these films are rare, and in some cases NLM may have the only surviving copy. "Medicine on Screen replaces the inventive NLM project Medical Movies on the Web, which debuted in 2013 under the direction of David Cantor, Michael Sappol, and Paul Theerman. Building on that foundation, Medicine on Screen adds fresh design, content, and functionality, and continues to highlight selected films from the Library’s audiovisual collections along with expert commentary that sets the films in historical context. In some cases, the films are supplemented with a bibliography and a selection of related materials from the collections of the Library and other repositories. Access to these and other digitized films is also provided through the NLM Digital Collections and YouTube channel."
Subjects: DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries , IMAGING › Cinematography |
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Wars, pestilence and the surgeon's blade: The evolution of British Military medicine and surgery during the nineteenth century.Solihull, England: Helion & Company, 2013.Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › Crimean War, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › Napoleon's Campaigns & Wars |
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Geschichte der Dermatologie in Deutschland.Berlin: Springer, 2013.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Germany, DERMATOLOGY › History of Dermatology |
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Catching cancer: The quest for its viral & bacterial causes.Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013.Subjects: ONCOLOGY & CANCER › History of Oncology & Cancer |
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History of orthodontics.New Delhi: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, 2013.This history covers 19th century and earlier developments but emphasizes 20th century material including "History of dental lasers and their applications in orthodontics," "History of of Invisalign," etc. Subjects: DENTISTRY › History of Dentistry, DENTISTRY › Orthodontics, INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Surgical Instruments › Lasers |
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A history of psycholinguistics: The Pre-Chomsky Era.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.Subjects: PSYCHOLOGY › Psycholinguistics, Speech, Anatomy and Physiology of |
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The history of radiology.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.Subjects: RADIOLOGY › History of Radiology |
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The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Science, governance, and the pursuit of cures. By the Committee on a Review of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Board on Health Sciences Policy. Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2013.The California Institute for Regenerative medicine was the first state-fund institution that provided stable, in-state funding on a very large scale for biomedical research. "The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) was created in 2005 by The California Stem Cell Research and Cures Act (Proposition 71) to distribute $3 billion in state funds for stem cell research. The passage of Proposition 71 by the voters of California occurred at a time when federal funding for research involving human embryonic stem cells was uncertain, given the ethical questions raised by such research. During its initial period of operations, CIRM has successfully and thoughtfully provided more than $1.3 billion in awards to 59 California institutions, consistent with its stated mission. "As it transitions to a broadened portfolio of grants to stimulate progress toward its translational goals, the Institute should obtain cohesive, longitudinal, and integrated advice; restructure its grant application review process; and enhance industry representation in aspects of its operations. CIRM's unique governance structure, while useful in its initial stages, might diminish its effectiveness moving forward. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine: Science, Governance, and the Pursuit of Cures recommends specific steps to enhance CIRM's organization and management, as well as its scientific policies and processes, as it transitions to the critical next stages of its research and development program" (publisher). A free PDF of this book was available from the National Academies Press at this link. Subjects: ECONOMICS, BIOMEDICAL, POLICY, HEALTH, Regenerative Medicine, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › California |
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Dangerously sleepy: Overworked Americans and the cult of manly wakefulness.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.The first book to track the longtime association of overwork and sleep deprivation from the nineteenth century to the present. Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Sleep Physiology & Medicine, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & MEDICINE , OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & MEDICINE › History of Occupational Health & Medicine |
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The PKU paradox: A short history of a genetic disease.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.Subjects: GENETICS / HEREDITY › GENETIC DISORDERS › Phenylketonuria (PKU) |
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Modern colonization by medical intervention: U.S. medicine in Puerto Rico.Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2013.Subjects: U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Puerto Rico |
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Medical consulting by letter in France, 1665-1789.Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2013."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 study, the first full-length examination of the practice of consulting by letter, provides a cohesive portrayal of some of the widespread ailments of French society in the latter part of the early modern period. It explores how and why changes occurred in the relationships between those who sought and those who provided medical advice. Previous studies of epistolary medical consulting have limited attention to the output of one or two practitioners, but this study uses the consultations of around 100 individual practitioners from the mid-seventeenth century to the time of the Revolution to give a broad picture of patients and physicians perceptions of illnesses and how they should be treated on a day-to-day basis.... (publisher). Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › France |
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Ophthalmologia: Optica et visio in nummis.Piribebuy, Paraguay: J. P. Wayenborgh & New York: American Numismatic Society, 2013.Subjects: Numismatics, Medical, OPHTHALMOLOGY › History of Ophthalmology |
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The history of color blindness. Translated from the original French manuscript by Colin Mailer.Piribebuy, Paraguay: J. P. Wayenborgh & Amsterdam: Kugler Publications, 2013.Subjects: OPHTHALMOLOGY › History of Ophthalmology |
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Ways of regulating drugs in the 19th and 20th centuries. Edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière and Volker Hess.New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.Subjects: PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals |
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A medical history of skin: Scratching the surface. Edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Kevin Siena.London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013.Subjects: DERMATOLOGY › History of Dermatology, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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The NCBI handbook, 2nd edition.Bethesda, MD: U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2013.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK143764/ "The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, is a leader in the field of bioinformatics; it studies computational approaches to fundamental questions in biology and provides online delivery of biomedical information and bioinformatics tools. NCBI hosts approximately 40 online literature and molecular biology databases—including PubMed, PubMed Central, and GenBank—that serve millions of users around the world. The second edition of the NCBI Handbook, released in November 2013 in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of NCBI, aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the breadth of informatics resources at NCBI, and an in-depth account of the scope, data, infrastructure, processing, and access for each major database or resource. The databases and resources are organized here into seven concept areas: literature, genomes, variation, health, genes and gene expression, nucleotide, proteins, and small molecules and biological assays. Three additional categories encompass tools, infrastructure, and metadata. Each concept area begins with an overview chapter that provides a contextual framework for the resources discussed under that concept; the overview is followed by separate chapters that cover individual databases or resources. "As with the first edition, The NCBI Handbook 2nd Edition is geared towards advanced users of NCBI resources to provide an understanding of how bioinformatics resources at NCBI work. It is not a step-by-step user manual but complements NCBI user guides, tutorials, help information, and other existing documentation. It is our intent that the handbook will reflect, to the extent possible, the current state of databases, resources, and tools at NCBI, with information updated periodically." Includes "A brief history of NCBI's formation and growth" by Kent Smith.
Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Institutional Medical Libraries, Histories of, Biomedical Informatics, DIGITAL RESOURCES |
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The power to cure: A brief history of therapeutic tattooing. In Philippe Della Casa & Constanze Witt (eds.) Tattoos and body modifications in antiquity.Zurich Studies in Archaeology, 9, 27-34, 2013.Digital facsimile from academia.edu at this link. Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › Therapeutic Tattooing, ANTHROPOLOGY › Cultural Anthropology |
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The haplotype-resolved genome and epigenome of the aneuploidy HeLa cancer cell line.Nature, 500, 207-211, 2013.Adey and colleagues sequenced the haplotype-resolved whole genome of the HeLa cancer cell line. This showed a highly rearranged region at chromosome 8q24.21, where an integration locus of the HPV (human papillomavirus, type 18) was found, making it responsible both for her cervical carcinoma and death, and the immortalizing properties of this cell line. The authors also showed that this integrated HPV-18 genome caused a strong activation of the common proto-oncogene now known as Myc which is responsible for the carcinogenic action of the virus. Subjects: BIOLOGY › Cell Biology, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Genomics, ONCOLOGY & CANCER › Carcinoma |
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De arte phisicale et de cirurgia. By John of Arderne. From a new digital version of the Stockholm roll translated and commented by Torgny Svenberg & Peter Murray Jones, art-historical reflexions by Eva Lq Sandgen.Stockholm: Hagströmerbiblioteket, 2014.John of Arderne was the first English surgeon of note. The Stockholm manuscript preserved in the National Library of Stockholm is an illustrated vellum roll nearly 18 feet long and 15 inches wide written in England in 1412. It was written in two or three columns and includes 130 miniature paintings in color, often both artistic and humorous. The roll was first reproduced in black & white facsimile in an edition limited to 100 copies, Stockholm, Generalstabens Litografiska Anstalt, 1929. See No. 3416. The roll was first translated into English by D'Arcy Power in De arte phisicale et de cirurgia of Master John Arderne: Surgeon of Newark dated 1412 "from a transcript made by Eric Millar from the replica of the Stockholm manuscript in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum" (1922). In the 2014 annotated translation (in codex form) the entire roll and all individual miniatures were reproduced in color. Digital facsimile of the 1922 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › England, SURGERY: General |
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Walking corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West.Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014.Leprosy first became known to Europeans during the 12th century when a frightening epidemic ravaged Catholic Europe. The Church responded by constructing charitable institutions called leprosariums to treat the rapidly expanding number of victims. Long before this the Byzantine Empire was forced to confront the disease. Subjects: BYZANTINE MEDICINE › History of Byzantine Medicine, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Leprosy › History of Leprosy, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine |
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Jewish medical resistance in the holocaust. Edited by Michael A. Grodin.New York: Berghahn Books, 2014.Subjects: Jews and Medicine, Jews and Medicine › History of Jews and Medicine |
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The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains.Nature, 505, 43-49, 2014.First complete sequence of a Neanderthal genome. With more than 20 co-authors. Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Genomics › Paleogenomics, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Central Asia, EVOLUTION › Human Origins / Human Evolution |
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The Oxford handbook of animals in classical thought and life.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.Subjects: ZOOLOGY › History of Zoology |
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The herbal of al-Ghāfiqī. A facsimile edition of MS 7508 in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, with critical essays. Edited by F. Jamil Ragep and Faith Wallis with Pamela Miller and Adam Gacek.Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology, ISLAMIC OR ARAB MEDICINE, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines |
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The tools of Asclepius: Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times.Leiden: Brill, 2014.The first major work on the subject since Milne's Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times (1907). Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece › History of Ancient Medicine in Greece, ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire › History of Medicine in the Roman Empire, INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › History of Biomedical Instrumentation |
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Madness and memory: The discovery of prions- a new biological principle of disease.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014.Prusiner discovered prions, the agent causing scrapie in sheep and goats, mad cow disease, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Autobiography, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › History of Infectious Disease, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Prion Diseases, NEUROLOGY › Degenerative Disorders, NEUROSCIENCE › Neuropsychology › Memory, VETERINARY MEDICINE |
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Joseph Towne at the Gordon Museum.London: Gordon Museum, Guy's Hospital Campus, King's College London, 2014.Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, MUSEUMS › History of Museums, MUSEUMS › Medical, Anatomical & Pathological |
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African American medicine in Washington, D.C.: Healing the capital during the Civil War Era.Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2014.Concerns the role of African American nurses, doctors and surgeons during the American Civil War. Subjects: American (U.S.) CIVIL WAR MEDICINE › History of U.S. Civil War Medicine, BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology |
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Border medicine: A transcultural history of Mexican American curanderismo.New York: NYU Press, 2014.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Mexico, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States › American West, Latin American Medicine › History of Latin American Medicine, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine |
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Global population: History, geopolitics and life on earth.New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.Subjects: DEMOGRAPHY / Population: Medical Statistics › History of Demography, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Imperial hygiene: A critical history of colonialism, nationalism and public health.London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.Subjects: PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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The teaching hospital: Brigham and Women's Hospital and the evolution of academic medicine. Edited by Peter V. Tishler, Christine Wenc and Joseph Loscalzo.New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2014.Subjects: Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession, HOSPITALS › History of Hospitals, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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The Oxford encyclopedia of the history of American science, medicine, and technology. Edited by Hugh Richard Slotten.Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , Encyclopedias, History of Medicine: General Works |
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Science in the vanished arcadia: Knowledge of nature in the Jesuit missions of Paraguay and Rio de La Plata.Leiden: Brill, 2014.An overview of Jesuit scientific production in Paraguay during the 17th and 18th centuries, including natural history, medicine, cartography, astronomy, and practical science. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Paraguay, Latin American Medicine › History of Latin American Medicine, NATURAL HISTORY › History of Natural History |
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Historia de la medicina Argentina: Desde la dominación hispánica hasta la actualidad.Buenos Aires: Eudeba, 2014.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Argentina, Latin American Medicine › History of Latin American Medicine |
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Feeding France: New sciences of food, 1760-1815.Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2014.Subjects: ECONOMICS, BIOMEDICAL › History of Biomedical Economics, NUTRITION / DIET › History of Nutrition / Diet |
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Seeing the insane: A visually and cultural history of our attitudes toward the mentally ill.Brattleboro, VT: Echo Point Books & Media, 2014.Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry |
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Encyclopedia of Bioethics. 4th edition. Edited by Bruce Jennings. 6 vols.New York: Macmillan, 2014.Subjects: Encyclopedias, Ethics, Biomedical |
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Art of Vesalius. Edited by Robrecht Van Hee.Antwerp: Garant, 2014.Subjects: ANATOMY › Anatomical Illustration, ANATOMY › History of Anatomy, ART & Medicine & Biology |
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The emergence of tropical medicine in France.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2014.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › France, TROPICAL Medicine › History of Tropical Medicine |
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COPAC.Manchester, 2014.http://copac.jisc.ac.uk/search/form/main: "Copac exposes rare and unique research material by bringing together the catalogues of c.90 major UK and Irish libraries (and growing). In a single search you can discover the holdings of the UK’s national libraries (including the British Library), many University libraries, and specialist research libraries. Researchers and educators use Copac to save time in their research, to quickly and easily discover and locate resources, to check document details, review materials in their field, and assess the rarity of materials etc. Information professionals trust Copac to give them access to a unique pool of high-quality bibliographic information. "Searching Copac means you are searching a wide and varied range of library catalogues, from the collections of the Oxford and Cambridge universities to the libraries at the National Trust and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Copac’s contributors run the gamut from conservatoires to the catalogues of the major Russian and East European Collections in the country. We are adding more libraries all the time with a focus on specialist research collections, for example the Middle Temple Library and Institution of Mechanical Engineers Library, increasing the visibility of a growing range of specialist and rare materials" (accessed 12-2016).
Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Online Access Catalogues & Bibliographic Databases |
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Intolerant bodies: A short history of autoimmunity.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.Subjects: IMMUNOLOGY › History of Immunology |
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Maimonides On rules regarding the practical part of the medical art. A parallel English-Arabic edition and translation. Translated by Gerrit Bos, edited by Y. Tzvi LangermannProvo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2014.Subjects: Jews and Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Jewish Medicine |
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History of toxicology and environmental health. Toxicology in antiquity. 2 vols. Edited by Philip Wexler.New York: Academic Press, 2014.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › History of Ancient Medicine & Biology, BYZANTINE MEDICINE › History of Byzantine Medicine, Environmental Science & Health, TOXICOLOGY › History of Toxicology |
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History of allergy. Edited by K. C. Bergmann and J. Ring. (Chemical Immunology and Allergy Vol. 100.)Basel: Karger, 2014.Allergy through 20 centuries; most common allergic diseases: historical reflections; mechanisms of allergy: important discoveries; detection and environmental influences and allergens; progress in allergy management; pioneers of allergy; allergy societies and collections; online supplementary material. Subjects: ALLERGY › History of Allergy |
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Medicine and religion: An historical introduction.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.Subjects: RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Sourcebook for ancient Mesopotamian medicine.Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2014.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Mesopotamia, BIBLIOGRAPHY , BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Subjects, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Cuneiform |
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The healing goddess Gula: Towards an understanding of ancient Babylonian medicine.Leiden: Brill, 2014.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Mesopotamia |
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Food and environment in early and medieval China.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.Subjects: BIOLOGY › Ecology / Environment › History of Ecology / Environment, NUTRITION / DIET › History of Nutrition / Diet |
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Huarte y Navarro: The examination of men's wits, translated by Richard Carew. Edited by Rocío G. Sumillera. (MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations, Vol. 17).Modern Humanities Research Association, 2014.Includes a very significant historical introduction, particularly concerning the very wide influence of this work on literature and philosophy as well as medicine. Subjects: LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology, PSYCHOLOGY |
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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.Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2014.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › France, LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology |
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Medicine and the law in the Middle Ages. Edited by Wendy J. Turner and Sara M. Butler.Leiden: Brill, 2014."... a dozen authors address this intersection within three themes: medical matters in law and administration of law, professionalization and regulation of medicine, and medicine and law in hagiography. The articles include subjects such as medical expertise at law on assault, pregnancy, rape, homicide, and mental health; legal regulation of medicine; roles physicians and surgeons played in the process of professionalization; canon law regulations governing physical health and ecclesiastical leaders; and connections between saints’ judgments and the bodies of the penitent. Drawing on primary sources from England, France, Frisia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, the volume offers a truly international perspective" (publisher). Subjects: Forensic Medicine (Legal Medicine) › History of Forensic Medicine , LAW and Medicine & the Life Sciences, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Shadow medicine: The placebo in conventional and alternative therapies.New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › History of Alternative Medicine in General, PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE › Placebo / Nocebo |
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Scottish medicine and literary culture, 1726-1832.New York & Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Scotland, LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology |
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Sudden death: Medicine and religion in eighteenth-century Rome.London: Routledge, 2014."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 a mala mors because it threatened the victim’s salvation by hindering repentance and last confession. Special masses were celebrated to implore God’s clemency and Pope Clement XI ordered his personal physician, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, to perform a series of dissections in the university anatomical theatre in order to discover the 'true causes' of the deadly events. It was the first investigation of this kind ever to take place for a condition which was not contagious. The book that Lancisi published on this topic, De subitaneis mortibus (’On Sudden Deaths’, 1707), is one of the earliest modern scientific investigations of death; it was not only an accomplished example of mechanical philosophy as applied to the life sciences in eighteenth-century Europe, but also heralded a new pathological anatomy (traditionally associated with Giambattista Morgagni). Moreover, Lancisi’s tract and the whole affair of the sudden deaths in Rome marked a significant break in the traditional attitude towards dying, introducing a more active approach that would later develop into the practice of resuscitation medicine. Sudden Death explores how a new scientific interpretation of death and a new attitude towards dying first came into being, breaking free from the Hippocratic tradition, which regarded death as the obvious limit of physician’s capacity, and leading the way to a belief in the 'conquest of death' by medicine which remains in force to this day" (publisher). Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › History of Cardiology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Italy, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Handbook of African medicinal plants. Second edition.Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2014."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 centuries in traditional African medicine for the prevention and treatment of diseases, Africa remains a minor player in the global natural products market largely due to lack of practical information. This updated and expanded second edition of the Handbook of African Medicinal Plants provides a comprehensive review of more than 2,000 species of plants employed in indigenous African medicine, with full-color photographs and references from over 1,100 publications. Subjects: BOTANY › Ethnobotany, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Africa, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine |
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Death before dying: History, medicine, and brain death.Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2014."Brain death-the condition of a non-functioning brain, has been widely adopted around the world as a definition of death since it was detailed in a Report by an Ad Hoc Committee of Harvard Medical School faculty in 1968. It also remains a focus of controversy and debate, an early source of criticism and scrutiny of the bioethics movement. Death before Dying: History, Medicine, and Brain Death looks at the work of the Committee in a way that has not been attempted before in terms of tracing back the context of its own sources-the reasoning of its Chair, Henry K Beecher, and the care of patients in coma and knowledge about coma and consciousness at the time. That history requires re-thinking the debate over brain death that followed which has tended to cast the Committee's work in ways this book questions. This book, then, also questions common assumptions about the place of bioethics in medicine. This book discusses if the advent of bioethics has distorted and limited the possibilities for harnessing medicine for social progress. It challenges historical scholarship of medicine to be more curious about how medical knowledge can work as a potentially innovative source of values" (publisher). Subjects: DEATH & DYING, Ethics, Biomedical › History of Biomedical Ethics |
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Kennewick man: The scientific investigation of an ancient American skeleton. Edited by Douglas W. Owsley and Richard L. Jantz.College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2014." 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 generally given to the skeletal remains of a prehistoric Paleoamerican man found on a bank of the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington, United States, on July 28, 1996.[1] It is one of the most complete ancient skeletons ever found. Radiocarbon tests on bone have shown it to date from 8.9k to 9k calibrated years before present.[2][3] In the early 2000s, genetic analysis did not have sufficient techniques to analyze such ancient DNA. By 2013, however, techniques had improved and the ancient DNA (aDNA) was analyzed. In June 2015 the team announced their conclusions, that Kennewick Man had most in common with Native Americans among living peoples, including those in the Columbia River region where he was found.... "The discovery of Kennewick Man, along with other ancient skeletons, has furthered scientific debate over the exact origin and history of early Native American people.[15] One hypothesis holds that a single source of migration occurred, consisting of hunters and gatherers following large herds of game who wandered across the Bering land bridge. An alternative hypothesis is that more than one source population was involved in migration immediately following the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), which occurred ~22k to ~18k years BP, and that the land migration through Beringia was either preceded by or roughly synchronous with a waterborne migration from coastal Asia.[34]" (Wikipedia article Kennewick Man, accessed 03-2018). Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Physical Anthropology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , EVOLUTION › Human Origins / Human Evolution, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Washington |
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Bodies in balance: The art of Tibetan medicine. Edited by Theresia Hofer.Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2014.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, Indian, and Greco-Arab medical traditions but is distinct from them. Developed within the context of Buddhism, Tibetan medicine was adapted over centuries to different health needs and climates across the region encompassing the Tibetan Plateau, the Himalayas, and Mongolia. Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Tibet |
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Learning from the wounded: The Civil War and the rise of American medical science.Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014.How medical knowledge and experience gained during the U.S. Civil War advanced the development of American medicine after the war ended. Subjects: American (U.S.) CIVIL WAR MEDICINE › History of U.S. Civil War Medicine, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Santé et société à Montpellier à la fin du Moyen Âge.Leiden: Brill, 2014.Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › France, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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The Framingham Heart Study and the epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases: A historical perspective.Lancet, 383 (9921) 999-1008., 2014.Full text available from PubMedCentral at this link. Subjects: CARDIOLOGY, CARDIOLOGY › History of Cardiology, EPIDEMIOLOGY, EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology |
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Aphrodisiacs, fertility and medicine in early modern England.London: Royal Historical Society, 2014.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 abortifacients. Rather than reading the imbibing of these substances as women’s taking control of their bodies and their sexuality, Evans considers these medicines as having “a legitimate place in medical treatments for infertility” (174) in the early modern period. Most of her scholarship works to articulate that “legitimate place” through citing print midwifery treatises and other medical texts, but she also calls upon broadside ballads, manuscript recipes, pornographic literature, and witchcraft pamphlets to argue for the presence that “printed medical literature” had in less authoritative discourse and, perhaps, vice versa. "Evans’s work is most impressive in its survey of the medical literature, which includes not only the well-known midwifery manuals of Nicholas Culpepper and Jane Sharp but also more obscure anonymous texts. Occasionally her analysis will distinguish between works by licensed practitioners and those by others, but the accumulation of examples across the print record provides persuasive evidence supporting the ubiquity of the practices she describes. Through these practices, early modern individuals expressed the belief that sexual arousal and fulfillment were the keys to fertility; thus fertility itself, not arousal and fulfillment, was the goal of undertaking these practices. In this discussion, Evans considers aphrodisiacs for both men and women as addressing the same problem — infertility — thus providing a corrective to the contention that medical discourse placed the sole blame for infertility on the woman. Similarly, emmenagogues, medicines that “bring down the terms” or menstruation, were conceived as part of a regimen that established regular menstrual health and therefore contributed to women’s fertility" (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/640508) Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY › Infertility, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals, SEXUALITY / Sexology › History of Sexuality / Sexology, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Die Erfindung der Ophthalmoskopie dargestellt in den Originalbeschreibungen der Augenspiegel von Helmholtz, Ruete und Giraud-Teulon. Eingeleitet und erläutert von Wolfgang Jaeger.Berlin: Springer, 2014.Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › History of Biomedical Instrumentation, OPHTHALMOLOGY › History of Ophthalmology |
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Female circumcision and clitoridectomy in the United States: A history of a medical treatment.Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2014."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). During this same time, and continuing to today, physicians also performed female circumcision to enable women to reach orgasm. Though used as treatment, paradoxically, for both a perceived excessive sexuality and a perceived lack of sexual responsiveness, these surgeries reflect a consistent medical conception of the clitoris as a sexual organ. In recent years the popular media and academics have commented on the rising popularity in the United States of female genital cosmetic surgeries, including female circumcision, yet these discussions often assume such procedures are new..." (publisher). Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , Ethics, Biomedical › History of Biomedical Ethics, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY › History of Gynecology, SEXUALITY / Sexology › History of Sexuality / Sexology, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Medical Museums outside the United States.Cleveland, OH: Case Western Reserve University, 2014.http://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/research/links-of-interest/medical-museums-outside-the-united-states/ Annotated listing of medical museums outside the United States with links to their websites. Subjects: DIGITAL RESOURCES, MUSEUMS › Medical, Anatomical & Pathological |
