1970–1979
586 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1976
#14127
The eradication of smallpox.
Henderson's paper in the October 1976 issue of Scientific American was one of the first published announcements of the completion of the eradication of smallpox. Illustrating the iconic photograph of a mother holding …
1976
#14222
Correlation of glucose regulation and hemoglobin AIc in diabetes mellitus.
The authors studied 5 diabetic patients and first realized that A1c was an ideal index to reveal the overall control of a patient’s blood sugar over the past several months before a doctor’s visit. They were the first…
1976
#14245
Evidence for somatic rearrangement of immunoglobulin genes coding for variable and constant regions.
Discovery of V(D)J recombination, the genetic mechanism which produces antibody diversity. In 1987 Tonegawa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the genetic principle for generat…
1976
#14253
Genetic control of the cell division cycle in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
"Beginning in 1976, Nurse identified the gene cdc2 in fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe). This gene controls the progression of the cell cycle from G1 phase to S phase and the transition from G2 phase to mitosi…
1977
#1092.54
Food: The gift of Osiris. 2 vols.
Extensively illustrated history of nutrition in ancient Egypt.
1977
#2662.3
Contrary to nature. Being an illustrated commentary on some persons and events of historical importance in the development of knowledge concerning cancer.
1977
#3161.41
The top ten clinical advances in cardiovascular-pulmonary medicine and surgery 1945-1975. Final report. 2 vols.
1977
#3161.42
The Evan Bedford library of cardiology. Catalogue of books, pamphlets and journals.
Descriptions of 1112 items, many with very informative annotations by Bedford, who donated his collection to the Royal College of Physicians. In addition to his clinical and research work in cardiology Bedford was an …
1977
#3215.7
Legionnaires’ disease. Description of an epidemic of pneumonia.
First major scientific account. With 11 co-authors. Legionnaire's disease acquired its name after an outbreak of a then-unknown "mystery disease" sickened 221 persons, causing 34 deaths. The people affected were atten…
1977
#3215.8
Legionnaires’ disease. Isolation of a bacterium and demonstration of its role in other respiratory disease.
Order of authorship in the original publication: McDade, Shepard, Fraser.... See also p. 1218.
1977
#3705.1
Histoire illustrée de l’art dentaire: Stomatologie et odontologie.
1977
#4914.7
Aspects of coma after severe head injury.
Glasgow Coma Scale for grading brain injury following head trauma.
1977
#5145.1
The black death in the Middle East.
1977
#5500.2
Influenza: The last great plague.
1977
#5019.14
Neurological classics in modern translation.
Full translations of 20 classic European contributions to 19th and 20th century neurology.
1977 –1981
#5768.2
McDowell series of plastic surgical indexes. 5 vols.
Vol. I: 900 b.c. to a.d. 1863 (Zeis [see No. 5767] translated, with additions and revisions); Vol. II: 1864-1920; Vol. III: 1921-1946; [Vol. IV]: 25-year index of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1946-71; Vol. V: 1…
1977
#5768.3
The source book of plastic surgery.
Reprints, translated into English where necessary, of classic papers on plastic surgery, with commentary.
1977
#6650.3
Women in medicine: A bibliography of the literature on women physicians.
Lists over 4,000 items published between 1750 and 1975. With R. Haimbach, C. Fenichel and N. B. Woodside.
1977
#6524.3
Spätantike Bilder aus der Welt des Arztes. Medizinische Bilderhandschriften der Spätantike und ihre mittelalterliche Überlieferung.
1977
#258.10
A century of DNA: A history of the discovery of the structure and function of the genetic substance.
1977
#6883
DNA sequencing with chain-terminating inhibitors.
Sanger and colleagues developed methods for rapid sequencing of long sections of DNA molecules. Sanger’s method, and that developed by Gilbert and Maxam, made it possible to read the nucleotide sequence for entire gen…
1977
#6884
The nucleotide sequence of bacteriophage phi-X174.
Sanger and colleagues sequenced the first whole DNA genome—that of bacteriophage phi-X174 (5375 bases)
1977
#6926
A new method for sequencing DNA.
