1980–1989
678 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1986
#12356
The veins. Edited by Harold Laufman.
Reprints classic papers, some translated into English for the first time, dealing with the surgical anatomy of the venous system, diagnostic tests for venous disease, varicose veins, and thromboembolic disease, among …
1986
#12376
Pioneering research in surgical shock and cardiovascular surgery: Vivien T. Thomas and his work with Alfred Blalock. An autobiography by Vivien T. Thomas
Later retitled, Partners of the Heart: Vivien Thomas and His Work with Alfred Blalock.
1986
#12963
Henrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakenstein (1636-1691) and Hortus Malabaricus: A contribution to the history of Dutch colonial botany
1986
#12999
Hendrik Engel's alphabetical list of Dutch zoological cabinets and menageries . Second, enlarged edition prepared by Pieter Smith with the assistance of A. P. M. Sanders and J. P. F. van der Veer.
Digital facsimile from dwc.knaw.nl at this link. Originally published in Bijdragen tot de dierkunde, v. 27, 1939.
1986
#13185
Development of the ion X-ray tube: With a description of the Collection in the Medical Historical Museum, University of Copenhagen.
1986
#13359
Das Aqrābādīn al-Qalānisī. Quellenkritische und begriffsanalytische Untersuchungen zur Arabisch-Pharmazeutischen Literatur.
1986
#13394
Magnus Hirschfeld: A portrait of a pioneer in sexology.
1986
#13784
Of birds and Texas.
Inspired by Audubon's double elephant folios, the first edition was limited to 500 sets and 25 artists' copies, signed by Scott Gentling and John Graves. Folio (28 x 22 inches). 40 chromolithographed plates of birds a…
1986
#13786
Histoire illustrée de la contraception: De l'antiquité à nos jours.
1986
#13974
A human DNA segment with properties of the gene that predisposes to retinoblastoma and osteosarcoma.
Isolation of the first human tumor suppressor gene. Order of authorship in the original publication: Friend, Bernards, Rogeli, Weinberg, Rapaport, Albert, Dryja.
1986
#13990
Fluorescence detection in automated DNA sequence analysis.
Invention of the first semi-automated DNA sequencing machine by Leroy H. Hood, Lloyd M. Smith and colleagues. Abstract of the paper: "We have developed a method for the partial automation of DNA sequence analysis. Flu…
1986
#14021
The anatomy of the infant head.
1986
#14070
Bibliography of publications in legal medicine & forensic sciences relating to Sri Lanka 1811 - 1984.
1987
#461
British anatomy 1525-1800; a bibliography of works published in Britain, America, and on the Continent. 2nd edition.
Full descriptions, frequently annotated, of 901 items.
1987
#2188.4
The Army Medical Department, 1818-1865.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1987
#1588.23
Renal physiology: People and ideas.
A collective work on the history of renal physiology with thematic chapters by the editors and other prominent investigators.
1987
#1588.24
Nineteenth century origins of neuroscientific concepts.
Detailed analysis, emphasizing first half of 19th century, with detailed bibliographies, and bibliographical notes.
1987
#2319.2
Morbid appearances: the anatomy of pathology in the early nineteenth century.
1987
#197.3
Victorian anthropology.
1987
#3979.2
Histoire illustrée du diabète de l’antiquité à nos jours.
1987
#3666.8
Histoire illustrée de l’hépato-gastro-entérologie de l’antiquité à nos jours.
1987
#5813.15
A century of black surgeons. The U.S.A. experience. 2 vols.,
1987
#6565.02
Avicenna in Renaissance Italy. The Canon and medical teaching in Italian Universities after 1500.
1987
#6596.61
The care of strangers: The rise of America’s hospital system.
1987
#6927
Sequencing the human genome. Summary report of the Santa Fe workshop, March 3-4, 1986.
The initial report on the Human Genome Project. For further information see the entry at HistoryofInformation.com at this link. The report is available at this link.
1987
#6998
And the band played on: Politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic.
Shilts, an investigative journalist, chronicled the discovery and spread of HIV / AIDS with special emphasis on government indifference and political infighting—specifically in the United States—to what was then perce…
1987
#7136
Correction of astigmatism with the excimer laser.
In 1985 Seiler performed the first large area ablation in a human eye to remove a corneal scar, having previously performed T-incisions with an excimer laser to correct for astigmatism.
1987
#7256
Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution.
Cann's discovery that all living humans are genetically descended from a single African mother, known as Mitochrondrial Eve, who lived <200,000 years ago, became the foundation of the Out of Africa theory, the most wi…
1987
#7304
Nucleotide sequence of the iap gene, responsible for alkaline phosphatase isozyme conversion in Escherichia coli, and identification of the gene product.
The DNA sequence of CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) discovered. The function of the interrupted clustered repeats was not known at the time. With H. Shinagawa, K Makino, M Amemura, a…
1987
#7358
Studies on Indian medical history, edited by G. Jan Meulenbeld and Dominik Wujastyk.
1987
#7665
Death, dissection and the destitute: The politics of the corpse in pre-victorian Britain.
1987
#7857
The development of American physiology: Scientific medicine in the nineteenth century.
1987
#7870
Les historiens français de la médecine au XIXe siècle et leur bibliographie.
1987
#8021
The Medical Department: Medical service in the Mediterranean and minor theatres. The U.S. Army in World War II: The technical services.
1987
#8048
Geschichte unter der Haut. Ein Eisenacher Arzt und seine Patientinnen um 1730.
A study of cultural representations of women patients as recorded in the case records of Johann Storch (1681-1751), a physician who lived and worked in the town of Eisenach, Germany during the first half of the 18th c…
1987
#8270
Maimonides' commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates. Translated with a commentary by Fred Rosner
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1987
#8315
The Ebers papyrus: A new English translation, commentaries and glossary by Paul Ghalioungui.
1987
#8425
Bibliographie des textes médicaux latins. Antiquité et Haut Moyen Âge.
Bibliographie des textes médicaux latins: Antiquité et haut moyen âge : Premier supplément, 1986-1999, Volume 2 by Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, Université de Saint-Etienne, 2000.
1987
#8502
Ethnomedical systems in Africa: Patterns of traditional medicine in rural and urban Kenya.
1987
#8601
Ordered to care: The dilemma of American nursing, 1850-1945.
1987
#8671
Ross A. McFarland collection in aerospace medicine and human factors engineering. Catalogue of the library.
1987
#8842
Indian Medicine in highland Guatemala: The Pre-Hispanic and colonial periods .
1987 –1991
#9047
Bibliographia médica hispánica. 1475-1950. 9 vols.
1987
#9055
La medicina científica y el siglo XIX mexicano.
1987
#9101
Law, sex and Christian society in medieval Europe.
."...explores the origin and develpment of the Christian church's sex law and the systems of belief upon which that law rested. Focusing on the Church's own legal system of canon law, James A. Brundage offers a compre…
1987
#9106
Breasts, bottles and babies: A history of infant feeding.
1987
#9212
United States Army in the Korean War. The medics' war.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1987
#9734
A history of medicine in Sri Lanka--from the earliest times to 1948.
1987
#9883
The making of the modern body: Sexuality and society in the nineteenth century. Edited by Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur.
1987
#9900