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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

1980–1989

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1989

#5733.41

The history of anesthesia

ATKINSON, Richard Stuart (1927 – 2000) BOULTON, Tbomas Babington (1925 – 2016)

Proceedings of the 1987 Second International Symposium on the History of Anaesthesia at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Over 100 contributors. International Congress and Symposium Series 134.

1989

#6623.52

Medicine, literature, and eponyms: Encyclopaedia of medical eponyms derived from literary characters.

RODIN, Alvin E. KEY, Jack D.

1989

#6742.12

A bibliography of medical and biomedical biography.

MORTON, Leslie Thomas (1907 – 2004) MOORE, Robert John (1939 – )

Collective and individual biographies. Confined to books in English published in the 19th-20th centuries. Revised and enlarged version of J.L. Thornton, A select bibliography of medical biography. 2nd ed., London, 1970.

1989

#6786.33

A catalogue of seventeenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine.

KRIVATSY, Peter (1922 – )

Describes, with paginations, approximately 13,300 monographs, dissertations, broadsides, pamphlets and serials printed between 1601 and 1700.

1989

#6832

Hautkrankheiten. 5 Jahrhunderte wissenschaftlicher Illustration / Skin Diseases. 5 Centuries of Scientific Illustration.

EHRING, Franz (1921 – 2005)

Bilingual text, richly illustrated in color, on the great illustrated works in the history of dermatology.

1989

#7028

Sexuality: An illustrated history. Representing the sexual in medicine and culture from the Middle Ages to the age of AIDS.

GILMAN, Sander L. (1941 – )

1989

#7044

"A dirty, filthy book." The writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant on reproductive physiology and birth control and an account of the Bradlaugh-Besant trial, by S. Chandrasekhar. With the definitive texts of Fruits of Philosophy by Charles Knowlton, The Law of Population by Annie Besant, Theosophy and the Law of Population by Annie Besant.

KNOWLTON, Charles (1800 – 1850)
KNOWLTON, Charles (1800 – 1850)
BESANT, Annie (1847 – 1933)
BESANT, Annie (1847 – 1933)
CHANDRASEKHAR, Sripati (1918 – 2001)
CHANDRASEKHAR, Sripati (1918 – 2001)

1989

#7071

Evolution of the brain: Creation of the self.

ECCLES, Sir John Carew (1903 – 1997)
ECCLES, Sir John Carew (1903 – 1997)

A pioneering work on the evolution of the human mind. Eccles synthesized comparative anatomy--especially brain anatomy--with evidence from paleontology and archaeology, and brain physiology (especially the physiology …

1989

#7081

Catalogue of Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs and catalogue of Thankas, banners and other paintings and drawings in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

WINDER, Marianne (1918 – 2001)
WINDER, Marianne (1918 – 2001)

1989

#7424

Food in history. Revised and updated edition

TANNAHILL, Reay (1929 – 2007)

Digital version available at this link.

1989

#7460

An Oak Spring sylva: A selection of the rare books on trees in the Oak Spring Garden Library.

RAPHAEL, Sandra

1989 –1991

#7531

Musik und Medizin. 3 vols.

NEUMAYR, Anton (1920 – 2017)

Vol. 1: Am Beispiel der Wiener Klassik; Vol. 2: Am Beispiel der deutschen Romantik; Vol. 3: Chopin, Smetana, Tschaikowsky, Mahler. The three volumes were translated into English by Bruce Cooper Clarke, and published i…

1989

#7668

Health for sale: Quackery in England 1660-1850.

PORTER, Roy Sydney (1946 – 2002)

1989

#7763

Socioeconomics of surgery.

RUTKOW, Ira Michael (1948 – 2026)

Probably the first book-form study of these issues.

1989

#7910

MEDIZIN, GESELLSCHAFT UND GESCHICHTE. Jahrbuch des Instituts für Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung. 1-

1989

#7920

Rituals and medicines: Indigenous healing in South Africa.

HAMMOND-TOOKE, David

1989

#8087

Black women in white: Racial conflict and cooperation in the nursing profession, 1890-1950.

HINE, Darlene Clark (1947 – )

1989

#8269

The medical aphorisms of Moses Maimonides translated and annotated by Fred Rosner, with a bibliography by Jacob I. Dienstag.

