1980–1989
678 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1982
#258.12
The growth of biological thought. Diversity, evolution, and inheritance.
An interpretive history of what Mayr calls “ultimate” explanations in biology, reflecting Mayr’s expertise in systematics, evolution, and genetics.
1982
#6885
Nucleotide sequence of bacteriophage lambda.
Sanger and colleagues sequenced the entire genome of bacteriophage lambda using a random shotgun technique. This was the first whole genome shotgun (WGS) sequence.
1982
#7431
A history of the National Library of Medicine: The nation's treasury of medical knowledge.
Digital facsimile from the National Library of Medicine at this link; from the Internet Archive at this link. Chapter XX is "Evolution of Computerized Bibliographies."
1982
#7676
The museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
1982
#8187
Hippocratic heritage: A history of ideas about weather and human health.
The first historical survey of human biometeorology, tracing the evolution of the Hippocratic idea that weather is one of the dterminants of health from its ancient origins to time of writing.
1982
#8333
Das Bad in der byzantinischen Zeit.
1982
#8436
Iohannis Alexandrini Commentaria in librum De sectis Galeni. Edited by C. D. Pritchet.
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Edited from the Latin translation by Burgundio of the Greek text first published in the 1490 edition of Galen's works.
1982
#8737
Health science books, 1876-1982. 4 vols.
One of the last very large printed works of this type: "Over 132,000 English-language titles classified by some 28,000 Library of Congress subject headings. 'A unique feature ... is that, where possible, equivalent Na…
1982
#9227
Dust off: Army aeromedical evacuation in Vietnam.
Digital text available from U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.
1982
#9365
The web that has no weaver: Understanding Chinese medicine.
1982
#9752
Cinq cents ans de bibliographie hippocratique, 1473-1982.
![HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)](/media/portraits/50)
Includes 3332 numbered entries of works concerning Hippocrates and the Hippocratic corpus with index of author's names with their Latin form (particularly helpful for Renaissance Latinized names) and index of modern a…
1982
#9775
Dark paradise: Opiate addiction in America before 1940.
Enlarged edition retitled: Dark paradise: A history of opiate addiction in America (2002).
1982 –1987
#9793
Histoire de la médecine aux armées. Par Pierre Lefebvre, Jean Guillermand et Albert Fabre. 3 vols.
Vol. 1: De l'antiquité à la révolution. Vol. 2: De la révolution française au conflit mondial de 1914. Vol. 3: De 1914 à nos jours.
1982
#10046
Splicing life: A report on the social and ethical issues of genetic engineering with human beings.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1982
#10140
Novel proteinaceous infectious particles cause Scrapie.
In 1997 Prusiner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection." In his 1982 paper Prusiner proposed a completely novel explanation for th…
1982
#10254
Space physiology and medicine. Edited by Arnauld E. Nicogossian and James F. Parker, Jr.
1982
#10403
The history of medicine in Alabama.
1982
#10572
Demographic collapse: Indian Peru, 1520-1620.
The first in depth study of the demographic effects of the Spanish conquest. Cook estimated population size on the basis of archaeology, carrying capacity of the agricultural systems, disease mortality, depopulation r…
1982
#10659
Heart-lung transplantation: Successful therapy for patients with pulmonary vascular disease.
First successful heart-lung transplant, performed on March 9, 1981, after nearly four years of testing on primates. Abstract "We report our initial experience with three patients who received heart-lung transplants. T…
1982
#10782
Lyme disease - a tick-borne spirochetosis?
Discovery of the agent causing Lyme disease. Though the authors initially thought the disease might be a spirochetosis, the agent was attributed to a bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, named for Burgdorfer who discovered…
1982
#10816
The physician in literature, edited by Norman Cousins.
Sections are devoted to research and serendipity, the role of the physician, quacks and clowns, clinical descriptions in literature, doctors and students, the practice, women and healing, madness, dying, and the patie…
1982
#10842
Identification of a protein that purifies with the Scrapie prion.
Research with the biochemist Bolton enabled Prusiner to discover and characterize the specific protein causing prion disease. This paper was dated December 24, 1982. Nearly simultaneously, Prusiner and the same co-aut…
1982
#11037
Origins of clinical chemistry: The evolution of protein analysis.
1982
#11055
Laennec: Catalogue des manuscrits scientifiques
Documents manuscripts by Laennec preserved in the Archives de l'Académie des Sciences, and Musée Laennec de la Bibliothèque Universitaire de Nantes, Section médecine-pharmacie.
1982
#11058
A new subtype of human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV-II) associated with a T-cell variant of hairy cell leukemia.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Kalyanaraman, Sarngadharan,... Gallo. Discovery by Gallo of HTLV-II, which like HTLV-I, is carcinogenic. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this entry and its interpretation.)
1982
#11217
Fitzpatrick's Rafinesque: A sketch of his life with bibliography [of his writings]. Revised and enlarged by Charles Boewe.