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The Pelvis: Structure, gender and society.Heidelberg & New York: Springer, 2014."This book offers a critical review of the pelvic sciences—past, present and future—from an anatomical and physiological perspective....The book starts with a “construction plan” of the pelvis and shows its structural consequences. The historical background of pelvic studies proceeds from medieval and early Italian models to the definitive understanding of the pelvic anatomy in the Seventeenth century. During these eras of pelvic research, concepts and approaches developed that are illustrated with examples from comparative anatomy and from mutations, also with regard to the biomechanics of pelvic structures. Perceptions of the pelvis as an important element in sexual arousal and mating conduct are discussed, as well as attitudes to circumcision, castration and other mutilations, in its anthropological, social context. "The anatomy and physiology of the pelvic wall and its organs as well as the development of these pelvic organs are covered as a prerequisite to understanding, for example, the spread of pelvic carcinoma and male and female bladder muscle function. Connective pelvic tissue is examined in its reinforcing capacity for pelvic structures, but also as a “hiding place” for infections. Innervations and reflexes relayed through the pelvic nerves are discussed in order to explain incontinence, sphincter function and the control of smooth and striated muscles in the pelvis. "Catheters and drugs acting on pelvic function are described, and a critical review of alternative clinical methods for treating pelvic dysfunctions is provided" (publisher). Subjects: ANATOMY › 21st Century, ANATOMY › History of Anatomy, ONCOLOGY & CANCER › Carcinoma, PHYSIOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY › History of Physiology, SEXUALITY / Sexology › History of Sexuality / Sexology |
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Animalia: Men and animal care in the manuscripts of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. Edited by Donatella Lippi.Florence: Mandragora, 2014.Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology, VETERINARY MEDICINE › History of Veterinary Medicine, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Cholera: A worldwide history.Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014.Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Cholera, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › History of Infectious Disease |
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The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations.Science, 346, 56-61, 2014.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 area of Kinshasa in Africa. This was about forty years before it was first detected in a stored human blood sample collected in 1959 from a hospitalized patient it in Kinshasa. Order of authorship in the original publication was Faria, Rambaut, Suchard...Lemey. Full text and images from PubMedCentral at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Africa, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS › History of HIV / AIDS |
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Brief report: Evidence for camel-to-human transmission of MERS coronavirus.New Eng. J. Med., 370, 2499-2505, 2014.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 to Juan Weiss for this entry and its interpretation.) Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Saudi Arabia, EPIDEMIOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) , VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Coronaviruses (Coronaviridae) › MERS |
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A database for three Dioscoridean illustrated herbals.HortScience, 49, 977-979, 2014."Abstract. An image database was developed for three illustrated recensions of the nonillustrated manuscript of Dioscorides entitled ... (De Materia Medica in Latin; On Medical Matters in English) written in approximately Year 65: Juliana Anicia Codex (JAC) or Codex Vindobonensis produced in Year 512, Codex Neapolitanus (NAP) produced in the late sixth or early seventh century, and Morgan 652 (M652) produced between 927 and 985. The database that brings up images and accompanying records is searchable by herbal, common name in English and Greek (Roman alphabet), binomial (current and in source document), and botanical family. In addition, a Venn diagram of images in the three herbals permits a search for images that are common or unique among the three herbals. The database makes it possible to locate images in herbals written in Greek that are difficult to access and will be useful to horticulturists and herbal scholars." The database is available at: https://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/pdfs/herbal-database-hortsci-v49-2014.pdf
Subjects: BOTANY › Botanical Illustration, BOTANY › History of Botany, BOTANY › Medical Botany, DIGITAL RESOURCES, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines › History of Materia Medica, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Medicine in Iran: Profession, practice, and politics, 1800-1925.New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Iran (Persia), POLICY, HEALTH, Persian (Iranian) Islamic Medicine › History of Persian (Iranian) Islamic Medicine |
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Emergence of Zaire Ebola virus disease in Guinea.New Eng. J. Med., 371, 1418-1425, 2014.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, Guékédou Prefecture, southern Guinea. This case, in which the child died on December 6, 2013, sparked the Ebola Zaire epidemic of 2014. The authors tracked down all contacts with the child to a point of unstoppable spread and dissemination. In a multi-country collaboration the virus was sequenced and characterized. Digital facsimile from nejm.org at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Guinea, Republic of, EPIDEMIOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Ebola Virus Disease, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Filoviridae › Ebolavirus, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Clinical illness and outcomes in patients with Ebola in Sierra Leone.New Eng. J. Med., 371, 2092-2100, 2014.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 subgroup of patients." Includes data on patient clinical characteristics and presentation of the illness, describes clinical pathology and lab abnormalities observed in the hot zone, presents management recommendations, special precautions and infection control advice. Digital facsimile from nejm.org at this link. With: Chertow, Daniel S., Kleine, Christian, Edwards, Jeffrey K., "Ebola virus disease in West Africa--Clinical manifestations and management," New Eng. J. Med., 371 (2014) 2054-2057. Authors present a system of "phases of the illness", and practical information on the logistics of fighting it. "In resource-limited areas, isolation of the sick from the population at large has been the cornerstone of control of Ebola virus disease (EVD) since the virus was discovered in 1976.1 Although this strategy by itself may be effective in controlling small outbreaks in remote settings, it has offered little hope to infected people and their families in the absence of medical care. In the current West African outbreak, infection control and clinical management efforts are necessarily being implemented on a larger scale than in any previous outbreak, and it is therefore appropriate to reassess traditional efforts at disease management. Having cared for more than 700 patients with EVD between August 23 and October 4, 2014, in the largest Ebola treatment unit in Monrovia, Liberia (see diagrams), we believe that our cumulative clinical observations support a rational approach to EVD management in resource-limited settings." Digital facsimile of the paper from nejm.org at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Liberia, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Sierra Leone, EPIDEMIOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Ebola Virus Disease, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Filoviridae › Ebolavirus |
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Clinical care of two patients with Ebola virus disease in the United States.New Eng. J. Med., 371, 2402-2409, 2014.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 authors emphasized the key role that intensive fluid management played in patient outcome. "The largest outbreak of EVD in history began in December 2013 in Guinea, a country in West Africa.1 By late March, Liberia had reported seven cases. By the end of May, the epidemic had spread to Sierra Leone. As of November 5, 2014, a total of 13,042 cases of EVD (including 4818 deaths) had been reported in six countries in West Africa (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, and Senegal), the United States, and Spain.2" Digital facsimile from nejm.org at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , EPIDEMIOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Ebola Virus Disease, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Filoviridae › Ebolavirus |
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Wounded: A new history of the Western Front in World War I.Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.A comprehensive account of medical care at the Western Front in World War I. Over 21 million military in were wounded in World War I, and nearly 10 million were killed. Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › World War I, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Uroscopy in Middle English: A guide to the texts and manuscripts. Studies in medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd Series, Vol. 11.Tucson, AZ: AMS Press, 2014.Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › England, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Annotated x-ray bibliography 1896-1945, also containing some selected references on nuclear physics, radioactivity & nuclear medicine.Warsaw, Poland: Polish Oncological Society, 2014.Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Subjects, Nuclear Medicine, RADIOLOGY › History of Radiology |
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An annotated bibliography of the Dennis G. Pappas Otolaryngology Collection at the Reynolds Historical Library.Birmingham, AL: Printed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2014.Digital edition available from https://library.uab.edu/images/reynolds-finley/collections/otolaryngology/pappas-annotated-bibliography.pdf Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Physicians' / Scientists' Libraries, DIGITAL RESOURCES, OTOLOGY , OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY (Ear, Nose, Throat) |
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Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and the religion of biologic living.Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2014."Purveyors of spiritualized medicine have been legion in American religious history, but few have achieved the superstar status of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his Battle Creek Sanitarium. In its heyday, the 'San' was a combination spa and Mayo Clinic. Founded in 1866 under the auspices of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and presided over by the charismatic Dr. Kellogg, it catered to many well-heeled health seekers including Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Presidents Taft and Harding. It also supported a hospital, research facilities, a medical school, a nursing school, several health food companies, and a publishing house dedicated to producing materials on health and wellness. Rather than focusing on Kellogg as the eccentric creator of corn flakes or a megalomaniacal quack, Brian C. Wilson takes his role as a physician and a theological innovator seriously and places his religion of 'Biologic Living' in an on-going tradition of sacred health and wellness. With the fascinating and unlikely story of the 'San' as a backdrop, Wilson traces the development of this theology of physiology from its roots in antebellum health reform and Seventh-day Adventism to its ultimate accommodation of genetics and eugenics in the Progressive Era" (publisher). Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Biographies of Individuals, NUTRITION / DIET › History of Nutrition / Diet, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Rum maniacs: Alcoholic insanity in the Early American Republic.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2014.Subjects: PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry, TOXICOLOGY › Drug Addiction › History of Drug Addiction |
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Genome sequence of the Tsetse Fly (Glossina morsitans): Vector of African Tyrpanosomiasis.Science, 344, 380-386, 2014.The Internation Glossina Genome Initiative consisted of 179 collaborators. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Genomics › Pathogenomics, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Triatomine Bug-Borne Diseases › Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis) , PARASITOLOGY › Molecular Parasitology |
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Presence of extensive Wolbachia symbiont insertions discovered in the genome of its host Glossina morsitans morsitans.PLoS Negl. Trop. Dis., 8, doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002728, 2014.Order of authorship in the original publication: Brelsfoard, Tsiamis, Falchetto....The authors suggested that infection by Wolbachia may give a reproductive advantage to the fly that carries the parasite causing Sleeping Sickness and nagana. Digital edition avalable from PubMedCentral PMCID: PMC3998919. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › BACTERIA (mostly pathogenic; sometimes indexed only to genus) › Rickettsiales › Wolbachia, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Genomics › Pathogenomics, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Tsetse Fly-Borne Diseases › Sleeping Sickness (African Trypanosomiasis), PARASITOLOGY › Molecular Parasitology, ZOOLOGY › Arthropoda › Entomology |
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Cancer virus: The story of Epstein-Barr virus.Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.Subjects: ONCOLOGY & CANCER › History of Oncology & Cancer, VIROLOGY › History of Virology, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Herpesviridae › Epstein-Barr Virus, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Trans bodies, Trans selves: A resource for the transgender community. Edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth.Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.Subjects: SEXUALITY / Sexology › Transsexuality, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Actionable diagnosis of neuroleptospirosis by next-generation sequencing.New Eng. J. Med., 370, 2408-2416, 2014.Order of authorship in the original publication: Wilson, Naccache, Samayoa...Chiu. This research demonstrated the value of "next-generation-sequencing" in the diagnosis of a specific meningoencephalitis, a disease which can be caused by more than 100 different infectious agents. "Summary: A 14-year-old boy with severe combined immunodeficiency presented three times to a medical facility over a period of 4 months with fever and headache that progressed to hydrocephalus and status epilepticus necessitating a medically induced coma. Diagnostic workup including brain biopsy was unrevealing. Unbiased next-generation sequencing of the cerebrospinal fluid identified 475 of 3,063,784 sequence reads (0.016%) corresponding to leptospira infection. Clinical assays for leptospirosis were negative. Targeted antimicrobial agents were administered, and the patient was discharged home 32 days later with a status close to his premorbid condition. Polymerase-chain-reaction (PCR) and serologic testing at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) subsequently confirmed evidence of Leptospira santarosai infection." Digital facsimile from nejm.org at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Genomics › Pathogenomics, Biomedical Informatics, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Neuroinfectious Diseases, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Neuroinfectious Diseases › Encephalitis |
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Zoology in early modern culture: Intersections of science, theology, philology, and political and religious education. Edited by Karl A. E. Enenkel and Paul J. Smith.Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2014.Subjects: NATURAL HISTORY › History of Natural History, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences, ZOOLOGY › History of Zoology |
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Banking on the body: The market in blood, milk, and sperm in modern America.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY › Infertility, THERAPEUTICS › Blood Transfusion › History of Blood Transfusion |
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Medical monopoly: Intellectual property rights and the origins of the modern pharmaceutical industry.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2014.Subjects: LAW and Medicine & the Life Sciences › Patents, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACY › History of Pharmacy |
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Reading vampire gothic through blood: Bloodlines.New York: Springer, 2014.Subjects: LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology, THERAPEUTICS › Blood Transfusion › History of Blood Transfusion |
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Doctors of another calling: Physicians who are best known in fields other than medicine. Edited by David K. C. Cooper.Lanham, MD: University of Delaware Press & Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) |
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The new frontier of genome engineering with CRISPR-Cas9.Science, 346. DOI: 10.1126/science.1258096, 2014.Order of authorship in the original paper: Doubna, Charpenter. "Abstract "The advent of facile genome engineering using the bacterial RNA-guided CRISPR-Cas9 system in animals and plants is transforming biology. We review the history of CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeat) biology from its initial discovery through the elucidation of the CRISPR-Cas9 enzyme mechanism, which has set the stage for remarkable developments using this technology to modify, regulate, or mark genomic loci in a wide variety of cells and organisms from all three domains of life. These results highlight a new era in which genomic manipulation is no longer a bottleneck to experiments, paving the way toward fundamental discoveries in biology, with applications in all branches of biotechnology, as well as strategies for human therapeutics." (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › CRISPR Gene Editing |
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Generation of gene-modified Cynomolgus monkey via CAS9/RNA-mediated gene targeting in one-cell embryos.Cell, 156, 836-843, 2014.Order of authorship in the original publication: Niu, Shen, Cui. The authors presented the first evidence that CRISPR can work in primates. Open Archive version available from Cell at this link. "Summary "Monkeys serve as important model species for studying human diseases and developing therapeutic strategies, yet the application of monkeys in biomedical researches has been significantly hindered by the difficulties in producing animals genetically modified at the desired target sites. Here, we first applied the CRISPR/Cas9 system, a versatile tool for editing the genes of different organisms, to target monkey genomes. By coinjection of Cas9 mRNA and sgRNAs into one-cell-stage embryos, we successfully achieve precise gene targeting in cynomolgus monkeys. We also show that this system enables simultaneous disruption of two target genes (Ppar-γ and Rag1) in one step, and no off-target mutagenesis was detected by comprehensive analysis. Thus, coinjection of one-cell-stage embryos with Cas9 mRNA and sgRNAs is an efficient and reliable approach for gene-modified cynomolgus monkey generation."
(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › CRISPR Gene Editing |
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Viruses and man: A history of interactions.Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2014.Subjects: VIROLOGY › History of Virology |
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Urolithiasis: A comprehensive history.New York, 2014.Subjects: NEPHROLOGY › Renal Disease › Renal Calculi (Kidney Stones), UROLOGY › History of Urology, UROLOGY › Urinary Calculi |
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Global Health Events web archive.Bethesda, MD: U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2014.Global Health Events web archive"Collected by: National Library of Medicine "Archived since: Oct, 2014 "Description: "A selective collection of over 12,000 web resources archived by the National Library of Medicine beginning in 2014 related to global health events, including the 2014 and 2016 Ebola outbreaks, Zika virus disease in 2015-2016, and the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak. Included in the archive are websites and social media of government and non-government organizations, journalists, healthcare workers, and scientists in the United States and around the world, with an aim to collect and preserve a diversity of perspectives. Archived websites are primarily in English. NLM will continue to develop, review, describe, and add content to the collection. "Subject: Government - National, Science & Health, Spontaneous Events, Ebola, hemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus disease, Zika Virus, Zika Virus Infection, Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) "Group: Thematic and Event-Based Collections "Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)" Subjects: DIGITAL RESOURCES, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries , EPIDEMIOLOGY › Pandemics, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Ebola Virus Disease, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Zika Virus Disease |
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Doctors of empire: Medical and cultural encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji JapanToronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2014.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Germany, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Japan |
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Polio wars: Sister Kenny and the golden age of American medicine. By Naomi Rogers.New York: Oxford University Press, 2014."During World War II, polio epidemics in the United States were viewed as the country's "other war at home": they could be neither predicted nor contained, and paralyzed patients faced disability in a world unfriendly to the disabled. These realities were exacerbated by the medical community's enforced orthodoxy in treating the disease, treatments that generally consisted of ineffective therapies. Polio Wars is the story of Sister Elizabeth Kenny — "Sister" being a reference to her status as a senior nurse, not a religious designation — who arrived in the US from Australia in 1940 espousing an unorthodox approach to the treatment of polio. Kenny approached the disease as a non-neurological affliction, championing such novel therapies as hot packs and muscle exercises in place of splinting, surgery, and immobilization. Her care embodied a different style of clinical practice, one of optimistic, patient-centered treatments that gave hope to desperate patients and families. The Kenny method, initially dismissed by the US medical establishment, gained overwhelming support over the ensuing decade, including the endorsement of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (today's March of Dimes), America's largest disease philanthropy. By 1952, a Gallup Poll identified Sister Kenny as most admired woman in America, and she went on to serve as an expert witness at Congressional hearings on scientific research, a foundation director, and the subject of a Hollywood film. Kenny breached professional and social mores, crafting a public persona that blended Florence Nightingale and Marie Curie. By the 1980s, following the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines and the March of Dimes' withdrawal from polio research, most Americans had forgotten polio, its therapies, and Sister Kenny" (publisher). Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › History of Infectious Disease, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Neuroinfectious Diseases › Poliomyelitis (Infantile Paralysis) |
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Medicine in Medieval Islam by Emilie Savage-Smith. IN: The Cambridge history of science, Vol. 2: Medieval science, edited by D. Lindberg and M. H. Shank, pp. 140-167.Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2014.Subjects: ISLAMIC OR ARAB MEDICINE › History of Islamic or Arab Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine |
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Islamic medical manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine.Bethesda, MD: U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2014.Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology › Translations to and from Arabic, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries , ISLAMIC OR ARAB MEDICINE |
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Forensic medicine and death investigation in Medieval England.London: Routledge, 2014.Subjects: Forensic Medicine (Legal Medicine) › History of Forensic Medicine , MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › England, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine |
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Acute neurologic illness of unknown etiology in children - Colorado, August-September 2014.Morb. Mortal. Wkly. Rep. (MMWR) 63, 901-902, 2014.The authors reported a cluster of 9 children seen at Colorado Children's Hospital with an acute neurologic illness characterized by extremity weakness, cranial nerve dysfunction, diplopia (double vision), facial droop, dysphagia (swallowing difficulties) dysarthria (weak or slurred speech) or both. Median age was 8 years. All had a preceding febrile illness with cold-like symptoms. Four had enterovrus (EV) D68 isolated from the nasopharynx. Polio virus was excluded. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Pastula, Aliabadi...Miller.) Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Neuroinfectious Diseases › Acute Flaccid Myelitis, NEUROLOGY › Child Neurology, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › California, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Colorado |
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Healing traditions of the Northwestern Himalayas.New Delhi: Springer, 2014."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 knowledge systems, healing in ancient scriptures, concept of sacredness and faith healing, food as medicament, presumptions about disease, ethno-botanical aspects of medicinal plants, collection and processing of herbs, traditional therapeutic procedures, indigenous Materia medica, etc. The book also discusses the diverse therapeutic procedures followed by Himalayan healers and their significance in the socio-cultural life of Himalayan societies. "The World Health Organization defines traditional medicine as wisdom, skills, and practices based on theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultures, used in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness and maintenance of health. In some Asian and African countries, 80% of the population depends on traditional medicine for primary health care. However, the knowledge of these conventional healing techniques and traditions associated with conveying this knowledge are slowly disappearing. The authors highlight the importance of safeguarding this indigenous knowledge in the cultural milieu of the Himachal Himalayas" (publisher). Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Himalayas, INDIA, Practice of Medicine in, INDIA, Practice of Medicine in › Traditional Indian Medicine, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences › Faith Healing |
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Music and the nerves 1700-1900. Edited by James Kennway.Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.Subjects: Music and Medicine, NEUROLOGY › History of Neurology |
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The malaria project: The U.S. government's secret mission to find a miracle cure.New York: New American Library, 2014."....the story of America's secret mission to combat malaria during World War II—a campaign modeled after a German project which tested experimental drugs on men gone mad from syphilis. Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Malaria › History of Malaria |
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Unseen enemy: The English, disease, and medicine in colonial Bengal, 1617–1847.Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › India, INDIA, Practice of Medicine in › History of Practice of Medicine in India |
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Il Museo di storia naturale dell'Università degli studi di Firenze. Vol. 5, Le collezioni antropologiche ed etnologiche.Florence: Firenze University Press, 2014.Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY › Anthropometry, EVOLUTION › Human Origins / Human Evolution, MUSEUMS › Natural History Museums / Wunderkammern |
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Ethnobotany of tuberculosis in Laos.Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2014.Subjects: BOTANY › Ethnobotany, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Laos, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Tuberculosis |
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Muslim midwives: The craft of birthing in the premodern Middle East.Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2014.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Middle East, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY › History of Gynecology, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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The black doctors of colonial Lima: Science, race, and writing in colonial and early Republican Peru.Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014."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 independence in Peru, became dependent on a large number of bloodletters, surgeons, and doctors of African descent. The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima focuses on the lives and fortunes of three of the most distinguished among this group of black physicians: José Pastor de Larrinaga, a surgeon of controversial medical ideas who passionately defended the right of scientific learning for Afro-Peruvians; José Manuel Dávalos, a doctor who studied medicine at the University of Montpellier and played a key role in the smallpox vaccination campaigns in Peru; and José Manuel Valdés, a multifaceted writer who became the first and only person of black ancestry to become a chief medical officer in Spanish America. By carefully documenting their actions and writings, The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima illustrates how medicine and its related fields became areas in which the descendants of slaves found opportunities for social and political advancement, and a platform from which to engage in provocative dialogue with Enlightenment thought and social revolution" (publisher). Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Peru, Latin American Medicine › History of Latin American Medicine |
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Past scents: Historical perspectives on smell.Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2014.Subjects: Olfaction / Smell, Anatomy & Physiology of |
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Cancer concepts: A guidebook for the non-oncologist.Worcester, MA: University of Massachusetts Medical School, 2014.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/cancer_concepts/8/ The first interactive open-source electronic textbook on any medical subject. This eBook was designed for first year medical students. Order of authorship on the website: Pieters, Bishop-Jodoin, Liebmann. Subjects: DIGITAL RESOURCES › eBooks (Digital Books), Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession, ONCOLOGY & CANCER |
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Doctor Hieronymus Münzer's itinerary (1494 and 1495) and the discovery of Guinea. Edited and translated by James Firth.London: J. Firth, 2014.Subjects: VOYAGES & Travels by Physicians, Surgeons & Scientists › History of Voyages & Travels by Physicians.... |
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A brief history of macromolecular crystallography, illustrated by a family tree and its Nobel fruits.FEBS Journal, 281, 3985-4009, 2014.Free access from FEBS Press at this link. Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › History of Molecular Biology, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Protein Structure, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › X-Ray Crystallography |
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Neuroanatomical terminology: A lexicon of classical origins and historical foundations.New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.The first global, historically documented, hierarchically organized parts list of the human nervous system. "This defined vocabulary accurately and systematically describes every human nervous system structural feature that can be observed with current imaging methods, and provides an extendible frame for describing accurately the nervous system in all animals including invertebrates and vertebrates. . . ." Subjects: ANATOMY › History of Anatomy, ANATOMY › Neuroanatomy, ANATOMY › Neuroanatomy › History of Neuroanatomy, Dictionaries, Biomedical › Lexicography, Biomedical, NEUROLOGY › History of Neurology |
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Worlds of learning. The library and world chronicle of the Nuremberg physician Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514). Edited by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.Munich: Allitera Verlag, 2015.Schedel's library, mostly preserved at the Bayerisches Staatsbibliothek, is the most extensive and multifaceted surviving private library of a fifteenth-century German collector. According to Schedel's original manuscript catalogue, the library consisted of 623 works in 645 volumes of which about 190 works were on medicine. With numerous fine color plates. Schedel also owned a collection of prints and drawings, described and illustrated in Die Graphiksammulung des Humanisten Hartmann Schedel by Béatrice Hernad (Munich, 1990). Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Physicians' / Scientists' Libraries |
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Anatomy and anatomists in early modern Spain.Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2015.Subjects: ANATOMY › History of Anatomy, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Spain |
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Odontologia: Rare & important books in the history of dentistry. An illustrated and annotated catalogue.Stockholm: Swedish Medical Society, 2015.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). Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Dentistry, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Institutional Medical Libraries, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Sweden, DENTISTRY › History of Dentistry |
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Patients and healers in the High Roman Empire.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire › History of Medicine in the Roman Empire |
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Cherokee medicine, colonial germs: An indigenous nation’s fight against smallpox, 1518–1824.Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States › American Southeast, EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox › History of Smallpox, NATIVE AMERICANS & Medicine |
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The technical image: A history of styles in scientific imagery.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015.Subjects: IMAGING › History of Imaging, Illustration, Biomedical |
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William Hunter's world: The art and science of eighteenth-century collecting.Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2015.Authoritative illustrated chapters on aspects of Hunter's collecting, including anatomy, zoology, entomology, fossils, numismatics, paintings, drawings, printed books and manuscripts. A collective work edited by Hancock, Pearce and Campbell. Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Book Collecting, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Physicians' / Scientists' Libraries, MUSEUMS › History of Museums |
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The fate of anatomical collections.Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2015.A collective work, edited by Knoeff and Zwijenberg, which includes several chapters of great interest. Relevant to the history of John Hunter's museum see Andrew Cunningham, "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Or, what Richard Owen did to John Hunter's collection". Cunningham shows how Richard Owen (see No. 326), influenced by the new science of comparative anatomy developed by Cuvier in Cuvier's Leçons d’anatomie comparée (5 vols., 1800-05; No. 321) intentionally or unintentionally shaped Hunter's museum to fit the new paradigm.