MAIMONIDES, (Moses ben Maimon; מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מַימוֹן‎; Mōšeh bēn-Maymōn; موسى بن ميمون‎‎ Mūsā bin Maymūn) (1135 – 1204) ROSNER, Fred (1931 – ) DIENSTAG, Jacob Israel ( – 2008)

1989

#8392

Un traité égyptien d’ophiologie - Papyrus du Brooklyn Museum nos 47.218.48 et 85. Cairo: Institut français d'archéologie orientale.

SAUNERON, Serge (1927 – 1976)

Dating from about 450 BCE, this papyrus concerns snakes and the treatments for snake bites, and also the treatment of scorpion bites and spider bites.

1989

#8423

Index Hippocraticus Cui elaborando interfuerunt sodales Thesauri Linguae Graecae Hamburgensis. Edited by Joseph-Hans Kühn and Ulrich Fleischer.

HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)
HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370) KÜHN, Joseph-Hans (1911 – 1994) FLEISCHER, Ulrich (1910 – 1978)

There have been several supplements, etc. "This index contains the entire vocabulary (with the exception of the article and a few particles) of the complete writings constituting the Corpus Hippocraticum. Quotations a…

1989

#8429

Geschichte der Tiermedizin. 5000 Jahre Tierheilkunde.

DRIESCH, Angela von den (1934 – 2012)

1989

#8446

Das Lorscher Arzneibuch. Band 1: Faksimile der Handschrift Msc. Med. 1 der Staatsbibliothek Bamberg. Band 2: Übersetzung [...] von Ulrich Stoll und Gundolf Keil unter Mitwirkung von Albert Ohlmeyer. 2 vols.

STOLL, Ulrich KEIL, Gundolf (1932 – )

The Lorschner Arzneibuch (Codex Bambergensis medicinalis 1; Lorsch Leechbook), a Carolingian codex from the time of Charlemagne, was written in Latin around 800 in Lorsch Abbey. It is the oldest surviving book of mona…

1989

#8452

Médecine et justice en Provence médiévale: Documents de Manosque, 1262-1348.

SHATZMILLER, Joseph (1936 – )

1989

#8471

An ancient Egyptian herbal.

MANNICHE, Lisa

1989

#8667

A model of its kind. Vol. 1: A centennial history of medicine at Johns Hopkins. Vol. 2: A pictorial history of medicine at Johns Hopkins.

HARVEY, Abner McGehee (1911 – 1998) BRIEGER, Gert H. ABRAMS, Susan L.
MCKUSICK, Victor Almon (1921 – 2008)
MCKUSICK, Victor Almon (1921 – 2008)

1989

#8678

Doctors under Hitler.

KATER, Michael Hans (1937 – )

1989

#8727

Plagues and politics: The story of the United States Public Health Service.

MULLAN, Fitzhugh (1942 – )
MULLAN, Fitzhugh (1942 – )

1989

#8735

The history of cancer: An annotated bibliography.

OLSON, James Stuart (1946 – )

1989

#8753

The library of Robert Hooke: The scientific book trade of Restoration England.

HOOKE, Robert (1635 – 1703)
HOOKE, Robert (1635 – 1703) ROSTENBERG, Leona (1908 – 2005)

Reprints the auction catalogue of Hooke's library: Bibliotheca Hookiana (1703).

1989

#8768

Pioneer healers: The history of women religious in American health care. Edited by Ursula Stepsis and Dolores Liptak.

STEPSIS, Ursula (1954 – 1989) LIPTAK, Dolores

1989

#8863

Herbal medicine past and present. Vol. 1: Trying to give ease: Tommie Bass and the story of herbal medicine. Vol. 2: A reference guide to medicinal plants: Herbal medicine past and present.

CRELLIN, John K. PHILPOTT, Jane

1989 –1990

#9043

Cuerpo humano e ideologia. Las concepciones de los antiguos nahauas. Third edition. 2 vols.

LÓPEZ AUSTIN, Alfredo Federico (1936 – )

1989

#9049

Discursos medicinales. Edición del Mss. 2208 de la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Salamanca. Introducción de Luis S. Granjel. Descripción bibliográfica de Teresa Santander. Transcripción de Gregorio del Ser Quijano y Luis E. Rodríguez-San Pedro.

GRANJEL, Luis Sánchez (1920 – 2014) MÉNDEZ NIETO, Juan (1531 – 1616)

Facsimile edtion and first publication of the first medical work written in Colombia, written between 1607 and 1611.