See also Boewe's The life of C.S. Rafinesque a man of uncommon zeal. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2011.
1982
#11294
The gates of memory.
The autobiography of the great surgeon, bibliographer, scholar and book collector.
1982
#11328
Literature and medicine, vol. 1- . Edited by Anne Hudson Jones.
"Founded in 1982, Literature and Medicine is a peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarship that explores representational and cultural practices concerning health care and the body. Areas of interest include disease,…
1982
#11414
Women in nineteenth century American botany; a generally unrecognized constituency.
Digital facsimile from jstor.org at this link.
1982
#11769
The emergence of ornithology as a scientific discipline.
1982 –1986
#11940
Die Entwicklung der Rezept- und Arzneibuchliteratur. Vol. 1: Altertum und Mittelalter. 1982. Vol. 2: Die Autoren, ihre Werke und die Fortschritte im 16. Jahrhundert. 1984 Vol. 3: Die Arzneibücher und schweizerischen Pharmakopöen vom 17.-20. Jahrhundert. 1986.
1982 –2012
#12213
Women scientists in America. 3 vols. Vol. 1: Struggles and strategies to 1940. Vol. 2: Before affirmative action, 1940-1972. Vol. 3: Forging a new world since 1972.
1982
#12236
Catheter technique for closed-chest ablation of the atrioventricular conduction system.
The catheter ablation technique, pioneered by Gallagher and team. Abstract "This report describes a catheter technique for ablating the His bundle and its application in nine patients with recurrent supraventricular t…
1982
#12244
Doppler ultrasound in cardiology: Physical principles and clinical applications.
1982
#12368
Congenital heart disease: Benchmark papers in human physiology.
1982
#12469
Effet d’un stéroide anti-progestérone chez la femme: Interruption du cycle menstruel et de la grossesse au début.
"In April 1980, as part of a formal research project at the French pharmaceutical company Roussel-Uclaf for the development of glucocorticoid receptor antagonists, chemist Georges Teutsch synthesized mifepristone (RU-…
1982
#12492
The healthiest city: Milwaukee and the politics of health reform.
1982
#12595
The spectrum of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and the virus-induced subacute spongiform encephalopathies. IN: Smith & Cavanagh, editors, Recent advances in neuropathology, Vol. 2., Chapter 6, pp. 129-163.
The authors reported a detailed and complete analysis of the original slides of the brain done by Afons Jakob, and provided a partial translation into English, with a detailed analysis of Jakob's clinical description,…
1982
#13179
John Gould, the bird man. A chronology and bibliography by Gordon C. Sauer.
1982
#13614
Health/medicine and the faith traditions: An inquiry into religion and medicine. Edited by Martin E. Marty and Kenneth L. Vaux.
1982
#13932
Self-splicing RNA: Autoexcision and autocyclization of the ribosomal RNA intervening sequence of tetrahymena.
Discovery of ribozymes (ribonucleic acid enzymes). Cech discovered that RNA itself could cut strands of RNA, suggesting that life might have started as RNA. "In the 1970s, Cech had been studying the splicing of RNA in…
1982
#14018
Agrobacterium rhizogenes inserts T-DNA into the genomes of the host plant root cells.
Chilton was the first (1977) to demonstrate the presence of a fragment of Agrobacterium Ti plasmid DNA in the nuclear DNA of crown gall tissue. Her research on Agrobacterium also showed that the genes responsible for …
1982
#14189
Corps infirmes et sociétés : Essais d'anthropologie historique.
Translated into English by William Sayers as A history of disability. New foreward by David T. Mitchel and Sharon L. Snyder. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2019. "The first book to attempt to provide a f…
1982
#14266
Tumor-specific antigen of murine T-lymphoma defined with monoclonal antibody.
In 1982 Allison discovered the T-cell receptor. Order of authorship in the original publication: Allison, Bloch, McIntyre.
1983 –1988
#1588.19
A history of neurophysiology in the 17th and 18th centuries. From concept to experiment. A history of neurophysiology in the 19th century. 2 vols.
1983
#214.91
The establishment of human antiquity.
The most complete historical treatment of the pre-1900 literature.
1983
#5768.6
Plastic surgery past and present. Origin and history of modern lines of incision.
Well-documented history of current plastic operations using both recent surgical photographs and illustrations from classics in the historical literature. Includes brief biographies of the most important pioneers.
1983
#5813.13
Surgery in America. From the colonial era to the twentieth century. Second edition.
Well-chosen readings from original published sources, with informative commentary.
1983
#5436.2
Princes and peasants: Smallpox in history.
Reissued in 2002 with a new introduction as The greatest killer: Smallpox in history.
1983
#6623.5
Medical case book of Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle.
The first complete book on the medical aspects of the Sherlock Holmes stories as well as the non-fiction writings of Conan Doyle.