Subjects: ANATOMY › History of Anatomy, MUSEUMS › History of Museums, MUSEUMS › Medical, Anatomical & Pathological |
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Essays on the history of respiratory physiology.Washington, DC: American Physiological Society, 2015.Subjects: PHYSIOLOGY › History of Physiology, RESPIRATION › Respiratory Physiology |
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Health care in America: A history.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , History of Medicine: General Works |
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Caring for the heart: Mayo Clinic and the rise of specialization.Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.The history of cardiology and cardiac surgery from the perspective of the history of the Mayo Clinic. Of special interest for details of the history of cardiac surgery in Minnesota. The book may be most remembered for its definitive account of the heart disease of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the way virtually all information about this was kept from the American public during Roosevelt's presidency. This disease proved fatal early in Roosevelt's fourth term. Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › History of Cardiology, CARDIOVASCULAR (Cardiac) SURGERY › History of Cardiac Surgery, Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession, HOSPITALS › History of Hospitals |
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Medicine and public health in Latin America: A history.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Latin America, Latin American Medicine › History of Latin American Medicine |
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For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and colonial medicine in enlightenment Guatemala.Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2015.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Guatemala, Latin American Medicine › History of Latin American Medicine |
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U. S. Army psychiatry in the Vietnam War: New challenges in extended counterinsurgency warfare.Washington, DC: Defense Dept., Borden Institute, 2015.Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › Vietnam War, PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry |
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Vietnamese traditional medicine: A social history.Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2015.Reception of foreign medical ideas and techniques through the case study of smallpox. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Vietnam, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox › History of Smallpox, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Another person's poison: A history of food allergy.New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.Subjects: ALLERGY › History of Allergy, NUTRITION / DIET › History of Nutrition / Diet |
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Histoire et épistémologie de l'anatomie et de la physiologie en art dentaire: De l'antiquité à la fin du XXe siècle.Paris: L'Harmattan, 2015.Subjects: DENTISTRY › History of Dentistry |
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NeuroTribes: The legacy of autism and the future of neurodiversity. Foreward by Oliver Sacks.New York: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2015.A very well written semi-popular historical account of autism. Subjects: NEUROLOGY › History of Neurology, NEUROLOGY › Neurodevelopmental Disorders, NEUROLOGY › Neurodevelopmental Disorders › Autism |
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HistoryofMedicineandBiology.comNovato, CA, 2015.On December 27, 2016, as this database reached its 10,000th entry, though its entry number is less because of the old decimal extensions used in the prior printed editions, I decided to add it in the "electronic resource" category. What distinguishes this site from the other "electronic resources" included under this category til this date is that it has been the work of only three people: Fielding Garrison, Leslie Morton, and myself, and it traces its origins back to 1912. See About HistoryofMedicineandBiology.com. Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Online Access Catalogues & Bibliographic Databases |
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A historical perspective on evidence-based immunology.Amsterdam & Waltham, MA: Elsevier, 2015.Thoroughly documented and well-illustrated history, with a timeline and bibliography for each chapter. Subjects: IMMUNOLOGY › History of Immunology |
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Al-Rāzī, On the treatment of small children (De curis puerorum). The Latin and Hebrew Translations, edited and translated by Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh.Leiden: Brill, 2015.One of the few texts on pediatrics that circulated during the Middle Ages, this short Latin tretise is the translation of a lost Arabic original attributed--perhaps mistakenly--to Rhazes. Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Persian Islamic Medicine, PEDIATRICS |
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Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world: The Ottoman experience, 1347-1600.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Turkey, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Flea-Borne Diseases › Plague (transmitted by fleas from rats to humans) › Plague, History of, ISLAMIC OR ARAB MEDICINE › History of Islamic or Arab Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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The Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian sources in the Comprehensive Book of Rhazes. By Oliver Kahl.Leiden: Brill, 2015.Razi's Kitab al-Hawi, a vast medical-pharmaceutical encyclopedia, was compiled from multiple sources. For each identified source this study provides Razi's Arabic text with an English translation. When possible, the original version of the quoted text is provided. "All text material appears in full Arabic with English translation whilst the traceable Indian fragments are represented here, for the first time, in both the original Sanskrit and corresponding English translations. The philological core of the book is framed by a detailed introductory study on the transmission of Indian, Syrian and Iranian medicine and pharmacy to the Arabs, and by extensive bilingual glossaries of relevant Arabic and Sanskrit terms as well as Latin botanical identifications" (publisher). Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › India, Iranian Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Syria and Syriac Texts, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals, Persian (Iranian) Islamic Medicine |
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The Alexandrian summaries of Galen’s On critical days. Editions and translations of the two versions of the JAWĀMIʿ, with an introduction and notes by Gerrit Bos and Y. Tzvi Langermann.Leiden: Brill, 2015."Galen's impact on Islamic civilization, mainly on medicine but also on physics and philosophy, was enormous. His most important books were mediated through "summaries" which not only shortened, but in some cases also revised Galenic teachings. Several versions of these summaries exist, and their appreciation is critical for a proper understanding of the development of medieval science. This book presents the first editions, translations, and studies of the remaining summaries to On Critical Days. In Galenic theory, fevers develop towards a crisis which will determine the fate of a patient" (publisher). Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Hellenistic, ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine |
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The Hippocratic Corpus: Content and context.Abingdon, Oxford: Routledge, 2015.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece › History of Ancient Medicine in Greece, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology, Hippocratic Tradition |
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Healing magic and evil demons: Canonical Udug-Hul incantations. (Die Babylonisch-assyrische Texten und Untersuchungen, Vol. 8.)Boston, MA: Walter de Gruyter, 2015.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Mesopotamia, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Cuneiform, Magic & Superstition in Medicine |
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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.Leiden: Brill, 2015."...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 seventeenth-century Central Asian medical treatise written by Sayyid Subhan Quli Khan Muhammad Bahadur khan in the Chagatay language. The edition includes a detailed introduction, a transcription of the original text for philological purposes, an annotated English translation, complete lexica of vocabulary, herbs and plants, minerals and chemicals, diseases and related terms, measures and units, personal names and Qur'anic verses, and finally two manuscripts in facsimile" (publisher). Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Central Asia, ISLAMIC OR ARAB MEDICINE |
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The evolution of forensic psychiatry: History, current developments, future directions. Edited by Robert L. Sadoff.New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.Subjects: Forensic Medicine (Legal Medicine), Forensic Medicine (Legal Medicine) › History of Forensic Medicine , PSYCHIATRY › Forensic Psychiatry, PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry |
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Medicare and Medicaid at 50: America's entitlement programs in the age of affordable care. Edited by Alan B. Cohen, David C. Colby, Keith A. Wailoo, and Julian E. Zelizer.New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.Subjects: ECONOMICS, BIOMEDICAL, ECONOMICS, BIOMEDICAL › History of Biomedical Economics, Insurance, Health, Insurance, Health › History of Health Insurance, SOCIAL MEDICINE |
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Indigenous medicine among the Bedouin in the Middle East.New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015.Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Middle East, ISLAMIC OR ARAB MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine |
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History, sex and syphilis: Famous syphilitics and their private lives.Bradenton, FL: BookLocker.com, Inc., 2015.Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES › Syphilis › History of Syphilis, LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology, Music and Medicine |
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Civil War nurse narratives 1863-1870.Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2015.Examines the first wave of autobiographical narratives written by northern female nurses and published during the war and shortly thereafter, including Louisa May Alcott, Elvira Powers and Julia Wheelock. From the hospitals of Washington, DC, and Philadelphia, to the field at Gettysburg in the aftermath of the battle, to the camps bordering front lines during active combat, these nurse narrators reported on what they saw and experienced for an American audience hungry for tales of individual experience in the war. Subjects: American (U.S.) CIVIL WAR MEDICINE › History of U.S. Civil War Medicine, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1800 - 1899, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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The Rockefeller Foundation, public health and international diplomacy, 1920–1945.London & New York: Routledge, 2015.The role of the Rockefeller Foundation and the League of Nations in improving public health during the interwar period. Barona argues that the Foundation applied a model of business efficiency to its ideology of spreading good health, creating a revolution in public health practice. Subjects: Global Health, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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Radium and the secret of life.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015.Subjects: GENETICS / HEREDITY › History of Genetics / Heredity |
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Confronting contagion: Our evolving understanding of disease.New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › History of Infectious Disease |
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Peter of Spain, Questiones super libro De animalibus Aristotelis. Critical edition with introduction, edited by Francisca Navarro Sánchez.New York: Routledge, 2015.Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Spain, Medieval Zoology |
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Bones: Orthopaedic pathologies in Roman Imperial age.New York & Berlin: Springer, 2015.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire › History of Medicine in the Roman Empire, ORTHOPEDICS › Diseases of or Injuries to Bones, Joints & Skeleton, PATHOLOGY › Paleopathology |
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The medieval Islamic hospital: Medicine, religion, charity.Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2015.Focuses on Egyptian and Levantine institutions of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries. Subjects: HOSPITALS › History of Hospitals, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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In search of the perfect health system.London: Palgrave, 2015."With chapters on 25 different countries, this practical and succinct guide to the world's major health systems explores what lessons can be drawn from each to improve health worldwide. Each chapter is an essay designed to give the reader essential knowledge of the history, strengths, weaknesses and lessons of each health system and provide a truly global health perspective – all in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee" (Publisher). Subjects: Global Health, PUBLIC HEALTH, SOCIAL MEDICINE |
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Sanitation, latrines and intestinal parasites in past populations. Edited by Piers D. Mitchell.Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015.Subjects: Hygiene › History of Hygiene, PARASITOLOGY › History of Parasitology, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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Science and civilisation in China: Vol. 6, biology and biological technology, Part 4, traditional botany: An ethnobotanical approach.Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2015.Subjects: BOTANY › Ethnobotany, BOTANY › History of Botany, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › China, People's Republic of, China, History & Practice of Medicine in, Chinese Medicine › History of Chinese Medicine |
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The making and meaning of the Liber Floridus: A study of the original manuscript, Ghent, University Library, MS 92.London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2015."The Liber Floridus (1121), composed, written and illustrated by Canon Lambert of Saint-Omer, is the earliest illustrated encyclopedic compilation of the Latin West. Its autograph (Ghent, University Library, MS 92), a masterpiece of Romanesque book art and one of the most complicated manuscripts ever made, has been studied by the author for almost half a century. The present book is the culmination of this research and provides a detailed codicological and textual analysis, showing how this wonderful book was put together and which are the hidden ideas Lambert sought to develop in its hundreds of texts and pictures dealing with astronomy, geography, natural history, history, religion and countless other subjects" (publisher). Subjects: Medieval Zoology › History of Medieval Zoology, NATURAL HISTORY › History of Natural History |
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The graphic medicine manifesto.University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2015."...establishes the principles of graphic medicine and begins to map the field. The volume combines scholarly essays by members of the editorial team with previously unpublished visual narratives by Ian Williams and MK Czerwiec, and it includes arresting visual work from a wide range of graphic medicine practitioners. The book’s first section, featuring essays by Scott Smith and Susan Squier, argues that as a new area of scholarship, research on graphic medicine has the potential to challenge the conventional boundaries of academic disciplines, raise questions about their foundations, and reinvigorate literary scholarship—and the notion of the literary text—for a broader audience. The second section, incorporating essays by Michael Green and Kimberly Myers, demonstrates that graphic medicine narratives can engage members of the health professions with literary and visual representations and symbolic practices that offer patients, family members, physicians, and other caregivers new ways to experience and work with the complex challenges of the medical experience. The final section, by Ian Williams and MK Czerwiec, focuses on the practice of creating graphic narratives, iconography, drawing as a social practice, and the nature of comics as visual rhetoric. A conclusion (in comics form) testifies to the diverse and growing graphic medicine community. Two valuable bibliographies guide readers to comics and scholarly works relevant to the field" (publisher). Subjects: GRAPHIC DISPLAY of Medical & Scientific Information, Graphic Medicine |
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The great paleolithic war: How science forged an understanding of America's ice age past.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015.A masterful synthesis of the history of the study of human origins in North America with a comprehensive bibliography. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , EVOLUTION › Human Origins / Human Evolution › History of |
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Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South.Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2015."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 million... "At the national level, southern congressional leaders fought to establish a strong federal health agency, but they were defeated by the young American Public Health Association, which defended states' rights. Local responses and results were mixed. In New Orleans, business and professional men, reacting to the denunciation of the city as the nation's pesthole, organized in 1879 to improve drainage, garbage disposal, and water supplies through voluntary subscription. Their achievements were of necessity modest. "In Memphis--the city hardest hit by the epidemic--a new municipal government in 1879 helped form the first regional health organization and during the 1880s led the nation in sanitary improvements. In Atlanta, though it largely escaped the epidemic, the Constitution and some citizens called for health reform. Ironically their voices were drowned out by ritual invocation of local health mythology and by unabashed exploitation of the stigma of pestilence attached to New Orleans and Memphis. By 1890 Atlanta rivaled Charleston and Richmond for primacy in black mortality rates" (publisher) Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States › American South, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Yellow Fever › History of Yellow Fever, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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Elegant anatomy: The eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections.Leiden: Brill, 2015.Subjects: ANATOMY › History of Anatomical Illustration, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Netherlands, MUSEUMS › History of Museums, MUSEUMS › Medical, Anatomical & Pathological |
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Wounds and wound repair in medieval culture. Edited by Larissa Tracy and Kelly DeVries.Leiden & Boston, MA: Brill, 2015.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, and Spain) and also, remarkably, in medieval Mongol medicine. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Mongolia, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › England, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Ireland, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Scotland, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Spain, SURGERY: General › History of Surgery |
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Palliative care: The 400-year quest for a good death.Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015.This is a fine example of "you can't judge a book by its cover" since this study is outstanding from the bibliographical point of view and contains footnotes that are remarkable for their scholarly detail. Subjects: DEATH & DYING › Palliative Care , Ethics, Biomedical › History of Biomedical Ethics |
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Die Geschichte der Palliativmedizin: Medizinische Sterbebegleitung von 1500 bis heute.Frankfurt: Mabuse-Verlag, 2015.Translated into English by Logan Kennedy and Leonhard Unglaub as A history of palliative care, 1500-1970: Concepts, practices, and ethical challenges (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017). Subjects: DEATH & DYING › Palliative Care , Ethics, Biomedical › History of Biomedical Ethics |
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History of medical practice in Nigeria.Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria: Stirling-Horden Publishers Ltd., 2015.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Nigeria |
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The dying and the doctors: The medical revolution in seventeenth-century England.Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: Boydell & Brewer, 2015."From the sixteenth century onwards, medical strategies adopted by the seriously ill and dying changed radically, decade by decade, from the Elizabethan age of astrological medicine to the emergence of the general practitioner in the early eighteenth century. It is this profound revolution, in both medical and religious terms, as whole communities' hopes for physical survival shifted from God to the doctor, that this book charts. Drawing on more than eighteen thousand probate accounts, it identifies massive increases in the consumption of medicines and medical advice by all social groups and in almost all areas. Most importantly, it examines the role of the towns in providing medical services to rural areas and hinterlands [using the diocese of Canterbury as a particular focus], and demonstrates the extending ranges of physicians', surgeons' and apothecaries' businesses. It also identifies a comparable revolution in community nursing, from its unskilled status in 1600 to a more exclusive one by 1700" (publisher). Subjects: DEATH & DYING, NURSING › History of Nursing, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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An illustrated history of health and fitness, from pre-History to our post-modern world.Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2015.1077 pages. Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Cultural Anthropology, PHYSICAL MEDICINE / REHABILITATION › Exercise / Training / Fitness › History of Exercise / Training / Fitness |
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Pioneers in plastic surgery.Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2015.Subjects: PLASTIC & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY › History of Plastic Surgery |
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A Cree healer and his medicine bundle: Revelations of indigenous wisdom: Healing plants, practices, and stories.Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2015."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 Bundle is a historic document, including nearly 200 color photos and maps, in that it is the first in which a native healer has agreed to open his medicine bundle to share in writing his repertoire of herbal medicines and where they are found. Providing information on and photos of medicinal plants and where to harvest them, anthropologist David E. Young and botanist Robert D. Rogers chronicle the life, beliefs, and healing practices of Medicine Man Russell Willier in his native Alberta, Canada. Despite being criticized for sharing his knowledge, Willier later found support in other healers as they began to realize the danger that much of their traditional practices could die out with them. "The Cree (Cree: Nēhiyaw; French: Cri) are one of the largest groups of First Nations in North America, with over 200,000 members living in Canada. The major proportion of Cree in Canada live north and west of Lake Superior, in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Northwest Territories. About 38,000 live in Quebec.[1] In the United States, this Algonquian-speaking people historically lived from Lake Superior westward. Today, they live mostly in Montana, where they share a reservation with the Ojibwe (Chippewa). The documented westward migration over time has been strongly associated with their roles as traders and hunters in the North American fur trade.[3] "(Wikipedia). Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Canada, NATIVE AMERICANS & Medicine, PHARMACOLOGY › Ethnopharmacology, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Montana |
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Beyond germs: Native depopulation in North America. Edited by Catherine M. Cameron, Paul Kelton, and Alan C. Swedlund.Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2015.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 was caused primarily by diseases brought by European colonists that infected Native populations lacking immunity to foreign pathogens. In Beyond Germs, contributors expertly argue that blaming germs lets Europeans off the hook for the enormous number of Native American deaths that occurred after 1492. Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , NATIVE AMERICANS & Medicine, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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L'invention de l'hystérie au temps des lumières (1670–1820).Paris: Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2015.Translated into English as On hysteria: The invention of a medical category between 1670 and 1820 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015). Subjects: LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY › History of Gynecology, PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry, PSYCHIATRY › Hysteria, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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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.New York: American Museum of Natural History & Abrams, 2015.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , ZOOLOGY › Arthropoda › Entomology, ZOOLOGY › Arthropoda › Entomology › Lepidoptera, ZOOLOGY › Illustration |
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Brought to Light: Stories from UCSF Archives & Special Collections.San Francisco, CA: University of California, 2015.Subjects: DIGITAL RESOURCES › Blogs, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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The courtiers' anatomists: Animals and humans in Louis XIV's Paris.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015.Subjects: ANATOMY › History of Anatomy, COMPARATIVE ANATOMY › History of Comparative Anatomy, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › France, NATURAL HISTORY › History of Natural History, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Sleep medicine: A comprehensive guide to its development, clinical milestones, and advances in treatment. Edited by Sudhansu Chokroverty and Michel Billiard.New York: Springer, 2015.Subjects: NEUROLOGY, NEUROLOGY › Sleep Physiology & Medicine, PSYCHIATRY |
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The historical ecology of malaria in Ethiopia: Deposing the spirits.Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2015.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Ethiopia, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Malaria › History of Malaria |
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Human infection with Ehrlichia muris-like pathogen, United States, 2007-2013.New Eng. J. Med., 365, 422-429, 2015.Order of authorship in the original publication: Johnson, Schiffman, Davis, Pritt. The authors, found some commonality in this pathogen, originally designated generally as "Wisconsin and Minnesota, 2009" with the mouse strain, and identified the vector of what appeared to be a new species as the Ixodes scapularis tick. Available from www.nc.cdc.gov at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this entry and its interpretation.) Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › BACTERIA (mostly pathogenic; sometimes indexed only to genus) › Rickettsiales › Ehrlichia, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Tick-Borne Diseases › Ehrlichiosis, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Novel thogotovirus associated with febrile illness and death, United States, 2014.Emerg. Infect. Dis., 21, 760-64, 2015.Order of authorship in the original paper: Kosoy, Lambert, Hawkinson, Staples. Discovery of a new tick-borne Thogotovirus named by the authors "Bourbon virus" after Bourbon County, Kansas. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Tick-Borne Diseases › Bourbon Virus, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Kansas, VIROLOGY, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks as reservoir and vector of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus in China.Emerg. Infect. Dis., 21, 1770-1776, 2015.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 virus. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › China, People's Republic of, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Tick-Borne Diseases › SFTSV Bunyavirus Disease, VIROLOGY |
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Ill composed: Sickness, gender, and belief in early modern England.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015.A cultural history of illness from the standpoint of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Chirurgie dentaire et nazisme.Paris: Harmattan, 2015.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Germany, DENTISTRY › History of Dentistry, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › World War II |
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Greek manuscripts at the Wellcome Library in London: A descriptive catalogue. By Petros Bouras-Vallianatos with contributions by Georgi R. Parpulov.Medical History, 59, 275-326, 2015.Detailed bibliographical descriptions of the 16 manuscripts then owned by the Wellcome Library, including several from the collections of Anthony Askew (1722-1774), who acquired his in the dispersal of the library of Richard Mead (1673-1754). Most are medieval and fall into the category of Byzantine and post-Byzantine iatrosophia, a "type of physician's handbook consisting of simple recipes for use in daily practice." Digital facsimile from journals.cambridge.org at this link. Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology, BYZANTINE MEDICINE › History of Byzantine Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE |
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The art of medicine in early China: The ancient and medieval origins of a modern archive.Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2015.Subjects: Chinese Medicine › History of Chinese Medicine, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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The genealogy of a gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and race.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015."Myles Jackson uses the story of the CCR5 gene to investigate the interrelationships among science, technology, and society. Mapping the varied “genealogy” of CCR5—intellectual property, natural selection, Big and Small Pharma, human diversity studies, personalized medicine, ancestry studies, and race and genomics—Jackson links a myriad of diverse topics. The history of CCR5 from the 1990s to the present offers a vivid illustration of how intellectual property law has changed the conduct and content of scientific knowledge, and the social, political, and ethical implications of such a transformation. "The CCR5 gene began as a small sequence of DNA, became a patented product of a corporation, and then, when it was found to be an AIDS virus co-receptor with a key role in the immune system, it became part of the biomedical research world—and a potential moneymaker for the pharmaceutical industry. When it was further discovered that a mutation of the gene found in certain populations conferred near-immunity to the AIDS virus, questions about race and genetics arose. Jackson describes these developments in the context of larger issues, including the rise of “biocapitalism,” the patentability of products of nature, the difference between U.S. and European patenting approaches, and the relevance of race and ethnicity to medical research" (publisher). Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › History of Molecular Biology, Biotechnology › History of Biotechnology, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS › History of HIV / AIDS, LAW and Medicine & the Life Sciences, LAW and Medicine & the Life Sciences › Patents |
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Salmonella infections, networks of knowledge, and public health in Britain, 1880-1975.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), INFECTIOUS DISEASE › History of Infectious Disease, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Salmonellosis, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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The coral reef era: From discovery to decline. A history of scientific investigation from 1600 to the anthropocene epoch.New York: Springer, 2015.Subjects: BIOLOGY › Ecology / Environment › History of Ecology / Environment, BIOLOGY › Marine Biology › History of Marine Biology, ZOOLOGY › Anthozoology |
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Gene-edited pigs are protected from porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus.Nature Biotechnology, 34, 20-22, 2015.Order of authorship in the original publication: Whitworth, Rowland, Ewen, ... Prather. Using the CRISPR Cas molecular gene-editing tool, Prather and colleagues edited the gene that codes for the CD163 protein in adult male and female pigs gametes (sperm and egg) that acts similar to a receptor to which the Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) attaches. This artificial genetic mutation created offsprint piglets that were resistant and immune to this panzootic infection which was previously lethal and incurable. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › CRISPR , BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › CRISPR Gene Editing, IMMUNOLOGY, VETERINARY MEDICINE, VETERINARY MEDICINE › Panzootics, VIROLOGY, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing in human tripronuclear zygotes.Protein and Cell, 6, 363-372, 2015.This paper was rejected by both Nature and Science partly for "ethical objections." When published it immediately triggered worldwide controversy among scientists and the public. This was the first application of the CRISPR gene-editing tool to human embryos. The authors used human embryos from fertility clinics which had been created for in vitro fertilization but had an extra set of chromosomes (tripronuclear) which was the result of anomalous fertilization by two sperm instead of one. Such embryos could undergo only a few stages of development but could not result in a live birth. Of 84 initial embryos, 71 went on to the early stages of division and 54 were chosen for genetic evaluation, leaving 28 of them acceptable. However, a surprising number of "off target" mutations were introduced by the CRISPR/Cas complex acting on other parts of the cell's genome with catastrophic results. This led the authors to stop the experiment. Open access: available from link.springer.com at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › CRISPR Gene Editing, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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The influenza pandemic in Japan, 1918-1920: The first world war between humankind and a virus. Translation by Lynne E. Riggs and Takechi Manbu.Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2015.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Japan, EPIDEMIOLOGY › Pandemics › Influenza › 1918 Pandemic (H1N1 virus), INFECTIOUS DISEASE › History of Infectious Disease |
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Medicine on the periphery: Public health in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870-1960.Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Mexico, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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An edition, translation and commentary of Mustio's Gynaecia (Unpublished doctoral thesis).Calgary, Canada: University of Calgary, 2015.This dissertation represents "a new critical edition of Mustio’s Gynaecia, the first since Valentin Rose’s 1882 volume for the Teubner series. It is accompanied by a facing page translation, the first in English, and related commentary. Introductory material locates the text and its author within the history of women’s medicine, including a discussion of extant sources and transmission of the work. Written in Latin sometime in the fifth or sixth century CE, the Gynaecia covers the topics of obstetrics, paediatrics and gynaecology. Its author, the otherwise unknown Mustio, concedes to his audience that he is re-using older Greek material, but stresses that he is going to rework the content into a novel format suitable for midwives with limited formal education. In fact, he sets a good part of the work into a basic question-and-answer format that is ideal for rote memorization, making it a practical training tool for women whose level of literacy might be rudimentary. It is generally believed that Soranus, the greatest exponent of the Methodist school of medicine at Rome, is the source for the Greek material, via the work commonly known as the Gynaecology. It has also been argued that Soranus wrote (at least) two versions of the Gynaecology, a full version and an abridged one set in a question-and-answer format, and that it is the latter shorter version that Mustio bases his work upon. I challenge both the idea that Mustio inherited the question-and-answer format from Soranus, and the notion that Soranus wrote several versions of the Gynaecology. I argue, rather, that while Mustio may not have ‘invented’ the question-and-answer-format, his adaptation of it as a catechetic instructional tool for women was indeed innovative. I also question the traditional connection between Mustio’s work and the Gynaecology of Soranus, and suggest alternative readings for the Cateperotiana and the Triacontas which scholarship has thus far interpreted as catechetic and non-catechetic versions by Soranus of his own material from the Gynaecology. In terms of stylistic method, subject matter and intended audience, this a unique text in ancient writing, yet one that has attracted little modern research" (Bolton). Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Late Antiquity, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY |
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Beyond the state: The colonial medical service in British Africa.Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Kenya, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Malawi, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Nigeria, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Tanzania, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Uganda, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Vaccine nation: America's changing relationship with immunization.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015.Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › Anti-Vaccination, IMMUNOLOGY › Immunization, IMMUNOLOGY › Vaccines, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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The shape of spectatorship. Art, science, and early cinema in Germany.New York: Columbia University Press, 2015."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 instruction, and aesthetic contemplation, The Shape of Spectatorship showcases early cinema's revolutionary impact on society and culture and the challenges the new medium placed on ways of seeing and learning" (publisher). Chapter 2: "Between observation and spectatorship: Medicine, movies, and mass culture." Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Germany, IMAGING › Cinematography |
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A history of the Medical Council of New Zealand. Compiled by Richard Sainsbury.Wellington, NZ: Medical Council of New Zealand, 2015.Available only as a PDF from ncnz.org at this link. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › New Zealand |
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Idioms of Sámi health and healing. Edited by Barbara Helen Miller.Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2015."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 effectiveness of using the resources local communities can provide. This collection of essays by ten experts also records how ancient healing traditions and modern health-care systems have worked together, and sometimes competed, to provide solutions for local problems" (publisher). Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Norway, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Sweden |
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The paradigmatic translator and his method: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq’s translation of the Hippocratic aphorisms from Greek via Syriac into Arabic. IN: New Horizons in Graeco-Arabica Studies, ed. by D. Gutas, S. Schmidtke, A. Treiger.Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 3, 158‒187, 2015.This analysis of the work of the leading medieval Arab translator of Greek texts into Arabic emphasizes that Hunayn ibn Ishāq, a Nestorian Christian, typically prepared an intermediary translation into Syriac, from which the texts were translated into Arabic. Subjects: ISLAMIC OR ARAB MEDICINE › History of Islamic or Arab Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Syria and Syriac Texts |
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On the move: A life.New York: Random House, 2015.Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Autobiography, NEUROLOGY › History of Neurology |
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Albrecht von Haller 1708-1777.Bern: Albrecht von Haller Foundation of the Burgergemeinde Bern & Institute of History and the Institute of History of Medicine of the University of Bern, 2015.