The Gilbert-Maxam method for sequencing DNA. This paper is available from PNAS at this link. In 1980 Gilbert shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Frederick Sanger and Paul Berg. Berg received half of the priz…
1977
#7074
Daniel McNaughton: His trial and the aftermath, edited by Donald J. West and Alexander Walk.
A collective work edited by West and Walk.
1977
#7828
Problems of birth defects from Hippocrates to thalidomide and after. Edited by T.V.N. Persaud.
An anthology of classic papers edited with introductions by Persaud.
1977
#7866
Isolation of Marburg-like virus from a case of haemorrhagic fever in Zaire.
Ebola virus, named after the Ebola River where an outbreak occurred in 1976. Specifically the outbreak was centered in Yambuku, a small village in Mongala Province in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerl…
1977
#7921
Body and mind in Zulu medicine: An ethnography of health and disease in Nyuswa-Zulu thought and practice.
1977
#7977
The native population of the Americas in 1492. Edited by William M. Devevan.
"The discovery of America was followed by possibly the greatest demographic disaster in the history of the world." Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-contact Americas to be as high as 1…
1977
#8150
Medical imaging by NMR.
Mansfield developed a mathematical technique that would allow NMR scans to take seconds rather than hours and produce clearer images than the technique Paul Lauterbur developed in 1973. Mansfield showed how gradients …
1977
#8198
The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC).
http://estc.bl.uk/F/?func=file&file_name=login-bl-estc "The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) lists over 480,000 items published between 1473 and 1800, mainly but not exclusively, in English, published mainly in th…
1977
#8672
Virus: A history of the concept
1977
#8675
Medicina in nummis: Hungarian coins and medals related to medicine.
1977
#8781
Boerhaave's men at Leyden and after.
1977
#8782
"Doctors wanted: No women need apply." Sexual barriers in the medical profession, 1835-1975.
1977
#8932
História geral da medicina brasileira. Vol. 1 (All published).
1977
#9013
Les sciences biologiques et médicales à Byzance. (Cahiers d'historie et de philosophie des sciences, n. 3)
1977
#9045
Medicina aborigen.
1977
#9058
Musik und Medizin: Ihre Wechselbeziehungen in Theorie und Praxis von 800 bis 1800.
1977
#9124
Galen on language and ambiguity. An English transltion of Galen's De captionibus (On fallacies), with introduction, text and commentary by R. B. Edlow.
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1977
#9151
Medicine without doctors: Home health care in American history. Edited by Guenter B. Risse, Ronald L. Numbers, and Judith Walzer Leavitt.
1977
#9211
Medical Department, United States Army Internal medicine in Vietnam. Volume I. Skin diseases in Vietnam, 1965-72. Vol. II. General medicine and infectious diseases, edited by Andre J. Ognibene and O'Neill Barrett, Jr.
Digital facsimile of Vol. 1 from the Hathi Trust at this link. Vol. 2 is availabel from the U.S. Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History at this link.
1977
#9261
The spontaneous generation controversy from Descartes to Oparin.
1977
#9288
Childbirth in the ghetto: Folk beliefs of negro women in a North Philadelphia hospital ward.
1977
#9378
Music and the brain. Studies in the neurology of music. Edited by MacDonald Critchley and R. A. Henson.
1977
#9739
Conrad Gessner's "Historia animalium": An inventory of Renaissance zoology.
1977
#9938
Post-embryonic cell lineages of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
Complete map of the nematode's neurons. Sulston and Horvitz tracked every non-gonadal cell division that occurred during larval development, and published a complete description of these lineages in 1977.
1977
#10060
The hospice movement: A better way of caring for the dying.
1977
#10253
Biomedical results from Skylab. Edited by Richard S. Johnston and Lawrence F. Dietlein.
"Skylab was the United States' space station that orbited the Earth from 1973 to 1979, when it fell back to Earth amid huge worldwide media attention. Launched and operated by NASA, Skylab included a workshop, a solar…
1977
#10300
Medicine in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County: 1810-1976. Edited by Kent L. Brown.
41 chapters that address all aspects of medical and surgical practice (arranged by specialty) in addition to studies of specific institutions and special groups (e.g. women physicians and black physicians).
1977
#10323