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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

1980–1989

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1987

#10212

The human vocal tract: Anatomy, function, development, and evolution.

CRELIN, Edmund Slocum Jr. (1923 – 2004)

1987

#10242

The Victorian Web: Literature, history and culture in the age of Victoria.

http://www.victorianweb.org/ "The Victorian Web, which originated in hypermedia environments (Intermedia, Storyspace) that existed long before the World Wide Web, is one of the oldest academic and scholarly websites. …

1987

#10264

Vivisection in historical perspective. Edited by Nicholaas A. Rupke.

RUPKE, Nicolaas Adrianus (1944 – )
RUPKE, Nicolaas Adrianus (1944 – )

1987

#10431

American medical schools and the practice of medicine: A history.

ROTHSTEIN, William G. (1937 – )

1987

#10557

The AIDS History Project.

UCSF ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS GLBT HISTORICAL SOCIETY

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/aids/ "In 1987, the Archives & Special Collections initiated, in collaboration with the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society (GLBHT HS) and University of Califor…

1987

#10624

Mothers and medicine: A social History of infant feeding, 1890–1950.

APPLE, Rima Dombrow (1944 – )

1987

#10897

Natural science collections in Scotland: Botany, geology, zoology.

WATERSTON, Charles Dewar (1927 – ) STACE, Helen E. PETTIT, Charles William A. (1937 – )

1987

#10899

Human infection with Ehrlichia canis, a leukocytic rickettsia.

MAEDA, Koichi MARKOWITZ, Norman HAWLEY, Robert C. & et al.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Maeda, Markowitz, Hawley. First description of Ehrlichiosis in humans, description of the organism, and successful drug treatment with doxycycline. The pathogen was lat…

1987

#11009

Disease and discovery: A history of the Johns Hopkins School Hygiene & Public Health 1916-1939.

FEE, Elizabeth (1946 – 2018)
FEE, Elizabeth (1946 – 2018)

1987

#11024

Physiology in the American context, 1850-1940. Edited by Gerald L. Geison.

GEISON, Gerald Lynn (1943 – 2001)

Traces the development of American physiology in the cultural context of the period. Divided into three parts: social and institutional history; physiology in relation to other fields; and instruments, materials and t…

1987

#11182

Developmental stages in human embryos. Including a revision of Streeter's "Horizons" and a survey of the Carnegie Collection.

O'RAHILLY, Ronan (1921 – 2018) MÜLLER, Fabiola

Digital facsimile from embyrology.med.unsw.edu at this link .

1987

#11192

Human parvovirus infection in pregnancy and hydrops fetalis.

ANAND, Aditi GRAY, Elizabeth S. BROWN, Thomas

Demonstration of the devastating effect of human parvovirus B19 on the human fetus. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1987

#11246

DF-2 bacteremia following cat bites. Report of two cases.

CARPENTER, Priscilla D. HEPPNER, Bradley T. GNANN, John W.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Carpenter, Heppner, Gnann. Report of two cases of infection from cat bites by the bacterium then identified by the CDC as DF-2 (later called Capnocytophaga canimorsus) in non…

1987

#11585

Doctor Dock: Teaching and learning medicine at the turn of the century

DOCK, George (1860 – 1951) DAVENPORT, Horace Willard (1913 – 2005)

"From 1899 to 1900 fourth year medical students at the University of Michigan doing their medicine and surgery rotations attended a diagnostic clinic twice a week with George Dock, A.M., M.D., professor of theory and …

1987

#11643

Medicine, mind, and the double brain: A study in nineteenth-century thought.

HARRINGTON, Anne

1987

#12107

Death and disease in Southeast Asia: Explorations in social, medical, and demographic history. Edited by Norman G. Owen.

OWEN, Norman G.

1987

#12124

Nature's enigma: The problem of the polyp in the letters of Bonnet, Trembley and Réaumur

RÉAUMUR, René Antoine Ferchault de (1683 – 1757)
TREMBLEY, Abraham (1710 – 1784)
TREMBLEY, Abraham (1710 – 1784)
BONNET, Charles (1720 – 1793)
BONNET, Charles (1720 – 1793) DAWSON, Virginia Parker (1943 – )

1987

#12139

A history of health & medicine in Queensland 1824-1960.