http://www.albrecht-von-haller.ch/e/index.php When we attempted to access this website in August 2023 the site was non-operational. "The Swiss polymath Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777) was one of the central figures of the century of the Enlightenment. As a poet and scholar, physician and botanist, collector and encyclopaedist, university professor and experimental researcher, society president and correspondent, renowned author and influential reviewer, magistrate and orthodox Christian, he reflects many of the intellectual movements, events, and conditions of his time. "Interest in Haller as a paradigmatic representative of the 18th Century has grown rapidly over the past years. Recent research has shown a growing awareness of the diverse nature of the Age of Enlightenment and an increasing interest in the functioning of the republic of letters and its interactions with economics, politics, and society. Haller’s rich life and work, his immense and multifaceted body of publications, and the extraordinarily extensive collection of handwritten documents he left at his death offer an ideal starting point for understanding and studying the century in which he lived. "This website is intended to serve as a platform for all who are interested in Haller and his times. It offers an abundantly illustrated introduction to Haller’s life and work, information about the principal fields of endeavour in which he was engaged, insights into past and present research, and an index of the large body of Haller’s original writings available online." Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Individual Authors, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries |
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Acute flaccid myelitis of unknown etiology in California, 2012-2015J. Amer. Med. Assoc., 314, 2663-2671, 2015.The authors presented a retrospective study based on demographics, race, ethnicity, signs, lab results, MRI results of 59 patients identified between June 2012 and July 2015 who presented symptoms that they characterized as Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM). Of 45 tested only 9 had EV D68; certain others had other enterviruses. Polio was excluded in all patients, but almost all had limb weakness or paralysis and typical prodromal upper respiratory or gastrointestinal illness, and clinically, and by MRI, this illness was essentially indistinguishable from polio. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Van Haren, Ayscue, Waubant.) Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Neuroinfectious Diseases › Acute Flaccid Myelitis, NEUROLOGY › Child Neurology, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › California |
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Architecture of the cerebral cortical association connectome underlying cognition.Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA), 112, E2093-E2101, 2015."Significance "Connections between cerebral cortex regions are known as association connections, and neural activity in the network formed by these connections is thought to generate cognition. Network analysis of microscopic association connection data produced over the last 40 years in a small, easily studied mammal suggests a new way to describe the organization of the cortical association network. Basically, it consists of four modules with an anatomical shell–core arrangement and asymmetric connections within and between modules, implying at least partly “hardwired,” genetically determined biases of information flow through the cortical association network. The results advance the goal of achieving a global nervous system wiring diagram of connections and provide another step toward understanding the cellular architecture and mechanisms underpinning cognition. "Abstract "Cognition presumably emerges from neural activity in the network of association connections between cortical regions that is modulated by inputs from sensory and state systems and directs voluntary behavior by outputs to the motor system. To reveal global architectural features of the cortical association connectome, network analysis was performed on >16,000 reports of histologically defined axonal connections between cortical regions in rat. The network analysis reveals an organization into four asymmetrically interconnected modules involving the entire cortex in a topographic and topologic core–shell arrangement. There is also a topographically continuous U-shaped band of cortical areas that are highly connected with each other as well as with the rest of the cortex extending through all four modules, with the temporal pole of this band (entorhinal area) having the most cortical association connections of all. These results provide a starting point for compiling a mammalian nervous system connectome that could ultimately reveal novel correlations between genome-wide association studies and connectome-wide association studies, leading to new insights into the cellular architecture supporting cognition." Subjects: ANATOMY › Neuroanatomy › Cytoarchitecture, NEUROSCIENCE › Cognitive Neuroscience, NEUROSCIENCE › Computational Neuroscience, NEUROSCIENCE › Computational Neuroscience › Connectomics, PSYCHOLOGY › Cognition |
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The correspondence of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712). Volume one: 1662-1677. Edited and translated by Anna Marie Roos.Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2015.Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Biographies of Individuals › Edited Correspondence & Archives, NATURAL HISTORY › History of Natural History |
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Vesalius: The China Root epistle. A new translation and critical edition, edited and translated by Daniel H. Garrison, with added illustrations from the 1543 and 1555 De humani corporis fabrica.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.Subjects: ANATOMY › 16th Century, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES › Syphilis, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Botanic Sources of Single Component Drugs |
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Insects, hygiene and history.London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › History of Infectious Disease, PARASITOLOGY › History of Parasitology, ZOOLOGY › Arthropoda › Entomology › Medical Entomology |
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Expelling the plague: The Health Office and the implementation of quarantine in Dubrovnik, 1377-1533.Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Croatia, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Flea-Borne Diseases › Plague (transmitted by fleas from rats to humans) › Plague, History of |
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Mrs Stone and Dr Smellie: Eighteenth century midwives and their patients.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › History of Obstetrics |
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The end of a global pox: America and the eradication of smallpox in the cold war era.Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox › History of Smallpox |
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Evolution of Darwin’s finches and their beaks revealed by genome sequencing.Science, 518, 371-375, 2015.The authors sequenced the genome of 120 individuals representing all of Darwin’s finches. They found that a 240 kilobase haplotype encompassing the ALX1 gene, which encodes a transcription factor affecting craniofacial development, is strongly associated with beak shape diversity across Darwin’s finch species, as well as the medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis), a species that the Grants observed undergoing rapid evolution of beak morphology in response to the environmental changes described in their 2006 paper. Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Genomics, EVOLUTION, ZOOLOGY › Ornithology |
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A census of Greek medical manuscripts: From Byzantium to the Renaissance.Abingdon, Oxford: Routledge, 2016.An amended and updated index of Diels' catalogue (No. 6767), and a list of items missed or overlooked in Diels, or located since. Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece › History of Ancient Medicine in Greece, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology, BYZANTINE MEDICINE › History of Byzantine Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine, Renaissance Medicine › History of Renaissance Medicine |
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A Linnean kaleidoscope: Linnaeus and his 186 dissertations. 2 vols.Stockholm: The Hagströmer Medico-Historical Library, 2016.The first comprehensive introduction to all 186 Linnaean dissertations, in the form of short essays (many illustrated) on each dissertation. Most of these dissertations, which were published in Latin, have remained relatively obscure until now. The essays describe the content of each dissertation, and place each dissertation its historical context. Topics of the dissertations include botany, zoology, pharmacology, and medicine. Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Natural History, BOTANY › History of Botany, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals, ZOOLOGY › History of Zoology |
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The Anatomical Venus: Wax / Sex / God / Death.New York: Thames & Hudson, 2016.Subjects: ANATOMY › History of Anatomical Illustration, ANATOMY › History of Anatomy, MUSEUMS › Medical, Anatomical & Pathological |
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Virus: An illustrated guide to 101 incredible microbes.Brighton, England: Ivy Press & Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016.Includes historical data, spectacular color photomicrographs, drawings, and geographical range maps for 101 viruses Subjects: IMAGING › Photography / Photomicrography , VIROLOGY, VIROLOGY › History of Virology, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Facing addiction in America: The Surgeon General's report on alcohol, drugs, and health.Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2016.The first U.S. Surgeon General's report on substance misuse and the wide range of adverse health effects from alcohol and both legal and illegal drugs. It brought together evidence on prevention; treatment; and recovery interventions, policies, and programs. In 2016 the full report could be downloaded at this link: https://addiction.surgeongeneral.gov/surgeon-generals-report.pdf . Subjects: PUBLIC HEALTH, TOXICOLOGY › Drug Addiction, TOXICOLOGY › Drug Addiction › Alcoholism |
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Wombs with a view: Illustrations of the gravid uterus from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth century.Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2016.Subjects: ANATOMY › History of Anatomical Illustration, ANATOMY › History of Anatomy, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › History of Obstetrics, Renaissance Medicine › History of Renaissance Medicine |
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Bibliography of natural history travel narratives.Zeist, Netherlands: KNNV Publishers, 2016.The author is a professor of mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics. Besides treatment of earlier literature, this bibliography includes many lesser known 20th century works. Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Natural History, NATURAL HISTORY, Travels by Physicians, Surgeons & Scientsts, VOYAGES & Travels by Physicians, Surgeons & Scientists › History of Voyages & Travels by Physicians.... |
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Highlights in the history of the Army Nurse Corps.Washington, DC: Defense Dept., Army Center for Military History, 2016.Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, NURSING › History of Nursing |
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Food and health in early modern Europe: Diet, medicine and society, 1450-1800.London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.Subjects: NUTRITION / DIET › History of Nutrition / Diet, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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WHO Historical collection.Geneva: World Health Organization, 2016.Subjects: DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries , Global Health, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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Wikipedia Timeline of global health.San Francisco, CA: Wikimedia Foundation, 2016.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_global_health, accessed 12-2016). Subjects: DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Collaborations Online (Wikis), Encyclopedias, Global Health, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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WHO Model list of essential medicines.San Francisco, CA: Wikimedia Foundation, 2016.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHO_Model_List_of_Essential_Medicines (accessed 12-2016). The first list, published in 1977, included 204 pharmaceutical drugs.[1] The WHO updates the list every two years. The WHO later added a separate WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children up to 12 years of age. As of 2016, at least 156 countries have created national lists of essential medicines based on the WHO's model list.[2] The national lists contain between 334 and 580 medications.[3] Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Online Access Catalogues & Bibliographic Databases, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Collaborations Online (Wikis), Global Health, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS |
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The smoke of London: Energy and environment in the early modern city.Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2016.Subjects: BIOLOGY › Ecology / Environment › History of Ecology / Environment, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom) |
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International Committee of the Red Cross: History.Geneva: International Committee of the Red Cross, 2016.https://www.icrc.org/en/who-we-are/history. Extensive background, videos, links to the ICRC archives, etc., etc. Accessed 12-2016 Subjects: DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries , Global Health, HOSPITALS › History of Hospitals, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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Hunayn ibn Ishāq on his Galen translations: A parallel English-Arabic text edited and translated by John C. Lamoreaux, with an appendix by Grigory Kessel.Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2016.Subjects: ISLAMIC OR ARAB MEDICINE, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine |
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Huang Di Ne Jing Ling Shu. The ancient classic on needle therapy. The complete Chinese text with annotated English translation.Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2016.Subjects: Chinese Medicine |
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Nan Jing: The classic of difficult issues. Second edition, revised and updated.Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2016.Subjects: Chinese Medicine |
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History within: The science, culture, and politics of bones, organisms, and molecules.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2016.Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › History of Anthropology, EVOLUTION › History of Evolutionary Thought, GENETICS / HEREDITY › History of Genetics / Heredity |
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Household medicine in seventeenth-century England.London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), Household or Self-Help Medicine |
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Medical ethics: Accounts of ground-breaking cases. 8th editionNew York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2016.Subjects: Ethics, Biomedical › History of Biomedical Ethics |
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A history of anthropological theory. 5th edition.Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2016.Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › History of Anthropology |
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Simulation in healthcare education: An extensive history.New York: Springer International Publishing, 2016.The first history of this topic on the history of mannikins and the unusually wide variety of devices, including interactive software, used in the training of the different specialties in medicine and nursing. Subjects: COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology › History of Computing / Mathematics in Medicine & Biology, Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession, INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › History of Biomedical Instrumentation |
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Bloody brilliant! A history of blood groups and blood groupers.Bethesda, MD: AABB, 2016.Subjects: HEMATOLOGY › Blood Groups, HEMATOLOGY › History of Hematology |
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The British Pharmacopoeia, 1864 to 2014: Medicines, international standards and the state.London: Routledge, 2016."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 remains an essential global reference in pharmaceutical research and development and quality control. This book explores how these standards have been achieved through a comprehensive review of the history and development of the pharmacopoeias in the UK, from the early London, Edinburgh and Dublin national pharmacopoeias to the creation of the British Pharmacopoeia and its evolution over 150 years. Trade in medicinal substances and products has always been global, and the British Pharmacopoeia is placed in its global context as an instrument of the British Empire as it first sought to cover the needs of countries such as India and latterly as part of its role in international harmonisation of standards in Europe and elsewhere. The changing contents of the pharmacopoeias over this period reflect the changes in medical practice and the development of dosage forms from products dispensed by pharmacists to commercially manufactured products, from tinctures to the latest monoclonal antibody products" (Publisher). Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals, PHARMACOLOGY › Pharmacopeias |
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Fake silk: The lethal history of viscose rayon.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016.Subjects: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & MEDICINE › History of Occupational Health & Medicine |
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Nurse writers of the great war.Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016.Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › World War I, NURSING › History of Nursing, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999 |
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Quintus Serenus, Medizinischer Rat (Liber medicinalis). Edited and translated into German by Kai Brodersen.Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 2016.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Late Antiquity, ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire |
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Remaking the American patient: How Madison Avenue and modern medicine turned patients into consumers.Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2016."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 explores the consequences of the consumer economy and American medicine having come of age at exactly the same time. Tracing the robust development of advertising, marketing, and public relations within the medical profession and the vast realm we now think of as "health care," Tomes considers what it means to be a "good" patient. As she shows, this history of the coevolution of medicine and consumer culture tells us much about our current predicament over health care in the United States. Understanding where the shopping model came from, why it was so long resisted in medicine, and why it finally triumphed in the late twentieth century helps explain why, despite striking changes that seem to empower patients, so many Americans remain unhappy and confused about their status as patients today" (publisher). Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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A history of global health: Interventions into the lives of other peoples.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.Subjects: Global Health, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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The culture of food in England 1200-1500.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016.Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › England, NUTRITION / DIET › History of Nutrition / Diet |
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Success and suppression: Arabic sciences and philosophy in the Renaissance.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016.A bibliographically oriented historical analysis of the numerous Renaissance translations of Arabic medical, scientific and philosophical works into Latin from the Arabic, which the author argues reached a peak in the 16th century, only later to decline in influence. Subjects: ISLAMIC OR ARAB MEDICINE › History of Islamic or Arab Medicine, Renaissance Medicine › History of Renaissance Medicine |
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Birthing bodies in early modern France: Stories of gender and reproduction.London & New York: Routledge, 2016.Subjects: LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › History of Obstetrics |
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Childbirth, maternity, and medical pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880-1945.Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Vietnam, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › History of Obstetrics |
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African American doctors of World War I: The lives of 104 volunteers.Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2016.Subjects: BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › World War I |
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Data Refuge.2016."Data Refuge is a public and collaborative project designed to address concerns about federal climate and environmental data that is in danger of being lost[1]. In particular, the initiative addresses five main concerns:
"Data Refuge began as a grassroots organization in opposition to government data on climate change and the environment not being archived systemically[3]. Data Refuge's main goal is to collect and allocate data in multiple safe locations to create a sustainable way of archiving old and new data[4]. "Data Refuge was initiated in 2016 to protect federal climate and environmental data that is vulnerable under an administration that denies climate change[5]. The system aims to make public research-quality copies of federal climate and environmental data[6]. Data Refuge is supported by the National Geographic Foundation, private donors, Libraries+ Network, Preserving Electronic Governance Initiative (PEGI), the Union of Concerned Scientists (USC), and the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities (PPEH)[7]. Types of Data Data Refuge collects public federal data on the climate and environment in the form of satellite imagery, PDFs, and stories[8]. The data are stored in multiple trusted locations as they are less vulnerable if in only one location, and to ensure accessibility for researchers[9]. Through the Data Rescue events, Data Refuge has accumulated 4 terabytes of data, 30,000 URLs, and 800 participants[10]. Storytelling Data Refuge collects stories on vulnerable federal climate and environmental data through: surveys, oral history, photo essays, maps, video shorts, and animations[11]. The stories are archived in a public bank that showcase how federal environmental data support health and safety in communities[12]. Data Stories are collected at Data Rescue events, which are partnered with universities, city and town halls, and advocacy groups[13]. Data stories are collected and used to emphasize the importance of Data Refuge, in how the data on climate change and the environment are being used by people in the United States and across the world for meaningful practices[14]" (Wikipedia article on Data Refuge, accessed 01-2018).
Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Online Access Catalogues & Bibliographic Databases, BIOLOGY › Ecology / Environment, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries |
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Ancient botany.London & New York: Routledge, 2016.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › History of Ancient Medicine & Biology, BOTANY, BOTANY › Medical Botany |
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Galen: On the constitution of the art of medicine. The art of medicine. A method of medicine to Glaucon. Edited and translated by Ian Johnston.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire |
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The gene: An intimate history.New York: Scribner, 2016.Subjects: GENETICS / HEREDITY › History of Genetics / Heredity |
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The great transition: Climate, disease and society in the late-medieval world.Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016.Subjects: Bioclimatology › History of Bioclimatology, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Flea-Borne Diseases › Plague (transmitted by fleas from rats to humans) › Plague, History of, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Murder and the making of English CSI.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.Subjects: Forensic Medicine (Legal Medicine) › History of Forensic Medicine |
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Dictionary of medical vocabulary in English, 1375–1550: Body parts, sicknesses, instruments, and medicinal preparations. 2 vols.London: Routledge, 2016.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 analysed are provided. Towards the end of each entry, there are references to corresponding entries, if any, in standard historical dictionaries of English (Dictionary of Old English, Middle English Dictionary, The Oxford English Dictionary). If the origin or meaning of the term has been discussed in academic books or articles, references to the latter are also provided. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), Dictionaries, Biomedical |
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L'Anonyme de Londres. P.: Lit.Lond. 165, Brit.Libr. Inv. 137. Un papyrus médical grec du Ier siècle après J.-C. Edited by Antonio Ricciardetto.Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2016.Edition of the Greek text with French translation and introduction. Apart from minor changes listed on page vii, the work reproduces the previous publication by the author in the collection Papyrologia Leodensia (Liège, 2014). Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece, ANCIENT MEDICINE › Medical Papyri |
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Anatomy museum: Death and the body displayed.London: Reaktion Books, 2016.Subjects: ANATOMY › History of Anatomy, MUSEUMS › History of Museums, MUSEUMS › Medical, Anatomical & Pathological |
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Ethnographic plague: Configuring disease on the Chinese-Russian frontier.London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016."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 the configuration of plague at the turn of the nineteenth century. With a focus on research on the Chinese-Russian frontier, where a series of pneumonic plague epidemics shook the Chinese, Russian and Japanese Empires, this book examines how native Mongols and Buryats came to be understood as holding a traditional knowledge of the disease" (publisher) Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › China, People's Republic of, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Mongolia, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Russia, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Flea-Borne Diseases › Plague (transmitted by fleas from rats to humans) › Plague, History of |
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The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project, Published by Livingstone Online and the UCLA Digital Library Program.Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Library, 2016.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 series of faded, illegible texts produced by the famous Victorian explorer when stranded without ink or writing paper in Central Africa."
Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Africa, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries , VOYAGES & Travels by Physicians, Surgeons & Scientists |
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Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome IV, 1ère partie: Epidémies I et III. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna. (Collection des universités de France.)Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2016.Greek text with facing French translation. Epidemics I and III, by a physician of Hippocrates' milieu, possibly by Hippocrates himself, sometime around 410 BCE Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece, EPIDEMIOLOGY, Hippocratic Tradition |
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Nature's path: A history of naturopathic healing in America.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › Naturopathy, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States |
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Women medical doctors in the United States before the Civil War: A biographical dictionary.Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016.Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works), WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About |
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Slavery at sea: Terror, sex, and sickness in the middle passage.Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2016.Subjects: Slavery and Medicine › History of Slavery & Medicine |
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Farewell to the god of plague: Chairman Mao's campaign to deworm China.Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2016.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › China, People's Republic of, China, History & Practice of Medicine in, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › DISEASES DUE TO METAZOAN PARASITES, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › History of Infectious Disease, PARASITOLOGY › History of Parasitology, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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A biographical history of endocrinology.Washington, DC: Endocrine Society & Ames, IA: John Wiley & Sons, 2016.Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works), ENDOCRINOLOGY › History of Endocrinology |
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A critical history of schizophrenia.Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.Subjects: PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry, PSYCHOLOGY › History of Psychology |
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A history of midwifery in the United States: The midwife said fear not.New York: Springer, 2016.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › History of Obstetrics, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Midwives, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Novel medicine: Healing, literature, and popular knowledge in early modern China.Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2016."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 century...." (publisher). Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › China, People's Republic of, LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology |
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Vanishing America: Species extinction racial peril, and the origins of conservation.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016."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.S. westward expansion, coupled with industry’s ever-growing hunger for natural resources, presaged the disappearance of Indian peoples. Yet, as the frontier drew to a close, some naturalists chronicling the loss of animal and plant populations began to worry that white Americans might soon share the Indians’ presumed fate. Miles Powell explores how early conservationists such as George Perkins Marsh, William Temple Hornaday, and Aldo Leopold became convinced that the continued vitality of America’s “Nordic” and “Anglo-Saxon” races depended on preserving the wilderness. Fears over the destiny of white Americans drove some conservationists to embrace scientific racism, eugenics, and restrictive immigration laws. Although these activists laid the groundwork for the modern environmental movement and its many successes, the consequences of their racial anxieties persist" (publisher). Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY, BIOLOGY › Ecology / Environment › History of Ecology / Environment, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States |
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Charles Darwin’s life with birds: His complete ornithology.New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.Subjects: EVOLUTION › History of Evolutionary Thought, ZOOLOGY › Ornithology |
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Amatory pleasures: Explorations in eighteenth-century sexual culture.London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.Subjects: SEXUALITY / Sexology › History of Sexuality / Sexology, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Ärztliches Leben und Denken im arabischen Mittelalter. Von Johann Christoph Bürgel. Bearbeitet von Fabian Käs.Leiden: Brill, 2016."...Investigates conditions of life and professional ethics of the Arab physicians in the Middle Ages. Based on a multitude of biographical, protreptic, deontological, and isagogic texts, Bürgel analyzes diverse aspects of medical education, professional conduct, and the role of doctors in Islamicate societies. Special attention is given to the survival and further development of ancient Greek professional ethics. Another focus is on the interrelations between scientific medicine and Islamic religion" (publisher). Subjects: Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession, Ethics, Biomedical › History of Biomedical Ethics, ISLAMIC OR ARAB MEDICINE › History of Islamic or Arab Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine |
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Medical Museums in the United States.Cleveland, OH: Case Western Reserve University, 2016.http://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/research/links-of-interest/medical-museums-in-the-united-states/ A comprehensive, annotated listing of U.S. medical museums with links to their websites. Subjects: DIGITAL RESOURCES, MUSEUMS › Medical, Anatomical & Pathological |
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Progressive mothers, better babies, race, public health, and the state in Brazil, 1850-1945.Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2016.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Brazil, PEDIATRICS › History of Pediatrics, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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Fixing medical prices: How physicians are paid.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , ECONOMICS, BIOMEDICAL, ECONOMICS, BIOMEDICAL › History of Biomedical Economics, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Public opinion, public policy, and smoking: The transformation of American attitudes and cigarette use.Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences, TOXICOLOGY › Drug Addiction › History of Drug Addiction |
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1970s and 'Patient 0' HIV-1 genomes illuminate early HIV/AIDS history in North America.Nature, 539, 98-101., 2016.By genetic analysis of HIV, Worobey, Lemey and colleagues from the social sciences "cleared" Gaëtan Dugas, a Canadian air steward, who previously had been identified by name as Patient Zero--the source of the epidemic. Unfortunately Dugas was cleared of his responsibility only after his death. One lesson that researchers drew from this was not to identify patients by name in contexts like this. Full text available from PubMedCentral at this link. Order of authorship in the original publication was Worobey, Watts, McKay...Lemey.... (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS › History of HIV / AIDS |
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Identification of a novel pathogenic Borrelia species causing Lyme borreliosis with unusually high spirochaetemia: A descriptive study.Lancet Infectious Diseases, 5, 556-564, 2016.Order of authorship in the original publication: Pritt, Mead, Johnson. Discovery of Lyme Borreliosis or Borrelia mayonii, a new variant of B. burgdorferi. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Tick-Borne Diseases › Lyme Disease, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Minnesota, VIROLOGY, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Discovery and description of Ebola Zaire virus in 1976 and relevance to the West African epidemic during 2013-2016.J. infect. Dis., 214, (Suppl. 3) S93-S101, 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 the extreme shortage of syringes and needles in this small village hospital. The paper also relates these details to the three-country (Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia) West African epidemic of 2013-2016. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this liink. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this paper and its interpretation.) Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Guinea, Republic of, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Liberia, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Sierra Leone, EPIDEMIOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Ebola Virus Disease, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Filoviridae › Ebolavirus |
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The 3.8Å resolution cryo-EM structure of Zika Virus.Science, 352, 467-470, 2016.Order of authorship in the original paper: Sirohi, Rossmann, Kuhn. Using cryogenic-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), the authors presented the molecular structure of the Zika virus at 3.8Å resolution. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Zika Virus Disease, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Flaviviridae › Zika Virus, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Wolbachia blocks currently circulating Zika virus isololates in Brazilian Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.Cell Host Microbe, 19, 771-774, 2016.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 then released the infected mosquitos into native populations of wild mosquitos, infecting the Aedes aegypti mosquitos. It was found that the infected mosquitos did not transmit the Zika virus because the Wolbachia stops or blocks Zika virus transmission in the mosquitos. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › BACTERIA (mostly pathogenic; sometimes indexed only to genus) › Rickettsiales › Wolbachia, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Brazil, EPIDEMIOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Zika Virus Disease, PARASITOLOGY, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Flaviviridae › Zika Virus |
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Local mosquito-borne transmission of Zika virus - Miami - Dade and Broward counties, Florida, June-August 2016.Morb. Mortal. Wkly. Rep. (MMWR) 65, 1032-1038, 2016.First report on Zika virus infections in the U.S., tracing the area of infection to a specific square mile, creating a buffer zone around the area, targeting it for spraying and mosquito collection, intervention, mass screening and testing. Nevertheless the disease became widespread. Digital facsimile from cdc.gov at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Zika Virus Disease, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Florida, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Flaviviridae › Zika Virus |
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Bellevue: Three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital.New York: Doubleday, 2016.Subjects: HOSPITALS › History of Hospitals, PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry |
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The General: A history of the Montreal General Hospital.Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Canada, HOSPITALS › History of Hospitals |
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Arabian drugs in early medieval Mediterranean medicine.Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Mediterranean, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals |
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Anatomy: An encyclopedic reference to the language of anatomy and neuroanatomy. It provides the fascinating origin of terms and biographies of anatomists/physicians who originated them.Denver, CO: Outskirts Press, 2016.Subjects: ANATOMY › 21st Century, ANATOMY › History of Anatomy, ANATOMY › Neuroanatomy › History of Neuroanatomy |
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Protective monotherapy against lethal Ebola virus infection by a potently neutralizing antibody.Science, 351, 1339-1342, 2016.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 antibodies," Science, 351, 1343-1346. This paper illustrates crystal structures at 2Å resolution of the Ebola viral epitopes that are being recognized and targeted by monoclonal antibodies from a particular human survivor of the 1995 Kikwit (Congo) Ebola outbreak, who happened to mount an unusual and very robust and potent immune response. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Congo, Democratic Republic of the, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Ebola Virus Disease, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Biological Medical Product (Biologic) |
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Whole-genome characterization and strain comparison of VT2f-producing Escherichia coli causing hemolytic uremic syndrome.Emerg. Infect. Dis., 22, 2078-2085, 2016.Order of authorship in the original publication: Grande, Michelacci, Bondi.... Demonstration that a phage infecting E. coli conveys the genes into the E. coli that code for the production of the verotoxin that causes hemolytic uremic syndrome. The authors also discovered that the reservoirs of this toxin-producing strain are pigeons. Available from cdc.gov at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Genomics › Pathogenomics, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Food-Borne Diseases, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Hidden lives, concealed narratives: A history of leprosy in the Philippines. Edited by Maria Serena I. Diokno.Manila, Philippines: National Historical Commission of the Philippines, 2016.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Philippines, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Leprosy › History of Leprosy, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Quarantine: Local and global histories. Edited by Alison Bashford.London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.Subjects: Global Health, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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The Andean wonder drug: Cinchona bark and imperial science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800.Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016.Subjects: PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Botanic Sources of Single Component Drugs › Cinchona Bark |