1989

#9050

Flora Huayaquilensis sive descriptiones et icones plantarum Huayaquilensium secundum systema linneanum digestae, auctore Johanne Tafalla. Tomus 1: Introductio historica et adnotationes ab Eduardo Estrella confectae et descriptiones. Tomus II: Icones.

ESTRELLA AGUIRRE, Eduardo (1941 – 1996)
ESTRELLA AGUIRRE, Eduardo (1941 – 1996) TAFALLA NAVASCUÉS, Juan José (1755 – 1811)

Juan José Tafalla Navascués, a Spanish pharmacist, explored botany in Peru, Chile and Ecuador from 1780 to 1788 as part of the Expedición Botánica al Virreinato del Perú under the direction of Hipólito Ruiz López y Jo…

1989

#9107

Medical licensing and learning in fourteenth-century Valencia.

MCVAUGH, Michael Rogers (1938 – ) GARCÍA-BALLESTER, Luis RUBIO VELA, A.

1989

#9138

In sickness and in wealth: American hospitals in the twentieth century.

STEVENS, Rosemary A.

1989

#9140

De plantis: Five translated. Edited and introduced by H. J. Drossaart Lulofs and E. L. J. Poortman.

NICOLAUS OF DAMASCUS, [Νικόλαος Δαμασκηνός; Nicolaus Damascenus] (-64 – ) LULOFS, Hendrik Joan Drossaart (1906 – 1998) POORTMAN, E. L. J.

On Plants (De Plantis), sometimes attributed to Aristotle, is generally believed to have been written by Nicolaus of Damascus in the first century BCE. It is divided into two parts: "The first part discusses the natur…

1989

#9164

The hospital in history. Edited by Lindsay Granshaw and Roy Porter.

PORTER, Roy Sydney (1946 – 2002) GRANDSHAW, Lindsay [Lindsay Northover, Baroness Northover] (1954 – )

1989

#9342

Medicinal plants of the desert and canyon West.

MOORE, Michael Roland Shaw (1941 – 2009)

1989

#9433

Leonard of Bertapaglia: On nerve injuries and skull fractures. Translated with an introduction and commentary by Jules C. Ladenheim.

BERTAPAGLIA, Leonardo (1380 – 1463)

1989

#9465

Diabetes, its medical and cultural history: Outlines — texts — bibliography. Edited by Dietrich von Engelhardt.

ENGELHARDT, Dietrich von (1941 – )

1989

#9730

Approaches to traditional Chinese medical literature. Proceedings of an international symposium on translation methodologies and terminologies. Edited by Paul U. Unschuld.

UNSCHULD, Paul Ulrich (1943 – )

1989

#9733

The discovery of the art of the insane.

MACGREGOR, John M. (1941 – )

"This pioneering work, the first history of the art of the insane, scrutinizes changes in attitudes toward the art of the mentally ill from a time when it was either ignored or ridiculed, through the era when major fi…

1989

#9805

Homicidal insanity, 1800-1985.

COLAIZZI, Janet (1936 – )

"Homicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change during the past 200 years. The predominant opinion today among psychiatris…

1989

#10079

Chills and fever: Health and disease in the early history of Alaska.

FORTUINE, Robert (1934 – 2009)

1989

#10172

A history of vascular surgery.

FRIEDMAN, Stephen G.

Second, updated edition: Maklen, MA: Blackwell, 2005.

1989

#10258

Histoire de la médecine tibetaine. Vie de Yutok Yonten Gonpo l'Ancien, traduit de l'anglais par Jean-Paul R. Claudon et Sylvaine Jean avec la collaboration de Martine Pageon-Tarin.

RECHUNG, Rinpoché Jampal Kunzang ( – 2007) GONPO, Yutok Yonten (708 – 833)

1989

#10331

Saddlebags to scanners: The first 100 years of medicine In Washington State. Edited by Nancy M. Rockefellar and James W. Haviland.

ROCKEFELLAR, Nancy M. HAVILAND, James W.

1989

#10340

Cancer mapping, edited by Peter Boyle, Calum S. Muir, and Ekkehard Grundmann.

BOYLE, Peter (1951 – )
BOYLE, Peter (1951 – ) MUIR, Calum S. GRUNDMANN, Ekkehard (1921 – )

The first chapter, by G. M. Howe is "Historical evolution of disease mapping in general and specifically of cancer mapping." The book as a whole discusses the wide range of cancer maps and atlases in U.S., Europe and …

1989

#10742

A history of stroke: Its recognition and treatment.

LEMAK, Noreen Ann (1921 – 2013) FIELDS, William S.