PATRICK, Ross (1914 – 2005)

1987

#12193

History of the American Physiological Society. The first century, 1887-1987. Edited by John R. Brobeck, Orr E. Reynolds, Toby A. Appel.

APPEL, Toby A. (1945 – ) BROBECK, John R. (1914 – 2009) REYNOLDS, Orr E. (1918 – 1991)

1987

#12211

The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate: French biology in the decades before Darwin.

APPEL, Toby A. (1945 – )

"...no event better represents the contest between form and function as the chief organizing principle of life as the debate between Georges Cuvier and Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. This book presents the first comp…

1987

#12237

Compensatory enlargement of human atherosclerotic coronary arteries.

GLAGOV, Seymour (1925 – 2008) & et al.

"Glagov remodeling" or the "Glagov phenomenon." In 1987 Glagov showed that as atherosclerotic plaque began to build up within an artery, the arterial wall would expand enough to maintain normal blood flow. Only after …

1987

#12487

No magic bullet: A social history of venereal disease in the United States since 1880.

BRANDT, Allen Morris (1953 – )

1987

#12542

A history of the New Zealand Medical Association: The first 100 years.

WRIGHT-ST CLAIR, R. E.

1987

#12957

Liber minor de coitu: Tratado menor de andrología anónimo Salernitano: Edicíon crítica, traducción y notas, by Enrique Montero Cartelle.

CONSTANTINE THE AFRICAN (CONSTANTINUS AFRICANUS) (1015 – 1087) MONTERO CARTELLE, Enrique

1987

#12997

Operation Everest II: Man at extreme altitude.

HOUSTON, Charles Snead (1913 – 2009)
HOUSTON, Charles Snead (1913 – 2009) SUTTON, John Robert (1941 – 1996) CYMERMAN, Allen REEVES, J. T.

In 1985 Houston, Sutton and Cymerman and colleagues in Canada used a decompression chamber to simulate a seven week ascent of Mt. Everest. This appears to be their first paper summarizing the overall results. Many pub…

1987

#13165

"I have done my duty." Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, 1854-56. Edited by Sue M. Goldie.

NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820 – 1910)
NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820 – 1910) GOLDIE, Sue M.

Nightingale's correspondence, 1854-1856.

1987

#13174

Catalogue of the Transylvania University Medical Library.

HENRY, Roemol

The library of the Transylvania Medical Department, prominent in American medicine during the first half of the 19th century, but which closed in 1859.

1987

#13470

Charles Darwin's notebooks 1836-1844. Geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries. Transcribed and edited by Paul H. Barrett, Peter J. Gautrey, Sandra Herbert, David Kohn, Sydney Smith.

SMITH, Sydney
DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882)
DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882) BARRETT, Paul H. KOHN, David GAUTREY, Peter J. HERBERT, Sandra

1987

#13798

CDC and the smallpox crusade.

OGDEN, Horace G.

Recounts the work toward the eradication of smallpox by the CDC, as distinct from the World Health Organization (WHO). Digital facsimile from stacks.cdc.gov at this link.

1987

#13931

Site-directed mutagenesis by gene targeting in mouse embryo-derived stem cells.

CAPECCHI, Mario Ramberg (1937 – )
CAPECCHI, Mario Ramberg (1937 – ) THOMAS, Kirk R.

In 2007 Capecchi shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of em…

1987

#13940

Targeted correction of a mutant HPRT gene in mouse embryonic stem cells.

SMITHIES, Oliver (1925 – 2017)
SMITHIES, Oliver (1925 – 2017) DOETSCHMAN, Thomas C. GREGG, Ronald G. & et al.

Smithies discovered, simultaneously with Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans, the technique of homologous recombination of transgenic DNA with genomic DNA, a much more reliable method of altering animal genomes than previ…

1987

#13950

Nucleosomes inhibit the initiation of transcription but allow chain elongation with the displacement of histones.

KORNBERG, Roger David (1947 – )
KORNBERG, Roger David (1947 – ) LORCH, Yahli Deborah LAPOINTE, Janice W.

Within the nucleosome Kornberg found that roughly 200 bp of DNA are wrapped around an octamer of histone proteins. With Yahli Lorch, Kornberg showed that a nucleosome on a promoter prevents the initiation of transcrip…

1987

#14116

Cognitive and neurologic findings in subjects with diffuse white matter lucencies on computed tomographic scan (Leuko-Araiosis).