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The wounded brain healed: The golden age of the Montreal Neurological Institute, 1934–1984.Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Canada, NEUROLOGY › History of Neurology, NEUROSURGERY › History of Neurosurgery |
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Nature's colony: Empire, nation and environment in the Singapore Botanic Gardens.Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2016.Subjects: BOTANY › Botanical Gardens › History of Botanical Gardens, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Singapore |
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A century of telemedicine: Curatio sine distantia et tempora.Sofia, Bulgaria: Malina Jordanova, 2016.345 pages. Available online from isfteh.org at this link. Subjects: Telemedicine › History of Telemedicine |
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Dreams, healing, and medicine in Greece: From antiquity to the present. Edited by Steven M. Obewrhelman.London & New York, 2016.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece › History of Ancient Medicine in Greece, Magic & Superstition in Medicine, PSYCHOLOGY › History of Psychology |
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The development of sleep medicine: A historical sketch.J. Clin. Sleep Med., 12, 1041-1052, 2016.Extensively bibliographical. Available from PubMedCentral at this link. Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Sleep Physiology & Medicine |
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The neurologists: A history of a medical specialty in modern Britain, c. 1789-2000.Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016.Subjects: NEUROLOGY › History of Neurology |
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Doctoring traditions: Ayurveda, small technologies, and braided sciences.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2016."Like many of the traditional medicines of South Asia, Ayurvedic practice transformed dramatically in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With Doctoring Tradition, Projit Bihari Mukharji offers a close look at that recasting, upending the widely held yet little-examined belief that it was the result of the introduction of Western anatomical knowledge and cadaveric dissection. Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, INDIA, Practice of Medicine in › History of Practice of Medicine in India, INDIA, Practice of Medicine in › Traditional Indian Medicine |
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Ethnobotany of Mexico: Interactions of people and plants in Mesoamerica. Edited by Rafael Lira, Alejandro Casas, José Blancas.New York: Springer, 2016.Subjects: BOTANY › Ethnobotany, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Mexico |
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The germ of an idea: Contagionism, religion, and society in Britain, 1660-1730.New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016."Contagionism is an old idea, but gained new life in Restoration Britain. The Germ of an Idea considers British contagionism in its religious, social, political and professional context from the Great Plague of London to the adoption of smallpox inoculation. It shows how ideas about contagion changed medicine and the understanding of acute diseases" (publisher). Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › History of Infectious Disease |
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A century of parasitology: Discoveries, ideas and lessons learned by scientists who published in The Journal of Parasitology, 1914-2014. Edited by John Janovy, Jr. and Gerald W. Esch.Hoboken, NJ & Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.Subjects: PARASITOLOGY › History of Parasitology |
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Social media use in healthcare: A systematic review of effects on patients and on their relationship with healthcare professionals.BMC Health Services Research, 16, 442, 2016."Since the emergence of social media in 2004, a growing percentage of patients use this technology for health related reasons. To reflect on the alleged beneficial and potentially harmful effects of social media use by patients, the aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the extant literature on the effects of social media use for health related reasons on patients and their relationship with healthcare professionals." https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1691-0Subjects: Social Media & Medicine |
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Toxic histories: Poison and pollution in modern India.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › India, TOXICOLOGY › History of Toxicology |
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Influenza encyclopedia: The American influenza epidemic of 1918 - 1919: A digital encyclopedia. Second edition.Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Library, 2016.ABOUT IZ't was within this context that, in 2006-2007, the Center for the History of Medicine collaborated with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on a study of the use of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) in American cities during the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic. Unlike in 1918, today we have the ability to develop vaccines against specific strains of influenza in circulation. The process is a lengthy one, however, requiring numerous steps and several months before a vaccine can be produced and distributed in bulk. Realizing that it would take approximately five to six months for the first supplies of vaccine to become available in the event of a new influenza pandemic, and with the possibility of a H5N1 “avian” influenza epidemic looming, public health officials at the CDC were interested to know what lessons could be gleaned from 1918. How did American cities respond in the fall of 1918? Were their efforts successful? Could these methods be used effectively today? "After an intense, year-long examination of the public health response of 43 American cities during the 1918-1919 epidemic, researchers at the Center for the History of Medicine and the CDC concluded that those cities that used social distancing measures and other non-pharmaceutical interventions in 1918 fared better than those that did not. More specifically, we found a strong association between early, sustained, and layered use of NPI and mitigating the consequences of the epidemic. Our results were published in Journal of the American Medical Association in August 2007 (freely available at http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=208354), and subsequently became the basis for the Department of Health and Human Services’ community mitigation guidelines for pandemic influenza. "Even with a growing literature on the historical, epidemiological, and public health aspects of the 1918 influenza epidemic in the United States, significant gaps remained in our social and cultural understanding of this cataclysmic event. Although influenza infected and affected nearly every community across the nation, each experienced the epidemic in markedly different ways. Contrary to the popular imagination, the history of the 1918 influenza epidemic is hardly a monolithic one and can be best characterized as many tales of multiple places and people. Consequently, narratives that capture the human dimension of epidemic response often can best be told from the local and personal perspective. At the same time, over-generalizations can discredit or distort the stories of the participants, the varying nature of community responses, and diminish the lessons that we can glean from studying the past. "For this reason, we continued our study of the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic. We expanded our list of American cities to fifty. We visited hundreds of libraries and archival repositories across the nation, gathering thousands of pages of newspapers, public health reports and bulletins, and other documents. Using these materials, we crafted a detailed narrative essay for each city, exploring the story of influenza’s arrival in each community and the havoc it caused, but also documenting the civic response, the political and economic ramifications, and, in every community, the heroism and courageousness of doctors, nurses, and countless volunteers who gave their all to fighting the epidemic. Realizing that even this work would not allow us to tell the complete story, in 2009 we invited renowned historians of public health and experts on influenza virology to write original articles on various thematic aspects of the epidemic, including the science of influenza, public health in the early-20th century, and the institutional and community responses to the disease. Those essays became the basis for a special supplemental issue of Public Health Reports, sponsored by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine, and published in April 2010 (freely accessible at http://www.publichealthreports.org/archives/issuecontents.cfm?Volume=125&Issue=9). "Together, we believe that our anthology of city essays and the thousands of historical documents we gathered while conducting our research constitutes the largest digital collection of materials relating to the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic. It has been a true labor of love to produce, and we hope that you find this resource both useful and enjoyable as you browse, explore, and learn about this tragic event in history. Sincerely, J. Alex Navarro, PhD Subjects: DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries , EPIDEMIOLOGY › Pandemics › Influenza › 1918 Pandemic (H1N1 virus), INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Influenza, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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Medicine and pharmacy in Byzantine hospitals: A study of the extant formularies.London: Routledge, 2017.Subjects: BYZANTINE MEDICINE › History of Byzantine Medicine, HOSPITALS › History of Hospitals, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals |
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Balm of America: Patent medicine collection.Washington, DC: National Museum of American History, 2017.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 examples of patent medicines in 1930, acquiring packages of Haarlem Oil (or Dutch Drops), Dr. John Hooper’s Female Pills, and Roche’s Herbal Embrocation. Since then the Smithsonian’s collection of patent medicines has expanded to over 4,000 products, dating from the 19th century to the present day." This was entered into this database in 2017, and without a date for the origin of this electronic resource, I assigned the date 2017 Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries , PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals |
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Osler Library Prints Collection.Montréal: McGill University Library, 2017.http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/oslerprints/index.php "This varied collection of approximately 2,500 prints offers a fascinating look into the history of medicine through popular imagery. The medium of the print, being an economical means of image production, allowed for the dissemination of pictures to a wide audience. Painted portraits and scenes could be drawn, engraved, and thereafter reproduced and circulated in large quantities. While only a select few could see an original painting, engraved prints could appear in publications, feature as frontispieces in books, or be sold separately" (http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/oslerprints/about.html, accessed 01-2017). (Without an origin date for this project I assigned the date of 2017 when I created this entry.) Subjects: ANATOMY › Anatomical Illustration, ART & Medicine & Biology, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries , Illustration, Biomedical |
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Medicine and humanism in late medieval Italy: The Carrara herbal in Padua.Abingdon, Oxford & New York: Routledge, 2017.Subjects: PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines › History of Materia Medica, Renaissance Medicine › History of Renaissance Medicine |
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GALENO: Catalogo delle Traduzioni Latine.2017.http://www.galenolatino.com/index.php?id=2&clean=1 This electronic bibliography covers Latin translations of Galen (129-216) and the pseudo-Galen from Greek, Arabic and Hebrew, produced from the sixth to the seventeenth century, including the pseudo-Galenic works in Latin. It also provides information on these texts and their authors, as well as the description of the text manuscripts beginning in the eighth century, and printed editions starting in 1473. "Galen (129-216) has had a great importance in the history of medicine and science from late antiquity to the nineteenth century., And the West has been read, studied and commented mainly in Latin. His numerous works have been translated into Latin from the V-VI sec. and again translated back to the XVII century, when they were included in the curriculum of medical schools in Europe. "Hermann Diels, as part of a 'project Akademie der Wissenschften Berlin, published in 1905-7 catalog of manuscripts of Greek physicians, Galen including that for the Latin part is largely incomplete and unsatisfactory. Richard Durling (1932-1999), from the late fifties, has worked on the Latin tradition of Galen publishing the census of printed editions from 1473 to 1599 in the Journal of the Warburg and Courtald Institutes of 1961, and two articles on Latin manuscripts that correct and integrate the Diels, both in Traditio , one in 1967 and another in 1981. He also collected observations of about six hundred Latin manuscripts of Galen, using microfilms from libraries around the world - now preserved at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, United States - in view of the publication of a volume in the series Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum , which, however, was not brought to completion. After his death on June 5, 1999, this material has been entrusted by Sheila widow Stefania Luckily, together with Anna Maria Raia, he has reviewed a part and has published in the volume of Traditio 2006, in a third article corrects and integrates the Diels. "The electronic catalog of the Latin translations of Galen was born with the aim, first and foremost, to make available to scholars Richard Durling material on Latin manuscripts of Galen and the pseudo-Galen remained unpublished and, at the same time, to report and make easily accessible the rich philological work done on the Latin editions of Galen during the sixteenth century, even with collations of Greek manuscripts. " [This catalogue] is is divided into five tabs - works, translations, manuscripts, editions, translations - which are connected to each other and providing information and specific descriptions, with appropriate bibliographical references and, if any, in the case of manuscripts and editions, reproductions accessed over the network. "Filters are also available for the various tabs that allow you to do targeted searches within the planned fields" (http://www.galenolatino.com/index.php?id=16&clean=1, accessed 01-2017). (Without information regarding the origination of this electronic resource I assigned 2017 when I entered it into this database.) Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Online Access Catalogues & Bibliographic Databases |
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Flora unveiled: The discovery and denial of sex in plants.New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017."Sex in animals has been known for at least ten thousand years, and this knowledge was put to good use during animal domestication in the Neolithic period. In stark contrast, sex in plants wasn't discovered until the late 17th century, long after the domestication of crop plants. Even after its discovery, the "sexual theory" continued to be hotly debated and lampooned for another 150 years, pitting the "sexualists" against the "asexualists." Why was the notion of sex in plants so contentious for so long? "Flora Unveiled" is a deep history of perceptions about plant gender and sexuality, beginning in the Ice Age and ending in the middle of the nineteenth century, with the elucidation of the complete plant life cycle. Subjects: BOTANY › History of Botany |
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The beautiful brain: The drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Edited with commentaries by Eric A. Newman, Alfonso Araque, and Janet M. Dubinsky. Essays by Larry W. Swanson, Lyndel King, and Eric Himmel.New York: Abrams, 2017.A spectacular volume reproducing Ramón y Cajal's drawings in very high quality, and with significant commentaries. Subjects: ANATOMY › Neuroanatomy, ANATOMY › Neuroanatomy › History of Neuroanatomy, ART & Medicine & Biology |
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Principles of anatomy according to the opinion of Galen by Johann Guinter and Andreas Vesalius. Edited [with an English translation] by Vivian Nutton.London & New York: Routledge, 2017.The first translation into English of Johann Guinter’s textbook as revised and annotated by Guinter’s student, Andreas Vesalius, in 1538. Despite Vesalius’ fame as an anatomist, his 1538 revision has attracted almost no attention. However, this new translation shows the significant rewrites and additional information added to the original based on his own dissections. 250 newly discovered manuscript annotations by Vesalius himself, preserved in his own copy of the book and published here in full for the first time, also show his working methods and ideas. Subjects: ANATOMY › 16th Century |
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2,400 years of malacology.Murrysville, PA: American Malacological Society, 2017." ... a comprehensive catalog of biographical and bibliographical publications for over 10,000 malacologists, conchologists, paleontologists, and others with an interest in mollusks, from Aristotle to the present. For each person, the birth/death years and nationality are given (when known), followed by bibliographic citations to the literature about that person and his/her collections and publications. Appendices provide citations to (1) publications on oceanographic expeditions that resulted in the collection and description of mollusks; (2) histories of malacological institutions and organizations; and (3) histories and dates of publication of malacological journals and journals that are frequently cited in malacological publications, such as those of the Zoological Society of London." Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Online Access Catalogues & Bibliographic Databases, ZOOLOGY › History of Zoology, ZOOLOGY › Malacology |
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Pierre Fauchard Academy: Historical Articles2017.This international honorary dental organization provides useful historical articles concerning the history of dentistry at https://www.fauchard.org/history/articles. Subjects: DENTISTRY › History of Dentistry, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries |
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History of Science Research Guide.Washington, DC, 2017."This is a comprehensive list of freely-available resources for students and researchers to learn more about the many fields within the discipline and some of its major personalities." Portions of this are relevant to research in the history of medicine and the life sciences. Links to specific guide categories follow: Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Online Access Catalogues & Bibliographic Databases |
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American Academy of the History of Dentistry: Resources and Links2017.http://www.histden.org/drupal/content/resources_links "The Historical Museum of Medicine & Dentistry Collection Photographs collected and analyzed by the Hartford Medical Society & Hartford Dental Society. Prepared for the Web by the American Academy of the History of Dentistry. Click here to enter the Online Gallery. The AAHD Dentistry Collections Database We are pleased to announce the public opening of a new section of our website - the Dental Collections Database. This browseable, searchable database site is the result of our ongoing survey of museums, libraries, archives and private collections regarding artifacts and materials relevant to the history of dentistry. Click here to enter the Dentistry Collections Database. Miscellaneous Off-Site Resources These resources link to sites outside the AAHD. Dentistry Images from the History of Medicine This collection from the National Library of Medicine contains many images related to dentistry. Images from the History of Medicine: Search results for "dentistry". Dentistry Images from the New York Public Library Search results for "dentistry". Medical Library Association The Medical Library Association's directory of dental schools, libraries & resources. Dental Cosmos The complete issues of Dental Cosmos, one of the first journals of dentistry, published 1859-1936. International Toothbrush Collection A searchable gallery and database of toothbrushes from around the world. Antique Dental Articulators Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Online Access Catalogues & Bibliographic Databases, DENTISTRY › History of Dentistry, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries |
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History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Research Portal.Hamilton, Ontario: McMaster University, 2017.http://medhumanities.mcmaster.ca/ "The History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Research Web Portal is designed to gather resources in medical humanities for students, scholars, physicians, and the general public for learning, exploration, and research. We define “medical humanities” as an interdisciplinary field encompassing the humanities (literature, philosophy, ethics, history, religion), social science (anthropology, cultural studies, psychology, sociology) and the arts (theater, film, multimedia, visual arts), in dialogue with healthcare education and clinical practice. Humanities thinking enriches healthcare education and practice, and medicine broadens our understanding of human being and the human condition. Our mission is to bring together a worldwide collection of library, archival, museum, digital, and visual collections for the researcher to explore and use in the medical humanities. Here you will find listings of grants and fellowships available to support individual research in history of medicine and medical humanities. We also are a place for McMaster University colleagues and students interested in the field to network and share ideas and work. The portal will house a series of thematic modules in six areas, created by students, artists, historians, and colleagues. Visit us again to see the work as it evolves:
The History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Research Portal was created in 2016 by the Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine Ellen Amster, History Ph.D. candidate researchers Lauren Goldstein, Katarina Todic, and Nathan Coschi, and Bachelor of Health Sciences student Jinny Lee, with technical assistance from Todd Murray and the Computer Services Unit in the Faculty of Health Sciences. Funding for the project was provided by Associated Medical Services, the Dean’s Office of the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University, and the Michael DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University. The portal is maintained by the Hannah Unit in the History of Medicine in the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University. Principal Investigator, Ellen Amster, Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine, Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of History, McMaster University."
Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Online Access Catalogues & Bibliographic Databases, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries , DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Humanities Projects, History of Medicine: General Works, Humanities, Medical |
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Miracle cure: The creation of antibiotics and the birth of modern medicine.New York: Viking, 2017.Subjects: PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals |
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Pale Rider: The Spanish flu of 1918 and how It changed the world.London: Jonathan Cape, 2017.Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology, EPIDEMIOLOGY › Pandemics › Influenza › 1918 Pandemic (H1N1 virus), INFECTIOUS DISEASE › History of Infectious Disease, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Influenza, VIROLOGY › History of Virology, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Orthomyxoviridae › Influenza A Virus › Influenza A virus subtype H1N1 |
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Frankenstein: Annotated for scientists, engineers, and creators of all kinds. By Mary Shelley. Edited by David H. Guston, Ed Finn, and Jason Scott Robert.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017.Subjects: LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology › Fiction |
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Literature and medicine in the nineteenth-century periodical press: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858.Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017.Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Periodicals, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Scotland, LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology |
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Normality. A critical genealogy.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2017.Perhaps the first study of the history of the "normal" in medicine. Traces the concept of normal to French anatomical and physiological discourse in the 1820s and 1830s, and its dissemination in modern culture through the 1940s, until its generalization and dilution. Subjects: ANATOMY › History of Anatomy, PHYSIOLOGY › History of Physiology |
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Reasoning against madness: Psychiatry and the state in Rio de Janeiro, 1830-1944.Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2017.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Brazil, Latin American Medicine › History of Latin American Medicine, PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Images of America: US National Library of Medicine. Edited by Jeffrey S. Reznick and Kenneth M. Koyle with the staff of the US National Library of Medicine.Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2017.Images with detailed captions documenting the development of this institution. Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Institutional Medical Libraries, Histories of |
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La médecine de guerre en Grèce ancienne.Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2017.The most comprehensive study of this subject. Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece › History of Ancient Medicine in Greece, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome XVI: Problèmes hippocratiques. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna et Alessia Guardasole. (Collection des universités de France).Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2017.Greek text with facing French translation of 130 problems (some in the way of Hippocratic medicine and others not) compiled by an anonymous Christian author from the Byzantine period, 7th to 10th/11th century. Subjects: BYZANTINE MEDICINE, Hippocratic Tradition, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE |
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Taking turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371.University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2017."In 1994, at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, MK Czerwiec took her first nursing job, at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, as part of the caregiving staff of HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371. Taking Turns pulls back the curtain on life in the ward. "A shining example of excellence in the treatment and care of patients, Unit 371 was a community for thousands of patients and families affected by HIV and AIDS and the people who cared for them. This graphic novel combines Czerwiec’s memories with the oral histories of patients, family members, and staff. It depicts life and death in the ward, the ways the unit affected and informed those who passed through it, and how many look back on their time there today. Czerwiec joined Unit 371 at a pivotal time in the history of AIDS: deaths from the syndrome in the Midwest peaked in 1995 and then dropped drastically in the following years, with the release of antiretroviral protease inhibitors. This positive turn of events led to a decline in patient populations and, ultimately, to the closure of Unit 371" (publisher). Subjects: Graphic Medicine, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS › History of HIV / AIDS |
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Visualizing disease: The art and history of pathological illustrations.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2017.Subjects: PATHOLOGY › History of Pathology, PATHOLOGY › Pathology Illustration |
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Secret cures of slaves: People, plants, and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017."Massive mortality among enslaved Africans and European planters, soldiers, and sailors fueled the search for new healing techniques. Amerindian, African, and European knowledges competed to cure diseases emerging from the collision of peoples on newly established, often poorly supplied, plantations. But not all knowledge was equal. Highlighting the violence and fear endemic to colonial struggles, Schiebinger explores aspects of African medicine that were not put to the test, such as Obeah and vodou. This book analyzes how and why specific knowledges were blocked, discredited, or held secret" (publisher). Subjects: BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology, BOTANY › Ethnobotany, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines › History of Materia Medica |
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Malleable anatomies: Models, makers, and material culture in eighteenth-century Italy.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017."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, and traces the fashioning of anatomical models as important social, cultural, and political as well as medical tools. Over the course of the eighteenth century, anatomical specimens offered particularly accurate insights into the inner body. Being colored, soft, malleable, and often life-size, they promised to foster anatomical knowledge for different audiences in a delightful way. But how did anatomical models and preparations inscribe and mediate bodily knowledge? How did they change the way in which anatomical knowledge was created and communicated? And how did they affect the lives of those involved in their production, display, viewing, and handling?" (publisher). Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Italy, MUSEUMS › History of Museums, MUSEUMS › Medical, Anatomical & Pathological , Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Medicalizing blackness: Making racial difference in the Atlantic world, 1780-1840.Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology, Slavery and Medicine › History of Slavery & Medicine |
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Medical bondage: Race, gender and the origins of American gynecology.Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2017."The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistulae repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical Bondage breaks new ground by exploring how and why physicians denied these women their full humanity yet valued them as “medical superbodies” highly suited for medical experimentation.
Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY › History of Gynecology, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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HIV / AIDS Collected by: National Library of Medicine, Christine Wenc, curator.Bethesda, MD: U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2017.Subjects: DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries , INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › HIV / AIDS › History of HIV / AIDS, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES › History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases |
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Teeth: The story of beauty, inequality, and the struggle for oral health in America.New York: The New Press, 2017.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , DENTISTRY, DENTISTRY › History of Dentistry, PUBLIC HEALTH |
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Bodies beyond borders: Moving anatomies, 1750–1950. Edited by Kaat Wils, Raf de Bont, and Sokhieng Au.Leuven (Louvain), Belgium, 2017.Subjects: ANATOMY › History of Anatomy, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Anti-vivisection and the profession of medicine in Britain: A social history.London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.Subjects: Ethics, Biomedical › History of Biomedical Ethics, Medicine: General Works › Experimental Design, Medicine: General Works › Experimental Design › Vivisection / Antivivisection |
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Beating the odds: The University of Massachusetts Medical School, a history, 1962–2012.Cambridge, MA: TidePool Press, 2017.The University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA was founded as recently as 1962. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States › American Northwest, Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession |
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The religion of chiropractic: Populist healing from America's heartland.Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › Chiropractic › History of Chiropractic, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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To heal humankind: The right to health in history,New York & London, 2017.Subjects: SOCIAL MEDICINE, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Demons and illness from antiquity to the early-modern period. Edited by Siama Bhayro and Catherine Rider.Leiden: Brill, 2017.Subjects: RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Medical glossaries in the Hebrew tradition: Shem Tov Ben Isaac, Sefer Almansur: With a supplement on the romance and Latin terminology. By Gerrit Bos, Guido Mensching and Julia Zwink.Leiden: Brill, 2017.Subjects: Dictionaries, Biomedical, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Jewish Medicine |
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Making medicines in early colonial Lima, Peru: Apothecaries, science and society.Leiden: Brill, 2017.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Peru, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Cancer, radiation therapy, and the market.New York & London: Routledge, 2017.Subjects: ECONOMICS, BIOMEDICAL, ECONOMICS, BIOMEDICAL › History of Biomedical Economics, INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › History of Biomedical Instrumentation, RADIOLOGY › History of Radiology, Radiation Oncology, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Human anatomy: Stereoscopic images of medical specimens. From the collection of the Vrolik Museum. Photographs by Jim Naughten, text by Laurens de Rooy.Munich-London-New York: Prestel, 2017.Extraordinary stereoscopic photographs taken by Naughten from speciemens at the Vrolik Museum at the University of Amsterdam, collected by Gerard Vrolik and his son Willem. Subjects: IMAGING › Photography / Photomicrography , MUSEUMS › History of Museums, MUSEUMS › Medical, Anatomical & Pathological |
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Avicenne et la médecine en Italie. Le Canon dans les universités (1200-1350).Paris: Honoré Champion, 2017.Subjects: Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Italy, Persian (Iranian) Islamic Medicine › History of Persian (Iranian) Islamic Medicine |
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Irish medical education and student culture, c. 1850-1950.Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Ireland, Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Silicosis: A world history. Edited by Paul-André Rosental.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.Subjects: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & MEDICINE › History of Occupational Health & Medicine |
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Rise of the modern hospital: An architectural history of health and healing, 1870-1940.Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017.Subjects: HOSPITALS › History of Hospitals, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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The experiential Caribbean: Creating knowledge and healing in the early modern Atlantic.Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.A history of healing in the Afro-Caribbean culture of the the 17th century Caribbean. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Caribbean, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine |
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Madhouse: Psychiatry and politics in Cuban history.Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Cuba, POLICY, HEALTH, PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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The Fate of Rome: Climate, disease, and the end of an empire.Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Late Antiquity, ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire › History of Medicine in the Roman Empire, Bioclimatology › History of Bioclimatology, EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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Photography, natural history and the nineteenth-century museum: Exchanging views of empire.Abingdon, Oxford & New York: Routledge, 2017.Subjects: IMAGING › Photography / Photomicrography , MUSEUMS › History of Museums, MUSEUMS › Natural History Museums / Wunderkammern, NATURAL HISTORY › History of Natural History, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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The art and science of healing from antiquity to the Renaissance. Exhibition catalogue Kelsey Museum of Archaeology - University of Michigan Library 10 February - 30 April 2017.Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press & Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 2017.Finely illustrated and annotated catalogue including objects and rare books and manuscripts collected by Le Roy Crummer, Lewis Stephen Pilcher, and Campbell Bonner. Until publication of this catalogue material in the Crummer and Pilcher collections in particular was little known. The exhibition catalogue was available online at https://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/art-science-healing/index.php.
Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece, ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Exhibition Catalogues, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , Renaissance Medicine |
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Infertility in early modern England.London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), EMBRYOLOGY › Infertility, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY › Infertility, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Proposal to reclassify Ehrlichia muris as Ehrlichia muris subsp. muris subsp. nov. and description of Ehrlichia muris subsp. eauclairensis subsp. nov., a newly recognized tick borne pathogen of humans.Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 67, 2121-2126, 2017.Order of authorship in the original publication: Pritt, Allderdice, Sloan. By extremely complex genotyping methods and fine electron microscopic analysis of the organism, the authors showed that the infectious agent is a new human subspecies similar to the murine pathogen that is conveyed from the murine reservoirs to humans by the tick vector. The pathogen was named for Eau Claire, a city in Wisconsin, where the patient was infected. Full text available from PubMedCentral at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › BACTERIA (mostly pathogenic; sometimes indexed only to genus) › Rickettsiales › Ehrlichia, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Tick-Borne Diseases › Ehrlichiosis, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Wisconsin, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Genomic epidemiology reveals multiple introductions of Zika virus into the United States.Nature, 546, 401-405, 2017.Order of authorship in the original publication: Grubaugh, Ladner, Kraemer. The authors found that the Zika virus was introduced into Florida at least 4 times, but perhaps as many as 40 times, before it was detected, that it entered Florida from the Carribean (probably Puerto Rico) and most likely from cruise ship travel. Follow-up papers published immediately after this in the same journal issue: Faria, N.R.; Quick, J., Claro, I. M.; et al. "Establishment and cryptic transmission of Zika virus in Brazil and the Americas," Nature, 546 (2017) 406-410. The authors generated data from a travelling genomics laboratory sequencing Zika virus (ZIKV) genomes around the country. They found that the virus was first detected in Brazil in May 2015, about a year after it was first introducted. Metsky, Hayden C.; Matranga, Christian B.; Wohl, Shirlee, et al. "Virus evolution and spread in the Americas," Nature, 546 (2017) 411-415. The authors showed the spread of Zika in the Americas using genomes of people and mosquitoes (110 ZIKV genomes from 10 countries), tracing the common ancestor of ZIKV in the Americas to about late 2013 and pinpointing it to the NE/Bahia region of Brazil. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for these references and their interpretation.) Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Genomics › Pathogenomics, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Brazil, EPIDEMIOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Zika Virus Disease, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Florida, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Flaviviridae › Zika Virus |
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Medicine at Michigan: A history of the University of Michigan Medical School at the Bicentennial.Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2017.Subjects: Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Michigan |
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A heavy reckoning: War, medicine and survival in Afghanistan and beyond.London: Wellcome, 2017.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Afghanistan, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › Afghanistan, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Prostitution in the ancient Greek world.New York: De Gruyter, 2017.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece › History of Ancient Medicine in Greece, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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Hippocrate, Tome XII, 4e partie, Femmes stériles, Maladies des jeunes filles, Superfétation, Excision du foetus. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Florence Bourbon.Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2017.Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of four gynecological treatises from the Hippocratic Collection, from c. 470-350 BCE: De sterilibus = On sterility; De virginum morbis = On diseases of virgins; De superfetatione = On superfetation; and De foetus exsectione = On excision of the fetus.
Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece, Hippocratic Tradition, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY, WOMEN, Publications by, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Imperfect pregnancies: A history of birth defects and prenatal diagnosis.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.Subjects: Forensic Medicine (Legal Medicine) › History of Forensic Medicine , OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › History of Obstetrics, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Faces from the front: Harold Gillies, the Queen’s Hospital, Sidcup and the origins of modern plastic surgery.Solihull, England: Helion & Company, 2017.Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › World War I, PLASTIC & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY › History of Plastic Surgery |
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A history of the mind and mental health in classical Greek medical thought.Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2017.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece › History of Ancient Medicine in Greece, PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Medieval Islamic medicine and medical luminaries.Denver, CO: Outlook Press, 2017.Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Persian Islamic Medicine |
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Development and use of personalized bacteriophage-therapeutic cocktails to treat a patient with a disseminated resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Infection.Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 61, e00954-17, 2017.Order of authorship in the original paper: Schooley, Biswas, Gill .... Successful experimental treatment of a highly antibiotic resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infection by bacteriophage therapy. "In 2016, while serving as the Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, Schooley was approached by his colleague, Dr. Steffanie Strathdee, to help save her husband's life by using bacteriophages (phages). Strathdee's husband, Dr. Tom Patterson, was suffering from a life-threatening multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infection, that he had acquired while on vacation in Egypt. Schooley, acting as the primary infectious disease physician, along with Strathdee and a team of researchers and physicians from Texas A&M University, Adaptive Phage Therapeutics, the US Navy, UC San Diego School of Medicine, and San Diego State University, worked together to source, purify and administer phages that were active against the strain of bacteria with which Patterson was infected. Schooley was responsible for successfully navigating the Food and Drug Administration's emergency investigational new drug process, to obtain approval to administer the experimental therapy. After multiple phage cocktail administrations, provided from the partnering laboratories and companies, Patterson was cured of his infection and eventually made a full recovery" (Wikipedia article on Robert T. Schooley). Steffanie Strathdee and Thomas L. Patterson published a book on this case and its cure: The perfect predator: A scientist's race to save her husband from a deadly superbug. New York: Hachette Books, 2019. Digital facsimile of the 2017 paper from PubMedCentral at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: PHARMACOLOGY › Drug Resistance, PHARMACOLOGY › Phage Therapy |
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Object lessons and the formation of knowledge: University of Michigan museums, libraries and collections 1817-2017. Edited by Kerstin Barndt and Carla M. Sinopoli.Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2017.Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Institutional Medical Libraries, Histories of, MUSEUMS › History of Museums, MUSEUMS › Medical, Anatomical & Pathological , MUSEUMS › Natural History Museums / Wunderkammern, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Michigan, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Traditional medicine in the colonial Philippines: 16th to the 19th century.Quezon City, Philippines: University of the Philippines Press, 2017.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Philippines, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Fearful asymmetry: Bouillaud, Dax, Broca, and the localization of language, Paris, 1825-1879.Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Aphasia, Agraphia, Agnosia, NEUROLOGY › History of Neurology, NEUROSCIENCE › Neurolinguistics |
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History of the discovery of the mode of transmission of yellow fever virus.J. Vect. Ecol., 42, 208-222, 2017.Digital text is available from Wiley Online Library at this link. Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Yellow Fever › History of Yellow Fever |
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Programmable base editing of A-T to G-C.Nature, 551, 464-480, 2017.Order of authorship in the original publication: Gaudelli, Komor, Rees....Liu. Liu and colleagues developed an advanced CRISPR system that can edit pairings of DNA nucleotide bases Adenine and Thymine into Guanine and Cytosine. In order to achieve this they created a new enzyme in the lab to chemically convert and work on the above pairings. They called this enzyme a "base editor." In theory this tool would enable this improved CRISPR able to target a substantial fraction of SNPs (Single-nucleotide polymorphisms) associated with human genetic diseases. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › CRISPR Gene Editing, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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The origins of botanic gardens and their relation to plant science, with special reference to horticultural botany and cultivated plant taxonomy.Muelleria, 35, 43-93, 2017.Unusually well illustrated in color, with detailed bibliography, surveying the history from its origins in prehistory, the Neolithic revolution, to the present. Digital facsimile rbg.vic.gov.au at this link. Subjects: BOTANY › Botanical Gardens › History of Botanical Gardens, BOTANY › Classification / Systemization of Plants, BOTANY › History of Botany |
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American Indian medicine ways: Spiritual power, prophets, and healing. Edited by Clifford E. Trafzer.Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2017."Indigenous people of wisdom have offered prayers of power, protection, and healing since the dawn of time. From Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet, to contemporary healer Kenneth Coosewoon, medicine people have called on the spiritual world to help humans in their relationships with each other and the natural world. Many American Indians—past and present—have had the ability to use power to access wisdom, knowledge, and spiritual understanding. Subjects: NATIVE AMERICANS & Medicine, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Evolutionary nephrology.Kidney International Reports, 2, 302-317, 2017.Abstract: "Progressive kidney disease follows nephron loss, hyperfiltration, and incomplete repair, a process described as “maladaptive.” In the past 20 years, a new discipline has emerged that expands research horizons: evolutionary medicine. In contrast to physiologic (homeostatic) adaptation, evolutionary adaptation is the result of reproductive success that reflects natural selection. Evolutionary explanations for physiologically maladaptive responses can emerge from mismatch of the phenotype with environment or from evolutionary tradeoffs. Evolutionary adaptation to a terrestrial environment resulted in a vulnerable energy-consuming renal tubule and a hypoxic, hyperosmolar microenvironment. Natural selection favors successful energy investment strategy: energy is allocated to maintenance of nephron integrity through reproductive years, but this declines with increasing senescence after w40 years of age. Risk factors for chronic kidney disease include restricted fetal growth or preterm birth (life history tradeoff resulting in fewer nephrons), evolutionary selection for APOL1 mutations (which provide resistance to trypanosome infection, a tradeoff), and modern life experience (Western diet mismatch leading to diabetes and hypertension). Current advances in genomics, epigenetics, and developmental biology have revealed proximate causes of kidney disease, but attempts to slow kidney disease remain elusive. Evolutionary medicine provides a complementary approach by addressing ultimate causes of kidney disease. Marked variation in nephron number at birth, nephron heterogeneity, and changing susceptibility to kidney injury throughout the life history are the result of evolutionary processes. Combined application of molecular genetics, evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), developmental programming, and life history theory may yield new strategies for prevention and treatment of chronic kidney disease." Available from kireports.org at this link. Subjects: EVOLUTION › Evolutionary Medicine, NEPHROLOGY |
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The coronary heart disease pandemic in the twentieth century: Emergence and decline in advanced countries.Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2017."This book demonstrates that a pandemic of coronary heart disease occurred in North America, western and northern Europe, and Australia and New Zealand from the 1930s to about 2000. At its peak it caused more deaths than any other disease. The book examines and compares trends in coronary heart disease mortality rates for individual countries. The most detailed analyses are for the United States, where mortality rates are examined for race, sex, and age groups and for geographic regions. Popular explanations for the rise and fall of coronary heart disease mortality rates are examined" (publisher). Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, DEATH & DYING › Mortality Statistics, EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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Medicine, mobility and the empire: Nyasaland networks, 1859-1960.Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017."David Livingstone's Zambesi expedition marked the beginning of an ongoing series of medical exchanges between the British and Malawians. This book explores these entangled histories by placing medicine in the frameworks of mobilities and networks that extended across Southern Africa and beyond. It provides a new approach to the study of medicine and empire. Drawing on a range of written and oral sources, the book argues that mobility was a crucial aspect of intertwined medical cultures that shared a search for therapy in changing conditions. Mobile individuals, ideas and materials played key roles in medical networks that involved both professionals and laypeople. These networks connected colonial medicine with Protestant Christianity and migrant labour" (publisher). Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Kenya, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Malawi, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Nigeria, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Tanzania, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Uganda, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Zanzibar |
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Abortion law and policy around the world: In search of decriminalization.Health and Human Rights Journal, 19, 13-27, 2017.Digital edition available from cdn1.sph.harvard.edu at this link. Subjects: LAW and Medicine & the Life Sciences, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Abortion |
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Teens and their doctors: The story of the development of adolescent medicine.Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 2017.Traces the development of adolescent medicine from the first program, opened by Ros Gallagher at Boston Children’s Hospital, in 1951, to the creation of the Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM), in 1968. The book describes the growth of the specialty in those two decades, including how it was influenced by changes in society, and how practitioners responded to social change with approaches created to care for alienated youth, such as free clinics, mobile medical vans, and teen hotlines. The core of the book is composed of interviews with more than eighty specialists in adolescent medicine, all of whom were trained by the pioneers of the field. Subjects: Adolescent Medicine, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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A Syriac medical Kunnāšā of Īšōʿ bar ʿAlī (9th c.): First soundings. By Grigory Kessel.Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, 5, 228-251, 2017.Abstract: "A little-known thirteenth-century manuscript preserved in Damascus contains by far the largest Syriac medical work that has survived till today. Despite the missing beginning, a preliminary study of the text allows us to argue that it is the medical handbook (entitled Kunnāšā) of Īšōʿ bar ʿAlī, a ninth-century physician and student of Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq. The seven books of the handbook appear to follow the model of Paul of Aegina’s Pragmateia both in composition and content. The actual significance of the handbook in the history of Syriac and Arabic medicine is yet to be assessed, but there can be no doubt that it will be a pivotal source that illustrates the development of Syriac medicine during a period of four centuries at the moment when it was being translated to lay the foundations of the nascent medical tradition in Arabic." Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Syria and Syriac Texts |
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Contested bodies: Pregnancy, childrearing, and slavery in Jamaica.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017."It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned the importation of Africans into its West Indian colonies in 1807. However, as Sasha Turner shows in this illuminating study, for almost thirty years before the slave trade ended, Jamaican slaveholders and doctors adjusted slave women's labor, discipline, and health care to increase birth rates and ensure that infants lived to become adult workers. Although slaves' interests in healthy pregnancies and babies aligned with those of their masters, enslaved mothers, healers, family, and community members distrusted their owners' medicine and benevolence. Turner contends that the social bonds and cultural practices created around reproductive health care and childbirth challenged the economic purposes slaveholders gave to birthing and raising children. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Caribbean › Jamaica, Slavery and Medicine › History of Slavery & Medicine |
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A cultural history of medical vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier.London: Routledge, 2017."One of the key themes of the Enlightenment was the search for universal laws and truths that would help illuminate the workings of the universe. It is in such attitudes that we trace the origins of modern science and medicine. However, not all eighteenth century scientists and physicians believed that such universal laws could be found, particularly in relation to the differences between living and inanimate matter. From the 1740s physicians working in the University of Medicine of Montpellier began to contest Descartes's dualist concept of the body-machine that was being championed by leading Parisian medical 'mechanists'. In place of the body-machine perspective that sought laws universally valid for all phenomena, the vitalists postulated a distinction being living and other matter, offering a holistic understanding of the physical-moral relation in place of mind-body dualism. Their medicine was not based on mathematics and the unity of the sciences, but on observation of the individual patient and the harmonious activities of the 'body-economy'. Vitalists believed that Illness was a result of disharmony in this 'body-economy' which could only be remedied on an individual level depending on the patient's own 'natural' limitations. The limitations were established by a myriad of factors such as sex, class, age, temperament, region, and race, which negated the use of a single universal treatment for a particular ailment. Ultimately Montpelier medicine was eclipsed by that of Paris, a development linked to the dynamics of the Enlightenment as a movement bent on cultural centralisation, acquiring a reputation as a kind of anti-science of the exotic and the mad. Given the long-standing Paris-centrism of French cultural history, Montpellier vitalism has never been accorded the attention it deserves by historians" (publisher). Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › France, PHYSIOLOGY › History of Physiology |
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Organizing principles for the cerebral cortex network of commissural and association connections.Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA), 114, E9692-E9701, 2017."Significance "The cerebral cortex supports cognition and is a structure common to all mammals. The major cortical subdivisions (its gray matter regions) are connected by a complex network of axonal connections that includes connections between regions in the same hemisphere (association connections on the right or left side) and those between hemispheres (commissural connections between opposite sides). A database of over 5,000 connections in the cortical network was extracted from the literature, and network analysis revealed three identical cortical modules (neural subsystems) on each side. One appears to deal especially with the external world, one with the viscera, and one with planning, prioritization, and self-awareness. A set of general organizing principles for association and commissural connections also emerged from the analysis. "Abstract "Cognition is supported by a network of axonal connections between gray matter regions within and between right and left cerebral cortex. Global organizing principles of this circuitry were examined with network analysis tools applied to monosynaptic association (within one side) and commissural (between sides) connections between all 77 cortical gray matter regions in each hemisphere of the rat brain. The analysis used 32,350 connection reports expertly collated from published pathway tracing experiments, and 5,394 connections of a possible 23,562 were identified, for a connection density of 23%—of which 20% (1,084) were commissural. Network community detection yielded a stable bihemispheric six-module solution, with an identical set in each hemisphere of three modules topographically forming a lateral core and medial shell arrangement of cortical regions. Functional correlations suggest the lateral module deals preferentially with environmental sensory-motor interactions and the ventromedial module deals preferentially with visceral control, affect, and short-term memory, whereas the dorsomedial module resembles the default mode network. Analysis of commissural connections revealed a set of unexpected rules to help generate hypotheses. Most notably, there is an order of magnitude more heterotopic than homotopic projections; all cortical regions send more association than commissural connections, and for each region, the latter are always a subset of the former; the number of association connections from each cortical region strongly correlates with the number of its commissural connections; and the module (dorsomedial) lying closest to the corpus callosum has the most complete set of commissural connections—and apparently the most complex function." Subjects: ANATOMY › Neuroanatomy › Cytoarchitecture, COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology, NEUROSCIENCE › Cognitive Neuroscience, NEUROSCIENCE › Computational Neuroscience, NEUROSCIENCE › Computational Neuroscience › Connectomics, PSYCHOLOGY › Cognition |
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The birth of homeopathy out of the spirit of romanticism.Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2017.".... Kuzniar argues that Hahnemann was a product of his time rather than an iconoclast and visionary. It is the first book in English to examine Hahnemann’s unpublished writings, including case journals and self-testings, and links to his contemporaries such as Goethe and Alexander von Humboldt. Kuzniar’s engaging writing style seamlessly weaves together medical, philosophical, semiotic, and literary concerns and reveals homeopathy as a phenomenon of its time...." (publisher). Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › Homeopathy › History of Homeopathy |
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Reinventing Hippocrates. Edited by David Cantor.New York: Routledge, 2017."The name of Hippocrates has been invoked as an inspiration of medicine since antiquity, and medical practitioners have turned to Hippocrates for ethical and social standards. While most modern commentators accept that medicine has sometimes fallen short of Hippocratic ideals, these ideals are usually portrayed as having a timeless appeal, departure from which is viewed as an aberration that only a return to Hippocratic values will correct. Recent historical work has begun to question such an image of Hippocrates and his medicine. Instead of examining Hippocratic ideals and values as an unchanging legacy passed to us from antiquity, historians have increasingly come to explore the many different ways in which Hippocrates and his medicine have been constructed and reconstructed over time. Thus scholars have tended to abandon attempts to extract a real Hippocrates from the mass of conflicting opinions about him. Rather, they tend to ask why he was portrayed in particular ways, by particular groups, at particular times. This volume explores the multiple uses, constructions, and meanings of Hippocrates and Hippocratic medicine since the Renaissance, and elucidates the cultural and social circumstances that shaped their development. Recent research has suggested that whilst the process of constructing and reconstructing Hippocrates began during antiquity, it was during the sixteenth century that the modern picture emerged. Many scholastic endeavours today, it is claimed, are attempts to answer Hippocratic questions first posed in the sixteenth century" (publisher). Subjects: Hippocratic Tradition |
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The Etruscans and the history of dentistry: The golden smile through the ages.Oxford & New York: Routledge, 2017.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire › History of Medicine in the Roman Empire, DENTISTRY › History of Dentistry |
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The smile revolution in eighteenth century Paris.Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, DENTISTRY › History of Dentistry |
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Das System der Natur. Die kollaborative Wissenskultur der Botanik im 18. Jahrhundert.Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2017.Subjects: BOTANY › History of Botany |
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Contagionism catches on. Medical ideology in Britain, 1730-1800.New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017."This book shows how contagionism evolved in eighteenth century Britain and describes the consequences of this evolution. By the late eighteenth century, the British medical profession was divided between traditionalists, who attributed acute diseases to the interaction of internal imbalances with external factors such as weather, and reformers, who blamed contagious pathogens. The reformers, who were often “outsiders,” English Nonconformists or men born outside England, emerged from three coincidental transformations: transformation in medical ideas, in the nature and content of medical education, and in the sort of men who became physicians. Adopting contagionism led them to see acute diseases as separate entities, spurring a process that reoriented medical research, changed communities, established new medical institutions, and continues to the present day" (publisher). Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › History of Infectious Disease |
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The price for their pound of flesh: The value of the enslaved, from womb to grave, in the building of a nation.Boston: Beacon Press, 2017."Berry studies the economic history of slavery in the United States, examining how a price was assigned to the bodies of enslaved people in America from before they were born until after they died.[5] Berry proposes four types of value that an enslaved person could hold: their assessed value, as determined by others for the purposes of accounting and sale; their market value, which was a function of local demand; their soul value, derived from inherent spiritual self-worth and reinforced by familial and communal connections; and their ghost value, evaluated by body brokers who engaged in the sale of human cadavers" (Wikipedia) Subjects: BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology |
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Nahrungsmittel in der arabischen Medizin. Das Kitāb al-Aġḏiya wa-l-ašriba des Naǧīb ad-Dīn as-Samarqandī. Edition, Übersetzung und Kontext von Juliane Müller.Leiden, 2017.Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine |
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Medical misadventure in an age of professionalisation, 1780-1890.Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017.Subjects: Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession |
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History of social media in surgery.Clin. Colon Rectal Surg., 30, 233-239, 2017.Order of authorship in the original publication: Logghe, McFadden, Tully, Jones. Full text from PubMedCentral at this link. Subjects: SURGERY: General › History of Surgery, Social Media & Medicine |
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Syphilis in Victorian literature and culture: Medicine, knowledge and the spectacle of invisibility.London, 2017.Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES › Syphilis › History of Syphilis |
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The role of the WI-38 cell strain in saving lives and reducing morbidity.AIMS Public Health, 4, 127-138, 2017.In 1961 "Hayflick developed the first normal human diploid cell strains for studies on human aging and for research use throughout the world. Prior to his seminal research, all cultured cell lines were immortal and aneuploid. One of these new cell strains, developed by Hayflick and his colleague Paul Moorhead at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, called WI-38, has become the most widely used and highly characterized normal human cell population in the world. Hayflick had found that his normal cell strain WI-38 was capable of growing all of the then known human viruses. He hypothesized that because WI-38 was free from contaminating viruses, it could replace the then widely used primary monkey kidney cells, which contained several dangerous contaminating viruses. Indeed, WI-38 became used worldwide for human virus vaccine manufacture, to the benefit of billions of people" (Wikipedia article on Leonard Hayflick). Subjects: BIOLOGY › Cell Biology, IMMUNOLOGY › Vaccines |
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Zika virus protection by a single low-dose nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccination.Nature, 543, 248-251, 2017.Prior to their development of the mRNA vaccine for Covid-19, Karikó and Weissman (Nobel Prize 2023) and colleagues used a novel mRNA vaccine, with base modifications created in their laboratory, to generate a protective Zika vaccine. From the abstract: “....Here we demonstrate that a single low-dose intradermal immunization with lipid nanoparticle-encapsulated nucleoside modified mRNA (mRNA-LPN), encoding the pre-membrane and envelope glycoproteins of a strain from the ZIKV outbreak in 2013, elicited potent and durable neutralizing antibody responses in mice and non-human primates....” In 2023 the full text of this paper was available from nature.com at this link. Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Zika Virus Disease, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Flaviviridae › Zika Virus |
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Lelamour herbal (MS Sloane 5, ff. 13r-57r): An annotated critical edition by David Moreno Olalla.Bern: Peter Lang, 2018.First critical edition of the sole extant copy of the Middle English herbal written in 1373 by John Lelamour, a Herefordian schoolmaster, who is otherwise unknown. Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › England, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines |
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GALEN: Hygiene. Books 1-4, Books 5-6. Thrasybulus on exercise with a small ball. Edited and translated by Ian Johnston. 2 vols.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire, Hygiene, PHYSICAL MEDICINE / REHABILITATION › Exercise / Training / Fitness |
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Médecins et magiciens á la cour du pharaon. Une étude du papyrus médical Louvre E 32847.Paris: Éditions Khéops & Louvre Éditions, 2018.Transcription, French translation, and study of this papyrus dating from the reign of Amenophis II (1424-1398 BCE). The papyrus, written for teaching purposes, concerns diagnosis of pathology in the elderly, tumors (including cancer and lymphoma), mummification, and remedial therapy. Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Egypt, Magic & Superstition in Medicine, ONCOLOGY & CANCER, ONCOLOGY & CANCER › Lymphoma |
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The patent medicines industry in Georgian England: Constructing the market by the potency of print.London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACY › History of Pharmacy, Publishing / Book History in Medicine and Biology, Quackery |
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CONTAGION: Historical views of diseases and epidemics.Cambridge, MA: Harvard Libraries, 2018.http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/ This was the original version of this digital library. It includes commentary. It may be available through the Internet Archive, Archive-It facility or through the Wayback Machine. https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/contagion This is an expanded version without the commentary. "This online collection offers important historical perspectives on the science and public policy of epidemiology today and contributes to the understanding of the global, social–history, and public–policy implications of diseases. Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics is a digital library collection that brings a unique set of resources from Harvard’s libraries to Internet users everywhere. Offering valuable insights to students of the history of medicine and to researchers seeking an historical context for current epidemiology, the collection contributes to the understanding of the global, social–history, and public–policy implications of disease. Contagion is also a unique social–history resource for students of many ages and disciplines. These materials include digitized copies of books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula, and manuscripts—a total of more than 500,000 pages—many of which contain visual materials, such as plates, engravings, maps, charts, broadsides, and other illustrations. The collection also includes two unique sets of visual materials from the Center for the History of Medicine at Harvard’s Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. Library materials and archival materials are supplemented by explanatory pages that introduce concepts related to diseases and epidemics, historical approaches to medicine, and notable men and women." Subjects: DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries , EPIDEMIOLOGY, EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology, INFECTIOUS DISEASE, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › History of Infectious Disease |
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Digital health: Scaling healthcare to the world. Edited by Homero Rivas and Katarzyna Wac.Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2018.Probably the first book published on "digital health." "This book presents a comprehensive state-of the-art approach to digital health technologies and practices within the broad confines of healthcare practices. It provides a canvas to discuss emerging digital health solutions, propelled by the ubiquitous availability of miniaturized, personalized devices and affordable, easy to use wearable sensors, and innovative technologies like 3D printing, virtual and augmented reality and driverless robots and vehicles including drones. One of the most significant promises the digital health solutions hold is to keep us healthier for longer, even with limited resources, while truly scaling the delivery of healthcare. "Digital Health: Scaling Healthcare to the World addresses the emerging trends and enabling technologies contributing to technological advances in healthcare practice in the 21st Century. These areas include generic topics such as mobile health and telemedicine, as well as specific concepts such as social media for health, wearables and quantified-self trends. Also covered are the psychological models leveraged in design of solutions to persuade us to follow some recommended actions, then the design and educational facets of the proposed innovations, as well as ethics, privacy, security, and liability aspects influencing its acceptance. Furthermore, sections on economic aspects of the proposed innovations are included, analyzing the potential business models and entrepreneurship opportunities in the domain" (publisher). Subjects: COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology, Digital Health & Medicine , ECONOMICS, BIOMEDICAL, Ethics, Biomedical |
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Who we are and how we got here: Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past.New York: Pantheon Books, 2018.Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Genomics, EVOLUTION › Human Origins / Human Evolution, GENETICS / HEREDITY |
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Artificial hearts: The allure and ambivalence of a controversial medical technology.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › History of Cardiology, CARDIOVASCULAR (Cardiac) SURGERY › Heart Transplants › Artificial Heart Transplant, CARDIOVASCULAR (Cardiac) SURGERY › History of Cardiac Surgery, INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › History of Biomedical Instrumentation |
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A platform for biomedical discovery and data-powered health: Strategic plan 2017-2027. Report of the NLM Board of Regents.Bethesda, MD: U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2018.https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/plan/lrp17/NLM_StrategicReport2017_2027.html "The strategic plan focuses on three essential, interdependent goals that will help guide the Library’s priorities over the next 10 years as it pursues its mission of collecting and integrating an expanding set of information resources, enabling them to be analyzed by tools emerging from the informatics and data science research front. Those goals are to: 1. Accelerate discovery and advance health through data-driven research; 2. Reach more people in more ways through enhanced dissemination and engagement; and 3. Build a workforce for data- driven research and health."
Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Institutional Medical Libraries, Histories of, Biomedical Informatics, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Archives & Libraries |
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Animals and the shaping of modern medicine: One health and its histories.Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.A pioneering effort to draw the connections between the development of veterinary medicine and the development of medicine in general. With an extensive annotated bibliography. Subjects: VETERINARY MEDICINE › History of Veterinary Medicine |
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Belonging on an island: Birds, extinction, and evolution in Hawai'i.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018.Subjects: BIOLOGY › Ecology / Environment › History of Ecology / Environment, Biogeography, EVOLUTION, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Hawaii, ZOOLOGY › Ornithology |
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Suffering scholars: Pathologies of the intellectual in Enlightenment France.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › France, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & MEDICINE › History of Occupational Health & Medicine, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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The medical imagination: Literature and health in the early United States.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018."... During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, doctors understood the imagination to be directly connected to health, intimately involved in healing, and central to medical discovery. In fact, for physicians and other health writers in the early United States, literature provided important forms for crafting, testing, and implementing theories of health. Reading and writing poetry trained judgment, cultivated inventiveness, sharpened observation, and supplied evidence for medical research, while novels and short stories offered new perspectives and sites for experimenting with original medical theories. Such imaginative experimentation became most visible at moments of crisis or novelty in American medicine, such as the 1790s yellow fever epidemics, the global cholera pandemics, and the discovery of anesthesia, when conventional wisdom and standard practice failed to produce satisfying answers to pressing questions. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, health research and practice relied on a broader complex of knowing, in which imagination often worked with and alongside observation, experience, and empirical research..." (publisher). Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology |
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Imagining Chinese medicine. Edited by Vivienne Lo and Penelope .Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2018.Finely produced and illustrated collection, with many plates in color, of 36 scholarly essays on the widest range of Chinese medical illustrations, including erotica. Subjects: Chinese Medicine › History of Chinese Medicine, SEXUALITY / Sexology › History of Sexuality / Sexology, VETERINARY MEDICINE › History of Veterinary Medicine, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Culture persane et médecine ayurvédique en Asie du Sud.Leiden: Brill, 2018."... discusses interactions between Ayurveda and Persian medical culture in South Asia. It presents, for the first time, a study of the Persian translation movement of Ayurvedic sources that took place from the fourteenth century. The image of Ayurvedic culture that emerges from the Persian treatises provides new insights into the history of Ayurveda in the era of Muslim political hegemony. Persian treatises apply new categories to the analysis of translated materials and transform the presentation of Ayurvedic knowledge. At the same time, Fabrizio Speziale's book deals with the symmetrical phenomenon of Persianisation of the intellectual universe of Hindu doctors who, through the learning of Persian..." (publisher). Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › India › History of Ancient Medicine in India, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Persian Islamic Medicine |
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The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius: A worldwide descriptive census, ownership, and annotations of the 1543 and 1555 editions.Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2018.Detailed bibliographical information, ownership records, and worldwide census, including description of the handwritten annotations in the surviving copies of the first two editions of Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica. Subjects: ANATOMY › 16th Century, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Individual Authors |
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The Palgrave handbook of the history of surgery. Edited by Thomas Schlich.London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.24 chapters on the history of a wide variety of aspects of general surgery, and of the history of various surgical specialties, by 24 authorities. The work is divided into three parts: 1. Periods and Topics, 2. Links, 3. Areas and Technologies. Subjects: SURGERY: General › History of Surgery |
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Tuberculosis and War: Lessons learned from World War II. Edited by John F. Murray and Robert Loddenkemper.Unionville, CT: Karger, 2018.This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the status of TB before, during and after WWII in the 25 belligerent countries that were chiefly involved. It also summarizes the history of TB up to the present day. "A special chapter on "Nazi medicine, tuberculosis and genocide" examines inhuman Nazi ideology, which used TB as a justification for murder, and targeted the disease by eradicating millions who were afflicted by it. Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Tuberculosis › History of Tuberculosis, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › World War II |
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Cesarean section: An American history of risk, technology, and consequence.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.A study of the sharp increase in cesarean births (up to 25%) in the U.S. during the 2nd half of the 20th century, as a result of technologization of medicine and, consequently, obstreticians' weakened skills, the malpractice climate, and a health care system in which cesarean section became lucrative. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , LAW and Medicine & the Life Sciences › Malpractice, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › History of Obstetrics, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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The fears of the rich, the needs of the poor: My years at the CDC,Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.Director of the Centers for Disease Control from 1977-1983, and President and Co-Founder of The Task Force for Global Heath, 1984-1999, Foege was instrumental in the eradication of smallpox, the generalization of immunization in developing countries and, among many other achievements, the transformation of the CDC from a program on malaria to the observatory of world epidemiology. Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Autobiography, EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology, Global Health, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |
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Knowledge, power, and women's reproductive health in Japan, 1690–1945.New York & Berlin: Springer, 2018.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Japan, Japanese Medicine › History of Japanese Medicine, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY › History of Gynecology, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › History of Obstetrics, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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In-vitro fertilization: The pioneers' history. Edited by Gabor Kovacs, Peter Brinsden and Alan DeCherney.Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2018.Thirty-two chapters devoted to all aspects and some key moments in the history of IVF, together with histories of the development of the science around the world. Subjects: EMBRYOLOGY › History of Embryology, EMBRYOLOGY › Infertility, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY › History of Gynecology, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY › Infertility, Reproductive Technology › In-Vitro Fertilization |
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Between hope and fear: A history of vaccines and human immunity.New York: Pegasus Books, 2018.Both a history of vaccines and immunology and of the anti-vaccination movement. Subjects: IMMUNOLOGY › History of Immunology |
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It all depends on the dose: Poisons and medicines in European history. Edited by Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham, and Jon Arrizabalaga.London & New York: Routledge, 2018."This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same natural material can be medicine or poison, depending on the dose, and poisons can be transformed into medicines, while medicines can turn out to be poisons. The book looks at important moments in the history of the relationship between poisons and medicines in European history, from Roman times, with the Greek physician Galen, through the Renaissance and the maverick physician Paracelsus, to the present, when poisons are actively being turned into beneficial medicines" (publisher). Subjects: TOXICOLOGY › History of Toxicology |
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To raise up the man farthest down: Tuskegee University's advancements in human health, 1881-1987.Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2018.Subjects: BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Alabama |
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PTSD: A short history.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry, PSYCHIATRY › Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) |
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Piety and patienthood in medieval Islam.Oxford & New York: Routledge, 2018.Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Reading contagion: The hazards of reading in the age of print.Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2018.Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › History of Infectious Disease, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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The emergence of Zika virus and its new clinical syndromes.Nature, 560, 573-581, 2018.Order of authorship in the original publication: Pierson, Diamond. Analyzes, and documents with 147 references, the variety of new clinical syndromes, including fetal / in utero effects, caused by the Zika virus. Also addresses adult human pathology and viral aspects. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: EMBRYOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Zika Virus Disease, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Flaviviridae › Zika Virus |
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Carving a niche: The medical profession in Mexico 1800-1870.Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Mexico, Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Mental illness in ancient medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina. Edited by Chiara Thumiger and Peter Singer.Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2018.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › History of Ancient Medicine & Biology, PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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William Hunter and the anatomy of the modern museum. Edited by Mungo Campbell and Nathan Flis with the assistance of Maria Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press & Glasgow: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, 2018.This is probably the most beautiful book published on the wide range of William Hunter's collecting that forms the Hunterian Museum and the Hunterian Collection in Glasgow University Library. Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Book Collecting, MUSEUMS › History of Museums |
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The madness of fear: A history of catatonia.New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.Subjects: PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry |
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Rhetoric, medicine, and the woman writer, 1600–1700.Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2018."How did physicians come to dominate the medical profession? Lyn Bennett challenges the seemingly self-evident belief that scientific competence accounts for physicians' dominance. Instead, she argues that the whole enterprise of learned medicine was, in large measure, facilitated by an intensely classical education that included extensive training in rhetoric, and that this rhetorical training is ultimately responsible for the achievement of professional dominance. Bennett examines previously unexplored connections among writers and genres as well as competing livelihoods and classes. Engaging the histories of rhetoric, medicine, literature, and culture throughout, she goes on to focus specifically on the work of women who professed as well as practiced medicine. Pointing to some of the ways women's writing shapes realities of body, mind, and spirit as it negotiates social, cultural, and professional ideologies of gender, this book offers an important corrective to some long-held beliefs about women's role in early modern discourse" (publisher). Subjects: Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession, LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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The Caribbean and the medical imagination, 1764-1834. Slavery, disease and colonial modernity.Cambridge, England, 2018.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Caribbean, Slavery and Medicine › History of Slavery & Medicine, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Temporal development of the gut microbiome in early childhood from the TEDDY study.Nature, 562, 583-588, 2018.Order of authorship in the original publication: Stewart, Ajami, O'Brien....This study confirmed that "breastfeeding was associated with higher levels of Bididofacterium species" (a very desirable organism), and that "infants delivered vaginally had higher levels of Bacteroides species" (another common and very desirable/healthy microbe). (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY, MICROBIOLOGY › Microbiome, PEDIATRICS |
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Assembling the tropics: Science and medicine in Portugal's empire, 1450-1700.Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Brazil, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Portugal, TROPICAL Medicine › History of Tropical Medicine |
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Pathogen elimination by probiotic Bacillus via signaling interference.Nature, 562, 532-537, 2018.Order of authorship in the original publication: Piewngam, Zheng, Nguygen....The authors discovered a mechanism by which probiotics help maintain a healthy microbiome. They showed that Bacillus subtilis can produce a bioactive lipopeptide called Fengycin that inhibits quorum sensing of pathogens-- a vital signaling mechanism of some bacteria, which helps them regulate gene transcription. Quorum sensing is tied to and responsive to the population density of that bacteria. In this study the Bacillus fengycin eradicated Staphylococcus aureus. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › BACTERIA (mostly pathogenic; sometimes indexed only to genus) › Gram-Positive Bacteria › Bacillus , MICROBIOLOGY › Microbiome, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Probiotics |
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The history of wine as a medicine: From its beginnings in China to the present day.Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.Subjects: Wine, Medical Uses of |
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The mystery of the exploding teeth and other curiosities from the history of medicine.New York: Dutton, 2018.Fascinating stories well told, and frequently with a great sense of humor! Subjects: ODDITIES & Curiosities, Biomedical |
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Caring for equality: A history of African American health and healthcare.Latham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.Subjects: BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology |
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Greek medical literature and its readers: From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium. Edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Sophia Xenophontos.London & New York: Routledge, 2018.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece › History of Ancient Medicine in Greece, BYZANTINE MEDICINE › History of Byzantine Medicine, ISLAMIC OR ARAB MEDICINE › History of Islamic or Arab Medicine |
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Life is short, art long: The art of healing in Byzantium. New perspectives. Edited by Brigitte Ptarakis and Gülru Tanman.Istanbul (Constantinople): Istanbul Research Institute, 2018.Subjects: BYZANTINE MEDICINE › History of Byzantine Medicine |
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The Oxford handbook of science and medicine in the classical world. Edited by Paul T. Keyser and John Scarborough.Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.Showcases the work of forty-six scholars from around the world, and comprises an Introduction followed by forty-nine chapters, concluded with a general index. Each chapter is followed by a bibliography featuring multilingual academic work published up to 2016. Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › History of Ancient Medicine & Biology |
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Age-specific excess mortality patterns during the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic in Madrid, Spain.Am. J. Epidemiol., 187, 2511-2523, 2018.Abstract "Although much progress has been made to uncover age-specific mortality patterns of the 1918 influenza pandemic in populations around the world, more studies in different populations are needed to make sense of the heterogeneous death impact of this pandemic. We assessed the absolute and relative magnitudes of 3 pandemic waves in the city of Madrid, Spain, between 1918 and 1920, on the basis of age-specific all-cause and respiratory excess death rates. Excess death rates were estimated using a Serfling model with a parametric bootstrapping approach to calibrate baseline death levels with quantified uncertainty. Excess all-cause and pneumonia and influenza mortality rates were estimated for different pandemic waves and age groups. The youngest and oldest persons experienced the highest excess mortality rates, and young adults faced the highest standardized mortality risk. Waves differed in strength; the peak standardized mortality risk occurred during the herald wave in spring 1918, but the highest excess rates occurred during the fall and winter of 1918/1919. Little evidence was found to support a “W”-shaped, age-specific excess mortality curve. Acquired immunity may have tempered a protracted fall wave, but recrudescent waves following the initial 2 outbreaks heightened the total pandemic mortality impact." Freely available from academic.oup.com/aje at this link. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Spain, DEATH & DYING › Mortality Statistics, EPIDEMIOLOGY › Pandemics › Influenza › 1918 Pandemic (H1N1 virus) |
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Digital medicine, on its way to being just plain medicine.npj Digital Medicine, 1, article number 20175, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-017-0005-1, 2018."There are already nearly 30,000 peer-reviewed English-language scientific journals, producing an estimated 2.5 million articles a year.1 So why another, and why one focused specifically on digital medicine? "To answer that question, we need to begin by defining what “digital medicine” means: using digital tools to upgrade the practice of medicine to one that is high-definition and far more individualized. It encompasses our ability to digitize human beings using biosensors that track our complex physiologic systems, but also the means to process the vast data generated via algorithms, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. It has the potential to democratize medicine, with smartphones as the hub, enabling each individual to generate their own real world data and being far more engaged with their health. Add to this new imaging tools, mobile device laboratory capabilities, end-to-end digital clinical trials, telemedicine, and one can see there is a remarkable array of transformative technology which lays the groundwork for a new form of healthcare. "As is obvious by its definition, the far-reaching scope of digital medicine straddles many and widely varied expertise. Computer scientists, healthcare providers, engineers, behavioral scientists, ethicists, clinical researchers, and epidemiologists are just some of the backgrounds necessary to move the field forward. But to truly accelerate the development of digital medicine solutions in health requires the collaborative and thoughtful interaction between individuals from several, if not most of these specialties. That is the primary goal of npj Digital Medicine: to serve as a cross-cutting resource for everyone interested in this area, fostering collaborations and accelerating its advancement. "Current systems of healthcare face multiple insurmountable challenges. Patients are not receiving the kind of care they want and need, caregivers are dissatisfied with their role, and in most countries, especially the United States, the cost of care is unsustainable. We are confident that the development of new systems of care that take full advantage of the many capabilities that digital innovations bring can address all of these major issues. Researchers too, can take advantage of these leading-edge technologies as they enable clinical research to break free of the confines of the academic medical center and be brought into the real world of participants’ lives. The continuous capture of multiple interconnected streams of data will allow for a much deeper refinement of our understanding and definition of most phenotypes, with the discovery of novel signals in these enormous data sets made possible only through the use of machine learning. "Our enthusiasm for the future of digital medicine is tempered by the recognition that presently too much of the publicized work in this field is characterized by irrational exuberance and excessive hype. Many technologies have yet to be formally studied in a clinical setting, and for those that have, too many began and ended with an under-powered pilot program. In addition, there are more than a few examples of digital “snake oil” with substantial uptake prior to their eventual discrediting.2 Both of these practices are barriers to advancing the field of digital medicine. "Our vision for npj Digital Medicine is to provide a reliable, evidence-based forum for all clinicians, researchers, and even patients, curious about how digital technologies can transform every aspect of health management and care. Being open source, as all medical research should be, allows for the broadest possible dissemination, which we will strongly encourage, including through advocating for the publication of preprints "And finally, quite paradoxically, we hope that npj Digital Medicine is so successful that in the coming years there will no longer be a need for this journal, or any journal specifically focused on digital medicine. Because if we are able to meet our primary goal of accelerating the advancement of digital medicine, then soon, we will just be calling it medicine. And there are already several excellent journals for that." Subjects: Digital Health & Medicine |
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Writing the pulse: The origins and career of the sphygmograph and its American masters.No place identified: Xlibris.com, 2018."The definitive history of a technology that was used in research and practice in Europe and America beginning with the invention of the sphygmograph by German physiologist Karl Vierordt in 1854" (W. Bruce Fye).
Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › History of Cardiology, CARDIOLOGY › Tests for Heart & Circulatory Function › Sphygmogram, INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Medical Instruments › Sphygmomanometer |
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Landmark papers in otolaryngology. Edited by John S. Phillips and Sally Erskine.New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.Subjects: OTOLOGY › History of Otology, OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY (Ear, Nose, Throat) › History of ENT |
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Science and medicine in Imperial Russia. Second edition.Raleigh, NC: Lulu Enterprises, 2018.Concerns the development of medicine, chemistry and biology in Russia before the revolution. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Russia |
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Medieval bodies: Life, death and art in the Middle Ages.London: Wellcome Collection, 2018.Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine |
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Mesopotamian medicine and magic. Studies in honor of Markham J. Geller. Edited by Strahil V. Panayotov and Ludek Vacin.Leiden: Brill, 2018."The [34] contributions concentrate mainly on Mesopotamian scholarly descriptions and practices of diagnosing and healing diverse physical ailments and mental distress. The festschrift contains both critical editions of new texts as well as analytical studies dealing with various issues of Mesopotamian medical and magical lore. Currently, this is the largest edited volume devoted to this topic, significantly contributing to the History of Ancient Sciences" (publisher). Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › History of Ancient Medicine & Biology, ANCIENT MEDICINE › Mesopotamia, Magic & Superstition in Medicine |
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Medicine and conflict: The Spanish Civil War and its traumatic legacy.London: Routledge, 2018.Concerns the evolution of medical and surgical care of the wounded during the Spanish Civil War. "Importantly, the focus is from a mainly Spanish perspective – as the Spanish are given a voice in their own story, which has not always been the case. Central to the book is General Franco’s treatment of Muslim combatants, the anarchist contribution to health, and the medicalisation of propaganda – themes that come together in a medico-cultural study of the Spanish Civil War. Suffusing the narrative and the analysis is the traumatic legacy of conflict, an untreated wound that a new generation of Spaniards are struggling to heal." (publisher) Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Spain, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine |
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Medicine, magic and art in early modern Norway.London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018."This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-1850 commonly called Black Books which contained a mixture of recipes on medicine, magic, and art. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Norway, Magic & Superstition in Medicine, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine |
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Ethnopharmaceutical knowledge in Samogita region of Lithuania: where old traditions overlap with modern medicine.J. Ethnbiology and Ethnomedicine, 14, article no. 70., 2018.Open source from link.springer.com at this link. Subjects: BOTANY › Ethnobotany, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Lithuania, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines |
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Lietuvos Slaugos Istorija 1918-2018.Vilnius, 2018.The history of nursing in Lithuania from 1918 to 2018. (406pp.) Available as a PDF from sskc.lt at this link. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Lithuania, NURSING › History of Nursing |
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Military medicine in Iraq and Afghanistan: A comprehensive review. Edited by Ian Greaves.Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2018.A report from the British Defence Medical Services. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Afghanistan, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Iraq, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › Afghanistan, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › Iraq War |
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The circulation of penicillin in Spain: Health, wealth and authority.Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Spain, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Antibiotics › Penicillin |
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The Cambridge companion to Hippocrates. Edited by Peter E. Pormann.Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2018.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece › History of Ancient Medicine in Greece |
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Encephalitis lethargica: The mind and brain virus.New York: Springer, 2018.Both an historical and a scientific study. Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY › Pandemics › Encephalitis Lethargica 1915-1926, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Neuroinfectious Diseases › Encephalitis, VIROLOGY |
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‘Ubaidallāh Ibn Buḫtīšū‘ on apparent death: The Kitāb Taḥrīm dafn al-aḥyā’, Arabic edition and English translation by Oliver Kahl.Leiden: Brill, 2018.Subjects: DEATH & DYING, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Syria and Syriac Texts |
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Syrische Astrologie und das Syrische Medizinbuch.Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2018.Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › Medical Astrology, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Syria and Syriac Texts |
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Poison, medicine, and disease in late medieval and early modern Europe.New York: Routledge, 2018."...Drawing from a wide range of medical and natural philosophical texts—with an emphasis on treatises that focused on poison, pharmacotherapeutics, plague, and the nature of disease—this study brings to light premodern physicians' debates about the potential existence, nature, and properties of a category of substance theoretically harmful to the human body in even the smallest amount. Focusing on the category of poison (venenum) rather than on specific drugs reframes and remixes the standard histories of toxicology, pharmacology, and etiology, as well as shows how these aspects of medicine (although not yet formalized as independent disciplines) interacted with and shaped one another. Physicians argued, for instance, about what properties might distinguish poison from other substances, how poison injured the human body, the nature of poisonous bodies, and the role of poison in spreading, and to some extent defining, disease...." (publisher). Subjects: PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals, TOXICOLOGY › History of Toxicology |
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Subsystem organization of axonal connections within and between right and left cerebral cortex and cerebral nuclei (endbrain).Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA), 115, E6910-E6919, 2018."Significance "The right and left cerebral hemispheres (together forming the endbrain) support cognition and affect, and, structurally, each hemisphere consists of a cortical sheet and set of deep nuclei (often called the basal ganglia). Experimental evidence in the literature identified more than 10,000 axonal macroconnections between the 244 gray matter regions of the endbrain, and the global organizing principles of the network formed by these connections were subjected to multiresolution consensus clustering analysis. The result was a hierarchy of subsystems that has only four components at the top level and 60 components at the bottom level. Furthermore, a region’s status as a connectivity hub in a network is not absolute; it depends on the size and coverage of its anatomical neighborhood. "Abstract "The endbrain (telencephalon) is at the rostral end of the central nervous system and is primarily responsible for supporting cognition and affect. Structurally, it consists of right and left cerebral hemispheres, each parceled into multiple cortical and nuclear gray matter regions. The global network organization of axonal macroconnections between the 244 regions forming the endbrain was analyzed with a multiresolution consensus clustering (MRCC) method that provides a hierarchical description of community clustering (modules or subsystems) within the network. Experimental evidence was collated from the neuroanatomical literature for the existence of 10,002 of a possible 59,292 connections within the network, and they cluster into four top-level subsystems and 60 bottom-level subsystems arranged in a 50-level hierarchy. Two top-level subsystems are bihemispheric: One deals with auditory and visual information, and the other corresponds broadly to the default mode network. The other two top-level subsystems are bilaterally symmetrical, and each deals broadly with somatic and visceral information. Because the entire endbrain connection matrix was assembled from multiple subconnectomes, it was easy to show that the status of a region as a connectivity hub is not absolute but, instead, depends on the size and coverage of its anatomical neighborhood. It was also shown numerically that creating an ultradense connection matrix by converting all “absent” connections to a “very weak” connection weight has virtually no effect on the clustering hierarchy. The next logical step in this project is to complete the forebrain connectome by adding the thalamus and hypothalamus (together, the interbrain) to the endbrain analysis." Subjects: ANATOMY › Neuroanatomy › Cytoarchitecture, COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology, NEUROSCIENCE › Cognitive Neuroscience, NEUROSCIENCE › Computational Neuroscience, NEUROSCIENCE › Computational Neuroscience › Connectomics, PSYCHOLOGY › Cognition |
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Health education films in the twentieth century. Edited by Christian Bonah, David Cantor, Anja Laukötter.Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2018.Subjects: IMAGING › Cinematography |
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W. E. B. Du Bois's data portraits. Visualizing black America. The color line at the turn of the twentieth century. Edited by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert.New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2018.Subjects: BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology, GRAPHIC DISPLAY of Medical & Scientific Information |
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Telemedicine and health technologies: A guide for mental health professionals.Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 2018."...Telepsychiatry and Health Technologies: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals is a practical, comprehensive, and evidence-based guide to patient-centered clinical care delivered in whole or in part by technological devices and applications. Not a technology-centered “health informatics” book, but rather one that describes basic technological concerns and emphasizes clinical issues and workflows, it is designed for psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health clinicians who seek to learn the modes, models, and methods of telepsychiatry. More than 30 practitioners of telepsychiatry across the core mental health disciplines were involved in development of the text, contributing knowledge and clinical examples. Rich with case studies and hands-on guidance, the book introduces strategies, then clearly illustrates how to put them into practice. The editors believe that psychiatry increasingly will focus on the treatment of populations, and that technology offers the best hope of doing so efficiently and effectively.
Subjects: PSYCHIATRY, Telemedicine |
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Andreas Vesalius and the Fabrica in the age of printing: Art, anatomy and printing in the Italian renaissance. Edited by R. F. Canalis and M. Ciavolella.Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2018.Subjects: ANATOMY › History of Anatomical Illustration, ANATOMY › History of Anatomy, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Anatomy |
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Maimonides On coitus. A new parallel Arabic-English Edition and Translation by Gerrit Bos. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides Vol. 11.)Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2018."Moses Maimonides' On Coitus was composed at the request of an unknown high-ranking official who asked for a regimen that would be easy to adhere to, and that would increase his sexual potency, as he had a large number of slave girls. It is safe to assume that it was popular in Jewish and non-Jewish circles, as it survives in several manuscripts, both in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic. The present edition by Gerrit Bos contains the original Arabic text, three medieval Hebrew translations, two Latin versions from the same translation (edited by Charles Burnett), and a Slavonic translation (edited by Will Ryan and Moshe Taube)" (publisher). Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Jewish Medicine, SEXUALITY / Sexology |
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Luminous creatures: The history and science of light production in living organisms.Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018.Subjects: BIOCHEMISTRY › Bioluminescence |
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Images in Mississippi medicine: A photographic history of medicine in Mississippi. By Lucius M. Lampton and Karen Evers.Ridgeland, MS: Mississippi State Medical Association, 2018.Subjects: U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Mississippi |
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Eros, Wollust, Sünde. Sexualität in Europa von der Antike bis in die Frühe Neuzeit.Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 2018.Subjects: SEXUALITY / Sexology › History of Sexuality / Sexology |
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Mediterranean quarantines, 1750-1914: Space, identity and power. Edited by John Chircop and Francisco Javier Martinez.Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018."Mediterranean quarantines investigates how quarantine, the centuries-old practice of collective defence against epidemics, experienced significant transformations from the eighteenth century in the Mediterranean Sea, its original birthplace. The new epidemics of cholera and the development of bacteriology and hygiene, European colonial expansion, the intensification of commercial interchanges, the technological revolution in maritime and land transportation and the modernisation policies in Islamic countries were among the main factors behind such transformations. The book focuses on case studies on the European and Islamic shores of the Mediterranean showing the multidimensional nature of quarantine, the intimate links that sanitary administrations and institutions had with the territorial organisation of states, international trade, political regimes and the construction of national, colonial and professional identities" (publisher). Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology |
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Studies in the history of medicine in Iran.Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 2018.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Iran (Persia), Persian (Iranian) Islamic Medicine › History of Persian (Iranian) Islamic Medicine |
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The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father.Nature, 561, 113-116, 2018.Paleogenomic study of a single bone fragment from a female hominin found in the Denisova Cave in the Altai mountains of Russia provided "direct evidence for genetic mixture between Neanderthals and Denisovans on at least two occasions: once between her Neanderthal mother and her Denisovan father and at least once in the ancestry of her Denisovan father.” Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Paleoanthropology, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Genomics › Paleogenomics |
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Cloning of Macaque monkeys by somatic cell nuclear transfer.Cell, 172, 881-887, 2018.The authors at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai reported the first cloning of a non-human primate. Subjects: EMBRYOLOGY, Regenerative Medicine |
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Dynamic basis for dG•dT misincorporation via tautomerization and ionization.Nature, 554, 195-201, 2018.In 1953 Watson and Crick proposed that rarely formed isomers of DNA bases cause spontaneous mutations to occur during the copying of DNA. Such mutations would be easily accommodated because tautomeric mispairs do not distort the helical DNA structure. The disfavored-tautomer model for spontaneous mutation formation (mutagenesis) was rapidly adopted by biologists and included in textbooks, despite the absence of supporting experimental evidence. In 2018 Kimsey, Al-Hashimi and colleagues showed that Watson's and Crick's prediction was correct. Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
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Jewish medicine and healthcare in Central Eastern Europe: Shared identities and tangled histories. Edited by Marcin Moskalewicz, Ute Caumanns, and Fritz Dross.Berlin & Boston: Springer, 2019.Subjects: Jews and Medicine › History of Jews and Medicine, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Medicine and religion in the life of an Ottoman sheikh: Al-Damanhuri's "clear statement" on anatomy.Oxford & New York: Routledge, 2019.Subjects: ANATOMY › 18th Century, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Novel virus related to Kaposi's Sarcoma associated herpesvirus from Colobus monkey.Emerg. Infect. Dis., 25, 1548-1551, 2019.Discovery of a new Karposi's Sarcoma virus in monkeys, named CbGHV1. Autopsy showed that the monkey died from a "primary effusion lymphoma" similar to the deaths of humans from human Karposi Sarcoma virus. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Kaposi's Sarcoma / HHV-8, ONCOLOGY & CANCER, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Kaposi sarcoma in mantled guereza.Emerg. Infect. Dis., 25, 1552-1555, 2019.Order of authorship in original publication: Grewer, Bleyer, Matz-Rensing. Further work on the CBGHV1 (Colobine gammherpesvirus 1) which causes a pathology in the Colobus monkey very similar to that seen humans. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Kaposi's Sarcoma / HHV-8, ONCOLOGY & CANCER, VIROLOGY, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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A new segmented virus associated with human febrile illness in China.New Eng. J. Med., 380, 2116-2125, 2019.Order of authorship in the original paper: Wang, Ze-Dong; Wang, Bo; Wei, Feng. Discovery of a new tick-borne virus that the authors name the "Alongshan virus" (ALSV) in the family Flaviridae. Digital facsimile from nejm.org at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › China, People's Republic of, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Tick-Borne Diseases › Alongshan Virus, VIROLOGY |
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Medical practice in twelfth-century China. A translation of Xu Shuwei's Ninety discussion [cases] on cold damage disorders by Asaf Goldschmidt.Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2019."An annotated translation of Xu Shuwei’s (1080–1154) collection of 90 medical case records – Ninety Discussions of Cold Damage Disorders (shanghan jiushi lun 傷寒九十論) – which was the first such collection in China. The translation reveals patterns of social as well as medical history. This book provides the readers with a distinctive first hand perspective on twelfth-century medical practice, including medical aspects, such as nosology, diagnosis, treatment, and doctrinal reasoning supporting them. It also presents the social aspect of medical practice, detailing the various participants in the medical encounter, their role, the power relations within the encounter, and the location where the encounter occurred" (publisher).