HACHINSKI, Vladimir (1941 – ) STEINGART, Allan MERSKEY, Harold (1929 – ) & et al.

"Abstract: As part of a prospective clinicopathologic study, a cohort of 105 "normal" elderly volunteers was investigated with computed tomographic scans, psychometric testing (Extended Scale for Dementia [ESD]) and n…

1988

#2682.56

Encyclopedia of medical devices and instrumentation. 4 vols

WEBSTER, John G.

Some of the articles in this work include historical references, useful for the recent history of this rapidly evolving field.

1988

#2581.12

Milestones in immunology: A historical exploration.

BIBEL, Debra Jan

Readings from primary sources from 1884 to 1975 with expert introductions, commentaries, and bibliographies.

1988

#2581.13

Portraits of viruses: A history of virology.

FENNER, Frank John (1914 – 2010) GIBBS, Adrian J.

Well-documented essays on specific families of viruses by expert researchers, reprinted from Intervirology, 1979, 11-1986, 26.

1988

#3911.2

Endocrinology: people and ideas.

MCCANN, Samuel McDonald (1925 – 2007)

Thematic historical essays written by pioneers in the field, edited by McCann.

1988

#5019.21

Animal magnetism, early hypnotism, and psychical research, 1766-1925. An annotated bibliography.

CRABTREE, Adam

Describes 1905 works, mostly with detailed annotations.

1988 –2000

#6639.12

American nursing: A biographical dictionary. 3 vols.

BULLOUGH, Vern Leroy (1928 – 2006)

Edited with O.M. Church and A.P. Stein.

1988

#6639.13

Dictionary of American nursing biography.

KAUFMAN, Martin (1940 – )

Edited with J.W. Hawkins, L.P. Higgins, and A.H. Friedman.

1988 –1992

#5813.14

The history of surgery in the United States 1775-1900. Vol. 1: Textbooks, monographs and treatises. Vol. 2: Periodicals and pamphlets.

RUTKOW, Ira Michael (1948 – 2026)

The most comprehensive annotated bibliographies of American surgical literature to 1900. Includes separate bibliographies for general surgery, ophthalmology, oto-rhino-laryngology, orthopedic surgery, gynaecology, uro…

1988

#6604.82

Pioneer medicine in Australia. Edited by John Hemsley Pearn.

PEARN, John Hemsley (1940 – )

Twenty illustrated essays by various authors.

1988

#6956

Other healers: Unorthodox medicine in America. Edited by Norman Gevitz.

GEVITZ, Norman (1948 – )

1988

#7077

Intimate matters. A history of sexuality in America.

D'EMILIO, John (1948 – ) FREEDMAN, Estelle B. (1947 – )

The first history of sexuality in America.

1988

#7221

Traditional bush medicines: An aboriginal pharmacopoeia.

BARR, Andy

Aboriginal Communities of the Northern Territory of Australia. Collated and researched by Andy Barr, project manager; Joan Chapman, pharmacist; Nick Smith, botanist, Maree Beveridge, computer operator; Terry Knight, p…

1988

#7549

Smallpox and its eradication.

FENNER, Frank John (1914 – 2010)
HENDERSON, Donald Ainslie (1928 – 2016)
HENDERSON, Donald Ainslie (1928 – 2016) ARITA, Isao (1926 – ) JEŽEK, Zdenēk (1932 – 2019) LADNYJ, Ivan Danilovich ( – 1987)

The definitive archival history in 1460 pages. In 2016 a PDF of this entire book could be downloaded from the W.H.O. at this link.

1988

#7671

The Irish body snatchers: A history of body snatching in Ireland.

FLEETWOOD, John (1917 – 2007)

1988 –1992

#7859

Historia de la medicina valenciana. Edited by José Maria López Piñero. 3 vols.

LÓPEZ PIÑERO, José María (1933 – 2010)

1988

#7912

SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE. 1-

Contents of the recent issue may be viewed at http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/content/current.

1988

#7952

A robot with improved absolute positioning accuracy for CT guided stereotactic brain surgery.

KWOH, Yik San

With Jin Hou, E. A. Jonckheere, and S. Hyati.