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A spotlight on the history of ancient Egyptian medicine.Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2019.A general survey with chapters that focus on the ancient Egyptian understanding and treatments of cardiovascular disease, as well as a description of herbal medicines used by ancient Egypt medical practitioners and pharmacologists. Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Egypt › History of Ancient Medicine in Egypt, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals |
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The rhetoric of medicine: Lessons on professionalism from ancient Greece.New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.A collaboration between a classicist (Nicholson) and a neurosurgeon (Selden). The text is divided into 7 chapters covering the general topics of "body, money, competition, restriction, autonomy, mentoring, self." Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece › History of Ancient Medicine in Greece, Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession, Ethics, Biomedical › History of Biomedical Ethics |
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Brill's companion to the reception of Galen. Edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Barbara Zipser.Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2019.This collective work shows how Galen was adopted, adapted, admired, contested, and criticized across diverse intellectual environments and geographical regions, from Late Antiquity to the present day, and from Europe to North Africa, the Middle and the Far East. Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Late Antiquity, ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire › History of Medicine in the Roman Empire, BYZANTINE MEDICINE › History of Byzantine Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Franz Joseph Gall: Naturalist of the mind, visionary of the brain. By Stanley Finger and Paul Eling.New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › Phrenology, BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Biographies of Individuals, NEUROLOGY › History of Neurology |
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Allied medicine in the Great War: The medical front and the people who fought.London & New York: Macmillan International & Red Globe Press, 2019.Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › World War I, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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A randomized, controlled trial of Ebola virus disease therapeutics.New Engl. J. Med., 381, 2293-2303, 2019.Order of authorship in the original publication: Mulangu, Dodd, Davey.... One synthetic drug (Remdesivir, an antiviral) and 3 biologicals were used in this trial. The 3 biologicals were: REGN-EB3, a triple monoclonal antibody biologic, and Mab114, a single monoclonal antibody biologic, and ZMapp, another triple monoclonal antibody biologic. REGN-EB3, and Mab114 outperformed the other two, reducing mortality from up to 90% in the untreated to 33.5% for the REGN group and 35.1% for the Mab114 group. This was the first randomized, controlled trial of biopharmaceuticals that had significant success in curing Ebola. Digital text from nejm.org at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Ebola Virus Disease, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Antiviral Drugs, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Biological Medical Product (Biologic), WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Trepanation, trephining and craniotomy: History and stories.Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2019.Subjects: NEUROSURGERY › History of Neurosurgery |
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Pathogen genomics in public health.New Eng. J. Med., 381, 2569-2580, 2019."An important transformation is under way in public health. Next-generation sequencing (also called “high-throughput sequencing”) is reshaping communicable disease surveillance, allowing for earlier detection and more precise investigation of outbreaks. Next-generation sequencing helps characterize microbes more effectively and offers new insights into their ecology and transmission. The plethora of sequence data provides raw material for the research and development of new diagnostics and therapeutics. This article describes how pathogen genomics has been changing public health in the United States and globally." (editor). (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Genomics › Pathogenomics, Biomedical Informatics, PUBLIC HEALTH, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Artificial intelligence in medicine: Weighing the accomplishments, hype and promise.IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1677891, 2019.Subjects: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine |
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Charcot's studies on hysteria: Five case histories, 1870-1893.London: Taylor & Francis, 2019.Subjects: PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry, PSYCHIATRY › Hysteria |
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Stunted microbiota and opportunistic pathogen colonization in caearian-section birth.Nature, 574, 117-121, 2019.Order of authorship in the original publication: Shao, Forster, Tsaliki....The authors used whole genome sequencing to characterize the microbiota of caesarian babies, demonstrating that caesarian babies were not colonized with healthy mothers' microbiomic species, but by opportunistic pathogens from the hospital environment. "This analysis demonstrates that the mode of delivery is a significant factor that affects the composition of the gut microbiota throughout the neonatal period and into infancy." (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY, MICROBIOLOGY › Microbiome, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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A new genomic blueprint of the human gut microbiota.Nature, 568, 499-510, 2019.Order of authorship in the original publication: Almeida, Mitchell, Boland.... Abstract: "The composition of the human gut microbiota is linked to health and disease, but knowledge of individual microbial species is needed to decipher their biological roles. Despite extensive culturing and sequencing efforts, the complete bacterial repertoire of the human gut microbiota remains undefined. Here we identify 1,952 uncultured candidate bacterial species by reconstructing 92,143 metagenome-assembled genomes from 11,850 human gut microbiomes. These uncultured genomes substantially expand the known species repertoire of the collective human gut microbiota, with a 281% increase in phylogenetic diversity. Although the newly identified species are less prevalent in well-studied populations compared to reference isolate genomes, they improve classification of understudied African and South American samples by more than 200%. These candidate species encode hundreds of newly identified biosynthetic gene clusters and possess a distinctive functional capacity that might explain their elusive nature. Our work expands the known diversity of uncultured gut bacteria, which provides unprecedented resolution for taxonomic and functional characterization of the intestinal microbiota." When we wrote this entry in January 2020 this paper was available from nature.com at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Genomics, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Genomics › Pathogenomics, Biomedical Informatics, MICROBIOLOGY › Microbiome |
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The integrative human microbiome project.Nature, 569, 641-648, 2019.Results from this large research consortium show the influence of the microbiome on preterm birth, inflammatory bowel disease, including Crohn's and ulcerative colitis, and prediabetes leading to type II diabetes. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: Diabetes, GASTROENTEROLOGY, IMMUNOLOGY, MICROBIOLOGY › Microbiome |
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Mapping human microbiome drug metabolism by gut bacteria and their genes.Nature, 570, 462-467, 2019.Order of authorship in the original publication: Zimmermann, Simmerman-Kogadeeva, Wegmann....The authors looked at 271 drugs and 68 different species from the main taxonomic microbiome groups. Of the 271 drugs, 176 underwent a substantial metabolic change caused by at least one bacterial strain which resulted in a reduction of the level of the active drug. Every bacterial strain tested metabolized some of the drugs. Using a practical example drug like Diltiazem (for the treatment of hypertension) the authors found that a specific gene (bt4096) in the common microbiome species Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron is required for the human body to metabolize the drug, and that this specific bacteria is needed to metabolize that drug because only the metabolite of that drug is active in the body as a blood pressure medicine. The paper drew three conclusions: 1. Bacteria can metabolize a drug and convert it to its active and useful molecular version. 2. Bacteria can metabolize a drug and inactivate it. 3. Bacteria can metabolize a drug and convert it into a toxic product. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY, CARDIOLOGY › CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE › Hypertension (High Blood Pressure), MICROBIOLOGY › Microbiome, Metabolism & Metabolic Disorders, PHARMACOLOGY › Pharmacodynamics |
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Johann Reinhold Forster and the making of natural history on Cook's Second Voyage, 1772–1775. By Anne Mariss.Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019.Subjects: NATURAL HISTORY › History of Natural History, VOYAGES & Travels by Physicians, Surgeons & Scientists › History of Voyages & Travels by Physicians.... |
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An equal burden: The men of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › History of Military Medicine, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › World War I |
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Drugs on the page: Pharmacopoeias and healing knowledge in the early modern Atlantic world.Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019.Subjects: PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals, PHARMACOLOGY › Pharmacopeias |
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Mind fixers: Psychiatry's troubled search for the biology of mental illness.New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2019.Subjects: PSYCHIATRY › History of Psychiatry |
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The professional library of James W. Porter on corals and coral reefs.[Privately Printed], Athens, GA, 2019.Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Catalogues of Physicians' / Scientists' Libraries, BIOLOGY › Marine Biology › History of Marine Biology, ZOOLOGY › Anthozoology |
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Greek medical papyri: Text, context, hypertext. Edited by Niccola Reggiani.Berlin & Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2019.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE, ANCIENT MEDICINE › Medical Papyri, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Humanities Projects |
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Search-and-replace genome editing without double-stranded breaks or donor DNA.Nature, 576, 149-157, 2019.Order of authorship in the original publication: Anzalone, Randolph, Davis....Liu. Liu and colleagues modified the CRISPR tool to create the "prime editing" or precise genome editing technique. Working with human and mouse cells, the authors used a heavily modified Cas9 protein and the guide RNA. The new guide called "pegRNA" contains an RNA template with a reverse transcriptase which makes DNA for a new "desired/normal" DNA sequence from and on the blueprint carried in the pegRNA that is added to the genome at the abnormal / target location. With this new tool they performed 175 different edits, and as proof of principle, they created and then corrected the mutations that cause sicle cell anemia and Tay Sachs. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › CRISPR Gene Editing |
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Literature and nature in the English renaissance: An ecocritical anthology. Edited by Todd Andrew Borlik.Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2019.Subjects: BIOLOGY › Ecology / Environment › History of Ecology / Environment, LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology |
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Fighting invisible enemies: Health and medical transitions among Southern California Indians.Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019."Native Americans long resisted Western medicine--but had less power to resist the threat posed by Western diseases. And so, as the Office of Indian Affairs reluctantly entered the business of health and medicine, Native peoples reluctantly began to allow Western medicine into their communities. Fighting Invisible Enemies traces this transition among inhabitants of the Mission Indian Agency of Southern California from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. Subjects: NATIVE AMERICANS & Medicine, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › California |
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Evolution, kidney development, and chronic kidney disease.Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 91, 119-131, 2019.Abstract: "There is a global epidemic of chronic kidney disease (CKD) characterized by a progressive loss of nephrons, ascribed in large part to a rising incidence of hypertension, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes mellitus. There is a ten-fold variation in nephron number at birth in the general population, and a 50% overall decrease in nephron number in the last decades of life. The vicious cycle of nephron loss stimulating hypertrophy by remaining nephrons and resulting in glomerulosclerosis has been regarded as maladaptive, and only partially responsive to angiotensin inhibition. Advances over the past century in kidney physiology, genetics, and development have elucidated many aspects of nephron formation, structure and function. Parallel advances have been achieved in evolutionary biology, with the emergence of evolutionary medicine, a discipline that promises to provide new insight into the treatment of chronic disease. "This review provides a framework for understanding the origins of contemporary developmental nephrology, and recent progress in evolutionary biology. The establishment of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), ecological developmental biology (eco-devo), and developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) followed the discovery of the hox gene family, the recognition of the contribution of cumulative environmental stressors to the changing phenotype over the life cycle, and mechanisms of epigenetic regulation. The maturation of evolutionary medicine has contributed to new investigative approaches to cardiovascular disease, cancer, and infectious disease, and promises the same for CKD. By incorporating these principles, developmental nephrology is ideally positioned to answer important questions regarding the fate of nephrons from embryo through senescence."
Subjects: EVOLUTION › Evolutionary Medicine, NEPHROLOGY › History of Nephrology, NEPHROLOGY › Renal Disease |
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Epidemics and society from the Black Death to the present.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019.Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology |
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Pioneering British women chemists: Their lives and contributions.Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2019.Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works), Chemistry › History of Chemistry, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Can artificial intelligence reliably report chest x-rays? Radiologist validation of an algorithm trained on 2.3 million x-rays.arXiv:1807.07455 , 2019."Background: Chest X-rays are the most commonly performed, cost-effective diagnostic imaging tests ordered by physicians. A clinically validated AI system that can reliably separate normals from abnormals can be invaluble particularly in low-resource settings. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a deep learning system to detect various abnormalities seen on a chest X-ray. Methods: A deep learning system was trained on 2.3 million chest X-rays and their corresponding radiology reports to identify various abnormalities seen on a Chest X-ray. The system was tested against - 1. A three-radiologist majority on an independent, retrospectively collected set of 2000 X-rays(CQ2000) 2. Radiologist reports on a separate validation set of 100,000 scans(CQ100k). The primary accuracy measure was area under the ROC curve (AUC), estimated separately for each abnormality and for normal versus abnormal scans. Results: On the CQ2000 dataset, the deep learning system demonstrated an AUC of 0.92(CI 0.91-0.94) for detection of abnormal scans, and AUC(CI) of 0.96(0.94-0.98), 0.96(0.94-0.98), 0.95(0.87-1), 0.95(0.92-0.98), 0.93(0.90-0.96), 0.89(0.83-0.94), 0.91(0.87-0.96), 0.94(0.93-0.96), 0.98(0.97-1) for the detection of blunted costophrenic angle, cardiomegaly, cavity, consolidation, fibrosis, hilar enlargement, nodule, opacity and pleural effusion. The AUCs were similar on the larger CQ100k dataset except for detecting normals where the AUC was 0.86(0.85-0.86). Interpretation: Our study demonstrates that a deep learning algorithm trained on a large, well-labelled dataset can accurately detect multiple abnormalities on chest X-rays. As these systems improve in accuracy, applying deep learning to widen the reach of chest X-ray interpretation and improve reporting efficiency will add tremendous value in radiology workflows and public health screenings globally." Subjects: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine , PULMONOLOGY, RADIOLOGY, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Pharmaciens au Muséum: Chimistes et naturalistes.Paris: Publications scientifiques du Muséum, 2019."When it was created in 1626 le Jardin royal des plantes medicinales had three chairs: those of Demonstateur des plantes, Pharmacy, and Pharmaceutical Operations. Apothecaries at the Jardin challenged the Sorbonne by giving the first chemistry lessons taught in France with public demonstration. Philippe Jaussaud's work traces the life, work and contribution of these apothecaries, who we now call pharmacists, to the development of the garden that has become a Museum. They held chemistry chairs there, but also distinguished themselves in natural history, chairs in zoology, physiology, plant physics and even mineralogy. The multidisciplinary nature of their training undoubtedly explains their diversity of interests and skills. Some, like Milne-Edwards or Fontaine were directors of the Museum. All of them, through the quality of their work, have left their mark in the immense field of scientific research. From Nicaise Le Febvre to Pierre Potier, via Nicolas Vauquelin, the author reveals a section of an original story, that of pharmaceutical sciences from the 17th century to the present day" (publisher). Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works), NATURAL HISTORY › History of Natural History, PHARMACOLOGY › History of Pharmacology & Pharmaceuticals |
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Syriac medicine by Grigory Kessel. Pages 438-459 IN: The Syriac world edited by Daniel King.London & New York: Routledge, 2019.Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Syria and Syriac Texts |
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Explorations in Baltic medical history, 1850-2015. Edited by Nils Hansson and Jonatan Wistrand.Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2019."This book explores the history of medicine in the Baltic Sea region and provides different answers to one central question: How has the circulation of knowledge in the Baltic Sea region influenced medicine as a discipline, and illness as an experience, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? The anthology consists of ten chapters that shed new light on how medical ideas and devices were developed in different contexts. Illuminating currents of traditions, contact zones, and areas of conflict, essays in this collection discuss technological, social, and economic aspects relevant for the exchange of medical knowledge across the Baltic Sea. The contributing authors are historians, physicians, geographers, ethnologists, and scholars of literature" (publisher). Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Baltic States, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Lithuania |
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Association of enterovirus D68 with Acute flaccid myelitis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 2009-2018.Emerg. Infect. Dis., 25, 1676-1682, 2019.The authors correlated increases of Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) with EV-D68 outbreaks. They noted that EV-D68 infected mice exhibited paralyzed limbs, and they reported that EV-D68 had undergone genome evolutiion that enabled viral neurotropism. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Uprety, Curtis, Elkan...Graf.) Digital facsimile from cdc.gov at this link. Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Neuroinfectious Diseases › Acute Flaccid Myelitis, NEUROLOGY › Child Neurology, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Pennsylvania |
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The Regimen Sanitatis of Avenzoar: Stages in the production of a medieval translation.Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2019."The authors publish a previously unedited Regimen of Health attributed to Avenzoar (Ibn Zuhr), translated at Montpellier in 1299 in a collaboration between a Jewish philosopher and a Christian surgeon, the former translating the original Arabic into their shared Occitan vernacular, the latter translating that into Latin. They use manuscript evidence to argue that the text was produced in two stages, first a quite literal version, then a revision improved in style and in language adapted to contemporary European medicine. Such collaborative translations are well known, but the revelation of the inner workings of the translation process in this case is exceptional. A separate Hebrew translation by the philosopher (also edited here) gives independent evidence of the lost Arabic original" (publisher). Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology › Translations to and from Arabic, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Jewish Medicine |
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The African roots of marijuana.Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019."After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread throughout the African continent. European accounts of cannabis in Africa—often fictionalized and reliant upon racial stereotypes—shaped widespread myths about the plant and were used to depict the continent as a cultural backwater and Africans as predisposed to drug use. These myths continue to influence contemporary thinking about cannabis. In The African Roots of Marijuana, Chris S. Duvall corrects common misconceptions while providing an authoritative history of cannabis as it flowed into, throughout, and out of Africa. Duvall shows how preexisting smoking cultures in Africa transformed the plant into a fast-acting and easily dosed drug and how it later became linked with global capitalism and the slave trade" (publisher). Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Africa, PSYCHIATRY › Psychopharmacology › History of Psychopharmacology |
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Whole-animal connectomes of both Caenorhabditis elegans sexes.Nature, 571, 63-71, 2019.The first whole-animal connectomes for both adult sexes of a single species. "As none of the EM series cover an entire single animal, to generate whole animal connectomes, data from different reconstruction series were combined and the remaining gaps were filled by extrapolating known connectivity across repetitive regions." The editorial introducing the paper also credited artificial intelligence with key input in the completion and integration of all the data to elucidate all the connections. The graphic displays of highly complex information in the printed version and interactive online version of this paper are particularly remarkable. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Cook, Jarrell...Emmons.) Subjects: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine , GRAPHIC DISPLAY of Medical & Scientific Information, NEUROSCIENCE › Computational Neuroscience › Connectomics |
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Perilous chastity: Women and illness in Pre-Enlightenment art and medicine.Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019."Bearing such titles as The Doctor's Visit or The Lovesick Maiden, certain seventeenth-century Dutch paintings are familiar to museum browsers: an attractive young woman—well dressed, but pale and listless—reclines in a chair, languishes in bed, or falls to the floor in a faint. Weathered crones or impish boys leer suggestively in the background. These paintings traditionally have been viewed as commentary on quack doctors or unmarried pregnant women. The first book to examine images of women and illness in the light of medical history, Perilous Chastity reveals a surprising new interpretation.... "Dixon suggests how the assumptions of a predominantly male medical establishment have influenced prevailing notions of women's social place. She traces the evolution of the belief that women's illnesses were caused by "hysteria," so named in ancient Greece after the notion that the uterus had a tendency to wander in the body. All women were considered prone to hysteria-strong emotions, idleness, intellectual activity, or unladylike pursuits could cause it—but it was most commonly diagnosed among celibates. Analyzing paintings of women's sickrooms by Jan Steen, Dirck Hals, Gabriel Metsu, Jacob Ochtervelt, Godfried Schalcken, Samuel van Hoogstraten, and Franz van Mieris, Dixon perceives metaphoric identifications of the womb as the source of illness. She also documents changing fashions in cures for hysteria and discusses allusions to the debilitating effects of women's passions not only in paintings, but also in madrigals by John Dowland and Henry Purcell. "In conclusion, Dixon argues that her study has strong ramifications of attitudes towards women and illness today. She takes up images in twentieth-century culture as well and calls attention to a resurgence of female "hysteria" after World War II" (publisher). Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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Medicine at Monte Cassino: Constantine the African and the oldest manuscript of his Pantegni.Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2019."Medicine at Monte Cassino offers unprecedented insights into the revolutionary arrival of Arabic medicine to medieval Europe by exploring the oldest manuscript of Constantine the African’s Pantegni, which is identified here, for the first time, as a product of the skilled team of scribes and scholars working directly under the supervision of Constantine himself at the eleventh-century abbey of Monte Cassino.
"Fleeing his North-African homeland for Italy, Constantine the African arrived in Salerno and then joined the abbey of Monte Cassino south of Rome in c. 1077. He dedicated his life to the translation of more than two dozen medical texts from Arabic into Latin. These great efforts produced the first substantial written body of medical theory and practice in medieval Europe. His most important contribution, an encyclopedia he called the Pantegni (The Complete Art), was translated and adapted from the Complete Book of the Medical Art by the Persian physician ‘Ali ibn al-‘Abbās al-Mağūsī (d. 982). This monograph focuses on the oldest manuscript of the Pantegni,Theorica, which represents a work-in-progress with numerous unusual features. "This study, for the first time, identifies Monte Cassino as the origin of this oldest Pantegni manuscript, and asserts that it was made during Constantine’s lifetime. It further demonstrates how a skilled team of scribes and scholars assisted the translator in the complex process of producing this Latin version of the Arabic text. Several members of this production team are identified, both in the Pantegni manuscript and in other copies of Cassinese manuscripts. "The book breaks new ground by identifying a range of manuscripts produced at Monte Cassino under Constantine’s direct supervision, as evidenced by their material features, script, and contents. In rare detail, this study explores some of the challenges met by ‘Team Constantine’ as they sought to reveal new knowledge to the West, which in turn revolutionized medical understanding throughout medieval Europe" (publisher). Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Italy › Schola Medica Salernitana, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine |
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Roman domestic medical practice in central Italy from the Middle Republic to the Early Empire.New York: Routledge, 2019.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Roman Empire › History of Medicine in the Roman Empire |
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John Abbot and William Swainson: Art, science, and commerce in nineteenth-century natural history illustration. By Janice Neri, Tara Nummedal, John V. Calhoun.Tuscaloosa & London: University of Alabama Press, 2019."During his lifetime (1751-ca. 1840), English-born naturalist and artist John Abbot rendered more than 4,000 natural history illustrations and profoundly influenced North American entomology, as he documented many species in the New World long before they were scientifically described. For sixty-five years, Abbot worked in Georgia to advance knowledge of the flora and fauna of the American South by sending superbly mounted specimens and exquisitely detailed illustrations of insects, birds, butterflies, and moths, on commission, to collectors and scientists all over the world. Between 1816 and 1818, Abbot completed 104 drawings of insects on their native plants for English naturalist and patron William Swainson (1789-1855). Both Abbot and Swainson were artists, naturalists, and collectors during a time when natural history and the sciences flourished. Separated by nearly forty years in age, Abbot and Swainson were members of the same international communities and correspondence networks upon which the study of nature was based during this period. The relationship between these two men-who never met in person-is explored in John Abbot and William Swainson: Art, Science, and Commerce in Nineteenth-Century Natural History Illustration. This volume also showcases, for the first time, the complete set of original, full-color illustrations discovered in 1977 in the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand. Originally intended as a companion to an earlier survey of insects from Georgia, the newly rediscovered Turnbull manuscript presents beetles, grasshoppers, butterflies, moths, and a wasp. Most of the insects are pictured with the flowering plants upon which Abbot thought them to feed. Abbot's journal annotations about the habits and biology of each species are also included, as are nomenclature updates for the insect taxa. Today, the Turnbull drawings illuminate the complex array of personal and professional concerns that informed the field of natural history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries" (publisher). Subjects: NATURAL HISTORY › History of Natural History, NATURAL HISTORY › Illustration, ZOOLOGY › Arthropoda › Entomology |
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Maimonides, On the elucidation of some symptoms and the response to them. (Formerly known as On the causes of symptoms). A new parallel Arabic-English edition and translation, with critical editions of the medieval Hebrew translations by Gerrit Bos. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides, Vol. 13).Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2019."The present consilium, commonly known as De causis accidentium, after the Latin translation by John de Capua, was, like the earlier consilium On the Regimen of Health, composed by Maimonides at the request of al-Malik al-Afḍal Nūr al-Dīn Alī, Saladin’s eldest son. As a result of not adopting the lifestyle and dietary recommendations in On the Regimen of Health, al-Afḍal may have continued to suffer from a number of afflictions, amongst them hemorrhoids, depression, constipation, and, possibly, a heart condition. The consilium was written after 1200, the year in which al-Afḍal was deposed and banished from Egypt permanently, but probably not long before 1204, the year in which Maimonides died" (publisher). Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Jewish Medicine |
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Maimonides, On the regimen of health. A new parallel Arabic-English translation by Gerrit Bos. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides Vol. 12).Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2019."Maimonides’ On the Regimen of Health was composed at an unknown date at the request of al-Malik al-Afḍal Nūr al-Dīn Alī, Saladin’s eldest son who complained of constipation, indigestion, and depression. The treatise must have enjoyed great popularity in Jewish circles, as it was translated three times into Hebrew as far as we know; by Moses ben Samuel ibn Tibbon in the year 1244, by an anonymous translator, and by Zeraḥyah ben Isaac ben She’altiel Ḥen who was active as a translator in Rome between 1277 and 1291. The present edition by Gerrit Bos contains the original Arabic text, the medieval Hebrew translations and the Latin translations, the latter edited by Michael McVaugh" (publisher). Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Jewish Medicine |
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Anti/Vax: Reframing the vaccination controversy.Ithaca, NY: ILR Press of Cornell University Press, 2019.Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › Anti-Vaccination |
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Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture.Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019.Subjects: Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences |
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Rotten bodies: Class and contagion in eighteenth-century Britain.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019.Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology |
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Therapeutic tattooing in the Arctic: Ethnographic, archaeological, and ontological frameworks of analysis.Int. J. Paleopathology, 25, 99-109, 2019.Digital facsimile from Academia.edu at this link. Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › Therapeutic Tattooing, ANTHROPOLOGY › Cultural Anthropology |
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Eradicating smallpox in Ethiopia. Peace Corps Volunteers' Accounts of their Advantures, Challenges and Achievements. Edited by James W. Skelton, Gene L. Bartley, John Scott Porterfield, Alan Schnur.Oakland, CA: Peace Corps Writers, 2019.Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Ethiopia, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox › History of Smallpox |
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Sir William Osler's Leonardo da Vinci collection: Flight, anatomy and art.Montréal: [Privately Printed], 2019.Subjects: ANATOMY › 16th Century, ART & Medicine & Biology |
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Machine learning identification of surgical and operative factors associated with surgical expertise in virtual reality simulation.JAMA Network Open, 2 (8): e198363., 2019."Abstract
"Importance Despite advances in the assessment of technical skills in surgery, a clear understanding of the composites of technical expertise is lacking. Surgical simulation allows for the quantitation of psychomotor skills, generating data sets that can be analyzed using machine learning algorithms. "Objective To identify surgical and operative factors selected by a machine learning algorithm to accurately classify participants by level of expertise in a virtual reality surgical procedure. "Design, Setting, and Participants Fifty participants from a single university were recruited between March 1, 2015, and May 31, 2016, to participate in a case series study at McGill University Neurosurgical Simulation and Artificial Intelligence Learning Centre. Data were collected at a single time point and no follow-up data were collected. Individuals were classified a priori as expert (neurosurgery staff), seniors (neurosurgical fellows and senior residents), juniors (neurosurgical junior residents), and medical students, all of whom participated in 250 simulated tumor resections. "Exposures All individuals participated in a virtual reality neurosurgical tumor resection scenario. Each scenario was repeated 5 times. "Main Outcomes and Measures Through an iterative process, performance metrics associated with instrument movement and force, resection of tissues, and bleeding generated from the raw simulator data output were selected by K-nearest neighbor, naive Bayes, discriminant analysis, and support vector machine algorithms to most accurately determine group membership. "Results A total of 50 individuals (9 women and 41 men; mean [SD] age, 33.6 [9.5] years; 14 neurosurgeons, 4 fellows, 10 senior residents, 10 junior residents, and 12 medical students) participated. Neurosurgeons were in practice between 1 and 25 years, with 9 (64%) involving a predominantly cranial practice. The K-nearest neighbor algorithm had an accuracy of 90% (45 of 50), the naive Bayes algorithm had an accuracy of 84% (42 of 50), the discriminant analysis algorithm had an accuracy of 78% (39 of 50), and the support vector machine algorithm had an accuracy of 76% (38 of 50). The K-nearest neighbor algorithm used 6 performance metrics to classify participants, the naive Bayes algorithm used 9 performance metrics, the discriminant analysis algorithm used 8 performance metrics, and the support vector machine algorithm used 8 performance metrics. Two neurosurgeons, 1 fellow or senior resident, 1 junior resident, and 1 medical student were misclassified. "Conclusions and Relevance In a virtual reality neurosurgical tumor resection study, a machine learning algorithm successfully classified participants into 4 levels of expertise with 90% accuracy. These findings suggest that algorithms may be capable of classifying surgical expertise with greater granularity and precision than has been previously demonstrated in surgery." Available at doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.8363.Subjects: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine , COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology › Computer Simulation, COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology › Visualization, Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession, NEUROSURGERY › Neuro-oncology |
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Deer Leibarzt des Schah Jacob E. Polak 1818-1891. Eine west-östliche Lebensgeschichte.Vienna: New Academic Press, 2019.Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Biographies of Individuals, Persian (Iranian) Islamic Medicine › History of Persian (Iranian) Islamic Medicine |
